The new CTS site

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yeah it is.... lol look at the site

made a typo above.. please review my site though. Thanks

Oops sorry, didn't realise this was in Website Critique Area

At 800x600 there is a slight horziontal scroll bar
Different fonts on main page and side bar, looks like you forgot a bit
Because you have white space under your content (index) increase your font size by one, it is on the small side anyways.
IMO the copyright etc should be at the bottom of the page, not the bottom of themain content section, as it is it looks chopped off or unfinished.
I think you should rearrange your links on the top navigation, you want people to look at your services, pricing etc before about and contact. English read left to right so the main one to the left, not so to the right, something like Home, Services, Portfolio, Pricing, About us and Contact. Having links on your 'Home' links is weird, home is expected to go to the home page so people may miss the 'news' and 'sitemap' links. The sitemap, while is a good idea isn't needed, your links are well labeled. The news as well isn't really needed as you have it on every page.

The layout is a little short on the top banner/navigation section in Mozilla, there is a white line between that and the black border.

My personal gripe with dropdown navigation like yours is there is no bread crumb trail to follow, you go to a page and you have no idea what section you're on if you're doing several things at once.
Keep all your links within the site, dont have new windows opening (page two in graphics)

Your contact page is way to confusing, use the email links OR the form, not both (ideally the form), you also need some validation on your contact form to stop blank mail.

Over all looks good, nice clean colours and layout, I could get real picky and say the drop shadows on the black borders are wrong as you could only ever have one shadow , (two light sources would wipe out the shadows)

I'd add something about doing work worldwide on your about page, you say you're based in USA which is good but no mention if you work outside of it. Sounds stupid but people who know nothing wonder about these things

dang, forgot to look at your code, ok you have a double

Ok, I'll start by saying that overall I quite like your site and the layout is good, and then I'll nitpick;
Hate the colour scheme
Like the banner
Don't like the Arial / times new roman you use at the top, especially the web address
Your Matrix Medical Marketing site looks really good - but your site DOESN'T LOOK nearly as good as that. (even though i like ur layout)
Banner should link to homepage
Phone number / address should be given out not just email
If you want a template for less than $100?
The front page of the site is not inviting me to use your products
But I like the clean layout: 68.763%

Another thing. On eof the sites in yor portfolio,Matrix Medical Marketing, is from a template. I could recognize it since you let it almost unchanged. Maybe you don't want to start your portfolio with a temp. You can chose to publish only what you think represents you. And when working with templates, maybe is better to alter them so that picky and obnoxious people like me wouldn't observe

Good luck with the project and may you have lots of clients

So THAT's why its so good?
Where's the template from dojo? Free or commercial?

Not my site, my site is completly original lol

one of my portfolio sites is a template, I LOVE that guys testimonial though.. he bought a template and wanted me to put it together, i should figure out a better way to display the testimonial and remove the site i suppose

my site is original

lol, busy. Its ok your just tired Im going to make those changes right now, I really appreciate it.

Heebie thanks for nitpicking, you made some real good points I will address those now as well

lol dojo, thanks for noticing The reason i chose to use MMM is because Pete wrote an AWSOME testimonail for me. The way I include testimonials ATM is with the site I built. MMM bought a template they liked and asked me to put it together. I probably should either hve another page for testimonials or I should just not worry about it.

Quote: The front page of the site is not inviting me to use your products

Could you explain more? Thanks

Ill also change the form for templates

That template is from monster templates I blelieve

* Line: 89

Invalid number : text-alignmiddle is not a text-align value : middle

* Line: 113

Invalid number : font-sizeonly 0 can be a length. You must put an unit after your number : 11

* Line: 123

Invalid number : text-alignmiddle is not a text-align value : middle

* Line: 147

Invalid number : font-sizeonly 0 can be a length. You must put an unit after your number : 11

You asked me to explain more, well:
I go on the front page, I think "boring" and i immediately close the browser window and move on.
I need the wow factor, man

the thing is. i do have text-align:center on both of those lol...and i cant find where the line 113 error is...

the errors are usually the line before, but in this case its after, the error is on line 122 11 what?

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Almost there

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Welcome to the new CTS website

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Yeah, I mean that MMM thing. It just looked really good.
someone said it was from monster templates...they're not free.
Are you sure you can get a template like that for free dojo?

I don't know where I got is from since I was using many places to get them from. Thw peoblem is it's a template I've seen in some places and it's that familiar it just sticked to my eyes. Even in sites with free downloads there are some nice layouts and this particular one is not that complicated so we couldn't make it in a max of 3-4 hours.

I don't actually like to use templates I do if my clients need/want to use them. I changed the menu rollovers, they seem to match my site better... what do you think?

Hey megan..do you think you could review my site? I was kina looking forward to hearing what you had to say. Thank you

oh man...that part is database driven...never checked it! THANK YOU!

Hey, Taylor, I haven't forgotten.

So you've done it on your own this time. It's an okay start but I think you need to do a lot of work on your graphics. This could be improved a lot with a simple colour scheme alteration and a new header graphic.

One really simple and easy but great looking technique to use for a header graphic is to get a nice stock photo and crop it to some interesting abstract looking section. This is what I did with my site. Very easy and it looks great.Use a simple but elegant font for your text and you're done.

Alternately, you could find a piece of clip art that represents the "tailoring" idea and use that with your text in a logo.

No need to put your url in the header graphic. Either put a little ".com" next to the main text or leave it out altogehter.

The colour scheme here also needs work. It's very gray. Bland, boring. Use more of the green and blue and you'll be headed in the right direction.

In Opera 7.5 I'm getting a very long piece of empty space at the bottom of the page.

Good job with the text - a lot of people have problems with this. I have noticed a few errors (your instead of you're on the "web development" page). You should have someone proofread this for you.

one thing I just noticed is page titles. It's really important to have a good page title that accurately describes the page. This is important first of all for the users but also for search engines.

Well, I like the color scheme. I especially like the main title of the site with the green gradiant font. My only beef is that this doesn't seem to be a good representation of someone offering graphic design services and web page design.

From a graphic design perspective there are none... save your logo and your two images.. one of which I could not open in your portfolio. I like the fact that you have tutorials... but I think that area should be expanded if you are going to bother keeping it... make it so people want to come back and learn more after seeing it. If it isn't going to be used as a reference... why bother.

I will give this a 6 out of 10.

Robb.

I'll second the people here
As I know, you are very keen on clean and good coding, so I guess we'll have to shut up on that, as I'm sure some of us are left behind
Since your visitors don't care about conding. I don't care about coding. As long as the site loads OK and the layout is not crippled I don't look at how it's coded. But I sure look at it's layout. Has it got a nice layout? Colours, graphics?
Work some more in Photoshop. Make your site stand out. Try to play with the idea of tailoring. You could do some amazing stuff. Since I'm a Karate enthusiast and my sites have got the dojo part in their name I tried to play with this and make them stand out a bit. The layouts are far from perfect, but could be easily remembered by the visitors.
There are so many sites with webdesign services that look the same.
You've got a great "theme" - tailoring - use it ... make it stand out: let your people know you can make perfect fit sites, as a good tailor could make them pants and clothing.

Hope it helps Good luck with this project

Site is pretty nice, but I noticed that it does some drifting in sub 800x600 scaling (if you don't open it maximized) at least on WinXP/MSIE6
(picture of what I mean)
http://forum.notian.net/cts.jpg

Thanks guys, im working on fixing that prob Cpt

Thanks Megan, I am looking to enhance the site a bit graphically

thanks guys, ill show you what it looks like later today