Not more black.
The previous version, but now with a white background, and cleaned up.
However, it still doesn't do it for me. One of the main things that gets me is the nav. I love the idea in many blogs or in Flickr of tagging, and then being able to sort by tag. In my case, I can roughly divide my work into 2 realms - online and offline. But, since there's a fairly heavy crossover, I don't want to hide a project that may relate to work that's being shown.
This was my attempt at that. I thought about using it as more of a 'tag cloud' metaphor, but then it becomes a cluttered mess, and I wanted to keep a workable grid on this design. This was became more of a compact way to map the projects that were similar (either by online/offline, client, or agency).
I've also been reading though Fantasy Interactive's blog, .
Two things strike me immediately. First, many, many times, there is talk about not "animating for animation's sake," a.k.a. Flashturbation. Instead, treat Flash like an application or HTML page - animate because it helps users, not because it looks pretty.
This brings me to the second point - they mention accessibility and usability alot - particularly when criticizing their older sites. This is interesting because it flies in the face of what many web professionals traditionally consider usability. FI builds whole sites using only Flash... yet they're still usable to 90% of the population (and in the case of their version of MTV.com, probably 99%).
The flipside to this is something their blog shows - they've spent so much time carefully crafting their blog to be a flash based recreation of an html page with absolutely no benefit over a traditional HTML blog... one has to ask why bother?
