Please, Please,would you review my new website.

I really like your icons at the top - they are really fun - but I would have the hover over be a color - not just gray.

I would separate the bottom nav and the text above with a line or something...

I don't know what is behind Irish Time Capsule. You may want to think about that.

The font on thw logo and header seems a little unproffesional. You may want to change that. It seems that you need a more finished logo.

Is all of the text bold? I would not make it all that way.

Under Famous Irish People - give the text some breathing room. It is too close to the pictures right now.

That's all for now. I think it's a really nice site - it just needs some polishing.

Brooke

Thanks alot for all the great help.

I think I'll stick with the grey hover cos I'm really pleased with the top nav buttons and I know if I start messing around with them there'll only get worse.

Yeah I agree the whole thing needs to be explained more and that's one of the main reasons I haven't finished it yet.

I'm not certain about the logo either. It's almost what I want but it maybe needs some work. Have you got any specific suggestions as I'm not sure (font, graphic etc)

I made the text bold because I thought the site would appeal to older people and I think it's in keeping with the overall look of the site.

I've changed the text and put a line above the bottom nav.

Thanks alot! you've given me some really useful advice, anymore advice or suggestions would be really appreciated.

I think that you need a little more color on your site. As an example, when you go to the Ireland page, the whole page seems to look better because it has more color, the green in the map of Ireland. So I would try to add some color to the other pages. Here are some other things:

• Logo - the logo is a bit weak IMO. It seems like something with a shamrock in it would work better than the rainbow.
• Text - to me the text on the site needs work. I would probably make your body text smaller and not bold. The text in the bottom navbar is too small. I would make it bold.
• Navbars - bottom as said before needs work. The top looks pretty good. I like the way that each page loads with the navbar symbol in it.

Overall looks good. Just a little tweaking needed.

Thanks again for all the advice.

I've changed the text of the bottom nav bar. Do you think its OK.

I'm still not sure about the main text yet I'll have a think about changing it from bold, but I thought as the sites aimed at the older person I thought that it should be as clear as possible.

I've designed a couple of other logo's. Do you think any of them are better? Don't be afraid to say they're all rubbish cos I really want to get the logo right.

You can view the new logo's here http://www.itc2002.com/inprogress.htm

Thanks
Bertie.

I agree it needs more color, to give it some oompf, maybe a colored top and bottom section?

The bold text and centered image makes it look newbish, align the image to either side (right looks flasher ) and have the text beside it.

For the mouse overs up top, ever thought about colored images on mouseover,

As for the banners i'd go for the second one but with slightly bigger text.

HAHA I like your "go to bed" message from your missus

The first thing I think when the page opens is......UNBOLD that text!! maybe use a larger font--not bold--if you are concerned about older people being able to see it.

I am not sure what that is behind the logo at the top. It looks like an US flag and maybe an Irish flag...not sure what the Irish flag looks like *shame on me* The red and blue sort of clash with the green and orange.

You should use the shamrock that is on the message board page in the logo. That would look good I think.

On the rollover links at the top...how about a faint orange color instead of the gray?

I think that the second logo is best but I would change the font to something more celtic.

I agree with everything else that's been said anout the text being bold and the rollovers needing some colour. I think what I'd do is actually have the images coloured in rather than a solid colour (eg. house - roof red, windows blue), if not choose a colour rathr than grey which makes it look very bland.

On the first page I'd have the text to the left and picture on the right.

Thanks again,
I've taken on board all your comments. Everyone was right about the text. I've changed it and it looks better.

I've added different colours to the top nav buttons. Which colour do you think would best out of the ones I've used or do you think maybe it would be better to have multi-colours?

I'm still quite keen to have the american and irish flag on the main logo but my graphic work isn't that great can anyone think of way to add them without it looking amateurish.

Look forward to your comments!

I like the logo with the shamrock the best. I just don't know what that other is - I think it's a flag but I am not sure.

As far as the rollovers go - if you are going to do multicolored I woul do either pastel or dark but not both. I recommend using an orange on all of them to have another color.

Good job!

Brooke

Hello again,

I've taken on board all the advice which is really appreciated, and changed the site, but I don't think it looks that much better than when I started. What does everyone think? I think I need a bit more colour throughout the site.

Also I'm still not happy about the logo, I could do with some more suggestions regarding this.

Thanks everyone, your advice has been really constructive and helpful.

That looks much better without the bold text but....(don't ya hate buts;))

Since you don't have that much text why don't you make the font size a 3 instead of 2? It would take up a tad more space and be easier for those with bad eyes to read. Also, instead of having the paragraphs go all the way across the page, bring them in a bit. You can use the blockquote tag to do this if you don't already know.
<blockquote>blah blah blah</blockquote>'
And it can even be brought in further (don't know if this is correct coding but it works) by using two of them like so:

OR you could use tables to make your paragraphs shorter....kinda box things in.

I like the shamrock too. Why don't you do something with the flags at the bottom of the page? just a thought.

You know where you have the Irish Time Capsules 2002? I wonder what that would look like with a flags background??? just another thought.

Almost forgot, the yellow on the link pic rollovers looks much better than the gray that you had.

Another idea!:light:

Instead of having the gray background on the little folder thingy behind the house where it says Irish Time Capsule July 2002 why don't you make that yellow also?

I agree, with the yellow on each of the headers it will tie the design together better and give each page a bit more colour. I would also suggest making the text a font size bigger for those with poorer eyesight.

As I said earlier I think the first page would look slightly better if the capsule piture was positioned left or right with the text beside it rather than in the middle as it is now.

I have also done this which was my idea for the logo, although obviously I only took the flags you had and reduced them. Could be made to fit better but I think the font makes it more interesting. (Only an idea)

Even more thanks again, especially to the Webmistress. I really appreciate you taking the time to re-do my logo, it's much better than any of my efforts. So I've used it!

I made most of the changes suggested and it now looks much much better than it did at the start.

I just need to add some more content and few more pictures and I think I'll have a pretty decent looking site.

If there's any more suggestions feel free.

Thanks everyone,

Bertie.

hey Bertie - I'm more of a copyeditor than a designer, but it looks like you've gotten a lot of good advice on that already - so lemme get my box outa the truck and see if I can shine up yer text a little

on Home

July 4th, 2002

your family's heritage

Next year, a Time Capsule (optional)

To find out more details about the time capsule, please - also, I'd delete "details" or else say "For more details..." - this should eliminate the line break before event - hmmm, I guess that's not it - IE is giving me a break - I'm guessing it's because the TD isn't closed on the last line of content (the email link)

In fact, I'd rewrite that sentence - something like, "Find out more about the time capsule, and see how you could benefit from this exciting event.

the alignment of the links along the bottom of the page could be improved, I'd say - could you use a nested table with the contents centered? - it might get a little tight at lower resolutions and in smaller windows, but they'd just break and still look fine, imo

on About

On July the 4th next year, a time capsule (optional) - this time you don't cap T C - it might be better to be consistent - depends

The time capsule will be buried by a local dignitary to be opened in 50 years time - this implies that the dignitary will be "opened up" - you might try a comma after dignitary or else insert something like "and is" there

with an Irish heritage, this is (not so optional)

for your ancestors - only if they time travel - ya mean "descendants?"

So you can get in touch - I'd say something like, "In this way, you can..." otherwise, it's a fragment :eek:

As well as all this you will also - how 'bout, "In addition,..."? - in fact, since you've got "also" already, I'd just start, "You can also receive..."

Every applicant will also be entered - I'd drop the "also" here since ya just used it

I'd use "seven-day" and "for two"

Also, in light of the events - this is kinda required or else it looks like you're saying that "other things" are "in light of the events"

ya might want to link "Red Cross relief fund" to a site

well, it's gettin' late here - I can look through more later - I don't wanna be a jerk, but I'm supposed t' be doin' this for a living and I'm starting to think I should try to "tease" people by editing part of their site and then putting mmy hand out to do more

one design suggestion - I saw some comments about color in the other posts - could ya give the pages a border like this?