REVIEW REQUEST: www.alp-realm.com/phoenix2

Welcome to TWF
First up, always use width, height and alt tags on ALL your images, makes loading a lot smoother (otherwise it jumps all over the place)

you might want to fix your HTML in the first one, you have a section of code before the tag (start of a table tag etc)

Don't use PHP for the time/date as it works off the servers time, so to me its a day out it says March 09, 2003 - 11:38 pm when in fact it's really March 10, 2003 - 5:45 pm

On the second one I'm getting a slight horziontal scroll bar at 800x600 and the copyright section is a little small to make out what it says
This was all with IE5, I'll check on other browsers later if no one does

The site looks pretty much the same in all browsers except that in NS7 & Opera6 the header & main sections touch but in NS4.7 & IE6 there is a gap between them, latter looks better. However in NS4.7 you have other gaps appearing that look like borders to your table cells which is messing things up. Small horizontal scrollbar in all.

A bit too dark & heavy looking for my liking but IMO you should make the header sit right at the top of the page with 0 margings. The image of the keyboard at the top looks a bit too optimised to me as it has gone fuzzy and doesn't look professional to me.

Thanks for the Welcome
I will add the height and width and alt sometime very soon.

Thanks for the tip on the first one, but its not so important anymore...

I won't be putting the time and date any longer, no one cares about it anyways. They just look at their time and date if they are runnning most operating systems.

I noticed it was a bit wide for 800x600. I was kinda annoyed by this, but I don't think I am going ot fix it. The scrollbar does not really ruin anything, and my site is going to be for my friends and I, and so we can deal that we need higher res. I run 1280x1024 at home...and 1024x768 at my gf..and it looks ok there.

I suppose that I could make the Copyright section larger, but is it really that important?

Is there a way I could fix the non gap for NS7 and Opera6 without messing with what will happen to IE6? I am mostly an IE fan when it comes to Web Browsing, and most of the demographic I appeal to are IE...SO I don't want to mess with the IE side.

It is definetly dark and heavy looking, but I am hoping that once my content is all up, it will add a more light and friendly feeling to the site.

I will also tweak the keyboard more...dang keyboard giving me trouble!!!

I would maybe move the white box up a bit more kind of spaced down from the top a bit to much. Other than that its not that bad.

Fonts, fonts, FONTS! That's your problem here. I'm seeing a mix of serif and sans in the body area, and the logo font is yet again a boring, standard serif. Do some research on basic typography. Learn about the basic classes of fonts, and how and when to use each. Also learn where to find good free fonts online. Logos should never be done in a standard font.

I do like the idea of the phoenix - you should really develop that further. Find a better icon and use it strongly in your design. I don't mind the colour scheme now, but it would be cool if you could incorporate some more striking colours like yellow or orange. The keyboard image, for example, could be tinted to provide a more striking header for the site.