It needs some work. For one thing, designers tend to make a page look best around 800x600 or 1024x768. Because your screen has more pixels ( ie can fit more info w/o scrolling ) than your average visitor, and you're designing the site for them ... design for the lowest realistic denominator, and try to make your design "springy" so it can adapt to other screen sizes.
Your gradient is too short for the page; the bottom is pure black. If I maximize my browser window ( which I'm not keen on ) all the photos but one are in the same row. At normal size, they're each on a different row. I'm using FF 2; I don't have access to IE 6 at the moment, already upgraded.
Think about cropping the "Hollywood & Sunset" photo really tight. The background in that shot is a distraction. You might crop the sky out of the giant Hollywood sign, too? Cropping really isn't something a web designer is giong to use as a first resort, I just think those two photos would tell their story better if they more emphasis, were bigger in the frame.
This is far from perfect, in fact it's under renovation, but you might get some ideas here: http://forrestcroce.com/Galleries/Seattle.html It doesn't expand to fill a really big screen, but it still works on one, and those are far less common than old 1024x768 laptops. |
