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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote]we'd like the first page to really grab potential customer's attentions[/quote] Well, if I wasn't reviewing your site when you resized my browser window I would have closed the page a never returned. Ya might want to have a little think about that. Resizing the browser window basically says that you can't design for the web so you force web browsers to fit your flawed design. Not a good thing for a design portfolio. Furthermore, the window size cut's off the bottom of your site. You'd be a lot better off if you designed the site to work in any size window and just left the browser window alone. As for the visual style... Well, it's lacking. Nothing really seems to work together, the header image, the type treatments of the site title, the menu, the content area -- they all look like you selected some random Photoshop tutorial to use on that element without any thought as to how those elements would or could work together. The colour scheme is the same, conflicting hues of blue, greys and then red text links. This probably sounds rather harsh but a lot of the sites in your portfolio section demonstrate a more cohesive visual look than this site so I know you can do better. The text layout could also do with some work. For starters, don't make everything bold, it just makes the text look cheap. Secondly, don't fully justify your paragraphs. Web browsers don't have the ability to hyphenate words and this tends to cause rivers of white space through the text. It's also been proven that fully justified text is slightly more difficult to read. Lastly, you should increase the line height of the text to make it look less compact and whilst making it easier to read. As for the actual mark-up... Big, bad, ugly and very Serious problems here. I checked the site in IE6, Netscape 7, Netscape 4 and Opera 7. The only browser it didn't break was IE6. If there's anything that'll turn your clients away faster than resizing their browser window it's breaking their web browser. Granted most people use IE6 but you'd be surprised how many clients will check your site in other browsers. Opera 7 and Netscape 7 didn't fair too badly but the text was huge causing extra scrollbars in the iFrame and it looks but ugly. Usually I don't worry about checking for Netscape 4 nowadays but since your completely neglecting the W3C's standards for HTML/XHTML I thought you might be aiming for NN4 compatibility, obviously I was wrong. All in all, not a bad effort but if you honestly want to make money in this biz then you've got a lot of work ahead of you. You might also want to look into the W3C?s standards. [url=http://www.w3.org]www.w3.org[/url] ? Design for the future, not for the browser bugs. Anyways, best of luck with it. :) [url=http://dracusis.deviantart.com/] [img]http://www.whatever.net.au/~cameron/files/images/ozone/ArtDecoSiggy.gif[/img] [/url] Loading...
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