Website Review and Suggestions

**dismaldonkey** · 10-27-2003, 04:05 PM

I know I had this site up for review last month, but it's now in its finished (?) form.

www.simply-graphics.com

Cheers

**hvoice** · 10-27-2003, 04:12 PM

Pretty Nice Site you got here,

Great job on the premade logos and your portfolio aswell.

As for the actual site itself, in the design portion it would be a nice addition to add a little more graphics displaying the wonderul talent that you have. Maybe set up some nice graphical tables seperating your content on the homepage or something.

I wish you the best of luck with your buisness!!

**Evelyn Reiss** · 10-28-2003, 08:15 AM

It looks good, although there is a tad too much animation going on all over the page, making it a little distracting when you want to read the text.

Also, the distances between the bullets and the text in the top navigation bar aren't consistent...(yes I'm one of those silly perfectionists)

The text is a little too small on my screen, but your focus is on graphics, anyway.

Have fun!

**The Crow** · 10-28-2003, 04:24 PM

I like your site. I see what Evelyn Reiss means about your bullets. I can't see any other way to make them. If you put them all just before the link name then they won't be spaced right either. I would leave them like they are. It looks perty good. I like the logos you made. Good Job on your logo sections. I like the presention.

**motocrossfury** · 10-28-2003, 08:25 PM

It seems kinda plain, I would use more of your graphics on the front page so you impress your visitors (but not too much) I like the color scheme

I think for the background you should have a gradient overlay. Hope that helps!

**dismaldonkey** · 10-29-2003, 04:51 AM

Thanks for the views.

The site is set up for 800 x 600 (why anyone uses anything else I don't know) and the animated buttons don't show at that resolution, they are set below the lower bar. Most will be moved to the links page soon or changed to static buttons, however.

As far as the bullets and the text go, as individual buttons the text is fine centered, it's only when they are all together it appears as a bar and the spacing looks odd. Crow is right, I tried them equally spaced from the bullets and that looked far worse. I may try a tiny border around each button. (?)

Moto, I did first make the site with a graduated background, it didn't work.

Cheers.

**The Crow** · 10-29-2003, 05:26 PM

I think you should leave the bullets the way they are. They are an equal space apart and if the word is smaller it is centered. As I said before I like your work.

**techwench** · 10-29-2003, 07:27 PM

It like it better now. Especially the navbar without the end graphics. It fits nicer now. The bullets in the buttons don't look at all out of place, or misaligned...especially when you mouseover because then you can actually see where the buttons start and end. I like the color scheme. It's very easy on the eyes.

I think the "pre-made logos" banner at the bottom looks a tad out of place, though. Not because of the subject matter or content, but because of the size. It seems too short...but if you stretched it out to the same width as your header graphic/navbar, I think it might get too big. Also, I think it's a little too close to the text. Maybe another line break or two. Right now, the text seems to just run into the banner, making it look a bit cluttered there at the bottom.

The default table border on your portfolio page and the premade page looks a bit out of place...especially since your order page uses cellspacing instead of the border to create a pseudo-border (with the page background color). I like that better...but I have never liked the default table borders...so that's just my personal opinion.

All in all, looking good.

**kris1351** · 10-30-2003, 06:58 PM

I like it personally and the logos look nice. It is clean looking and loads quickly.

**Omni** · 11-01-2003, 02:10 AM

Agree with wwmnet - simplier the better

**EyeCande** · 11-04-2003, 09:55 AM

Not a bad looking site, the header is nice, simple as the site says, I don`t like the graphic to the middle left, it looks out of place, overall its a nice site.

**tsnyderawt** · 11-10-2003, 02:13 PM

I think site is fairly good, but the ads at the bottom of the page really got all my attention.

I'm looking at your site with a 1024x768 screen and the animated icons/buttons/ads just scream for attention.

Also, the main text is a tad small. I'm not blind, but I'm not about to read text that small if I don't have to.

The portfolio page is excellent. Perhaps you could make those sample logos on the main page a bit larger.

**yall_kno_nick** · 11-13-2003, 05:21 PM

Very nice site.

Loads quick and is clean. Nice job! Just wondering, how much are you making of this ?

9.5/10

**dismaldonkey** · 11-13-2003, 05:30 PM

Hi

Thanks for all the comments. Some I have taken to heart and adjusted the site accordingly. Others I have simply dismissed out of hand!

Have moved the animated links to a dedicated links page. it seems that was the number one gripe about the site. Have increased the size of the porfolio examples on the front page. Also changed the premade banner bit (cheers Priss).

yall_kno_nick - (looking forward to viewing your beer site!....hmmmmmm, beer!) My site is going pretty well so far considering the site has only been up a very short while. (Got a PR 3 after just 10 days...woohoo!). I have gotten a couple of jobs through it but am still in two minds about selling it soon. (would it be worth anything?) Most of my work I get through word of mouth and repeat custom anyway, so perhaps I don't really need the site. Can't hurt though.

**yall_kno_nick** · 11-13-2003, 06:33 PM

Thats cool. Well..best of luck!

**orion846** · 11-15-2003, 05:52 PM

Very lovely, color scheme works wonderfully, everything fits in its place perfectly. I know this might sound stupid because of your domain, but it is actually very SIMPLE. I think I can vouch for the rest of us when we don't like having to traverse a labyrinth while trying to find some material. It's more then easy to find what you are giving us. Good job.