Our comments: Absolutely fabulous collages of cold machinery and colorful exotic fish set the mood in this underwater themed design. Different colors, particularly fluorescent tones of cyan, green and orange are used liberally to highlight important parts of the content. Flash movies are seamlessly integrated with the HTML design, and they are used where necessary such as for showing an interactive animated work process.
Hmm..nice look and colors used in the site. Very consistent theme. Site design - not bad, easy to navigate.
But the use of Flash in this site is not justified! The site did not show the full capacity of what Flash can do. Those headers would've been better with some niffty flash effects! Too bad the whole site still looks STATIC despite opting a flash plugin required viewing...
Yes, I'm biased... I'm part of the team that built this thing. There are things that I'm proud of here - especially the flash and HTML integration. It's pretty seamless for the end user.
I have to respect the comments regarding our usability though. I think sometimes that our word choice could have been better. I also think that the site starts to breakdown with 3rd level links (client case studies are a good example.
Design is visually nice. However it lacks usability. Navigating the site can sometimes seem a chore, and it also is sometimes hard to figure out where you are in relation to site.