Nice looking site. Just a few things that I will nit pick about. *emphasis on nit pick*:D
The logo looks a little faded to me but it isn't bad. Could be the blue dropshadow though.
Need to add some padding to the table that the main content is in. It is butt up against the left side of my screen. probably be easier to read if you move it in just a bit.
Might consider putting a second set of navigation at the bottom of your pages...just text links in a smaller font.
You have two body tags in your code for the home page as well as two links for the style sheet "CAP.CSS".
We ask that you please review at least 3 other sites and help others by critiquing their work. Always nice to have a new set of eyes here. BTW..Welcome to the forum!
Karen Cardinal posted this at 19:46 — 17th February 2002.
You have a really nice site! I was able to find my way around to everything I wanted to look at.
The one thing that bothered me was how the thumbnails of the photos were distorted to fit into a square.
Is there a way you could set your thumbnail generator up to create a thumbnail sized at "no larger than _ pixels wide or tall" instead of fitting it into a square?
I use Photoshop and that's what I have it do for the thumbnails.
Well, this is the kind of critique you get from someone who's more of an artist than a webdesigner.
Good job on the design!
I think if you padd your table cells around your text as disaster-master suggested it would be quite slick.
As mentioned the content needs to be brought in away from the margins.
I'm a photographer and was really interested to see this site, but then it all loaded and thought, no way i'm reading all that, especially on a first page.
I also noticed the "news" link is the index link, maybe change it to home?
I checked your photo gallery, very confusing navigation, i clicked on a topic, it took me to a sort of sub directory, so clicked on the topic again, same page, clicked on another topic, same page, then I relaised the picture links where under the sub menu (dont I feel silly), so i click on portrait which has a (1) beside it, and click the link (world faces) and it has 9 pictures with a link at the bottom that goes nowhere. so i am guessing the (1) was for one topic, not page. (to early in the morning for this). then i checked out nature, i click on a topic but after viewing them have to either use back arrow or click on nature and then scroll down for each one thats for thumbnails, not images as they have next, previous and thumbnail links.
nice design and layout, navigation needs a little bit of work. just noticed all the links are for mostly American shops, maybe add some for other countries? I've heard Canada is the cheapest place to buy electrical stuff, including digital cameras, or England if you want SLR stuff
That is a heck of a lot of text on the front page there. Is anybody really going to read all that? What you need to do is pare it down to the bare essentials, and link to more information about different topics. Also try to keep your paragraphs short, use bulleted lists where possible, and headings to break it up into sections. All of this will make it much easier for people to process.
When I went into the photo galleries, I didn't realize that anything was happening at first. You have that big menu at the top there, with all the different categories - when I clicked on something I didn't notice the links coming up on the bottom - I thought that nothing was happening. That menu area shoud be shortened up some. Even better - remove it from that area and keep it on the right side menu as you have it on the front page.
Now, what if I wanted to order one of these prints? Or use it on my web page? Information should be provided about that.
Nice use of right side navigation here. For some reason I feel like the horiztonal navbar doesn't stand out enough. Maybe if you did those buttons with the blue gradient like you have for the headers on the right menu it would look better. Otherwise it looks really good - nice light colours and layout.
The way the main body text on the front page appears on my system is with not enough line spacing making the text hard to read. (Except for the last line in each paragraph - which has a different/greater line spacing.
Also, why are you using in your paragraphs? produces some strange line breaks...
The Webmistress posted this at 10:20 — 20th February 2002.
It is a very nice clean, easy to navigate site but I too thought that there was far too much text on that first page and I expected to see some pictures on the first page. I also thought that the very top right part of your logo/banner were links.
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
Put some kind of padding down the left hand side. The text (too much of it, BTW) starts way too left for me, and makes the first letter unreadable. Maybe you should sort out your margins, or throw a text into a table?
- wil
club-art.net posted this at 11:53 — 20th February 2002.
Look at how far the text is away from the edge of your screen on THIS PAGE. That would be about right for the others.
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disaster-master posted this at 19:33 — 17th February 2002.
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Nice looking site. Just a few things that I will nit pick about. *emphasis on nit pick*:D
The logo looks a little faded to me but it isn't bad. Could be the blue dropshadow though.
Need to add some padding to the table that the main content is in. It is butt up against the left side of my screen. probably be easier to read if you move it in just a bit.
Might consider putting a second set of navigation at the bottom of your pages...just text links in a smaller font.
You have two body tags in your code for the home page as well as two links for the style sheet "CAP.CSS".
We ask that you please review at least 3 other sites and help others by critiquing their work. Always nice to have a new set of eyes here. BTW..Welcome to the forum!
Karen Cardinal posted this at 19:46 — 17th February 2002.
They have: 62 posts
Joined: Jan 2002
Ohhhh.... I love art photos.
You have a really nice site! I was able to find my way around to everything I wanted to look at.
The one thing that bothered me was how the thumbnails of the photos were distorted to fit into a square.
Is there a way you could set your thumbnail generator up to create a thumbnail sized at "no larger than _ pixels wide or tall" instead of fitting it into a square?
I use Photoshop and that's what I have it do for the thumbnails.
Well, this is the kind of critique you get from someone who's more of an artist than a webdesigner.
Good job on the design!
I think if you padd your table cells around your text as disaster-master suggested it would be quite slick.
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Busy posted this at 22:08 — 17th February 2002.
He has: 6,151 posts
Joined: May 2001
Welcome
As mentioned the content needs to be brought in away from the margins.
I'm a photographer and was really interested to see this site, but then it all loaded and thought, no way i'm reading all that, especially on a first page.
I also noticed the "news" link is the index link, maybe change it to home?
I checked your photo gallery, very confusing navigation, i clicked on a topic, it took me to a sort of sub directory, so clicked on the topic again, same page, clicked on another topic, same page, then I relaised the picture links where under the sub menu (dont I feel silly), so i click on portrait which has a (1) beside it, and click the link (world faces) and it has 9 pictures with a link at the bottom that goes nowhere. so i am guessing the (1) was for one topic, not page. (to early in the morning for this). then i checked out nature, i click on a topic but after viewing them have to either use back arrow or click on nature and then scroll down for each one
thats for thumbnails, not images as they have next, previous and thumbnail links.
nice design and layout, navigation needs a little bit of work. just noticed all the links are for mostly American shops, maybe add some for other countries? I've heard Canada is the cheapest place to buy electrical stuff, including digital cameras, or England if you want SLR stuff
Megan posted this at 00:56 — 18th February 2002.
She has: 11,421 posts
Joined: Jun 1999
That is a heck of a lot of text on the front page there. Is anybody really going to read all that? What you need to do is pare it down to the bare essentials, and link to more information about different topics. Also try to keep your paragraphs short, use bulleted lists where possible, and headings to break it up into sections. All of this will make it much easier for people to process.
When I went into the photo galleries, I didn't realize that anything was happening at first. You have that big menu at the top there, with all the different categories - when I clicked on something I didn't notice the links coming up on the bottom - I thought that nothing was happening. That menu area shoud be shortened up some. Even better - remove it from that area and keep it on the right side menu as you have it on the front page.
Now, what if I wanted to order one of these prints? Or use it on my web page? Information should be provided about that.
Nice use of right side navigation here. For some reason I feel like the horiztonal navbar doesn't stand out enough. Maybe if you did those buttons with the blue gradient like you have for the headers on the right menu it would look better. Otherwise it looks really good - nice light colours and layout.
Megan
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Modemsite posted this at 06:42 — 18th February 2002.
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Nice site.
The way the main body text on the front page appears on my system is with not enough line spacing making the text hard to read. (Except for the last line in each paragraph - which has a different/greater line spacing.
Also, why are you using in your paragraphs? produces some strange line breaks...
The Webmistress posted this at 10:20 — 20th February 2002.
She has: 5,586 posts
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It is a very nice clean, easy to navigate site but I too thought that there was far too much text on that first page and I expected to see some pictures on the first page. I also thought that the very top right part of your logo/banner were links.
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
Wil posted this at 10:27 — 20th February 2002.
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Joined: Nov 2001
Put some kind of padding down the left hand side. The text (too much of it, BTW) starts way too left for me, and makes the first letter unreadable. Maybe you should sort out your margins, or throw a text into a table?
- wil
club-art.net posted this at 11:53 — 20th February 2002.
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Is this padding problem on all pages or only on first (index) page?
I am asking, because on my system I do not see it!
disaster-master posted this at 15:36 — 21st February 2002.
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Look at how far the text is away from the edge of your screen on THIS PAGE. That would be about right for the others.
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