Gladstone Websites
Hi,
This is my first XHTML1.0 strict tableless site, using css to style everything, even down to the tags.
Can I please have some critique, both good and bad are welcome.
http://www.gladstone-websites.co.uk
Thanks in advance.
Gary
Gary
Megan posted this at 13:26 — 20th October 2007.
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This looks really good! Congrats on the CSS layout
A few things I noticed:
Good job overall. I like the gradient in the background. I didn't notice it at first - a nice subtle effect
Megan
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sitesupport posted this at 21:21 — 21st October 2007.
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Looks good, You culd change the color of the picture on the right side of the support page to the color of the one on the pricing page, the pink doesn't go well with the rest of your site.
NiteWatcher posted this at 05:26 — 24th October 2007.
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Nice, tableless and XHTML Strict!
Suggestions...
1. Site navigation works better with div id='' tags. Let the spiders know your site navigation better, than with generic class statements. It's more CSS, but the important divs need identifiers.
2. Footer may need to be more separated from the body with more padding. This way visitors can really see your last "punchline". Currently, it's too close to the body of the text, blending into it.
3. Experiement with "text-align:justify", to fill in the empty white-space on the right, as you have ample margins between the sidebars.
4. For accessibility (if it matters for you); navigation sidebars are best on the right-side. It makes navigation faster even for those without text-readers, especially with larger monitors/higher resolution -- that's a long mouse travel otherwise.
5. Tidy-HTML spotted that the pound sign wasn't escaped, use (remove the hyphens as the forum auto converts it otherwise)...
&-#-1-6-3-;
' instead.Nice, clean coded, and to the point website.
sin0cide posted this at 22:21 — 27th October 2007.
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good colors... nice navigation... the only thing I would say is if your trying to grab clients from the site you want it to be as cool and cutting edge as you can handle... so update or redesign as much as you can.
Brian(Webdesigner/SEO)
graisbeck posted this at 11:21 — 29th October 2007.
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Thanks to all who replied.
I've made some changes to the site ie colours, left nav, margin around central content and I've also justified the central content.
Theres still other changes yet to do when I get time.
Thanks again,
Gary
Gary
mfdc posted this at 15:10 — 29th October 2007.
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I like this site, it sits well on the screen and becuase there is no flash content, its very easy on the eye. It may be worth having perhaps a couple of your designs on the front page? It wasnt clear at first where I could find examples of your work
graisbeck posted this at 22:55 — 2nd November 2007.
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Ok, I've changed the header nav to an ul instead of using divs for each button, I've removed the red VAT image from the left hand side and added some images of my work to the home page. Plus a few other bits and pieces here and there.
Please let me know what you think of the site now.
Thanks again for your critique.
Gary
Smp Business Hosting posted this at 00:29 — 3rd November 2007.
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Hi Gary,
I recommend you put an alt tag on the 'Some of our recent web design work' image and link it to your portfolio page.
I think you should also link to the sites in your portfolio so potential clients can get a better feel of your work.
Other than that you've done a great job!
Regards, Steve
mfdc posted this at 13:57 — 3rd November 2007.
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Its good, the snapshot of your work looks very nice.
Couple of things though,
I think your strapline is weak...'designing websites from your ideas' and also the left column, underneath 'No added VAT' the yellow box isnt aligned with the purple header
It is though, coming along to be a very nice site
graisbeck posted this at 13:52 — 7th November 2007.
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Thanks all for the comments/advice.
I've removed the VAT info on the home page and added a link to the portfolio page from the recent work image on the home page.
I've been advised to indent the markup by someone from a different forum, and wondered if I could have some views on this?
Also, can I have your views on using Google Adsense.
Thanks all,
Gary
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