Website Review and Suggestions

**EyeCande** · 11-04-2003, 09:41 AM

Hi could you please review my site please, Click here TY

PS: To Mods, it took over 30 mins for my activation on email to arrive and I tryed to review other sites, all I was getting was I don`t have permission, as I`m typing this out I`m unsure if it will be placed.

**dismaldonkey** · 11-04-2003, 11:23 AM

Hi

Firstly, I really like your header image. Very nice indeed! (if a tad too large)

Ok, now I will get on with slagging your site off!

- Black scroll bar doesn't show up at all. It's only due to the fact that your text disappears off the bottom of the screen that I guessed there was a scroll bar there at all. Same thing goes for the scroll bar in the central frame.

- You navbar is a little hard to see over the background image. Perhaps a darker font might help, or a mouseover effect which darkens the bar.

- Your logo states you are a "Graphic Design Studio" but with the mixture of content I'm guessing this is more of a personal site. Nothing wrong with that at all, but in my opinion a site that appears as professional as yours does doesn't really need the About Me page or the Guestbook. Just seems too **** good to be only a personal site.

- I don't think you need to show the date and the time. It only takes the time from my computer and if that is wrong it will appear wrong on your site. Besides that, by having the date at the top of your text it appears like a blog.

All in all very nice. I will have a look at the forum in a while.

**EyeCande** · 11-04-2003, 11:33 AM

Ty for the first comment, I will fix the scroll bar, I`ve been told about this else where too, again I need to sort out the menu area, I will bring in a shade on rollover, yes it is my of a personel site, my aim to show off any new work I produce, the site will grow, the thing with me is I`m very creative and thus get carried away sometimes, with content. The about me and guest book again are personel to me, I want to show who I am to my visitors and also want abit of feed back via the guest book, the date and time are to make the pages look like a letter, 50/50 on this one, it`s alittle added extra touch, which IMHO made the layout of text look more finished off, I have no idea what a "blog" is...lol, ty so much for taking time out.

**techwench** · 11-05-2003, 12:35 PM

Blog = Web log

First off, let me just say that your site is very "pretty".

Quote:

the date and time are to make the pages look like a letter

This one got me...if you want it to seem like a letter, what's wrong with entering the date you actually wrote the letter...since (most) letters are written that way. I don't need a clock, I already have one on my computer, and on my wrist.

It's also annoying to have to wait for the clock to load, and when the clock doesn't load immediately, doubly annoying to be reading the text and then have everything jump down when the clock finally pops in.

I have to agree with everything dismaldonkey said.

While I do love the imagery, and your graphics, I think your header image could be a bit smaller by about 80-100px or so. The scrollbars, while they don't affect my usability, it's annoying to not be able to see how long the page actually is. I like being able to get a look at the scroll bar and seeing how long a page is, because chances are, if it's too long, I'll leave the site.

Just a few very minor inconveniences and annoyances, but over all, you have a beautiful site.

**michele** · 11-08-2003, 06:10 PM

Like your home page. Improvements:
1) the buy now button must be cleaned.
2) Do not like the graphic of the site of the month. It has a much different stile from yours. (this is just a comment)
3) Give more evidence to what you do: grafhic design studio. I like to undertand immediately what a site is for without having to look around for several seconds.

Michele

**stoner3221** · 11-08-2003, 06:26 PM

Your site is a refreshing and pleasant change from what I normally see as an editor.

**tsnyderawt** · 11-10-2003, 02:07 PM

Beautiful header and excellent layout.

But I don't understand why you would want such tiny images for the gallery. Why force fit the images into the textarea box? I would suggest going to a new page with much larger images to show off your work.

Ditto for the on-line tutorial.

**somier** · 11-15-2003, 09:49 AM

I like you site, but the nav bar is hard to read, and I don't like to be forced to read all your content in a small 'box' I feel trapped. Besides that I like it.

-daniel

**LadyLarke** · 11-15-2003, 11:58 AM

I really enjoyed your site design

Other than not being able to see the scrollbars, I found it very interesting and 'fresh'. I love the color choices and thought the black content area really sets off what you want to put in there. Text or graphics.

I can't really say anything bad about the design at all. Just the scrollbar. Well done!

**orion846** · 11-15-2003, 05:48 PM

Nice look but I have some bad news. You should take a look at http://www.tntcash.com

Somebody is ripping off somebody. Again though, wonderful look, surprisingly fast load-speed for sucha picture heavy site also.

**LadyLarke** · 11-15-2003, 06:26 PM

ah ha a template bought somewhere then. tsk tsk