Manik Skateboards
Manik Skateboards, a native Seattle board company, has just launched a new site. Coincidentaly, I just purchased a Manik deck after my last setup was stolen (Cindy, you’re my number one suspect).
The website is pretty, although the information architecture is a little bit scattered. It definatly gets the feel of the company accross to the user. Enough of that though, the real problem is that the site is entirely Flash based, yet utilizes none of the flashy things that make Flash flash (apart from the obnoxious beeps which ring through the air when hovering over each link and a few dissolves, which are easily JavaScriptable).
The accessability and page load time of this site could be increased ten fold (that’s not an actual statistic, please don’t refute it) if it was authored using the famed XHTML/CSS combo. Something about watching a bar go accross the screen for a good ten seconds while waiting for a page to load and then being confronted with a page of a couple text links (that beep) just doesn’t seem right.
Please, use Flash when it is needed.
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yeah im no web desighner but that beebing isnt even a cool beeb especially heard from every link
Hey, funny thing i searched for the manik skateboard website over yahoo because i couldn't remember the accual name for the site and it came up with this first in line. So i thought i would drop one. See ya.
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