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rumblepup -> RE: *peers round corner* please check me out (12/22/2003 2:20:57)
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Hey artpics.
Any attempt at creating a website is fantastic in my book. Better than not doing it at all. But I do have some suggestions that will make your site a lot better and more user friendly.
Loose the snow. It's a little distracting and really adds nothing to your site.
Your image formatting on the main gallery page is off. The image of the guy on the mountainside comes up right in front of your links, basically breaking your site.
Loose the dhtml text effects. I think a user would much rather get to your info than have to wait for them to jump in.
Try centering your tables on the main page. It's a lot easier to follow down the center of the page and would maintain consistency.
There are much better thumbnail gallery softwares out there that what FP has to offer, and free no less. Try a search on google for EasyThumbs or try Freewarefind.com for thumbnail gallery makers.
I would also suggest loosing the background image. Many background images are not tiled correctly, and yours are definetly suffering from "what's my line?" syndrome.
Try building your pages within a set main table. Viewable areas on browsers are different, but for the most part, it you create one main table in the centrer of the page 760px X 100 percent, you'll get a nice centered layout. In the design biz, that's called a "Stacked" layout. Your layout is called "relative," which is absolutely fine by most standards, but it seems your having a bit of problems trying to control where everything goes. For fist timers, I always suggest using tables, and plenty of them, to lay out your site. Later on, as you become more experienced, you can control the tables to do exactly what you want, and you can start moving on to css or layered designs. But for now, try the tables.
You have a small consistency problem as far as fonts are concerned. Pic a font, stick with it. Use a different font for headlines or headers, but keep you content fonts the same across your website.
I know I wrote a mouthfull here. (Jeez, is he kidding?) but I really liked your images, and I'm hoping some of my suggestions would help. Here at the forums, everything is done with a sense of help and understanding, so please take my suggestions as they are given, with a smile and an outstretched hand of friendship.
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