Feeback needed on new template

I think it's pretty nice. Clean and organized, not quite too busy. However, on my moniter the white space between the cells in the nav bar seems out of place. I don't know why. Maybe if you made it a bit smaller. Also, the lightblue rectangle underneath the navigation and the navy bar underneath the whole thing would be useful for something, instead of just having them blank. The light blue box at least, keep that in mind. Do you really need "Select" at the top of the navigation? It seems very obvious to me, since you have the links underlined and everything. If you really feel it needs to be there, change the color, yellow doesn't work.

I like the color scheme okay, but personally, i think it'd be nice to integrate the light blue mmore. Maybe make links light blue? In any case, I would like it more if the links weren't white.

Center your picture, and make the heading slightly smaller than the body of the article. That's really just a personal preferance but it seems to pop out more if its a tiny bit larger.

Oh, one last thing. I cannot read the red lettering in the 'bonafide' image. I don't think that font was meant to be used so small. The image is very poor quality, can you replace it with something? The look of it seems to clash with the style of the site to me.

Thanks for the feedback.

>>However, on my moniter the white space between the cells in the nav bar seems out of place.<<

What type browser are you using and operating system?

Also are you referring to the side bar navigation (where the underlined links are)? Although I think the main thing I need to do is probably clean up the HTML.

>>Also, the lightblue rectangle underneath the navigation and the navy bar underneath the whole thing would be useful for something, instead of just having them blank.<<

Yes something could be added here. I just designed this last night, as I needed a design example to show potential clients my web site design ability. Just started a web design business here in the Bahamas.

>>Do you really need "Select" at the top of the navigation? It seems very obvious to me, since you have the links underlined and everything. If you really feel it needs to be there, change the color, yellow doesn't work.<<

Yes good point I was thinking about changing that.

>>I like the color scheme okay, but personally, i think it'd be nice to integrate the light blue mmore.<<

Yes more light blue or shades of light blue would be good.

>>Center your picture, and make the heading slightly smaller than the body of the article. That's really just a personal preferance but it seems to pop out more if its a tiny bit larger.<<

Yes I could center it. I was thinking of making the photo 350 pixels wide and using a pop up to display more photos. (I don't want a lot of images to slow downloading time)

>> I cannot read the red lettering in the 'bonafide' image. I don't think that font was meant to be used so small. The image is very poor quality, can you replace it with something?<<

Believe it or not but that's their company logo! I know it's bad quality. But they want it displayed. Got to give and take I guess. Check out there current web site: http://www.bonafidebonefishing.com/

I'm trying to sell them on letting me build a new one for them.

Gavin

Hi gavin681, I have just visited your site and I have to say I like it...heres why.

Load time: Your site literally loaded in 5 seconds which is great.

Layout: The layout is effective, simple and complements the site well.

Colors: The blue (my favourite color) and white works well together and brings a sense of clarity to the page allowing no distractions to your content.

Navigation: This is faultless and very easy to use, I couldnt get lost on your site and I doubt others would too so this again is great.

Browser compatibility: Your site works well in both browsers IE4+ and NS 6 due to the simple layout of the tables, well done.

Overall your site is well presented, efficient, quick to load, smart and simple and has all the ingredients of a top site. I would add more but I really cant fault it-keep up the good work.

All the best Chris @ Stickysauce

http://www.stickysauce.com

Thanks Chris for the pleasant feedback.

Gavin

I think it books pretty good!

I'm viewing with NS 4.6 and IE 4.0 on a Mac at 800x600.

I'd suggest maybe going to percentage widths for your tables. While it looks fine at 800x600, for someone running much heigher rez there'll be a lot of space on the sides with a 600 pixel table.

From the rounded corners at the bottom (they're kinda jagged looking to me) it appears you intended the background to be white, but since you haven't specified a background color, it's coming up default grey on the Mac.

In IE I'm getting a gap of about 20 pixels between the end of the main table and the rounded bottom. It's fine in NS.

What's weird is you don't appear to have any body tags in your code and it still displays in NS for me.

I would delete the meta generator tag. Nothing like advertising the fact that you're using FrontPage.

The row of images at the top, I'd crop and make them all the same height so there isn't a gap at the top of every other one.

In NS the words "Bahamas fly fishing and bone fishing vacations" are appearing in Courier despite your (font face="MS Sans Serif") tag because it is wrapped by the (pre) tags, which NS interprets as needing a fixed-width font, and my NS default for that is Courier.

I'm with Fringey on losing the white lines between links. I don't think you even need to have the links underlined, since it's pretty obvious they're links. A mouseover would be nice.

You seem to capitalize a lot of words that don't need it: "Reef and Deep sea Sports Fishing" for example. Okay, now I see that you've taken this directly from the existing site, which is pretty clunky, ugly and slow loading. You're already surpassed that by a good mile!

Yours is fast loading on my 33.6 as well. I hope they give you the job!

Oh, and the water there looks awesomely inviting!

I think you have done a nice job so far. Definately a big improvement over the original site.

I can't read the red text in the logo at all. Maybe you could convince them that it needs to be changed.

Do crop the pics at the top so that they are all the same size.

I think that you need to put some text under the big picture and maybe a caption. Can't decide if the picture should be centered or maybe move it to the right to balance out the page a bit. It looks kinda empty at the bottom.

Good job!! They should be satisified.

disastermaster

Thanks Guys'

>>From the rounded corners at the bottom (they're kinda jagged looking to me) it appears you intended the background to be white, but since you haven't specified a background color, it's coming up default grey on the Mac.<<

Yes I think I should redo the corners in Adobe instead of Paint Shop Pro. Thanks I didn't realize that I did not set the background color.

>>The row of images at the top, I'd crop and make them all the same height so there isn't a gap at the top of every other one.<<

Good point. Is there anyway to specify the height when cropping or do you just play with it?

>>In NS the words "Bahamas fly fishing and bone fishing vacations" are appearing in Courier despite your (font face="MS Sans Serif") tag because it is wrapped by the (pre) tags, which NS interprets as needing a fixed-width font, and my NS default for that is Courier.<<

Should I just stick with Arial?

>> I'm with Fringey on losing the white lines between links. I don't think you even need to have the links underlined, since it's pretty obvious they're links. A mouseover would be nice.<<

Yes I was thinking about doing that.

>> I hope they give you the job! Oh, and the water there looks awesomely inviting!<<

Thanks. And if you want to go down there I can put you in touch with their resort.

>>I can't read the red text in the logo at all. Maybe you could convince them that it needs to be changed.<<

I doubt they will.

All the best,
Gavin

I didn't really word my reply very well, I was tired. I didn't mean that the white space on the side nav bar was alighned improperly or anything like that. Just the since there is so much contrast between the navy blue and white, and a lot of those colors right next to eachother that the spaces seem awfully big to me. I keep my contrast slightly above the default though, for games. Um.. so yeah.

I didn't mean to say make the heading smaller, must've been a stupid typo. I meant make it bigger than the rest of the body. If they won't let you make a new logo, which i'm sure would be much better than the one they have, perhaps you could clean that up a bit. it's very fuzzy. Maybe even convince them to let yuo tweak the coloring to suit the site. Of course, clients are strange and mysterious creatures, you gotta work with what you can get.