Thanks! The text on the main page was just to fill up that space, I wasn't going to use the exact text. I was thinking of rollovers too, but I thought it would make the page load slow?!?!?
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Very nice, I like it a lot. Much better than your previous design!
- Try changing the top image to a JPEG. Photographs don't look good as GIFs - the lines separating colours are very obvious in that one.
- Rollovers on the navigation images to the left would be nice.
- "You can use the links to the left to navigate our site." If you need to tell someone where to click, it's not a good sign as to the ease of your design. Your design is very easy to use, though, and you don't need to tell people that - that sentence is useless.
- "We have been into Web Design since the start of the Internet." Wanna bet? For obvious reasons, things that are so blatantly untrue as that are not very good on a page - your customers think you're trying to cheat them.
JP Stones posted this at 21:16 — 16th August 1999.
much better!
However:
- your logo looks like a banner
- I would have a slightly different area of texture for each button so they don't look exactly the same.
JP
Rollovers certainly don't have to make a page slow. You can either have the rollover images load with the page, but after all the main images - the page does take longer to load, but most of the loading is behind the scenes, with the page already visible. Or you can just skip all the preloading and have the images load when you move your mouse over the image (the disadvantage to that one is that if you click the image quickly, the rollover hasn't had time to load and you never see it).
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Anonymous posted this at 18:39 — 16th August 1999.
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Thanks! The text on the main page was just to fill up that space, I wasn't going to use the exact text. I was thinking of rollovers too, but I thought it would make the page load slow?!?!?
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dyc posted this at 19:40 — 16th August 1999.
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Very nice, I like it a lot. Much better than your previous design!
- Try changing the top image to a JPEG. Photographs don't look good as GIFs - the lines separating colours are very obvious in that one.
- Rollovers on the navigation images to the left would be nice.
- "You can use the links to the left to navigate our site." If you need to tell someone where to click, it's not a good sign as to the ease of your design. Your design is very easy to use, though, and you don't need to tell people that - that sentence is useless.
- "We have been into Web Design since the start of the Internet." Wanna bet? For obvious reasons, things that are so blatantly untrue as that are not very good on a page - your customers think you're trying to cheat them.
JP Stones posted this at 21:16 — 16th August 1999.
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much better!
However:
- your logo looks like a banner
- I would have a slightly different area of texture for each button so they don't look exactly the same.
JP
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Anonymous posted this at 22:33 — 16th August 1999.
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Thanks JP! I thought it looked like a banner also, but I can't figure out what to put there. Also, what do you think of the font?
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dyc posted this at 01:18 — 19th August 1999.
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Rollovers certainly don't have to make a page slow. You can either have the rollover images load with the page, but after all the main images - the page does take longer to load, but most of the loading is behind the scenes, with the page already visible. Or you can just skip all the preloading and have the images load when you move your mouse over the image (the disadvantage to that one is that if you click the image quickly, the rollover hasn't had time to load and you never see it).
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