Website Critique

[Guest]

Its my first time making webpages, and my first time using FP. I only used it
to change the html coding a little (giving the website a bg image). I used
Adobe Photoshop+ Imageready to make this website and they dont work well with
html coding. Please give me some critique. Some of the pages are not finished
but im in the process right now. I worked on it from scratch and i would like
to know how to make it a little better.

Thank you

http://www.alvaenterprises.com
(as for the 404 error page, i know i mispelled "thank you"...im changing
that now"

 

[PapaBear]

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 12:38:05 -0700, "Gabby"

 

[Paul M]

Hi Gabby
The way I use photoshop is to slice the page using the slice tool trying not
to make to many irregular shapes and save as images only.Then in FP create
a table and insert the images one by one into there own cell (use cell
formating to keep the images top left) ignoring any images with type
in,these are best kept as type as type takes far less time to download than
images.
As a design issue,and this is only my personal taste, I would use less
green, perhaps the cells with the text in could be another colour perhaps
white.
Hope this helps
Paul M

 

[E. T. Culling]

Here's a speed check and it might help:
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/wso.php?url=http://www.alvaenterprises.com/
Using mostly all images for a page is not necessarily the way to do it!
Eleanor

 

[Craig Schiller]

Personally, I find it nearly impossible to read your text, especially the
unbolded text, because of the green background color you've chosen. You might
want to take a look at that.

Craig

 

[Steve Easton]

You do realize that a page with sliced images takes longer to load than one with a whole image.

The only thing slicing images accomplishes is that it gives the viewer something to watch as the
browser puts the slices together.


--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28Crash_Gordon=AE\]

The monochromatic color scheme seems kinda drab.

The mouseover on the images on the index page...the images would look better I think without them...you need a little "punch".

The main banner gets lost too dark on dark green background...punch it up a notch.

Body text is also hard to read on the green.

Looks like a good start!


| Its my first time making webpages, and my first time using FP. I only used it
| to change the html coding a little (giving the website a bg image). I used
| Adobe Photoshop+ Imageready to make this website and they dont work well with
| html coding. Please give me some critique. Some of the pages are not finished
| but im in the process right now. I worked on it from scratch and i would like
| to know how to make it a little better.
|
| Thank you
|
| http://www.alvaenterprises.com
| (as for the 404 error page, i know i mispelled "thank you"...im changing
| that now"

 

[Guest]

ah yea...that is because the person that im doing the website for told me to
do it like that. she said regular black text looked ugly and she wanted it
dimmed out...
I told her that it would make it hard to read but...she went along with it.
In my oppinion, that is her mistake. I did her website. When she feels like
making the text darker, i better get paid extra ^_~

 

[Tom J]

I didn't get past the index page. It was a scroll for 800X600 and slow
loading on dial up. Couldn't read the text either!

Tom J

 

[info]

Hello,
nice to see another developer getting started.

You might find some useful help at this link to FREE video tutorials at
http://www.powerpages.ca

 

[Fred Exley]

ah yea...that is because the person that im doing the website for told me
to
do it like that. she said regular black text looked ugly and she wanted it
dimmed out...
I told her that it would make it hard to read but...she went along with
it.
In my oppinion, that is her mistake. I did her website. When she feels
like
making the text darker, i better get paid extra ^_~

I think it looks pretty good. The dimmed text makes it more mellow, imo,
but then again, my monitor is pretty bright anyway. You might want to add a
text description about each photo when one hovers the mouse over them -I'd
rather get a quick description of the pic than click on it and maybe have to
wait awhile for the next page. -Fred