www.BacsikDesigns.tk

Also, do the prices look reasonable?

Ick, try learning how to design before offering your services!

Really, i don't find anything positive to comment on here, learn what it takes to become a designer, what looks good and attractive etc, then restart this site over.

First off, way too much blue, it kills. Prices are also pretty high compared to other ones, tell people what makes your service better then the rest, do you add extra graphics or help, and so on. I would also suggest putting a banner on the top. Add more content and graphics to the site to spark interests to the customer.

Do you have some suggestions on what other color would work well?

The prices weren't high compared to the research I did, then again, I don't know if my services stack up. The cheap custom sites I saw were 200 dollars... I can lower them though...

I would like to make the layout work... I want to familiarize my self with rounded corners and compact sites. Davey, do you have any suggestions on how to improve it?

Well 6 pages for 30 bucks isn't high at all, but people still wanna see something back for their money, the most important part of that site is the portfolio and I doubt you'll make a sale until you put one online.

It's not ugly, just far too simple (and there really is too much blue). I think you should start by looking sites that are made by professionals. One place I like is http://www.csszengarden.com/ . Look what they have done and when you like something you can try to use same kind of design on your own site.

-Teemu

I tend to agree with the others (although I would be nicer about it ). I really think that you're going to need to work on your skills before you start trying to get business. Although, a lot of people don't know much about web design so you may get lucky that way. Teemu had some good advice.

Your pricing boxes are getting cut off in my browser (opera 7.5). I see $30 (not even $30, more like $3 with half a 0).

We generally can't tell you about pricing because it could be considered price fixing and that's illegal. We'd really rather just stay away from it rather than risk getting in trouble.

One thing I learned recently is that people are generally suspicious of the lowest cost option when it comes to serivces like this.

Could you elaborate on the price fixing bit? I don't quite understand you.

What do you guys think of a new site that is a light olive green menu bar along the top and left side, and then either a beige or white content area. The site would take up the whole page. And, any ideas on how to make the lightblue "Bacsik Designs" work with that?

Ok first the site does not show you have any experience in design all i see is text. The links are hard to see on the white background and overall like the others said too much blue. I don't want to sound rude but if this was suppose to impress people or look professional it does neither for me. I would restart and come up with a design with edges and redo the colors.

I tend to agree with the others, don't get me wrong I think it's great that you are getting in and having a go.

I like that the site is simple but you need tell or show me why I would want to use your service. Having a price list just isn't enough.

Maybe the blue is ok if you add some more. You could try contrasting blue backgrounds perhaps or maybe just some borders to break the page into defined sections.

I don't know how deep the site is because none of the links are working, but it would be good to see what you intended to do with the rest of the pages. I think once you get into that the whole thing may inprove.

Oh, sorry about the no images. I am redoing the site, and using a full page layout that is green and brown. I had to change the image folder to "old images" and I haven't updated the current site, considering I'm scrapping it. I'll have the new site up in a bit.

I think you need a domain name because .tk is not trustful for a company only .com is!

Ok. Thanks for the info. That's definently something to know. I knew that price fixing was illegal, but I wasn't sure how it applied here.

coGeek: I am planning on getting a .com, just not right away. I would like to get all my content done before I pay for a .com. That way, I'm not paying for something just to ask people what they think. If that makes any sense... Just forget it.

links on this site are not working and it also needs more colored content.it needs to be more spicy i think

Erm, why are you bothering to ask us to review the site if it isn't anywhere near done yet?

It's small wonder that you're getting negative reviews, with a site that's not even half-finished! It would be better if you completed the site - or reached near completion -before asking us to review it.

lol Megan, I just noticed the Opera Ad in your signature - very clever

horziontal scroll bar at 800x600,
set your margins to 0, your design needs it, also might loose some of the scroll

**looks under the hood**
hmmm you can't have width="800" to fit a 800x600, max is 760 width (have to allow for browser margin, scroll bar etc), your better off going for width="100%" anyways

As for the colours, wouldn't be my first choice, rather loud

Busy, is this the green and brown page you're commenting on, or the orange, white, and blue?

seen three start sof designs from you now and i'm still convinced you aren't of the standard to be able to offer web design services. Try making some personal site, to enhance your skills before moving into the business.

Sorry was the green and brown one.

The red, white and blue one has issues still thou.
NEVER use width="100%" on an image (your banner), the banner doesn't show (broken image) but the properties of the image show width is 784 wide, set your screen to 1300xwhatever and view that banner at 100% - eeek

Good to see your using only CSS for the navigation
those colours are bright.

I can't set my resolution to 1300, but I view it at 124x768, and it doesn't look too bad. A little stretched out, but not terrible.
The there's a broken image link (I haven't been thinking lately) is because I'm changing hosts for the time being, and haven't been updating the freewebs one. the real site can be found at http://www.angeltowns2.com/members/bassdesigns/index.html

DaveyBoy, I thank you for your concern, but of the three starts of designs, you have told me that I can't do it twice. This is my sort of personal page, as I am learning many new skills during the process of building these sites, and have not even mentioned the site to prospective customers yet. I have not been able to think of any personal sites that I care to do, or redo. I am enhancing my skills by making a site that I have a reason to finish, and to care about how it looks. That will drive me to keep trying new ideas as I learn and enhance new skills.

To sum it up: From the feedback I have received on this forum, I am using this site to "enhance" my skills, and is not intended to be a real business site in the current state, so I would appreciate you not telling me that I'm not ready any more.