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It's not spam, he's asking for a design review.

macox wrote:

...We are a web/Flash authoring software provider so I suppose:
(1) There should be eye-catching Flash/dynamic menu on main page to expose to visitors ability of our software.
(2) We use templates to make the website look professional.

It would be an excessively broad generalization to say that these two are always contradictory, but - as a rule of thumb - that's generally the case.

More bling == less professional. I'm not saying it's absolutely always the case in every possible instance, but you get the idea.

I can entirely see that you want to show off your own product. That's the point. The problem is that it looks like you may have gone a little too far. I think that the templates are fine, but things like the buzzing, vibrating menus (the flashing dot next to Home, for example) and the flickering, flashing banner (8th anniversary) are a wee bit overboard.

They don't look professional, they look evil. I honestly think they're trying to melt my brain.

Using the same scripts to show off your products is fine. Just consider toning them back a bit... like back to the pre-brain-melting stage. If they're subtler, you'll get people who notice it and say, "Wow. That was kinda cool." instead of people who say, "Aaargh! My brain! It's leaking out my nose!"

Short version, consider changing flickering/flashing yellow bits to a slower, throbbing pace. It still gets the point across, just without the law suits from all the epileptic surfers.

Not a comment on the web design but:

Flash decompilers are pure evil.  Nothing like helping newbs rip flash websites so they can claim the design is their's for their "design company."

teh max wrote:

It's not spam, he's asking for a design review.

Well call me cynical but here we have a site that is done by some company in China selling web design software, that posts a review request on a web design forum and this person has just joined up with Macaddict this week and never posted here before. Sure I could be wrong, but this site looks like it's been around a while and seems a little fishy to me that all they want is a review.

BadMrMojo wrote:

More bling == less professional. I'm not saying it's absolutely always the case in every possible instance, but you get the idea.

Sadly that is the point of their lameass products.

What the world needs is more crap code/features added to websites by people who don't know what they are doing, they need to pay for a product to make a cheesy little widget.

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If lacked integrity I could make an assload of money making form builder tools or table builder tools for all those "web designers" who lacking any basic coding knowledge.

Scott wrote:

It is SPAM!
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