Free Graphics Website Review
I would be grateful if you would review the following website.
It is written as html on notepad. I would love to say that I wrote it this way for simplicity but the truth is I only know html (Self taught).
The original graphics have been created by myself using various software...hours of fun!
The site is free as it is funded by advertising and I update it regularly.
Although I have been runnung the site for a while I have had no feed back regarding design or content.
Please help yourself to any of the resources.
Free Graphics
http://www.graphics-free.com
Megan posted this at 17:06 — 3rd February 2006.
She has: 11,421 posts
Joined: Jun 1999
Hi glambam,
SOrry it took so long to get to reviewing your site!
The overall layout isn't bad and it's great that you did it all yourself in HTML. It could use some spicing up with graphics and a nice logo.
The other thing I'll comment on is that there are no samples on the front page. It would be nice to have a visual cue for what the visitor can expect to find on the site.
In the sections that have more than one page it owuld be good to have the pages navigation duplicated at the top of the page as well as at the bottom. For some of them I didn't realize there were more pages.
Oh, and don't center text on a page. It makes it hard to read because the eye has to jump back and forth to find the next line instead of going back to the same starting point every time.
Good luck!
Megan
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glambam posted this at 22:12 — 3rd February 2006.
He has: 10 posts
Joined: Feb 2006
Thanks Megan for the great advice.
I am working on a logo. I wonder if graphic samples on the main page may slow the loading time. I will definately look at this though.
I have aligned the text left and it looks so much better.
In the sections that have more than one page - it does say Page 1 etc at the top. I may have assumed wrongly that visitors would realise there are more than 1 page.
I will look at this again and re think this.
Thanks again.
Free Graphics
http://www.graphics-free.com
glambam posted this at 15:15 — 10th February 2006.
He has: 10 posts
Joined: Feb 2006
I have completely re-designed the site. Thought I would get a nice looking template. CSS - big learning curve!
demonhale posted this at 16:33 — 10th February 2006.
He has: 3,278 posts
Joined: May 2005
Looks ok and organized at the moment, you just need a little sass for the logo/header area, lighter hues of blue and grey and maybe some gradient here and there, this coulod look really good if more time was spent now with the graphics part...
mjoe posted this at 20:57 — 11th February 2006.
They have: 5 posts
Joined: Feb 2006
Hey,
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I clicked on one of the categories and wanted back to the homepage - but your logo on the top isn't linked with the homepage and the "Resource-Navigation" was replaced by ads. That irritated me. (Hey, and the ad says something like "sex contacts - search singles and pairs for group-fun etc. pp...
Never break your navigation.
Could it be, that there are some sites in the old design?
Andreas
Busy posted this at 21:33 — 11th February 2006.
He has: 6,151 posts
Joined: May 2001
I like black and grey but in this case the black text is to hard to read on the darkish grey.
Also there is a horizontal scroll at 800x600, trim your margins a bit.
The display pages need to be the same as your main one, not sure if your using a database or static but some of the images need to be on a dark background and some don't.
The page navigation is also missing the page number your own, just having the number would be helpful.
Is there really still a demand for animated images? I would of thought clip art in general would be slim pickings. Maybe loose the animated only titles and make it so you could move into clip art or stock photos in the future without to much distruption
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