How's my site?

[markbeeson]

I need some feedback about the look and feel of my website.
Can anyone let me know what they think of my site?

http://www.markim.net

Thanks

 

[TonyU]

looks good, the only thing I noticed was that on the top nav bar you have

Home About Us Services Products Portfolio Pricing Contact Us

And on the bottom nav bar you have


Home About Us Services and Products References Pricing Contact Us



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-TonyU

 

[darkprince]

well on my 15" monitor i can't read the text when i hover my mouse over the bottom buttons and i have to scroll right a bit which would be better if i didn't have to scroll.

 

[IIIBradIII]

Are those i-frames?? I'm on a 19" monitor running 1024x768 and both your menu section and main body section have scrollbars - a big turn-off for me. My suggestion is to ditch the frames.

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[palbano]

Good colors, graphics, layout etc., but I agree about the frames get rid of them.



-pete

 

[BHaines]

You probably wouldn't need the scrollbars in the frames if you were capitalizing on more of the screen. Even on my 800 x 600 resolution you're only using half the screen, tops. Widen the width of your frames to at least 2/3 if not 3/4 of the screen.

That would let you considerably slim the top section and bottom section by keeping the links from wrapping. I can't see any real reason for the frames though. I like the concept behind it, and the flash is nice, but right now it's impossible to appreciate at my resolution, and would make for aggravating navagation.

 

[ChrisHunt]

Looking at it with IE5.5 at 1024x768...

I like the colour scheme and many of the graphics, but from a usability point of view it's pretty poor. A few points (all IMO, of course)...
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[li]Unnecessary vertical scroll bars on both frames, and a horizontal one on the bottom one. A more liquid design (or just wider frames if you really must) would fix that.[/li]
[li]TWO menu bars - the red one and the blue one - better to integrate them into one bar, with dropdowns if necessary.[/li]
[li]The blue menu bar wraps round to a second line[/li]
[li]When you mouse-over an item in the blue bar it goes bold (nice), and the rest of the bar shuffles to the right (nasty). Try putting each item in its own <td> of a table.[/li]
[li]The above turn-bold effect only works on choices you haven't yet visited. See faq215-1469 for the correct order for a:whatever declarations in your style sheet.[/li]
[li]That flashing &quot;Free Downloads&quot; looks really cheesy...[/li]
[li]...but not as bad as the irritating horizontal scrolling text marquee, that owners of some browsers will be fortunate enough not to see.[/li]
[li]Pretty sure you could do the many-buttons-with-picture-changing-on-hover navigation thing in html & css instead of flash. May be quicker to load, though it's not desperately slow as it is. I'd be wary of shutting non-flashers out of my home page.[/li]
[li]Clicking the Portfolio button gives you a 404.[/li]
[li]Are NewZealandSites.com paying to advertise on your home page?[/li]
[li]The Navbar at the bottom of the page is unevenly spaced and looks really messy. Would be better if it had sam choices/words as the (blue) top bar.[/li]
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[imstillatwork]

Aaarrrg! Fixed Width and IFrames! ahhhh!

besides that, it looks good

 

[markbeeson]

Thanks for everyone's opinion's. We appreciate it immensely. Especially Chris Hunt - I plan on implementing said suggestions asap!!

As for the 'cheesy' flashing downloads sign - cheesy is what we were going for so i guess we succeeded!