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Second Method
http://2methods.com/secondmethod/

Category:
Graphics & Web Design > Personal Sites

Created by:
Vitaliy Onishenko in 2002

Rating:
6.4 (30 votes)

Date added:
Apr 11th, 2002

Last updated:
Jul 11th, 2002

Our comments:
Slick background graphics and responsive interface supported with effective use of short film footage. The hue and brightness of the entire design can be changed on-the-fly. 100% Flash.

--Aycan

Madchen (12) - Feb 21st, 2006 Presentation  1 Graphics  1 Usability  1 Technical  1 Personal Slant  1 Overall 1.0 Another site that fell victim to the misconception that flashy animation make good design. It doesn't. The design is rubbish, hardly inviting and if you even manage to make it through the opening, you will have a hard time keeping your eyes open cos there is absolutely nothing of concent worth seeing. Not to mention the fact that this is a rip-off from the far better executed 2Advanced websites. But as shown here, copying doesnt make you a better designer. As said, some of the effects are nice and you will impress you granny with that for sure, but any design professional will see right through that facade and see it for what it is worth. Unfortunately not really much yet. Arrowlimit (2) - Apr 9th, 2004 Presentation  10 Graphics  10 Usability  10 Technical  10 Personal Slant  10 Overall 10.0 VERY COOL! omerie63 (2) - Apr 18th, 2003 Presentation  9 Graphics  10 Usability  10 Technical  10 Personal Slant  6 Overall 9.0 Yeah, I know that it may sound a little repetitive, but yeah, it looks to me like the guy loves 2advanced and that is not a bad thing. I love two advanced personaly and I wish I was able to make something close to them. The places I read 2advanced is the logo, the news window is pretty close to two advanced(the old grey version: http://www.2advanced.com/archive/v2/flashindex.htm), the colors too, and the way that the interior windows load. I understand that that is pretty close to 2advanced, but that is not bad at all. You do not have to say that this guy has no creativity, I just belive that he has a feeling of design and he admires their style. 2advanced is awsome in my opinion. I go to their page, literaly every day hopping that they put something new on their portfolio. Sometimes I like the new sites sometimes I don't but but i can say i check it as often as I check my email. Every body needs inspiration. I am pretty sure if you found the place where 2advanced took the inspiration from you would not feel as good about them eather, i would still love their design style. Just like this guy's. I love the web site, it's great, it's clean, it's cool. To finish my book, the twiking of colors is the greatest part for me. Cheers, Erion didulica (44) - Dec 5th, 2002 Presentation  7 Graphics  5 Usability  6 Technical  7 Personal Slant  1 Overall 5.2 haven't we seen enough of these 2advanced clones? dez (39) - Nov 29th, 2002 Presentation  8 Graphics  9 Usability  9 Technical  9 Personal Slant  8 Overall 8.6 The design and the feel of the site is definitely like 2advanced studio. But besides that, its a simple, yet technological. The drop down menu and the main background would have to be my favourite part of the site. The ability to allow you to customize the site to your personal settings is indeed a thumbs up. The usablility is easy to cope with. So overall, this site is great. doneeh (8) - Sep 30th, 2002 Presentation  8 Graphics  9 Usability  8 Technical  8 Personal Slant  7 Overall 8.0 Smooth.. too dark in my screen thou, hmm may be there's something wrong with my screen *shakeee =VALOR= (2) - Sep 22nd, 2002 People, Not only is this site absolutely awesome, but its very original in itself. Many people compare it to 2Advanced, and really, its not like it at all. Do you guys have any idea how much time it takes him to make 1 single (cool) intro?? Months. So before you go and say "Another 2Advanced.." think again. This is a top site. =VALOR= mirko (7) - Jun 19th, 2002 Presentation  8 Graphics  8 Usability  7 Technical  9 Personal Slant  9 Overall 8.2 cool! i love the 3d illustrations! luna (7) - Jun 16th, 2002 Presentation  5 Graphics  3 Usability  5 Technical  6 Personal Slant  3 Overall 4.4 Some okay flash, but for the rest pretty boring. Updated on Jun 20th, 2002 Hannibal Smith (31) - Jun 3rd, 2002 Presentation  5 Graphics  9 Usability  9 Technical  7 Personal Slant  7 Overall 7.4 Although the colors are somewhat similar to 2advanced, the site is absolutely nothing like 2advanced. The graphics and effects of the site are well drawn. However, when it comes to the content, it's just plain text in a fancy window. manuel80 (14) - Jun 1st, 2002 Presentation  7 Graphics  8 Usability  6 Technical  6 Personal Slant  1 Overall 5.6 another 2advenced clone... very well done, in anyway. snakemade (2) - May 17th, 2002 Nice graphics and cool animation. It is too close to 2advanced though to get the ratings that it has. Anyone can borrow but few can be original. Kevin Gentry Net effects 1 Design Hanson (28) - May 13th, 2002 Presentation  6 Graphics  7 Usability  5 Technical  7 Personal Slant  4 Overall 5.8 obviously the creator is plugging his own site. No surprise that all of a sudden 'new reviewers' pop out from no where. The design is not bad, but it's quality is mainly the flash animation and not per se the design or graphics. Borrowing heavily from 2Advanced, but all in all a worthy effort. strange4hero (4) - May 12th, 2002 Presentation  10 Graphics  9 Usability  9 Technical  9 Personal Slant  9 Overall 9.2 Nice, really nice work, but let's just face it...2advanced inspired one more designer, who tried to imitate Jordan's style and he did a real good work. The logo reminds me something... :) QT (2) - May 11th, 2002 2advanced is less advanced than this. I like the bouncing menus, the moving sky behind the logo and the Flash MX (presumably) video integration!Not to mention the 3DS Max graphic design and tutorials by the web designer. Fantastic!! This is what I aspire to be able to do! Amarelito (44) - Apr 20th, 2002 Presentation  9 Graphics  10 Usability  9 Technical  9 Personal Slant  9 Overall 9.2 Simple, elegant, (almost) perfect... Graphical Monk (2) - Apr 19th, 2002 with all due respect.. but this is not worthy of someone rating it a ten. I mean.. comonnn ... be real man. Ok it's a very smooth site definitely based on 2A with its effects, and even has some of the same sounds innit.. but it's just good. nothing more to it. by Natural Conspiracy   (unregistered) - Apr 12th, 2002 Yet another spin off of 2advanced.com I gOrT aSSeD bY d'siyns (18) - Apr 12th, 2002 Presentation  10 Graphics  10 Usability  10 Technical  10 Personal Slant  10 Overall 10.0 Well done job. The best use of art and Flash Technology. A masterpiece better than 2advanced #2.