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Tailslide -> RE: work-in-progress website - please criticise (1/11/2008 5:41:16)
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Hi There
Well you know - it's simple, clean and does the job - some of the fonts are very large but it makes a change from me having to squint at the screen. Oh but those photos are lovely.... mmmmm [:)]
Personally I wouldn't have used frames as it means that people will have trouble bookmarking a page within your site - plus they're just unnecessary for the site. But there you go, that's me - fussy!
You mention adding curves. Ok so this is my personal opinion on this one - I'd avoid them.
Don't take this the wrong way as it's not meant to be insulting - but if you're not reasonably good at web design/graphics then I find that adding in curves and other similar elements can actually make a site look really amateur.
My general advice to people who aren't designers and have no interest in getting into it a bit more is - keep it simple.
Honestly - what you've got looks clean and simple, as though it's supposed to be clean and simple rather than because it's all you can manage at the moment - if you see what I mean!! If you start adding curves in all over the place then it can get technically difficult and that's when it starts going wrong, in particular cross-browser.
To get these things working cross-browser will take effort and therefore time (which I'm guessing you don't have a lot of!). I believe FrontPage does "do" curves or shapes - but they only work in IE to my knowledge and they're pretty ugly even there. You'd really want to do the curves in a graphics programme and then import them into either the markup or preferably into a stylesheet as background images. But again - more time to learn that!
(If you absolutely have to do the curve thing then make sure you download Firefox, Opera, plus probably Tredeosoft standalone older IE packages if you have IE7 - make sure as you go along that everything looks ok in these browsers)
Edit: just looking again at your site - I sort of expected that where it says "Consultancy, Design, Construction" on the main part of the page would be links taking me to more details about those services -- same goes for the services under the photo on the main page. Also - on your contact page, the contact details go a bit skew-wiff at 800px wide browser width - you might want to fiddle with that so that it's legible at that width.
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