Hi, Welcome to TWF! We'd appreciate it if you could help us out and review a couple of other sites. Thanks!
Wow, we're on a roll here. Lots of really nice sites posted lately. My first impression is that it looks really cool, but I have no idea what it's about. Something to do with music, but I'm not too sure. So I try to read the text at the top, which is a little on the small side and contains a bunch of personal comments... a little confusing since I don't know what this site is about.
ONe thing you should do is try to shorten the layout a bit so it will fit entirely on the screen at 800 x 600. Also spice up the navbar mouseovers, like changing the colour to that orange you have there. And spell contact properly - that didn't directly register right away. Also add some bigger page headers, to let the user know which page they're on. I didn't notice right away that those little karate guys were moving along the navbar. Neat idea.
I like the way you have done the picture of the girl with the eye. That is a good effect. Your content needs a bit more unless the site is just for people who will understand your little tid bits. There really wasn't enough information there for me to pick up on what the site is about. Text size is small but a lot of people do that with their personal sites so I guess that is your preference.
I am not crazy with the big numbers as links to your other pages. I would at least do like Megan said and use colors here. Also when you mouseover the image to the right takes forever (well, not forever but longer than it should) to appear or change.
The top of your text box and top of image of girl maybe should line up....not sure. What are the kickboxers for?
I like it though. It has personality.
TheGizmoid posted this at 07:23 — 12th November 2001.
Definitely different and interesting! I, too, was confused at first (well, I still am!) but it seems you are a live DJ or such? How about a sentence or paragraph on the main page stating what it is you do?
Yeah, I'd tighten it up so it fits at 800x600 without scrolling.
On your "Kontakt" page you don't state where you're from. On one page you say you're playing in Cheshire, so I'm going to presume UK.
I'd suggest spelling out dates a bit more. 12-11-01 means December 11, 2001 to Americans. Perhaps 12-Nov-01 or such to make it clearer to an international audience which uses different dating conventions.
Good luck with it.
P.S. It looks fine in IE4.0, but there are some issues with NS4.6. There's a big black bar through the girl's forehead and another at the bottom of her nose. Also a big black box at the bottom of your main text block.
sab2000sab posted this at 07:47 — 12th November 2001.
Your site looks really cool!!! You did a good job with the layout. I like it...but... you need more content!!! You need to draw people in and tell them why they should look further into your site on your first page. Once I got to your front page, I was at a stand still because I did not know what to do or where to go from there...lol Why did you spell "musik" and "kontakt" that way? It took me a little while to figure what "kontakt" meant...lol! If your "c" key is broken, I have an extra keyboard you can borrow!...LOLOL...
Hiya Paul & welcome to TWF. Glad to see another Brit on the boards & from somewhere close to my heart as well (I have family that live in Manchester).
I'm assuming that the people who view or will view this site will know the address, otherwise you need to do a lot of work on the mta tags to get the search engines interested.
Very nice site but I agree that you need to get everything moved up so no scrolling is necessary at 800*600 & maybe add a touch of colour to the link graphics.
I also would add a bit of a biography of yourself & where you are from as it seems the site is about you, your DJing and your music. Text size is also very small and reading too much of it will make you go blind!
I liked 'Glitter People' the best
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
The design has a few issues in Netscape 4.7, the white border around the text box doesnt show on the left or top sections, also there is a big black box at the bottom of the text area. the text itself is so small you cant read it.
looking at your code, you have an extra > after your table tag (before the tr), you also have some blank table (td) cells, this could be why the white stripes arent showing up, always use a in empty cells, if its a really small cell use the font tag around it at -2 to make it smaller, as is equal to a space bar space.
you should also use alt tags in your image tags.
seems all the pages suffer from the same problems, none of the text is readable.
The grey section is different greys in IE, but pretty much the same in Netscape.
I'm guessing "makes you blind" is a band name.
Play Paul posted this at 14:49 — 12th November 2001.
Don't forget to let us know when the changes are uploaded and we'll check again. Please continue with this thread otherwise it gets confusing!
Look forward to hearing your views on some of the other sites here
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
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Megan posted this at 03:30 — 12th November 2001.
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Hi, Welcome to TWF! We'd appreciate it if you could help us out and review a couple of other sites. Thanks!
Wow, we're on a roll here. Lots of really nice sites posted lately. My first impression is that it looks really cool, but I have no idea what it's about. Something to do with music, but I'm not too sure. So I try to read the text at the top, which is a little on the small side and contains a bunch of personal comments... a little confusing since I don't know what this site is about.
ONe thing you should do is try to shorten the layout a bit so it will fit entirely on the screen at 800 x 600. Also spice up the navbar mouseovers, like changing the colour to that orange you have there. And spell contact properly - that didn't directly register right away. Also add some bigger page headers, to let the user know which page they're on. I didn't notice right away that those little karate guys were moving along the navbar. Neat idea.
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disaster-master posted this at 06:44 — 12th November 2001.
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I like the way you have done the picture of the girl with the eye. That is a good effect. Your content needs a bit more unless the site is just for people who will understand your little tid bits. There really wasn't enough information there for me to pick up on what the site is about. Text size is small but a lot of people do that with their personal sites so I guess that is your preference.
I am not crazy with the big numbers as links to your other pages. I would at least do like Megan said and use colors here. Also when you mouseover the image to the right takes forever (well, not forever but longer than it should) to appear or change.
The top of your text box and top of image of girl maybe should line up....not sure. What are the kickboxers for?
I like it though. It has personality.
TheGizmoid posted this at 07:23 — 12th November 2001.
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Definitely different and interesting! I, too, was confused at first (well, I still am!) but it seems you are a live DJ or such? How about a sentence or paragraph on the main page stating what it is you do?
Yeah, I'd tighten it up so it fits at 800x600 without scrolling.
On your "Kontakt" page you don't state where you're from. On one page you say you're playing in Cheshire, so I'm going to presume UK.
I'd suggest spelling out dates a bit more. 12-11-01 means December 11, 2001 to Americans. Perhaps 12-Nov-01 or such to make it clearer to an international audience which uses different dating conventions.
Good luck with it.
P.S. It looks fine in IE4.0, but there are some issues with NS4.6. There's a big black bar through the girl's forehead and another at the bottom of her nose. Also a big black box at the bottom of your main text block.
sab2000sab posted this at 07:47 — 12th November 2001.
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Your site looks really cool!!! You did a good job with the layout. I like it...but... you need more content!!! You need to draw people in and tell them why they should look further into your site on your first page. Once I got to your front page, I was at a stand still because I did not know what to do or where to go from there...lol Why did you spell "musik" and "kontakt" that way? It took me a little while to figure what "kontakt" meant...lol! If your "c" key is broken, I have an extra keyboard you can borrow!...LOLOL...
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The Webmistress posted this at 09:06 — 12th November 2001.
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Hiya Paul & welcome to TWF. Glad to see another Brit on the boards & from somewhere close to my heart as well (I have family that live in Manchester).
I'm assuming that the people who view or will view this site will know the address, otherwise you need to do a lot of work on the mta tags to get the search engines interested.
Very nice site but I agree that you need to get everything moved up so no scrolling is necessary at 800*600 & maybe add a touch of colour to the link graphics.
I also would add a bit of a biography of yourself & where you are from as it seems the site is about you, your DJing and your music. Text size is also very small and reading too much of it will make you go blind!
I liked 'Glitter People' the best
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
Busy posted this at 09:45 — 12th November 2001.
He has: 6,151 posts
Joined: May 2001
The design has a few issues in Netscape 4.7, the white border around the text box doesnt show on the left or top sections, also there is a big black box at the bottom of the text area. the text itself is so small you cant read it.
looking at your code, you have an extra > after your table tag (before the tr), you also have some blank table (td) cells, this could be why the white stripes arent showing up, always use a in empty cells, if its a really small cell use the font tag around it at -2 to make it smaller, as is equal to a space bar space.
you should also use alt tags in your image tags.
seems all the pages suffer from the same problems, none of the text is readable.
The grey section is different greys in IE, but pretty much the same in Netscape.
I'm guessing "makes you blind" is a band name.
Play Paul posted this at 14:49 — 12th November 2001.
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Joined: Nov 2001
Hi there again ...
WOW thank you for all the VALUABLE feedback! I have read through each post carefully and taken all onboard.
I have gained alot from your comments and wealth of experience and have already started to implement some changes this morning!
I also aim to become an active member and provide constructive feedback on other members sites where poss!
Once again many thanks!
Mark
ps. makes you blind is prolly one of my all time fave songs. You can read my updated site to find out more soon!
The Webmistress posted this at 14:59 — 12th November 2001.
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Don't forget to let us know when the changes are uploaded and we'll check again. Please continue with this thread otherwise it gets confusing!
Look forward to hearing your views on some of the other sites here
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
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