Well, I like the new one better. You might want to curve the edges on the new one to give it more of a feel. Also, center the whole thing. The mouse click colour for the menu isn't great, blue on a dark turquise(sp) doesn't work. Looks great!
it is the Xmas/new year period, everyones life gets busy with family, work and some lucky ones get holidays, others get pc problems or are governed by the weather. Just relax, we havent forgotten about you.
As for your layouts I perfer the first one but think you need to turn your table borders off and spread your content out abit more, i was going to blame your cellspacing of 5 but see its more the amount of tables your using
the changes are looking good, keep up the good work.
colours are always hard, first thing that comes to mind is a darkish blue (blue = water ...) but there is no rule saying you have to use blue. probably stick to earthy tones but venture more towards peaceful/holiday or the easy way out, don't use one, keep it all white and seperate it by lines or an off white colour
The colour of the photos is better as it gives a warmer feel but the actual photos don't compliment each other very well IMO, they kind of fight for attention and the logo almost seems to get in the way rather than create a harmonious header section.
I also still think the shades of green are wrong, especially with these photos being so blue.
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
I don't like the banner at the top. It's where my eyes expect a title. I think the actual title is too small and hard to notice.
The pictures and colours are nice though. Maybe a little too much green. I think a few different shades of green might look a bit nicer than the same shade throughout.
One thing I noticed here is that your photos along the top look really dark. And it's not just because many of them are taken at sunset. Do you have photoshop? If you've got a good graphics program you should be able to fix those.
I agree with what the Webmistress said about the logo there. What you could do is put the text on top of the photos somehow. That would make it much more interesting.
Otherwise this is a good start for your first site. You've done a good job of organizing the page and your navigation. I do think that the left side lakes navigation should probably appear on every page since that is the main content for the site.
Coding aside I don't think you have a bad start here but a couple of things on the design/layout:
Do you have to put those adverts right at the very top? The page would look much better if your 'site' started at the top.
The shades of green that you have chosen aren't the most flattering of shades to put together. Green is one of the hardest colours to get shades to work well together. I'd try a lighter, more olive colour and a dark green together.
The photos in the header are ok but very dull looking and all kind of merge into one another. Do you have any lighter, warmer looking photos?
Maybe try to work the logo into the header more as it looks a bit odd where it is just html text plonked under the pictures. A graphical logo would just finish off the header section better.
IMO all the pages on the site should have the same header section as the home/links page.
When I clicked on the links page link it bought up an error with something about the Web Directory plug-in not being pasted correctly. What's that about?
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 05:53 — 27th November 2003.
I dont get what you mean...
"Also don't use underlined text that is the same colour as your links, very confusing."
I dont have any underlined text that is the same color as my links
First up, NEVER resize images using the width and height tags, ALWAYS resize with an image editor (irfanview is free easy to use image editor). takes ages to load on dialup because of those big images (one is 72kb).
You might want to turn the table border off in the main content section.
Also don't use underlined text that is the same colour as your links, very confusing.
Frontpage isn't the best thing to use to make webpages, if you must use an editor, use dreamweaver or one of the many other available ones - your code will thank you for it.
you have a code problem on the blackwaterriverstateforest/bearlake/bearlakemainpage page (should consider shortening your folder/apge names down to), looks like your missing a or somewhere , you also have a tag betwen and (end of page).
You might want to put a doc tag on it and try validate the code - goodluck
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cjb_89 posted this at 00:01 — 16th March 2004.
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I have remade the home page of nwfloridafishing.com. Please give me your critique of it vs. the old one.
Old:
nwfloridafishing.com
New:
nwfloridafishing.com/index2
disaster-master posted this at 04:04 — 16th March 2004.
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So far, I like the new one best. The rounded corners do seem to make it flow better.
Have you considered redoing that header image of the lake scenes? The image quality could use a little improvement.
icerider posted this at 01:11 — 16th March 2004.
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Well, I like the new one better. You might want to curve the edges on the new one to give it more of a feel. Also, center the whole thing. The mouse click colour for the menu isn't great, blue on a dark turquise(sp) doesn't work. Looks great!
Busy posted this at 22:21 — 6th January 2004.
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main content tables, the one that holds the weather thing
do something like
add extra table for table border decorations if wanted
content
weather and stuff
whatever was at bottom
end added table for table border decorations
and thats it, check your editor allows you to do that, my experience is any editor that uses tbody and thead etc dont allow much customization
cjb_89 posted this at 22:12 — 6th January 2004.
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sorry about that but i had posted that 3 days ago and no one had answered. But it was no excuse. Thanks for your input.
Which tables are you primarily talking about.
Busy posted this at 21:53 — 6th January 2004.
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calling people names wont get you very far.
it is the Xmas/new year period, everyones life gets busy with family, work and some lucky ones get holidays, others get pc problems or are governed by the weather. Just relax, we havent forgotten about you.
As for your layouts I perfer the first one but think you need to turn your table borders off and spread your content out abit more, i was going to blame your cellspacing of 5 but see its more the amount of tables your using
cjb_89 posted this at 19:54 — 5th January 2004.
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wow i feel so unwanted no one wants to review my new designs:(
cjb_89 posted this at 21:56 — 4th January 2004.
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No replies?
cjb_89 posted this at 04:57 — 3rd January 2004.
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I have two new designs
original:
nwfloridafishing.com
redo:
nwfloridafishing.com/indexredo
redo2:
nwfloridafishing.com/indexredo2
Tell me which one you like best
The Webmistress posted this at 08:14 — 28th November 2003.
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I would use #006699 for the lighter blue and #003366 for the darker blue, they are more belnded shades.
cjb_89 posted this at 03:35 — 28th November 2003.
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Ive changed the front page to blue. Check it out...
nwfloridafishing.com
Busy posted this at 01:19 — 28th November 2003.
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the changes are looking good, keep up the good work.
colours are always hard, first thing that comes to mind is a darkish blue (blue = water ...) but there is no rule saying you have to use blue. probably stick to earthy tones but venture more towards peaceful/holiday or the easy way out, don't use one, keep it all white and seperate it by lines or an off white colour
cjb_89 posted this at 22:19 — 27th November 2003.
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Can you give me any ideas on what kind of colors to use
The Webmistress posted this at 21:21 — 27th November 2003.
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Much better without the adverts at the top
The colour of the photos is better as it gives a warmer feel but the actual photos don't compliment each other very well IMO, they kind of fight for attention and the logo almost seems to get in the way rather than create a harmonious header section.
I also still think the shades of green are wrong, especially with these photos being so blue.
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
cjb_89 posted this at 20:27 — 27th November 2003.
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I have fixed my site tell me what you think now
nwfloridafishing.com
writingwizard posted this at 16:04 — 27th November 2003.
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I think it looks nice overall.
I don't like the banner at the top. It's where my eyes expect a title. I think the actual title is too small and hard to notice.
The pictures and colours are nice though. Maybe a little too much green. I think a few different shades of green might look a bit nicer than the same shade throughout.
Megan posted this at 14:35 — 27th November 2003.
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One thing I noticed here is that your photos along the top look really dark. And it's not just because many of them are taken at sunset. Do you have photoshop? If you've got a good graphics program you should be able to fix those.
I agree with what the Webmistress said about the logo there. What you could do is put the text on top of the photos somehow. That would make it much more interesting.
Otherwise this is a good start for your first site. You've done a good job of organizing the page and your navigation. I do think that the left side lakes navigation should probably appear on every page since that is the main content for the site.
Good job!
Megan
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The Webmistress posted this at 08:48 — 27th November 2003.
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Coding aside I don't think you have a bad start here but a couple of things on the design/layout:
Do you have to put those adverts right at the very top? The page would look much better if your 'site' started at the top.
The shades of green that you have chosen aren't the most flattering of shades to put together. Green is one of the hardest colours to get shades to work well together. I'd try a lighter, more olive colour and a dark green together.
The photos in the header are ok but very dull looking and all kind of merge into one another. Do you have any lighter, warmer looking photos?
Maybe try to work the logo into the header more as it looks a bit odd where it is just html text plonked under the pictures. A graphical logo would just finish off the header section better.
IMO all the pages on the site should have the same header section as the home/links page.
When I clicked on the links page link it bought up an error with something about the Web Directory plug-in not being pasted correctly. What's that about?
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 05:53 — 27th November 2003.
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The texts "under construction" and "Updates" appear underlined, like link (in Mozilla Firebird at least).
cjb_89 posted this at 04:07 — 27th November 2003.
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I dont get what you mean...
"Also don't use underlined text that is the same colour as your links, very confusing."
I dont have any underlined text that is the same color as my links
Busy posted this at 03:27 — 27th November 2003.
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Thanks for reviewing some other sites
First up, NEVER resize images using the width and height tags, ALWAYS resize with an image editor (irfanview is free easy to use image editor). takes ages to load on dialup because of those big images (one is 72kb).
You might want to turn the table border off in the main content section.
Also don't use underlined text that is the same colour as your links, very confusing.
Frontpage isn't the best thing to use to make webpages, if you must use an editor, use dreamweaver or one of the many other available ones - your code will thank you for it.
you have a code problem on the blackwaterriverstateforest/bearlake/bearlakemainpage page (should consider shortening your folder/apge names down to), looks like your missing a or somewhere , you also have a tag betwen and (end of page).
You might want to put a doc tag on it and try validate the code - goodluck
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