Just need some feedback

The design is pretty cool!

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Firstly, I would find a better service provider (like your ISP maybe) becuase that Xoom frame at the top really sucks.

Secondly, I really hate it when people tell me that their site is best viewed at a certain resolution with a certain browser - people aren't exactly going to download a new browser or change their screen resolution just to look at your site. A good webmaster should be able to design a site that looks good in most popular browsers at most popular screen resolutions.

Some people may not know to click on that weird symbol thing - might want to put some sort of "click here" link, or maybe onmouseover.

The navigation menu looks really cool - did you make it yourself?

Those 3D title bars don't stand out from the page at all. I can hardly see them.

Good start so far though - you just need to add some real content to this.

Wait... is there a good reason why you're using frames? I didn't even realize it until I resized my browser window and found the scroll bars - it doesn't seem necessary in this case

Yeah- looks pretty cool. I agree mith megs, 'cause you have no real reason to use frames. BTW- I didn't have to resize my browser to see the scroll bars.

IE5, 800x600

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I'm using frames because it seams to load faster and also i'm going to add a bog download page for stuff. so the sid meny is going to get longer.

how dows this ommouseover work?

And anyone sugest a better font?

and any free servers other than xoom, you have to pay extra for a sight at my ISP

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[This message has been edited by Josh Simpson (edited 17 January 2000).]

Other free web hosts? Heck yeah! Over 400 listed at www.freewebspace.net

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Justin @ fireburn.com

If you are going to use frames for a navigation make that frame non-scrollable at the prize of pissing off people at low resolutions who wont be ablt to see all menu points.

If you want to make the nav bar shorter, just leave out the IE button. MS doesnt need any free help. Better put a Mozilla button there.

You should under no cirsumstances use frames for the content pages. Seems like you use them cuz you dont knoe what tables are. But tables are more appropriate for that application.

Its a common mistake for beginners to use fonts which are not widely support. Comic Sans is one of these. I would suggest to use either "Arial, Helvetica" or Times, so everybody gets a chance to see the pages the way you intended.

Later,

Malte

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Hi again

Malte I do know what tables are but I DONT like them, I know thay are better because they are suported in all brosers.

What is this mozilla button?

And are there any fonts that are starnded that actualy look good?

or is there a way of having the font on the server and loading it from there?

Josh

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In my oppinion,
you should try to consider putting a text link in your splash page. like for example, some web surfers wouldn't know where to click in order to enter your site.

Other than that, your site looks cool.

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A couple of things:

I agree with everything Megs said.

Yes, you can have fonts on the server and load them from there so that people can see the font you want them to see even if it's not installed. However, that means downloading the font with the rest of the page. That greatly increases loading times since most fonts are well over 50K. Generally, it's not worth it, especially if you factor in that most fonts are copyrighted and that raises some legal issues. If you really want to proceed, do a web search for "embedded fonts". A better solution is to use a standard, common font like arial or times or helvetica or whatever you prefer for the majority of the site. For stuff like navigational menus, if you absolutely must have some special font, you're better off creating a few small .jpg or .gif images with the words you need done in that font. 10 1K gifs is a lot less intrusive than forcing a 60K embedded font download.

And before you get too into this site, definitely move it off xoom. It's a lot better to change hosts now before sites start linking to that URL and search engines start indexing it. Try http://www.virtualave.net I was with them for quite a while before I moved into my own domain and they're a lot better than 99.9% of the other free hosts.

Thanks all

I am in ther process of moving the page at the moment to redrival.com any good?

I also added the onmouseover to the main page

Maverick thanks for the advice, the bad thing is my graphics prog doesent have suport fonts

But I hope to get Adobe Photoshop when I get my new machine (I dont think My 486 with 15Mb free HDD Space could hack it )

Thankx Josh

[This message has been edited by Josh Simpson (edited 20 January 2000).]

This sight uses alot of graphics so please be patient, if you have any questions or problems with my site please feel free to email me.
That is one of the mistakes, sight is how you spelled it, you should spell it site, sight means seeing. I really like the design of the site - Keep up the great work!

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Cool navigator graphics. I like them!