site check please

[PCRIDE]

what do you think so far

not completed yet

here

any and all input would help me further

thanks
PCRIDE

[cartoon guy]

Very basic, but will do the job.

[hGraf Design]

PCRIDE...tis basic, but easy to understand...seems the colours could be a bit broghter, though.


Your footer says it all (PW's Big Adventure is a family favourite)

[PCRIDE]

I know you are but what am I!



what would make it a little more interesting??

[sk8Krog]

I think you can do quite a bit better than that. My first thought was "bland colors". Now, those may be the company colors and all that, but if they let you, try and work in something as a highlight color to add contrast and energy to it. Also, work on your fonts. A good trick to see if a font is good with the design is to turn it upside down. If it still looks good, go with it.

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[maksum]

I like it, and I love the color scheme. I would take the maroon color you have on one page and put it on every page... just light splashes here and there. Maybe some call-out text here and there. It's a great compliment to the main color you have. I would like to see the full scheme consistently worked throughout the site.

Very nice indeed.

[specialed_414]

Your doing a great job, and depending on what type of site you are looking for, the color scheme is good. When I see this I think of a business style website, maby something that doesnt require much interaction with users. There were some issues, such as the buttons for you navigation, they look cheap and when you click on them they dissapear. This may cause the sight to look cheezy if content is not appropriatly added. It looks great, but definently minamize the black space, and maby change the font to a serif, instead of a san-serif. Great Job, keep up the great work.

[drew_hytt]

basic.. alot like the reply to this post i just put..

[PCRIDE]

hey thanks again, some of the site was not done, but I have fixed the dissapearing buttons,

i hate navagation bars, I can never make one that looks great, I will keep trying, I also do like the maroon color, I will add some more to the site./

the tables were dissapearing in dreameweaver when I was using includes for PHP, I can't buidl the site by design view and can't see what the tables are doing.

THanks again
I am still working on it, hopefully this will be done by Sun

[Tracy981]

besides what the others have posted, i agree!! the other problem i found, the content in the gallery section is off centered. the information in the contact page is to close to the top edge of the navigation, try centering that info and giving space between content and the naviagtion - that goes for all content in all pages but that was the most obvious (contact page). in my opinion, you have to many navigation menus set up, one on the top, left and bottom, all different. try having them all be in the top menu and on the bottom, keep it alittle consistent. in the specialties, try adding more samples of wut customers have done previously or before and after shots (not just one), it will give the viewer or potential customer an idea of the type of work they do and also makes the site alittle bit more personal, which customers like!! - maybe have statments of past customer and they're experience with this company??

in addition to wut everyone has said about the colors, i would get rid of that dark green bg on the specialites page, ruins the color scheme. in the gallery section, are all the images suppose to have an animation (watch out, some have an image fade in some frames and then it will just change without it) on them? why only a few?? if only a few have it, i would group them together in a another category.

granted as you had said, some of the site is not done, so if i got a head of myself, sorry

hope this helps, sorry if i was to picky
Tracy

[PCRIDE]

the image changes are just an before and after shot, I will readjust the fading

The client wanted actual buttons like 3d ones and something telling you that your on the button (rollover)

I don't like the menu, the menu on the left was going to be an area for content that will change.

SK8krog Ithink you can do quite a bit better than that. My first thought was "bland colors". Now, those may be the company colors and all that, but if they let you, try and work in something as a highlight color to add contrast and energy to it. Also, work on your fonts. A good trick to see if a font is good with the design is to turn it upside down. If it still looks good, go with it.

When adding the includes for php, for easier updating the page, the the tables and the content just dissapeared at one time, so I can't build by design view in Dreamweaver, (Do you know why?)


so the colored tables are not supposed to be big like that, I need alot more content to fill in the empty spaces, I am having trouble trying to get that email sign up thing aligned correctly

thanks

[sk8Krog]

Originally posted by PCRIDE
When adding the includes for php, for easier updating the page, the the tables and the content just dissapeared at one time, so I can't build by design view in Dreamweaver, (Do you know why?)

I actually assumed you weren't using a wysiwyg, mostly because I don't. I understand the concept of include files for easy updates, I do it myself. But to be honest, that's no excuse for an empty section at the top. I took a closer look and it now seems like the white part at the top is part of the header image. Is that right? Do you really want that there?

[PCRIDE]

yes its a part of the header image, I guess I could just take it out, I have to redo the fonts on that anyway,

but do you lknow why Dream wea is doing that??


because most of the content is

<?
require("header.jpg)
?>



so when I have that Dreamweaver doesn't see the PHP and encode it, but adding tables in the main page should be able to be seen right?

[sk8Krog]

Originally posted by PCRIDE
yes its a part of the header image, I guess I could just take it out, I have to redo the fonts on that anyway,

but do you lknow why Dream wea is doing that??


because most of the content is

<?
require("header.jpg)
?>



so when I have that Dreamweaver doesn't see the PHP and encode it, but adding tables in the main page should be able to be seen right?

I don't really understand the question. Of course in design view it wouldn't because it is only reading the front end code. If you know HTML and stuff you should be able to take care of it at least with some guess and check.
Otherwise I suggest making a temporary .html file and copying the header, body, and footer into it and working in there. Once that looks good, copy the header portion back into the header file, body into body and so on. That should work well.

[PCRIDE]

ya thats what I have been doing, it works, but sometimes its hard to line tables up with the exsitiing content


thanks a ton for your input, really helped me out


PCRIDE