Site - not responding

[Car2n]

I have a flash based website that works fine on my laptop but it locks up on a desktop I have here. The desktop has XP (up to date) with the latest version of Flash installed.
Does it load fine or not for ya'all?
What browser are you using?
http://www.paultography.ca

Thanks for your time.

[cphoniball]

Works fine for me, running firefox 3 on Ubuntu. I know you didn't ask for critique or anything but I really like how the site is laid out, it's a lot less confusing and easier to navigate than a lot of other photographers websites I've seen. Runs really fast for a flash website, too.

[Car2n]

I'm glad to hear it loaded fine and thanks for the comments. The desktop it crashes on was just reformatted and has been giving me problems one right after another.

[morts]

...and this is why you don't use flash in your websites! '__'

[dcclark]

It works -- but very slowly -- on my Mac running Firefox 3. I think you have a bit too much flash there -- it will get very slow on anything but a brand new machine, google won't like you, potential clients will leave as it loads...

[Car2n]

Thanks Everyone
The site was brand new, live for one day and came with a splash page. I was renaming files etc. to get rid of the splash page whilst at the same time I was multitasking trying to get the desktop set up. That's why I was wondering if I had messed up something in the website code or not. It turns out that even though the desktop had a fresh install of XP and the latest version of flash I still didn't have the correcct video drivers installed hence the site crashing.
All works well now.

[morts]

Gonna take a moment to plug my web design thread (again). See my sig.

One of the major things that leapt out at me as soon as I saw your front page was "GOD that's a lot of space!". It's good to see a site designed for a small monitor but my eyes are drawn away from the content by the massive margins either side. I run a 1280x1024 screen so itns' not that bad but when I get home and fire it up on my 1680x1050 widescreen it'll look worse.

The other thing is sound. I would strongly advocate killing the music with fire. Nobody wants to be quietly browsing the web, talking on Skype when suddenly a website blares music out at full volume. If you MUST have tunes, default them to OFF with a "play" button instead of ON with a "stop" button.

[Quo Fan]

Personally, I detest flash websites. I run Firefox with noscript, and if I encounter a flash website, I normally just surf away. I also detest music on a site. My musical tastes may not always jive with the designers.

Just my $.02

[morts]

For all my bashing of Flash, I DO like the way the background adjusts to the image being shown and you have made it about the photos and not about words and blurb. Still needs to be wider!

[Car2n]

Well I can't do anything about the width as the template max. image size is 900x500. It is designed for viewing at 1024x768 which stats seem to indicate as a common size to aim for. The images in landscape position do fill the frame better than the portrait position. Too bad I tend to favour portrait position more in my shooting.