Site Review Please

[fxcolin]

I all.

I've been re-developing my site all week and it's almost there. I wanted to take advantage of adding some scripting and database integration

I'm just hoping for some suggestions, good or bad
-comments as well as the usual browser & resolutions.

Still have to add some more pages.

I appreciate all feedback

Thanks in advance !!



Later, Skater

http://www.fxstudios.ca

http://www.chefmedia.ca

 

[cian]

Hi,
what site? you mean

http://www.fxstudios.ca/

??



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http://www.endamcg.com

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http://www.endamcg.com/finland-gaa

 

[RISTMO]

Everything's all blurred .

Rick

 

[fxcolin]

DOH !!!
Sorry !!!
Need sleep

RISTMO
I'm all blurred, too

Yep it's

http://www.fxstudios.ca

Been a looooong week Been up all night

again......









Later, Skater

http://www.fxstudios.ca

http://www.chefmedia.ca

 

[RISTMO]

I know what you mean by that. I've been up till 3-4 am every night this last week and up again at 8.

Funny, my blurred vision should make those graphics look noraml!

Looks nice to me, but maybe I'm just too nice :-D.

Rick

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

1) You should move your navigation options to the top of the page, above the fold. Navigation should be easy to find and require no scrolling. When I visited your page, I visited 3 pages before I noticed the bottom navbar.

2) The breadcrumbs trail would look a lot better using "Home" rather than the site address.

3) The domain search textbox is far too small. When a user is buying a domain, you should eliminate all chance of the user making a typo without noticing, that would be very easy to do in a box that small. Also, after you click to search for a domain, the dark green text does not work well on a black background.

Hope this helps Wullie

sales@freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.com

http://www.thomsonassociates.co.uk

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

 

[MoonHare]

I agree with Willie's comments but its the blurriness of the page that is most distracting. When you get old your eyes get tired by clear things, blurry things are totally distressing. (blink, blink!!)

I also looked at it with Netscape4.7 and Mozilla. Really icky with the old netscape. Makes it into a couple of black blocks of your graphics surrounded by wide blank spaces. The hosting page navigation bar is totally unreadable and the breadcrumbs don't show up. You aren't going to impress any Netscape 4.7 users with your site design! If any exist!

Mozilla looks good except for the bottom of the lower graphic says:
" coords="357,160 in nice big letters. The breadcrumbs don't show up on Mozilla, but the domain name box is bigger and not shoved to the side as it is in IE6. Clean up that errant text problem and the blurry graphics and I would say its passable on Mozilla.

I really like the green borders against the black.

Is there some kind of site out there that gives statistics on the percentages of browser models in use? I would like to see that info.

Yrs,
Moonhare (aka JRW)

 

[fxcolin]

Wullie:
I appreciate your comments
1: I did consider putting the navigation at the top, however my main nav is on the left and the bottom is just 'extra links'

2: I agree about the 'home' it looks better, will change it. I was searching all over for a good breadcrumbs script with no luck until this one and it's javascript.

3: I agree also about the text box. It's been largened.
With the green text on black, that was part of the old site which didn't work then either and will be changed.

MoonHare:

Actually the slight blurriness is what i was going for, ofcourse not realizing that it would bug some people.

Regarding netscape 4.7. It's a garbage browser anyhow. I made the decision a while ago not to conform to these outdated browsers. Thanks to Wullie's script, I will be using a pop up at the home page to recommend people upgrade.
Netscape's come along way with 6.2, it loads so much faster and looks great! Personally I don't see why people don't upgrade -it's free and it will enhance the surfing experience.

I guess I'll have to install mozilla, didn't check that browser.

Regarding stats on browsers:
At my sites last time I checked
Internet Explorer 75%
Netscape 15-17%
Other 7-10%

Thanks for the insight !!!!



Later, Skater

http://www.fxstudios.ca

http://www.chefmedia.ca

 

[MoonHare]

Dear Skater,
I look at those netscape browsers because I also write pages for the university community, many of which have agreements with netscape (or whoever) and so provide that browsers to their clients. I think they do that to avoid the vulnerability of IE to attack. Might be garbage, but might be garbage your clients just happen to have.

I found the FAQ on this forum for the browser question:
faq253-2721
IE is popular, yes, but .... things could change quickly. When I downloaded the Netscape 6.0 preview several years ago, it was clear than netscape was history but for AOL users.

I don't know what webtv is like.... do they have a "browser"?

Yrs,
JRW (moonhare)

 

[GUJUm0deL]

Nice site...

1) You have horizontal bars, but your page doesn't go off the screen at all, might wanna just shrink the page slightly so everything fits nice and tidy...

2) The footer, you can actualy fit all that one one line...maybe something like this:

<td class=&quot;footer&quot;> <div align=&quot;center&quot;><a href=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://fxstudios.ca/web_design/&quot;[/URL] class=&quot;footerNav&quot;>web 
    design</a> | <a href=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://fxstudios.ca/web_hosting/&quot;[/URL] class=&quot;footerNav&quot;>web 
    hosting</a> | <a href=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://fxstudios.ca/web_services/&quot;[/URL] class=&quot;footerNav&quot;>web 
    services</a> | <a href=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://fxstudios.ca/self_help/tips_tricks/&quot;[/URL] class=&quot;footerNav&quot;>tips 
    & tricks</a> | <a href=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://fxstudios.ca/self_help/cool_tools/&quot;[/URL] class=&quot;footerNav&quot;>cool 
    tools</a> | <a href=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://fxstudios.ca/support/contacts/&quot;[/URL] class=&quot;footerNav&quot;>contact 
    us</a> | <a href=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.fxstudios.ca&quot;[/URL] class=&quot;footerNav&quot;>[URL unfurl="true"]www.fxstudios.ca</a><br>[/URL]
    <em>Toronto, Ontario Canada</em></div></td>

3) The images 'Web Services', 'Web Hosting' and 'Web Design' are too blury...maybe you can make them more sharper...and looks like you used PS to make the images, cause you have a large border-effect, maybe you can also make that a little smaller??

The rest of the site looks good... I have not failed; I have merely found 100,000 different ways of not succeding...

 

[fxcolin]

Hi GUJUm0deL,

Thanks for the response.

1. "your page doesn't go off the screen at all, might wanna just shrink the page slightly so everything fits nice and tidy..."

Sorry, I don't quite get what you mean.

2. You're right about the footer links. I was never really sold on it also and made the change.

3. Ya all the headers are a little fuzzy and will be changing them all.

I probably started this post a little premature. I've been fighting with the database and not as much on cosmetics, although I'm starting to do that more now.


Thanks, again Later, Skater

http://www.fxstudios.ca

http://www.chefmedia.ca