First contract website

[courtland]

Creating this for $500, what do you think?

http://www.northerntire-wheel.com/test/

[W.Thompson]

I think it is like the pefect site for the buisness! Every worked good and loaded quick. Please help me with this question how do you get the flash at the top to change html pages and the link address never changes??? I need to know how this is done.

[fusionmedia]

Hey man, I like your colors and imagery. Very modern. Of course, what's coming next is just my own personal opinion so don't be offended :-).

I think you need some more contrast between the navigation text and the bg. Also think your border around the navigation is a little heavy and distracting (maybe a single line would be better). In the body I think your text needs to be a little darker and your background image needs to be a little more faded. I also think the body text could be a size smaller (try size="2"). Finally the tag line gets lost in the background image. Maybe it needs a little weight.....maybe just a lighter background image.

Hope it helps :-)

[fusionmedia]

Originally posted by W.Thompson
I think it is like the pefect site for the buisness! Every worked good and loaded quick. Please help me with this question how do you get the flash at the top to change html pages and the link address never changes??? I need to know how this is done.

You do this with FRAMES in html.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_frames.asp

[W.Thompson]

Thank you for the info but it doesn't look like frames!!! It would have to be horizontal frames with no scroll bars right??

[fusionmedia]

Originally posted by W.Thompson
Thank you for the info but it doesn't look like frames!!! It would have to be horizontal frames with no scroll bars right??

That's right. (scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" noresize)

[admedia]

it's fine for the $.

i would make top table not float to the right. it looks good @ 1024x768 but i use a higher resolution and it looks wierd if it floats to the center.

when you click to enlarge an image you should have a link back to the thumbnail page instead of making the user use the browsers back button.

i am not sure why you chose to use flash on the top nav. seems unnecessary to use flash just for changing colors of links on mouseovers, this can easily be handled using javascript. it's kinda like using a jackhammer to pound a thumbtack into the wall.

[W.Thompson]

Well looks like I have a lot of studying to do at that site. Thank you again.

[courtland]

thanks a bunch for all the comments, The main regret I have is that the top isnt java. I know FLASH very well which made creating that really quick. I don't know java at all hardly so I would have had to learn it, and for a mere $500 I figured that a 20k flash file would be fine. I think I am going to make the text a little darker though. I decided to use frames so that the menu only has to be loaded once. And I like the look of it floating center. I also wish I could put a "back to thumbnails" link on every pic, but then I'd have to create like 80 pages and I don't think $500 bucks is worth that. All they have to do is click on the "examples" link and their there. Thanks again for all the comments.