Website Review and Suggestions

**aaronaskew** · 08-31-2008, 04:36 PM

Any suggestions, comments, requests (for articles), or anything else? Any feedback is appreciated.

Link is in the signature.

**thehuskybear** · 08-31-2008, 05:13 PM

Well, I have to say.. and dont take this the wrong way, it reminds me of my first website 12 years ago... You have some great content, but the design is way outdated and will not draw many viewers to your content.

Here are a few suggestions:

1) Do you have Photoshop? If so, check out good-tutorials.com... learn how to create some eye pleasing graphics. If you can't afford photoshop, give gimp a try. Its free and has similar features to photoshop

Your nav buttons, esp the yellow ones, are hard to read. I like to make make my nav links text and stick a background behind it using css.. its better for SEO purposes.

2) Tables for layout is not recommended. Tables are meant to display data, such as what might be in a spreadsheet. I recommend you take some time to look into divs and CSS.... (I will give you some links in a sec)

3) Usually, dark background with light text is not recommended since it is somewhat hard to read. However, I do like the color combo you have going.

4) Inline styles... try to avoid them. It is much better to put styles in a style sheet and link it to the page... it will make updating your site much easier.

There are a few other things I noticed, but those are the most obvious. It looks like your off to a great start.. don't get discouraged right of the bat... just keep improving and moving forward... I think we all started with a similar design.

Here are a few resources to look into:

A List Apart

w3schools

Why tables are stupid

Web Design From Scratch

Web Monkey (One of the sites I learned on)

**aaronaskew** · 10:19 PM

yeah, I've been wanting to learn CSS, I do have photoshop, and I'll look into the tutorials on it, and thanks for your input and the links.

**The-Pixel** · 08-31-2008, 05:53 PM

Great information thehuskybear.

**Deunan** · 08-31-2008, 10:08 PM

Just take the advice of thehuskybear. Since you're new at this (I am assuming, and I am new myself), I'd say that for a simply design (nothing at all advanced) if you're happy with it fine.

**aaronaskew** · 08-31-2008, 10:19 PM

yeah, I am....I need some time to learn CSS though, then I'll redesign....in the meantime, any more suggestions would be appreciated.

**Deunan** · 08-31-2008, 10:25 PM

CSS will definitly help you. It's like getting a new video game with SO many new features. You'll be able to do so much with it. But I did the same, just took total baby steps, and inches. I'm still doing it. The important thing is to have fun, and to learn to achieve what you want clearly. Just take your time and have fun!

**aaronaskew** · 08-31-2008, 10:30 PM

where's ur site? there's no link

**Deunan** · 08-31-2008, 10:33 PM

Actually I don't have a site! I'm still learning. I'm in the process of creating premade layouts simply to learn and test myself. When I feel I am able to creat the layout I want for mysite, then I will make and have it.