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please critique my all flash website im probably going to start a new one so i can get it hosted to get my website to rank high with google.

Anthony
Affordable Freelance Graphic Designer
http://www.wix.com/graphicdesignerrocks/freelancegraphicdesign

For me its very slow loading, then when looking at the portfolio its 1) very fast spinning, no chance to look at any work with it spinning that fast 2) this doesnt seem to be a great representation of your work in that the whole gallery section makes it all look a tad cheap.

In the about section I would get rid of the photo, in my opinion it doesnt make you look very professional.

On the links page it's obvious you're just trying to get links backs by putting other links but its really not necessary as these link backs are bound to be free and worthless.

This is my opinion so please dont take it as offense but as critique, the whole site is a bit too much, there's no professionalism in the styling, imagery, use of fonts etc. I would strip the site right back, dont go flash just keep it simple. Display your portfolio items so that they are easy to view to everyone, dont worry about fancy galleries because generally they dont look good unless they are very bespoke and unique.

Also is this a template just put together on a web builder as thats what it looks like with the edition of the wix.com badges. If so dont use any old web builder, wordspress is pretty much a standard for anyone who either doesnt know web design or simply cant afford it. There are plenty of professional templates for designers on there so give them a go.

Sorry but your website is exceptionally bad, looks like a hangover from 1995.

I would recommend starting from scratch (without flash) maybe using a CMS platform like Cargo, Behance etc. Keep it simple, remove the absurd picture of the frog on the splash page and make your work the focus.

There are plenty of blogs you can look at for inspiration, heres a link to get started: 35 Excellent Graphic Design Portfolio Sites

I tried to look at some work, but that annoying carousel didn't seem to want to stop spinning. Ditch the Flash and look at a CMS as Ben suggested.

please, please, please stop using Flash... I agree with the CMS comments above...

Flash + autoplaying music = cmd + w.

Flash is not supported by Mac's 'mobile devices' and is being fazed out on Android on devices.

um some do.. you just have to install it like on windows

iOS devices don't support flash, OS-X does....

Personally seeing as it was flash I didn't even bother looking at it.... flash has it's place but a website isn't really one of them these days

A thousand pardons, I was purely referring to mobile devices. I obviously failed to illustrate my point.

Funny though, I knew you would point that out.

lol, good thread

My iPhone refuses to acknowledge the existence of this flash you speak of.

If you knew I'd point it out, why didn't you correct the issue

Mainly because I'm to lazy to go back and insert 'mobile devices' after Mac's.

Wish I had done now.....see edit.

Apologies to the op on the deviation of subject.

My blackberry refuses to acknowledge this website thing you speak of.

lucky blackberry