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Nicole -> RE: Website critique appreciated! (9/22/2005 21:14:20)
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Hi Windchimes,
Can I firstly suggest that rather than looking at it as IE displaying your site as you'd like it, perhaps you should be looking at it as Firefox is displaying the site as it is (correctly) according to how it is coded. I think it was Caz in another post elsewhere recently gave the good advice of working in code view and then using the "Preview in Browser" option to view it in Firefox rather than relying on the normal and preview views that FrontPage provides. It really can be misleading.
Taking into account that you haven't yet decided upon a logo/banner, it seems you want to go with a deep red colour scheme, but can I suggest to you that for me at least that the pale pink just doesn't work for me. Look at your images of windchimes, they're all on different coloured backgrounds, mainly greys, whites and blues, and on the following pages they're in dark blues. For a start I'd be looking at changing the background colours of those images to the same consistent colour, and as is often the case when you want the images to tell the story (i.e. stand out), a black or white background is best. Another colour background whether bold or pastel will take the attention away from the images. Have you tried making the image background colours white and having a white page background with no border around the images?
Can I also suggest that you add some padding to the text that says " Wind Chimes Pavilion, your Wind Chimes Superstore!"as its rather close to the surrounding cells, and in the textured cell below the font is a bit smalll and/or it has too much padding. I'd also look into changing the font to arial, as to me at least, verdana loses it's attractiveness when any larger than 10pt or is used for headings.
Basically I think there's just too much going on in the way of background colours (fading red, solid red, grey stripes, textured, pale pink) and there's too much difference in the text (verdana and too many different colours, boldnesses etc.)
Hows that for starters?
Nicole
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