Website Review and Suggestions

**porcodrillo** · 03-15-2007, 06:12 PM

Hi Guys and Gals,
I've recently finished (?) my first venture but i desperately need some input. Check it out and let me know where i can improve things and ,more importantly , how i can improve things.
I need members so if whilst you are in the site you want to join, feel free.

http://www.porcodrillo.com

Be gentle with me

Chris

**veach** · 03-15-2007, 07:17 PM

The current design is a good start. The main thing that needs to be mentioned is the graphical design of the website. I am far from being talented in this area, but I feel that with this black and green scheme you're using you need to have more "motion" in the background. Maybe a background panel only behind the content filled area that has a silver & dark green lined pattern. The green and black is generally a sci-fi setup so going with a metallic surface background may work well too.

Also, your "Give me a free mall" button is sitting on top of another link.

-Anthony

**tomas7** · 03-16-2007, 06:16 AM

Yes. I agree with previous comment.

**sweb** · 03-16-2007, 10:56 AM

the web site doesn't look like finished, it is probably some joke

**Angelosanto** · 03-16-2007, 11:08 AM

I'm sorry but I really don't like this.

First of all - it's WAY too big. Everything is just... too big! The text, the logo and the images.

Secondly, the colour scheme is a little wrong. My advice when it comes to colors is to not use any colours in their strongest form - lighten them or darken them. So using green in the form of '#00FF00' is way too strong. It makes websites so much easier on the eye (of course there is an exception for black and white).

Thirdly, interactivity. You have included ':hover' in your code but you haven't actually given it a different value! Things like this can make or break a website.

However, on a good note, I love the fact that you've chosen to use <div> tags rather than tables.

Also, your coding is quite good - you've got a Doctype, and the code is fairly clean.

But all in all, you have a lot of improvements to make. Most of them are in the CSS arena so I think that is the area you should focus on.

I'm sorry if this comment seemed a little harsh in places but I really am just trying to help you out!

**a.hugh1** · 03-16-2007, 02:24 PM

Sorry man but i just don't like it all (honest opinion). I have never been a fan of websites with black backgrounds anyway.

**LadynRed** · 03-16-2007, 05:05 PM

Well guys, he's created the thing with Dreamweaver in WYSIWYG mode.. what do you expect ?

While I applaud the table-less approach, using DW to produce a mass of absolutely positioned "layers" is just not a good way to build a site. Totally unnecessary, but that's what DW does left on its own.

- The site looks like a throw-back to the 90's, sorry.
- The graphics in your header look distorted, stretched - not good.
- The 'give me a free mall' graphic is sitting over top of your last menu item in Firefox.
- Writing in all caps is not good. Text in all caps is difficult to read, use normal mixed-case sentences !
- It IS all too big.
- Your menu stacks.. doesn't work well at all.

Code.. uhhh... time to learn how to code by hand and do so the right way :
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/html1/

**lenworx** · 03-26-2007, 10:53 AM

Too big, plus adding all text in caps makes it even BIGGER. The design is "old skool" and not very sharp.

sorry, but you need to go back to the drawing board.