Hmmmm.....interesting looking whatchamacallit (busy taught me that word) you have there in the top left corner. May I ask what that is?
I am not sure that your title reflects that yours is a web design site. It is definitely different.
Your rollovers have the line appear on mouseover at the top and they disappear on mouseover at the bottom. I think I would change the bottom links so that the line appears on mouseover.
Your mission page is a little slack in content. Might add some more stuff there. In fact, the whole site needs more "stuff".
The images on your portfolio page are very blurry. That might reflect on your graphic making abilities. I would clean those up a bit and maybe add a border around them. The second site listed in your portfolio, "The Protected Forest", goes to a page with something about spam on it.
The links at the bottom of each page are in a different place vertically on each page. Make them all the same amount of space from the bottom of the page.
Please tell me what a fireshui is. My curiosity is getting the best of me.
The Webmistress posted this at 11:11 — 17th November 2001.
Nothing really grabs me on this one I'm afraid. It's ok but it's a bit blah. Needs more content definitely and that top part is different but neither overly interesting nor pretty and that's about all that's on each page so it should be more eye catching. At larger resolutions everything looks lost on the page.
I agree about the screen shots, they don't entice you to look at the sites. Also I would have them opening in a new browser window otherwise if visitors want to get back to your site they have to use the back button and they could just give up, especially if they looked around the other sites. What did you use to make your graphics?
You have a good start but you need more there and I would say you need an address, or at least where you are in the real world.
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
aqzsvwx12345 posted this at 18:26 — 17th November 2001.
well, the thing is a circle of fire... Apparently that's not too clear? I'll probably change it, in any case.
As for the screenshots, I'm using photoshop. the problem is, when i save it in gif, the colors look very bad, but with jpg, it becomes too blurry. Any suggestions?
Oh and the link is easily fixed.
Well, thanks for the suggestions, and keep them coming!
Btw, i'm not too in over my head, am i, for starting a web design company? .. Since i'm only 15...
Ok, firstly.
I like the top part of it; the orange goes very well with the black.
However, the watchamacalit is a bit... blurry. You need to make the logo fit the content, or the name of your site. Its good, but not for a webdesigners page.
Also the name at the top, the fireshui is a bit blurry; I think it might be better to have it a bit more white.
Next... The white at the button... Its too empty... too.. nothing.
It doesn't tell you anything; when looking at it you don't feel like reading the rest.
Perhaps some small images or visible frames there would help; something to clear it all up.
I hope you can use some of this advice; your page seems good, but could be better
Thanks
~casper
mairving posted this at 19:58 — 17th November 2001.
Anyway, the site is not too bad. Something I would maybe consider doing is to make your navs into gifs. The Orange that you are using shows a little bit too much aliasing for me. Another thing to do is to put each navlink into a separate cell. This makes it easier to change the spacing in between the links.
Logo - I think that you logo takes up way too much space for what it shows. Two different fonts don't help and the kerning between the letters is too much. It is also not real clear that that is a circle of fire in your logo.
Layout & colors - I think that you need something at the bottom of your page, even if it is just a background. It looks a little too bare. If you add a little something at the bottom, keep the white though. The colors are fine.
Portfoilio - If you can't get a good screenshot, then maybe try to either not show the page, but just have a link. Or you could play around in Photoshop using the clone stamp tool and come up with. You could have the snapshot show only a piece of the screen which would look better. Something like this:
Overall pretty good, just needs a little tweaking.
Mark Irving I have a mind like a steel trap; it is rusty and illegal in 47 states
aqzsvwx12345 posted this at 16:36 — 18th November 2001.
For a web developing firm your site seems a little bland. Just wondering what your prices are.
dave waters http://www.supplychaintoday.com
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disaster-master posted this at 05:00 — 17th November 2001.
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Hmmmm.....interesting looking whatchamacallit (busy taught me that word) you have there in the top left corner.
May I ask what that is?
I am not sure that your title reflects that yours is a web design site. It is definitely different.
Your rollovers have the line appear on mouseover at the top and they disappear on mouseover at the bottom. I think I would change the bottom links so that the line appears on mouseover.
Your mission page is a little slack in content. Might add some more stuff there. In fact, the whole site needs more "stuff".
The images on your portfolio page are very blurry. That might reflect on your graphic making abilities. I would clean those up a bit and maybe add a border around them. The second site listed in your portfolio, "The Protected Forest", goes to a page with something about spam on it.
The links at the bottom of each page are in a different place vertically on each page. Make them all the same amount of space from the bottom of the page.
Please tell me what a fireshui is.
My curiosity is getting the best of me.
The Webmistress posted this at 11:11 — 17th November 2001.
She has: 5,586 posts
Joined: Feb 2001
Nothing really grabs me on this one I'm afraid. It's ok but it's a bit blah. Needs more content definitely and that top part is different but neither overly interesting nor pretty and that's about all that's on each page so it should be more eye catching. At larger resolutions everything looks lost on the page.
I agree about the screen shots, they don't entice you to look at the sites. Also I would have them opening in a new browser window otherwise if visitors want to get back to your site they have to use the back button and they could just give up, especially if they looked around the other sites. What did you use to make your graphics?
You have a good start but you need more there and I would say you need an address, or at least where you are in the real world.
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
aqzsvwx12345 posted this at 18:26 — 17th November 2001.
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well, the thing is a circle of fire... Apparently that's not too clear? I'll probably change it, in any case.
As for the screenshots, I'm using photoshop. the problem is, when i save it in gif, the colors look very bad, but with jpg, it becomes too blurry. Any suggestions?
Oh and the link is easily fixed.
Well, thanks for the suggestions, and keep them coming!
Btw, i'm not too in over my head, am i, for starting a web design company? .. Since i'm only 15...
hotcut posted this at 19:38 — 17th November 2001.
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Joined: Sep 2000
Well, let me give my humble opinion then!
Ok, firstly.
I like the top part of it; the orange goes very well with the black.
However, the watchamacalit is a bit... blurry. You need to make the logo fit the content, or the name of your site. Its good, but not for a webdesigners page.
Also the name at the top, the fireshui is a bit blurry; I think it might be better to have it a bit more white.
Next... The white at the button... Its too empty... too.. nothing.
It doesn't tell you anything; when looking at it you don't feel like reading the rest.
Perhaps some small images or visible frames there would help; something to clear it all up.
I hope you can use some of this advice; your page seems good, but could be better
Thanks
~casper
mairving posted this at 19:58 — 17th November 2001.
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15yrs. old, huh? I have shoes older than you.
Anyway, the site is not too bad. Something I would maybe consider doing is to make your navs into gifs. The Orange that you are using shows a little bit too much aliasing for me. Another thing to do is to put each navlink into a separate cell. This makes it easier to change the spacing in between the links.
Overall pretty good, just needs a little tweaking.
Mark Irving
I have a mind like a steel trap; it is rusty and illegal in 47 states
aqzsvwx12345 posted this at 16:36 — 18th November 2001.
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I fixed it up a bit. I'd appreciate it if you'd take another look at it. Address is http://www.fireshui.com/
hotcut posted this at 16:39 — 18th November 2001.
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It is much better now I think.
However, I got one mroe suggestion.
If I were you, I would add a black bar at the left as well.
Lets say your design looks like this now:
000000000
000000000
111111111
111111111
111111111
111111111
I would change it to like
000000000
000000000
001111111
001111111
001111111
001111111
I believe that could help some.
Perhaps using your name there as well, vertically instead.
Thats my 5 cents. Its getting really good.
mbdw6708 posted this at 19:56 — 18th November 2001.
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For a web developing firm your site seems a little bland. Just wondering what your prices are.
dave waters
http://www.supplychaintoday.com
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