Website Review and Suggestions

**JustAGuy** · 11-09-2008, 01:04 AM

I have volunteered to re-do the website of an RC flying club I belong to. It's pretty basic with nothing fancy because we still have people out here running on dial-up.

I am trying to improve/develop some design skills and would appreciate any comments you pro's might have to offer. Again, keep in mind that this site needs to be kept pretty simple beause of our members still using dial-up.

This is what the site looked like originally.

This is what I am proposing as the RE-DO.

Finally, ignore the extra line at the bottom of the page. I am trying to figure out how it happened and how to fix it.

Thanks,

**cch068** · 11-09-2008, 04:53 AM

I think the redesign looks pretty clean. I like the logo also. Here are some things I don't like. Every link on your page links to a different template. Why didn't you incorporate your home page template throughout the site? It would look a lot more professional and cohesive.

I also think you should go with with a color rollover, don't use the italicized rolloever text, not needed.

I'm pretty sure the reason the line/box shows up at the bottom of your home page is due to the fact that you don't have closing </body> and </html> tags at the end of the code.

You should also use relative links for any images you are linking to in your code. This will help make the site easily mobile if the site ever changes its url, so for example instead of typing a link like this, http://thebams.org/new/images/foot.jpg, it should be "/new/images/foot.jpg", or "../new/images/foot.jpg"

Thanks,
Chris

**JustAGuy** · 11-09-2008, 05:05 AM

Thanks for your input cch068. I guess I should have made it known that the links go to the old pages. It is my intent to use the same layout as the index page through-out the site. I just haven't gotten that far yet.

Also, I plan to use relative links (../xxx/xxx) when I upload everything to the server. I am using the links now just so that I can check my progress with different browers and the progam I am using doesn't recognize anything except the full url. It's a temporary thing and I will fix it before it goes live.

Finally, as per your suggestion, I added </body> and </html> and it did not fix the problem at the bottom of the page. I am pretty sure that I did something wrong with the coding. I have been looking at this all day long so I was hoping maybe a fresh set of more experienced eyes might find my mistake right off the bat.

Again, thanks for your input.

**cch068** · 11-09-2008, 12:06 PM

Ok, for the bar/line at the bottom, I removed the margin property from your footer ID and it fixed the issue. I also simply adjusted the margin property of the footer id to margin: 0px; instead of margin: 0px auto; and that fixed it also. It appears it works either way. I guess the auto setting was causing the issue but I'm not sure why.

**Jemaniah** · 11-11-2008, 12:16 AM

The redesign looks pretty good its better than before and looks alot more user friendly

**The-Pixel** · 11-11-2008, 03:13 AM

Hello,

I like the way you have the site when it's redone. The original is way to dark and unprofessional. The new 're-do' is much more professional and user friendly. Great job.

**diskokid** · 11-20-2008, 01:22 PM

What you've done is 100 times better however my only recommendation is the colour tones, very dull. Use some brighter colour to lively it up a bit. Also the scroll overs should be much clearer, I recommend not using any gradient for the buttons or atleast a better gradient colour. Refer to http://kuler.adobe.com/ for colour combintation. This site is a great tool.