my first website

nice start now get rid of geocities by a domain from godaddy and get it hosted cheap

Keep practicing, and read a lot on web page authoring, specially some CSS... also you could search for some color theory and web accessibility to help you make better web pages in the future...

Your design is not that bad as Mine when I was a beginner too, All I can suggest is that you learn color matching and accessibility, see your menus and other texts are on dark color over a dark background which is hard to read, your logo needs a little refinement since bleeding is quite visible...

Good Start, Keep working on your skills!

not bad attempt for first go!
what happened with the fav icon?
u have it in the code twice but i cant see it in firefox browser.

your site reminds me off a template dark blue/white though - best bet would be to find good looking sites about your product/service and see what styles/design they do and use that to work on (not copy!)

OK ive uploaded the site to its real home. Here it is:

http://www.tanismedia.net

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. Yea, the color scheme is a little dark...I actually designed it all on a laptop so with the LCD it actually looked really nice! I'll probably change it eventually.

Hi,
Just took a quick look & on first glance it looks just fine. I'm on a Mac w/Safari (so sites always looks crystal clear to me!)

Content and copy...

For a site pushing a reemergence of new literature, your first book doesn't fit the genre. You may have to reword the hype about it to cleverly get around it not being literature.

Also, you have made a few grammar blunders. There are several instances of clauses that you have not enclosed in commas.

ex: We, the publishers of Tanis Media, aspire to make new and fresh works of literature available to this generation.

Go back thru all of you text - edit & rewrite. Don't overuse descriptors, and don't be redundant.

ex: make new and fresh works... I think just "fresh" will do as they both imply newness.

Too many prepositional phrases.

ex: We wish to rally authors to rise to our challenge to produce works... This sentence needs to be completely reworked.

In all, the copy is a bit overblown for the one and only book you have published. Maybe tone it down to match what you have, and give hints of ambitions of a higher purpose.

The white text/font has a bad habit of blurring on dark backgrounds. Though it looks ok on my screen, it may look worse on others. In fact all of the "i's" blur into "l's". Experiment with other fonts, or change the colors.

Once your site gets going, you are going to receive TONS of spam because you have your email address in the clear. Believe me, it started for me almost as soon as the search engines had indexed my site.

Read up on it here:

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~trw/spam/

Anyway - good luck (from a fellow writer)!
mdancy
tonydancy.com

Excellent job moving to a different server. I was gonna make a suggestion that you move away from geocities, however it is a nice place to put a website that you are making or a website in progress.. I do love banner on the top of your site, the way the colors fade.. Great job!

I can see that the site is not aimed at individuals of my age but wrters and readers come in all ages.

I found that the text was a little too small for me to read and the comparision between background and text did not help. Perhaps a little lighter background as you say.

Otherwise I thought the layout quite good.

Very laid ot and doesnt look to full which is good, less is best..

I think the blue needs to be broken up a bit

Good work, now as said above, get your own domain name and host when you are ready to "officially launch" your website.

I just lost my want to write a reply now,,i was writing a reviev that i spendt like 25 minutes on to write..Only to find out when i was to preview the post i was logget out....i did not logg out,,,so when i find it now easy to cope with the fact that i just lost the most detailed and ok i think review in along time only to see it deleted is to frustrating..i have to leave and come back later......I Promise you a new review, if i return to the forum....

from a new member and his first post...

P.s: I was to give you a rating 6-out of 10. and a list of positive and negative points..

Hi, nice simple site, I like it. Like some of the others have mentioned it is alittle dark. Just bringing in a different color will help a lot. I really like the color fade in the banner, however it seems slightly off to me. There seems to be too much space between the logo and wording to the right. Could be just me, though. The site is very easy to navigate and it is not too cluttered.

Thanks everyone!

Any other suggestions, feel free to throw them at me!

I like the layout a lot. Its very professional and for a first it is incredibly good. Everything is clear.

I think the background in conjuntion with the font makes the page look a bit choppy. That's really all I have to say about that. How long did it take you to create your first website?

I like it! I agree it is a little dark, and maybe the background stripes are a little distracting. Also, on my screen there is a lot of unused space on the righthand side. Super job for a first website!

The sites OK 4 a starter. Its great, But Pls do not use geocities. The URl is too long. Use a free web host like 50webs.com or atspace.com no banner ads at all and the URL is short too. But if u want to keep your geocities account shorten the URL by going to freedomain.co.nr you just use your domain name with a co.nr at the end.
I did it with my site,
http://www.affiliatemasters.co.nr

I've got to agree with the too dark. And like Janet said maybe just adding another color might break it up a bit. The color on the left nav menu might be easier to read if it was bold or bigger. What about putting some kind of text or search bar in the horizontal table?

willjoe86 wrote: http://www.geocities.com/wimball86

The above site is a pretty simple site....I used a starter page from dreamweaver and modified it a bunch.

Since this is my first, any and all suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Will

Maybe I'm just being picky... but the grammar seems a bit off. There are no semicolons or commas where there should be etc.

Also, I seem to be repeating what a lot of others have already said, but the grey writing seems to blend with the dark background too well and I think a bit of contrast would be better.