Woo! The first one you get to see from me!

1) You have to have some very specific software for your site to work. That's not good. Make the software NS compatible! Netscape users make up something like 13% of the internet. One of those 13% could have made you millions, but they can't view the site 'cause it only works in IE. See what I'm saying?

2) On the splash page there is tons of space to the left of the 'H.' You can fill this in with your logo. I think it would look better that way.

3) You need to put your logo on all of the pages. The main page, the subpages, everything. You want people to remember the name of your company, and visualize it in their heads.

4) I don't really like how the text gets crossed out when you click on a link. But it's very original

5) The text will be IMPOSSIBLE to see on resolutions higher then 800x600. It's really hard for me too see it now.

Overall it's nice, but you need to work out the cross-browser/screen resolution problems. Usability I think it's called...

109870 bytes for the opening image is enough for lots of people to hit the 'back' button long before they see the page. And at small screen sizes, you don't even see the special requirements for the site.

I'd find a faster page for starters.

Since I don't have the special software required, that's all the critique I can provide.

Not quite too hard to see, there, Justin.

I run, usually, at around 1,800X1,440 Pixel Resolution and I see it fine.

You're right, however, about the Netscape compatible page--it's in the works. Of course, I'm having to forget basically everything I know about advanced web programming for me to make it [grumble].

About the strikeout--it's set to when the links are active, so I'm not worried TOO much about it. Considering that when I view the page it's about an instantanious transition I don't notice it.

The logo thing? I'll see what I can do, and it'll probably be redone in the next release of the site, but I don't know.
Update on Logo: No. I'm not going to put it up on every single site. However, there will be a few amendments to the design [as per my friend's suggestion I am going to put contact information up as soon as Thinkhost gets their control panel working.] Thanks, but no thanks.

Also, the splash page -is- the logo.

About that image's size--it is supposed to be lower, a minor programming error in my part, it'll be fixed in about.... ten seconds.

[Edited by TheGraphicsExperience on 07-14-2000 at 08:04 PM]

Alright, new version's up... please review.

...And... stuff.

*Falls asleep, drooling.*

First my praises:

the concept is very nice! the graphics look very picturesque, thus, giving me the impression that you know what you're doing.
As I already said: the cine-vision concept is cool and definitely sets you apart from the bulk of the competitors. We all know that "Web Designer" is a rather competitive field...

Now my suggestions:

Why not make the fonts a bit larger (max window width around 800 and increase the font size to Verdana 2 - or about 11px [as on the pricing page] since you'are specifying 9px right now ).

Although I only have a 17" at home with a resolution of 1024x768 I can hardly read your 9px text... at any rate: it puts a strain on my eyes that would not make me want to stay on your site to see what's on there!

You think you could get rid of the size-changing a:hovers...?? that's something I personally cannot stand (in my eyes it looks un-professional, though it may not be).

My last suggestion is this: although I see that you put quite a bit of work into this, it kinda looks a bit slapped together... what I mean is: you found a cool picture, put a table on top of it where you set the opacity and center everything. I'm sure you could be much more creative with the composition of the page...

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There's a problem with bumping up the Font Size...

See, with this opacity change, when the text size is that high you get the effect of text melding, which would mean that where the text [inside of words] meets, it basically kind of melts together.

This means that at some places the text is bolder than others.

Among other things [such as I would have to go redo about 90% of that portion] I will not change that size.

Really, it's not hard to see.

However, here are my choices with the text size thing:

Make less of it. This would keep the strain down because you wouldn't have to decipher a lot of it. However, with the nature of the Internet Explorer enhanced version that would -also- mean that I would have to cut back on information that I give the client, which would harm business.

This is -also- another reason that I provided a Cross-Browser version--Netscape is so unadvanced that it forces me to use the tag. Hrump.

About the actual design, however, the whole point is to have differentiating backgrounds, and the other point is to also have a basic 'design' concept, instead of a 'Color' Schema or whatever you would like to call it.

You grasped this concept, but didn't really see it as such: There's always going to be tables that vary in Opacity, and such like that.

As long as I don't do things like including words/phrase such as this: 'I AM 1337 PHOTOHSOP USR! MY HAX0R CLAN CKIKS UR ASS!!!!111' I believe that my professionality isn't harmed by such.

However, if you -like- order and other such things like that, all you need to do is step into the Cross-Browser version. If you like awesome effects, and a person who knows what he's doing when it comes to graphics design, then take a ride on the Internet Explorer Enhanced version.

The Hover text is so that the Links catch the customers eyes. It's not an effect that is used often, and it's easy to see why you find fault in it. However, let me assure you that I had a very precise concept in mind.

It's all about the graphics, mano.

'I eat the muscle and she eats the meat.'

[Edited by TheGraphicsExperience on 07-16-2000 at 02:47 PM]

I like the splash page much better now. Nice job. You still need to get up a logo on each and every sub-page though.