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first commercial site - 6/19/2004 12:10:45
Hi all! I have just finished (I hope) my first commercial site and would like to hear from you before I show the client.
Any suggestions and constructive criticism would be appreciated!
The url is: http://www.laducadesign.com/wines
Thanks!
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Giomanach
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RE: first commercial site - 6/19/2004 12:35:23
Generally A Nice Site, but I am immediatley turned off by the usage of the Java Applet, I didn't even hang around long enough for it to load. It took forever to get anywhere, and I'm on broadband.
Other than the Java Applet
Fine
Dan
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RE: first commercial site - 6/20/2004 6:36:00
Thanks - changed it to a swish file.
Any one else??? PLEASE!
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kkranjcec
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RE: first commercial site - 6/21/2004 4:18:43
Excellent choice of colors, I would say!
Few remarks though...
The topleft logo (West islip...) is not as sharp as it could be. Maybe a different approach (I don't know, maybe put it around a shape or a graphic or something so it wouldnt look so squeezed).
You could also use CSS more, it will clean up your markup a lot.
For instance:
<td width="588" height="25" bgcolor="#FFFF99" style="border-style: none; border-width: medium">
<p align="center"><b><a href="spirits.htm#Vodka">
<font size="2">Vodka</font></a></b><font size="2"><font color="#800000"> /
</font><b><a href="spirits.htm#Gin">Gin</a></b><font color="#800000"> /
</font><b><a href="spirits.htm#Whiskey">Whiskey</a></b><font color="#800000"> /
</font><b><a href="spirits2.htm#Rum">Rum</a></b><font color="#800000"> /
</font><b><a href="spirits2.htm#Tequila">Tequila</a></b><font color="#800000"> /
</font><b><a href="spirits2.htm#Scotch">Scotch</a></b><font color="#800000"> /
</font><b><a href="spirits2.htm#Cordials">Cordials</a></b></font></td>
You could specify a div like this
# submenu a {text-weight: strong .....}
# submenu p {color: #800000 ....} (and other settings)
and the above code would look like this:
<td width="588" height="25" bgcolor="#FFFF99" id="submenu">
<p><a href="spirits.htm#Vodka">Vodka</a> /
<a href="spirits.htm#Gin">Gin</a> /
<a href="spirits.htm#Whiskey">Whiskey</a> /
<a href="spirits2.htm#Rum">Rum</a> /
<a href="spirits2.htm#Tequila">Tequila</a> /
<a href="spirits2.htm#Scotch">Scotch</a> /
<a href="spirits2.htm#Cordials">Cordials</a></td>
You could also do your rollovers with css, I was never too happy with fp rollovers.
Thats from the code view. The design on the other hand is just fine.
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RE: first commercial site - 6/21/2004 4:31:39
of course
text-weight: strong
should be
font-weight: bold;
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RE: first commercial site - 6/21/2004 5:14:05
no worries!
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glennh2003
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RE: first commercial site - 6/21/2004 9:09:07
Good Morning,
Very nice for a first timer. I like the feel of it - here are some thoughts:
1. I really don't like large top borders on a site - it makes you scroll to get to the part that the people really want to see - the content. Your table is 427 high for the top border - most sites now try to limit that to 200 pix. high. That would move your links and pix up.
2. The pics and links in the content area can be reduced in size and maybe condensed a bit so they are all in your field of view at once. One thing I noticed with new website developers (I had the same problem) is that we tend to make everything too big.
3. One nit picky thing - on the wine pages - you have the names underlined. Whenever a surfer sees something underlined they think it is a link - I kept trying to click on them. Maybe just bold and not underlined. Do you plan on putting a description of each on there?
4. Great start - keep up the good work.
Glenn
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