Website Review and Suggestions

**carterdea** · 11-28-2006, 10:22 PM

hi,

my site http://www.thedeangelisgroup.com/test

is still pretty early in development. I would like some design suggestions.

-do you like the tabs
-would rectangle tabs look better? ie http://www.viget.com/
-is the logo too big?
-is the logo too round?
-anything other suggestions?

thanks a ton

carterdea

**ebangla** · 11-28-2006, 11:04 PM

Well,

1. the tabs are good but rectangular tab will make it more professional...by the way tabs you are using is not very common so in another way it is good..stand ot of the crowd

2. The logo is fine in size and looks pretty cool to me.

At this point your site looks pretty good and professional and keep this up till the end bcoz some people starts really well but......

Goodluck with your site

**TubHosting** · 11-29-2006, 12:17 AM

Hi,

Since it's still early, I won't comment on the site contents

Anyway, the site looks good though I don't quite like the gradient thing that on the text area. You may want to have a different colour scheme as background and the text area

Logo and header looks good.

**rtd** · 11-29-2006, 06:51 AM

about your design - I think that the logo could me smaller and if you want to get the WEB 2.0 feel, then get weird of that bewel and emboss effects from the tabs. Plus you can try to implement some CSS tabs instead of what you did.

this link can help you with the navigation http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/ddtabmenu.htm

mm ... I think you also need a footer and ... MORE images

in order to make te site more attractive. You know what they say... sometimes a image can value more than a thousand of words.

About the fonts:

Try to use for the content verdana, 12px font size - it's a sans-serif font that is very easy to read, as for the titles, you can try to use something with serifs .. let's say a 18px Georgia, but NOT bold.

If you will be more specific in what you want me to provide feedback, I'll do it

**aldor** · 11-29-2006, 08:51 AM

Hi
Yes I liked the tabs, why follow the herd, imprint your own style.
I don't think the logo is too large.
The design looks clean and functional and the restricted colour palette is a relief from pages that try to hit you with every colour in the spectrum.
All the best,
Alan.

**HowLong** · 11-29-2006, 09:30 AM

I don't like your web site design. It looks very sparingly. How many days have you spent in creating.

**carterdea** · 11-29-2006, 12:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rtd

...if you want to get the WEB 2.0 feel, then get weird of that bewel and emboss effects from the tabs. Plus you can try to implement some CSS tabs instead of what you did.

...mm ... I think you also need a footer and ... MORE images

in order to make te site more attractive....

Try to use for the content verdana, 12px font size - it's a sans-serif font that is very easy to read, as for the titles, you can try to use something with serifs .. let's say a 18px Georgia, but NOT bold....

thanks very much for the help, I just don't under stand, you don't like the emboss effect or do you? (I sure don't, its just what the Douglass Bowman's example looked like)

and thanks, I will try out those fonts, they sound like good suggestions.

**carterdea** · 11-29-2006, 12:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HowLong

I don't like your web site design. It looks very sparingly. How many days have you spent in creating.

I have spent about 2-3 hours on it.

Could you tell me something I could do to fix it?

thanks

carter

**webfinity** · 11-29-2006, 02:27 PM

A bar under the tabs with the same color would anchor the tabs more effectively to the page.

**twiggy** · 11-29-2006, 06:28 PM

I like it, try to keep it clean, it always gives the best results

**LadynRed** · 11-29-2006, 08:26 PM

I like it, it's coming along very nicely. It's clean, colors are pleasing and not garish and in-your-face.

I don't think you need to crowd it with a lot of unnecessary images, but since you're still early in the design I would assume you might have some images.

I like the tabs, I wouldn't change them and the whole 'web 2.0' thing is overrated. I'm getting rather tired of gradients with reflections. I don't think the logo is too large at all.

The gradient in the body may be a tad to stark a transition, perhaps make it fade out a little more gradually ?

My only criticism is the size of the text, it's a tad too small for my taste.. and my old eyes.. lol. However, you DID use percentages for text sizing, very good, so at least even IE users can scale text to their liking.

Good job !

**carterdea** · 12-01-2006, 12:21 AM

thanks,

just to tell you guys I changed them.

i was curious if anyone thought the other ones were better. I think I like these more.

I hope to make them spaced out more evenly somehow.

thanks again for your great compliments.

carter

**boyevul** · 12-01-2006, 02:10 AM

So far, good. The only problem I have with it is that I've seen alot of sites using the same template/style. Kind of a double standard as I use Wordpress as not only a blog, but also my content management system and it seems that no matter how different each blog can be, it can still look the same. I guess there's only so much you can do when it comes to web design.

Seems to me you're on the right track.

**Gamer-Talk** · 12-01-2006, 05:31 AM

In Firefox the spacing seems to get messed up between Home and About Us. Otherwise I think the site looks very professional

**3rdShiftStudios** · 12-01-2006, 04:23 PM

needs pictures! loved it otherwise. kinda small text.

**LadynRed** · 12-01-2006, 05:15 PM

Yes, the tab spacing.. ie. the list, is a little wonky in FF, might want to look at that.

**carterdea** · 12-02-2006, 06:01 PM

does anyone know how to fix the spacing? I've been trying for a while. I used padding for the tabs as width didn't work.

for all of your responses.

**carterdea** · 12-02-2006, 06:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by boyevul

So far, good. The only problem I have with it is that I've seen alot of sites using the same template/style...

well I assure you that I styled this myself and I'm not using a template. That's why its acting weird.

**sunnex** · 12-02-2006, 06:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by carterdea

hi,

my site http://www.thedeangelisgroup.com/test

is still pretty early in development. I would like some design suggestions.

-do you like the tabs
-would rectangle tabs look better? ie http://www.viget.com/
-is the logo too big?
-is the logo too round?
-anything other suggestions?

thanks a ton

carterdea

nice design, you just need more content

**LadynRed** · 12-02-2006, 08:58 PM

I think in this instance you need to ditch the % padding on your #nav li a and use pixels, add margin-right of abt 3px to them to keep the spacing even.