What do you think? Steve's Landscapes and Images

You're off to a good start with the site. For many sites who use black and white, most often have a white background and black text. However, reversing it does work well. The font is the right size and there is enough spacing between the paragraphs to give the eyes a bit of a break. The only thing I would change with the font is not to use serif style fonts. Try using MS-Trebuchet,Verdana, or Arial. Tahoma might even work too. With the font you are using now, it's just too busy with all the serifs.

Are you going to display just black & white images or mix in color images as well?

Lo Demon.

KISS is exactly what I was after this time around, it seems to work better for most photo websites. It takes only three little changes to make it fluid, but I don't know about it. There are so many different browser sizes in use today, you cant help but wonder what they are doing to your layout, when its so called fluid.

As for 8 x 6, it seems to be only about a very small 10% of my visitors if that. I remember when I first started on the web, I had a 13" monitor and had to use 640. Almost all of the sites were 8 x 6 then, and I had to scroll a lot. How sweet is revenge (chuckle, haha, hee-haw).

Green links? I couldn't think of any other colors that would show well on black, maybe Gold. Times? well one thing for sure, it displays about the same size on every browser. That eliminates any margin problem. I have tried other fonts but I seem to favor times. And you know the little rhyme ( here's to those who wish me well, those who don't can go to ---- ) just kidding of course.

See-ya later Demon. ( thanks for the review)

I almost forgot the post above; most of the photos will be in color. Black or dark gray is the best background for color, or B&W. Not the best for most average sites, but 100% good for photography.

I'll try the other green. As for the fluid part, I haven't really decided to leave it fixed. I had a lot of trouble with the album page on the old site, with fluid design. It sort of reminded me of a stretched cat! at the higher res.

This design does pretty good with the 50% text margin as it will grow with resolution change, and pretty well hold proportions. At least on the home page; I will have to work on something for the album index though.

I was thinking about a logo also, have to work on that. I have a Grand-Daughter that is a whiz with graphics, guess I will have to consult her.

Busy.

The fixed width, came about from surveying my past visitor percentages. It seems if you go Liquid, the site will always look its best at the resolution you created it at. That was one of my problems with the first design. I based it on 8 x 6, and at higher res it just continued to stretch until it looked ridiculous.

This one is based on 1024, and liquid at 8 x 6 it just looks all jammed up. The text also becomes magnum in size, and looks funky. So with a 90% 1024 visitor rate, I just decided it would be best to keep it that way?.

I tried the links bold, but since I wanted to keep them non intrusive, I really don't know whether I like it or not. I know this is not the usual way to do it, but I am trying for the slightly unusual. You know the go "where no man has gone before" thing. As far as a different color goes, I am open to suggestions on that. I just couldn't come up with one that I thought looked good.

But since getting a review is about asking for others opinions, I have to at least take them into consideration. And make any changes, that would remain within my theme for the site.

The monitor is a Gateway EV-700 CRT, one of the best they ever had by the way. Its simi flat, and 17 inches. There is a under the header all the way across the page, the links also are hanging on the bottom of it. I don't exactly get the picture question though. It is supposed to be a low contrast blend in, with no decrepit edges visible?.

Anyway I guess I will quit here, before I fill up the forum with this post.

Steve.

Contrary to my usual, I am building this one and uploading as I go. So some of the links were dead. All the links are live now - but all the pages do not have full content.

It will be several days before it is mostly complete. You might have a look at some of the layouts, and let me know what you think. It would be a lot easier to change things now! than later.

mayek.

As I said, its a go as you build thing. There are no albums connected to the links as yet, so that's why none are found.

That's not usually the way I do it but in this case, that's how it happened. Really the server I am on has a thing about empty accounts. And I did not want to leave mine empty that long, and loose it.

The albums are actually the hardest part, so I wanted to get everything nailed down first. Albums will be forth coming in a few days.

I might look into the open on a different window thing for the links.

I looked into your suggestions, the first sentence on the front page had been sending me uncomfortable messages also - so I changed it. The %20 thing also looks better on my end, sent myself an e-mail to see.

You are right about the guestbook, I had not noticed the . Removing that also removed the italics from the header, but I can live with that. If you try to make a custom header for the page (which they will let you do) it also messes with the please sign link, and just says "sign". It seems you can't have everything your way on free services, but that's their fault, they could have done a little better job of coding. But all the way around, this is the best provider I have found to date though.

I also removed the sessions thing from PhotoGalaxy's link, don't want to cause anyone any more problems than they probably already have.

Photos? The server I am on had a major hard drive crash, and they could not recover all the photo files. I did not have all of them backed up - so I lost them. Since I have installed a burner here so that can't happen again. Its going to take a little time to re-process the files I do have left, to get the albums up, then they will not be as full as I would like. I wish it were not that way - but as they say that's the way the cookie crumbles I guess?.

I am not going to submit the site until I do get the albums somewhat operational, search engines do not like sites under construction as you know. I submitted it here to get some feedback, and the changes you mentioned have made an improvement - I think.

If you see anything else let me know ...... Steve.