I just wanted some opinions on my site

Dulaithol Dulaithol is offline Offline Jan 18th, 2005, 10:08 pm |
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here is a link to my site http://www.kc8onw.net/~jacob/mainpage I just whanted some opinions on it if you whant you can E-mail me at jacob@kc8onw.net or reply on this thead
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GR Web FX GR Web FX is offline Offline | Jan 19th, 2005
Hi,
I just had a quick look at your site and the first thing that strikes me is that the page doesnt fit into my browser window. I have to pan left and right in order to see eveything. Im just using a standard Microsoft internet explorer web browser. Im guessing that you designed the site using a different browser but havent checked to see if it looks ok in other browsers maybe??

The other thing was the screenshots.....they seemed to take forever to load and im using a 650kb broadband connection. Have the images been optimised to reduce the file size at all??

GR Web FX
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croft croft is offline Offline | Jan 19th, 2005
It doesnt matter what browser you are using you still have to scroll.
Thats yust becouse the header images are 400 + 400 + 465 = to big. cut them down mate.

The screenshots on the other hand you should do something about.
It seams you did not use a image program to rezize the screenshots but yust added the full image and set a width and height to it wich making it load forever.
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Dulaithol Dulaithol is offline Offline | Jan 19th, 2005
The web site is made to fit 1280 by 1024 witch I whan't to fix make It 1024 by 768 but I can't figger out how to do that with out it looking like crap in 1280 by 1024 It would make every thing on the left and not in the middle.
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croft croft is offline Offline | Jan 19th, 2005
to be realy honest it realy looks like crap as it is now. im sorry but thats what i think. you are better of starting from scratch.
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ReDuX ReDuX is offline Offline | Jan 19th, 2005
The general design of the site/pages looks amateurish. I would take a look at some other sites and try to emulate theirs and then design your own using what you learned from that experience.
Also an issue of optimisation is present here. The images on the screenshots page (and the sites main header) are rather large to load as small thumbnails. 100+k per image is enough to fill the screen, yet you load it for each and every thumbnail.
You should use small images (thumbnails) of the large ones as links, and when users click they view the large image, Much like it is now, but smaller initial images.
Take a look at some of the larger websites like apple.com and other stylish websites.
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Dulaithol Dulaithol is offline Offline | Jan 19th, 2005
well my site is being worked on right i'm not share how long it will be down
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Dulaithol Dulaithol is offline Offline | Jan 20th, 2005
My site is kinda bake up got one problem still but if you don't run 1280 by 1024 you will be fine
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ArunK ArunK is offline Offline | Jan 21st, 2005
I used to make sites like that.. back when my hosting was with Geocities.:cheesy: Simple websites made with Netscape composer or the really old version of Frontpage weren't cutting it.. First of all, you might want to consider getting a real domain name.. For hosting, there are various free hosting providers out there, some will require banners/text ads, but that should be ok for now. After these two are taken care of, then work on the content.
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Dulaithol Dulaithol is offline Offline | Jan 21st, 2005
when I get a job in about 6 months when i trun 16. I will get my own domain till than I'm runing it off my brothers server (I can't waite)
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