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kkranjcec
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My little homepage - 9/16/2004 8:39:44
I put together a little homepage devoted to my webdesign. Its not much but as far as the content goes, enough for me. By the way it is in Croatian.
How does it look to you all? Any improvement suggestions or you like the way it is?
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dpf
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RE: My little homepage - 9/16/2004 8:42:18
url please
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kkranjcec
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RE: My little homepage - 9/16/2004 9:31:40
http://free-ka.htnet.hr/kruno/
I put it in sig but it doesn't show !?!
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RE: My little homepage - 9/16/2004 9:45:04
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Any improvement suggestions or you like the way it is?
kkranjcec,
Assume you are asking about your OutFront Member profile site: http://free-ka.htnet.hr/kruno/.
Your profile sites are more visually appealing than your own site. Don't disregard the fact that this is supposed to a marketing site and, for a marketing site, the colors are too bland, vague, indifferent, pastel, whatever.
I'm not suggesting anything "in your face", but the colors and the font selection need to be stronger, more vibrant. After all you are trying to showcase your talents and, in effect, sell the consuming public that it's a good idea to do business with you. Your site, as is, is not effective in communicating that.
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RE: My little homepage - 9/16/2004 14:46:53
the links seem to be readable but the js performs funny, as if it has to be downloaded each time (??). did you write the external js yourself or plug it in? I would add language="javascript" to the <script> tag
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RE: My little homepage - 9/17/2004 2:28:17
The mouse over is pure CSS and no java script for the graphical part - "a" has a background that shifts up on hover. The text links are all under the influence of the fade script so they would fade into a different color. I did have some problems with flickering on these buttons, but at my pc it mostly (99%) works fine. I think this is a problem with IE6.
I'm looking into a workaround.
http://wellstyled.com/css-nopreload-rollovers.html
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RE: My little homepage - 9/17/2004 2:33:27
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ORIGINAL: barry
I like the colors. You did a great job using brown and the shades and shadows.
Thanks, I made all the graphics myself - Photoshop and Fireworks. The swan is a picture my wife took last winter in my home town.
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RE: My little homepage - 9/17/2004 2:42:23
Thank for your input, I appreciate your oppinion. I'll think about what you said. I will though, leave it as is for now, because I would have to redo all my graphics but I'm too lasy for this. This is just a hobby to me and not my profession. If this page gets me 2 or 3 customers, no one happier than me. If I get more negative feedback I'll look into this more seriously.
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kkranjcec
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RE: My little homepage - 9/17/2004 3:30:42
Flickering fixed I think. Is it OK now for you also?
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RE: My little homepage - 9/17/2004 10:05:29
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Flickering fixed I think. Is it OK now for you also?
yes the flickering is gone! good job. suggestion: why not share with us what you did to resolve it?
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RE: My little homepage - 9/18/2004 23:11:36
I think you have done a decent job for someone who does not do web development. I think your colors (as Larry mentioned) could exude more WOW factor, but they are not bad.
The biggest thing I see that I would say I don't like is the amount of shadow you have on both the nav box and it elements - drop that down a notch and I feel it would blend much better.
I would also offer an english version of your page for those who can't understand what your site is about :)
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RE: My little homepage - 9/20/2004 2:17:19
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ORIGINAL: dpf
yes the flickering is gone! good job. suggestion: why not share with us what you did to resolve it?
Hero goes the fix:
BEFORE:
html:
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<div id="menu">
<br />
<a href="index.html">Home</a>
<a href="about.html">O meni</a>
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</div>
css:
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#menu a {
display: block;
padding-top: 2px;
padding-bottom: 9px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 0px;
background: transparent url("images/btnlm.gif") top left no-repeat;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
text-align: left;
}
#menu a:hover {
background-position: 0 -25px;
}
AFTER:
html:
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<div id="menu">
<br />
<span><a href="index.html">Home</a></span>
<span><a href="about.html">O meni</a></span>
.........
</div>
css:
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#menu a {
display: block;
padding-top: 2px;
padding-bottom: 9px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 0px;
background: transparent url("images/btnlm.gif") top left no-repeat;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
text-align: left;
}
#menu span {
display: block;
background: transparent url("images/btnlm.gif") 0 -25px no-repeat;
}
#menu a:hover {
background-image: none;
}
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RE: My little homepage - 9/20/2004 3:21:10
First I must say I really admire your work and such a good review from you means a lot to me.
You really had a point about the shadows so I toned it down a bit. I also optimized some of the graphics so home loades in about 7 or 8 seconds.
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RE: My little homepage - 9/20/2004 11:37:03
Thank you for your kind words...
I went back and looked again, it most definately looks better with the lesser shadowing :) Good job.
I do however see a small red line under the bottom of the nav container box, and it is going off the right side about a pixel...
One other thing I would do, is instead of having your background show through your content area, I would make it a white or off white :)
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kkranjcec
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RE: My little homepage - 9/21/2004 2:59:43
You're wellcome!
Red line under the bottom of the nav box is dead aligned to a pixel in fireworks but you are right it does seem to go off so I toned down the right 3 pixels and now it looks better.
Did you mean something like this for the content area background?
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RE: My little homepage - 9/21/2004 11:09:36
Hi,
The red line looks less distinct now, good to go...
Yes, that is what I meant for the content.
Now, personally, after looking at it again, I would loose the bg image (unless you go with one that has some brown pattern to it) and instead go with a solid brown/tan; that which is represented in the upper left of your header area. Now this, is just a personal taste, but I feel if you darkened the bg a little, then your content would "pop" more, and be much easier on the eyes.
Oh, and I did not say before, but great job on a tableless design :)
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RE: My little homepage - 9/22/2004 4:27:42
Yes, I can tell where you are going with this. I couldn't really pick the right color so I just slightly darkend my bg and gave it a tanish rather than yellowish feel for now. I'll sleep over it some more maybe I come up with something different. It was very usefull to me to discuss my pages with you in this way because I became more conscious about design being a process which requires a lot of patience. So i became a "slow" design fan ( if I could shift to slow food as well where would my limits stand ?!? :-)).
Hope I post new designs (customer involved) soon because I'm unemployed now and this could be my income until I get my self a job in my own occupation (medical biochemistry).
Ah the tabels. I'm not a fan of tabels because they constrict me more than css positioning does. I can change the layout faster (just floating the divs around) until I'm pleased with it. With tabels it is like arranging tiles up against a wall - if you take one out the rest will fall down, and with css positioning it is like arranging them on the floor - you can move them in any way you can, beside it all - the code is cleaner as well.
P.S. I must tell you about my page header - the background is a photo of snow on the field in the afternoon (taken in my home town) with blue and red chanels switched, the swan is my wife's work (river Kupa) and the rest is Fireworks.
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