What is wrong?
I am already working on learning CSS.
And I already know most of the stuff in Photoshop!
WHAT IS WRONG WITH IT?
I dont know?
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What is wrong?
I am already working on learning CSS.
And I already know most of the stuff in Photoshop!
WHAT IS WRONG WITH IT?
I dont know?
I'm not sure how to explain it, however I will nitpick. Its what I do best!
Okay, black background...perhaps had a gradient of image or something. I dono....
The corners on the header are showing up, though the shape is supposed to be a rounded corners (im guessing, thats what I used). Use photo shop to get rid of that.
The navigation buttons (Photos, design, contact) are in an awkward position and should be aligned in a difference way.
I was just thinking, you could try a white background with greyish content box? I don't know.
Move the entire site up a little bit (or maybe you have an ad in that blank spot. I have add blockers so don't know.
ON THE PHOTOS PAGE
PUT ALL YOUR PICTURES ON A THIRDPARTY HOSTING SITE LIKE FLICKR. Try to integrate a browser onto your page. The current set up is bad. Sorry.
Try here for inspiration. Also made by a kid our age. He used to have flash browsers for his pictures, guess he cfhanged it.
Also maybe make the text smaller on your photos page.
Clean up the text a little bit on your design page.
Text colors on Contact page are not good. Sorry
Okay so I sounded harsh, but its a great start. That stuff is mostly just tweaks.
Have fun ,enjoy.
As a layperson, the thing I would like better is if I could see most of the pertinent stuff without scrolling down from the initial page view. Too much work. Looks great though.
Stuff I go EEK about.
Nice to see the tune ups on your site!
Still I have some EEKS
First
alignment issues or intentional?
Second (on one of the sites you made but not this one)
WTF! Telling somebody to use IE is the webdesigners sin. (and incase you were wondering, I clicked continue on that dialog and Safari didn't crash.)
Third
Photos page. Too slow!
Ignore the design I made, just focus on the photo browser. I can tell you how to get one.
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Very easy ive been told.
Fourth, Last one.
MESSY TEXT.
Clean up the text a little, easier to read.
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jeez im harsh lol
good luck
Nice to see the tune ups on your site!
Still I have some EEKS
First
alignment issues or intentional?
Second (on one of the sites you made but not this one)
WTF! Telling somebody to use IE is the webdesigners sin. (and incase you were wondering, I clicked continue on that dialog and Safari didn't crash.)
Third
Photos page. Too slow!
Ignore the design I made, just focus on the photo browser. I can tell you how to get one.
Very easy ive been told.
Fourth, Last one.
MESSY TEXT.
Clean up the text a little, easier to read.
jeez im harsh lol
good luck
Your 2nd problem is not my fault!
My friend is crazy and he added all of these stars and such flying across the screen and he has fireworks on it, he has several other things too.
I am very tempted to remove it all but I just can't!
I just designed the page. (AND I HATE SAYING THAT )
For the navigation,
I really don't know what to do with it anymore.
I am trying to find something that looks good and works, but I don't know...
I like what you did on the design page.
I might try that. But that is for another day.
I need to change the design page anyway, because it has the same content since I first made the page.
THANKS FOR THE HELP!
My friend is crazy and he added all of these stars and such flying across the screen and he has fireworks on it, he has several other things too.
I am very tempted to remove it all but I just can't!
I just designed the page. (AND I HATE SAYING THAT
)For the navigation,
I really don't know what to do with it anymore.
I am trying to find something that looks good and works, but I don't know...
I like what you did on the design page.
I might try that. But that is for another day.
I need to change the design page anyway, because it has the same content since I first made the page.
THANKS FOR THE HELP!
hey,
For 13 its a good start but I would focus on the size of the font. Its too big to read comfortably, and would reduce the amount of scrolling people would have to do to get to the main content on your pages.
On the web design page the bullet point are long way from the text next to it, to the point where there is no use having them.
I just did a quick search in google and found this site http://www.keyrelevance.com/articles/readability.htm It has some great points on layout, size and colour of text.
Hope this helps?
For 13 its a good start but I would focus on the size of the font. Its too big to read comfortably, and would reduce the amount of scrolling people would have to do to get to the main content on your pages.
On the web design page the bullet point are long way from the text next to it, to the point where there is no use having them.
I just did a quick search in google and found this site http://www.keyrelevance.com/articles/readability.htm It has some great points on layout, size and colour of text.
Hope this helps?
From your designs I can see that you like me don't have a headway or a product but i am terrible with coding and the styple of my page, I have designed www.expertmobiles.com in dreamweaver and this is all I could get out of it. you have done a very good job. well done
New Design page, Thanks to Omi!
Thank you, Omi, for all of your ideas for my site.
They have all been very helpful! I made something a bit like what you did on the mockup of my design page. I am still working on one more thing about it.
I should also thank everybody else who have given advice about my site.
It is really hard to make the font just right, because it is different in all of the browsers! Most of my friends use Internet Explorer 7 and so do I so I usually make my sites using that. But now I have to look in other browsers to make it all look good. Most of you use Safari I suppose, so I am testing in both IE7 and Safari.
My Winter break has been great! And I really don't want to go back to school...
Thank you, Omi, for all of your ideas for my site.
They have all been very helpful! I made something a bit like what you did on the mockup of my design page. I am still working on one more thing about it.
I should also thank everybody else who have given advice about my site.
It is really hard to make the font just right, because it is different in all of the browsers! Most of my friends use Internet Explorer 7 and so do I so I usually make my sites using that. But now I have to look in other browsers to make it all look good. Most of you use Safari I suppose, so I am testing in both IE7 and Safari.
My Winter break has been great! And I really don't want to go back to school...
Thank you, Omi, for all of your ideas for my site.
They have all been very helpful! I made something a bit like what you did on the mockup of my design page. I am still working on one more thing about it.
I should also thank everybody else who have given advice about my site.
It is really hard to make the font just right, because it is different in all of the browsers! Most of my friends use Internet Explorer 7 and so do I so I usually make my sites using that. But now I have to look in other browsers to make it all look good. Most of you use Safari I suppose, so I am testing in both IE7 and Safari.
My Winter break has been great! And I really don't want to go back to school...
I don't know if you can do this in IE7 but in safari, if you can enable the developers menu you can change the user agent to see how websites load in different browsers.
Changing your user-agent does not change Safari's rendering of the page. Changing it is more about spoofing the browser you're using to the sites you're on, such as ones that try to block non-IE users.
And one in Jake's. That's the first thing I noticed, and then I was done. If a person making/designing a site can't be bothered to make sure to double-check on their spelling and grammar, I generally can't be bothered to read it... although since you are looking for critiques, I did click on some of the links.
And nouns aren't capitalized in English (only German), which is just one more thing making the site look professional.
My advice would be to try to make something simple & clean in neutral colors, make sure all your copy is correct, with proper grammar and spellings, then slowly try to work on a more unique design.
I fixed it, I actually knew about the Jake's thing, but I didn't really remember how I made the lettering like that, and I wasn't up to remaking it.
Some day I am gonna go through the entire site and check grammar and spelling. And what nouns are you talking about? What would neutral colors be? I am not so sure.
THANKS!
What are all some fonts that are on every computer?
I am having problems finding one that looks good, and works for everyone!
What are all some fonts that are on every computer?
I am having problems finding one that looks good, and works for everyone!
The application iWeb lets you use (or used to atleast, not sure how it works anymore) and font you want and when you publish the text is converted into images. you could try that?
I think by neutral colors he means rather than the black and red, something more modern like beige, ivory, taupe, black, gray, and white.
If you perfer to go this root browns and blacks (At least in interior design) compliment well I think. As well as warmer shades of colors.
I don't have iWeb
I am still a PC user...
And wouldn't that make your site non-search engine friendly?
I don't want my text to be images. That would make it harder to edit a paragraph or something.
ThANKS ANYWAY!
What are all some fonts that are on every computer?
I am having problems finding one that looks good, and works for everyone!
There's not a ton of options in the area of web-safe fonts.
http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html
http://dustinbrewer.com/fonts-on-the-web-and-a-list-of-web-safe-fonts/
Remember though, when defining font families in CSS you can list alternative fonts when certain ones aren't present.
Example:
Code:
font-family: Chalkboard, Optima, Helvetica, Times, serif;I think my current Fonts are ok for Mac and Windows
That is all I am worrying about.
Right now anyway...
That is all I am worrying about.
Right now anyway...
I don't think its the fonts on your site, more the layout of text. And use of bold.
She, but yes, I meant try something in white/light gray with black text, keep it simple, use a reasonable font size in either a dark grey/black, same color scheme for the background.
Work up how you want things to look on paper first markers, crayons, colored pencils are all good for playing around with colors/placement.
And to the OP, on your photography page, aside from a missing apostrophe in Jake's again, and the too-large font, you're capitalizing words that don't need to be, ie, Creative should be creative, Computers could be computers.
Same thing goes for the other pages.
Also, the copy on your design page is awkward; a portfolio should be a presentation of your best work, especially if you're trying to get business designing for other people. If I was in the market for a site, none of the copy on that page (assuming I got to it, since your first page doesn't have much to convince me to stay) or the work shown would lead me to consider hiring you.
For starts, he recommends using colors like grey/white with reasonable fonts (with sizes) that match the background.
He says sketch your design downs in full color and everything before making a site. You already do this I believe, and were just modeling off the mock-up I made.
Fix your typos and grammar he says. I completely agree. Its pretty bad
I don't understand the design page part
He says sketch your design downs in full color and everything before making a site. You already do this I believe, and were just modeling off the mock-up I made
.Fix your typos and grammar he says. I completely agree. Its pretty bad
I don't understand the design page part
dyndns domain? haha
is-a-geek.com
kinda like mine
davidolson.gotdns.com
free from dyndns.nice.
thats what i do.
surved streight from ur home computer. violates my AUP. but whatever.
is-a-geek.com
kinda like mine
davidolson.gotdns.com
free from dyndns.nice.
thats what i do.
surved streight from ur home computer. violates my AUP. but whatever.
I really didn't even know what he was talking about!
What is Copy?
She. Most definitely she.
Copy=text, generally used in a print context, ie, the body copy on a page would be the main text. I wasn't using it to mean content, because content is also any graphics and any header/footer text.
What I was trying to say is that on your design page, you talk a big game without having the designs to back it up. A portfolio should be something someone looks at and says "wow," especially if you're talking about prices, which implies you're looking for business.
It might be better, for now, to simplify the text on that page to something along the lines of, "I'm still learning web development/design/coding, here's some of my work so far."