My strange looking website, is it too weird?

They have: 3 posts

Joined: Dec 2000

I just built this website to promote my online opportunities and to keep all promotion tools in one place..........

Its not the usual layout, I desided to try something new, and now I like too be judged!

Please dont spare me, but be reasonable in your critisism......

http://www.wealth-builder-online.com

Thanks

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Megan's picture

She has: 11,421 posts

Joined: Jun 1999

Why do you think it looks strange? It doesn't look all that weird to me.

I don't totally hate those 3D buttons, but you really need to center the text on them. Try using a sans serif font (to match the body text), and try playing with photoshop opacity options on there if you have it (overlay might look good). They look like they've been cut out of a different coloured background, so that needs to be fixed too.

Okay, the weird thing is that the text seems to be changing position on every page. It must not be on the graphics??? Huh??? I try to right click to view source and find out what's going on and you have that no right click script. Be honest with yourself - why? Is there anything here that someone might want to steal???

Don't underline text on the web. It just confuses people because they think it's a link, even though it isn't.

Now, I really think that you need to work on your content here. Is English a second language for you? There are a lot of grammatical errors in here that need to be fixed. If you run your text through MS Word's grammar checker it should catch them (if you don't have that, ask a native speaker to help you out) ie. "an unique" should be "a unique" - one of those crazy exceptions to the rule I'm afraid.

More about the content - the main page really says nothing. You should also have more specific information about your "opportunities" and "traffic builders"

They have: 3 posts

Joined: Dec 2000

Thanks for your input, I´m not really finished with the text on the page, I just rumbled something up in a hurry (yes, english is my second language), but I got some second thoughts about the page when finished, its something about the layout....dunno what it is though.

The button text needs to be fixed yes, but I dont know how to do that, you talk about opacity options on there if you have it (overlay might look good).

What does that do?

The no-right click script is cool, novice people see it as a professional thing to have on a website....but you can easily get passed that by holding down the right button while clicking on ok in the ALERT window...Wink

Also I have´t tried the page in Netscape, I dont even know if it will work with it, I use IE with high resolution so the button text does not move when I click on them.
this happends because the text area stretches the table down when you click on the link, I just didnt like the idea of making so many different buttons, so I just used 2 types and added the text centered in the TD....

Thanks again for your input, I somehow had the feeling it wouldn´t be a user friendly layout, maybe the page looks too empty?

Valdi

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They have: 1,587 posts

Joined: Mar 1999

worked and looked ok to me. i'd change the background to a lighter/brighter color, black is too gloomy for a site about opportunity, hehe.

They have: 304 posts

Joined: Dec 1999

I think you have some good content hidden in there. Try to bring it out to front.

By the way, with all the repeatitive keywords and title words, wouldn't some engines consider that spamming?

I think the design is functional, but it could be better. fairhousing is right - the colors are too gloomy and don't match the site spirit.

As for the English - I'm not a native speaker either. I use an editor for my site. I find it to be very very important and well worth the money.

Best of luck!

They have: 3 posts

Joined: Dec 2000

Thanks a bunch for the critic, I´ll use it to make my site better and more user friendly!

I´ll let you review it again when I´m done...Wink

Thanks again...

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