Preserved Topic: Another site...

This time, all browsers can view it but netscape users won't be able to browse the picture gallery, I will fix this later. Other than that, it should be fine with netscape (and if you find anything else that is a problemo in netscape, please let me know). Some more of that constructive critisim would be nice. Thanks.

Anna Faris Online



[This message has been edited by Moc (edited 10-09-2000).]

ack! red & black? *shudders*

your tables containing text needs a cellpadding of some sort, its hugging the edge and looks like its been chopped of.

your mouseovers dont preload and they need to! i would rather see the button itself mouseover than to see the picture change into text. it makes the page look lop-sided. not that im entirely crazy about the pix you chose...

always *always* define your image dimensions! this reserves a space for them while your downloading them so that the rest of the page doesnt have to rerender.

it is so... unfeminine... im trying to find some good examples here... http://www.mattea.com isnt the greatest site, but it is feminine. ok, i give up, i cant find any others that dont suck so bad...

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ack! red & black? *shudders*

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hehe, I like it.

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your tables containing text needs a cellpadding of some sort, its hugging the edge and looks like its been chopped of.

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Not sure exactly what you mean, I think I kinda do, I will play around with the cell padding and see how it looks.

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your mouseovers dont preload and they need to! i would rather see the button itself mouseover than to see the picture change into text. it makes the page look lop-sided. not that im entirely crazy about the pix you chose...

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I knew I forgot something ! I will add the preload, I completely forgot. As for the pictures, Anna pictures are limited, she is very new, Limited resources.

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always *always* define your image dimensions! this reserves a space for them while your downloading them so that the rest of the page doesnt have to rerender.

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I thought I did, I will look it over, maybe I missed some images.

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it is so... unfeminine... im trying to find some good examples here... http://www.mattea.com isnt the greatest site, but it is feminine. ok, i give up, i cant find any others that dont suck so bad...

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Now that was funny <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">. I didn't know it had to be feminine but doesn't red make it somewhat feminine ? Don't kill me, its just a thought. And yeah that mattea site turned me off really quick. Thanks much for your time and feedback.

I don't mind the red and black personally, but the actual textures on the red and black.........ouch. Maybe tone those down a bit?

I agree about the cellpadding, definately!

The images of course, need to preload for the mouseovers.....and I also would prefer to see a different method for the mouseovers -- the switch to text seems kinda like a step backwards. If you could find a script for a dhtml drop down menu, that'd be really cool (try http://www.bratta,com/ ).

Um, what else....

couple of 'rules of thumb'

- always define your image dimensions (like la'dsasha said)

- always define a background color so that as the page loads, you can still see the text and tell more or less waht the page is going to look like.

and just one more personal pet peeve: Times New Roman. icckkk! I think it is just an ugly font, plain and simple. Arial, though it may be boring, is far more attractive.

Aside from that, it's not bad....although it looks like it's a porn site, expecting naked pictures <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/wink.gif">

About the "feminine" aspect......I see no reason to make it "feminine" personally. I don't know anything about her, but I'll assume that most of your audience is made up of guys who just think she's hot <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/wink.gif">




Ask for opinions At Your Own Risk!

hehe...you posted while I was posting Moc.

just for the record: Stark red like that is considered a masculine color.


Ask for opinions At Your Own Risk!

(cracks his knuckles)

Good beginning, Moc. Firm hold on the start. However....

(read at your own risk)

....the design is boring and overused. There's nothing that makes me want to say "Hey, that's fantastic! I've never seen such a navigation bar located at the top with beveled buttons!"

You get my drift.

The colors? Ehhh, I could go either way on this one. I'm fine with black and red, though, like DL said, it's a rather masculine color combo.

Now the texturing...Heeeellooooo Nurse! I browse at 1600x1200; The texturing actually interferes with the text. I'm not saying it's unreadable, but it certainly does take something away. I say tone it down. My opinion.

I'd change the CSS so your links aren't yellow. That's scary when they mouseover to gray on a red background. *shudder*

And, finally, the body font; I'd go with a sans-serif, myself. Since you've got the buttons up top set with a sans-serif, i'd continue it, merely for the sake of ... you got it, continuity.

(If you've been not reading, start reading here again)

Nice!

Hehe, that was good feedback, I like when my mistakes and errors are pointed out. I don't run my resolution that high, so that is definetly helpful and something that I have to consider, never thought of the texture at that high resolution. Yeah I can see that you guys look for exciting pages, I hopefully can do that with my new site coming up, as for the buttons being boring, I will see what I can do. Very interested in changing them since they are boring <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif"> and God, everyone hates times new roman so much. Hehe, I will never use that font again. Thanks much guys, feedback is always extremely helpful.

Pink is the most feminine color I can think of. A dark, not to strong pink is what I would use.

Agree on the callpadding. I would allso change fonts to verdana, arial or helvetica.