Your opinions, please!

[j1188]

Can you please look at my (4th)site. Do you like the layout of it?
I'm not bothered about the content though.

http://jamespage.8bit.co.uk/

[Kupo]

The layout sucks beyond description

[j1188]

How can I improve it then?

[Kupo]

use photoshop to makr gfx and mae a menu bar and cahnge the menu bar. For more help visit www.webpagesthatsuck.com (http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com)

[j1188]

Ok. Is the site easy to navigate though?(even though there's only 3 pages)

[Kupo]

Yes but the black background and no images make it unplesent to

[j1188]

OK. I've changed it a bit, any better now?

BTW, Thanks for your help

[Kupo]

ok now all you need to do is make the things on the menu bar seperated

[ShADoWFLaRe85]

Add some imagery :)

[Kupo]

and that......

[Keith]

simple can be cool, and look very nice. I have been in webdevelopment, and design as a hobby for about 4 years. Color scheme can either make a site great, or very crappy. This is the most important thing when it comes to designing, and you don't have to be a professional to make professional looking pages. It is very possible to make great looking sites without images, as long as it has a nice color scheme. Another important part is layout and navigation. If a site is hard to navigate, or the layout is very messy, it will drive away users. I also suggest not using frames for the layout. The option is up to you though, I am just not a big fan of frames and know of better ways to get the effect you want. I can only assume you do it so you won't have to recreate the menu on every page. I know of some other ways of doing this better such as with php, or SSI. Some of these might seem advance to a new person to webdevelopment but the concept is very simple. Someday I will complete my webdevelopment tutorial page and share my knowledge with everyone .. yeah someday :p

[j1188]

Do you think I use to many bullet points?


Keith: I don't think my sever supports PHP, but do you know any websites that have tuturials on it?

[Keith]

check this out ... was bored so I made this. It uses no images and could give you some ideas. Feel free to view the source, all sections of the code are labeled.

http://www.psxfanatics.com/sample/

[j1188]

Wow! thanks Keith!

[ammoQ]

I don't like comments like that:
"Best viewed with IE6 at 1240x760x32"
Not only I never ever use IE6, but also 1240x760 is a _strange_ size. And after all, it's not true anyway, almost every browser in the world will display this site without any problems. I tried Mozilla and Konqueror, no probs.
My first suggestion is to use different colors for the frames.

[j1188]

ammQ: The resalutions meant to be 1024x760, my mistake.

[bastard]

much better! :)

edit: make the q&a appear in the main frame and not a new page

[Auri87]

i give your site a 7/10 and btw it take forever to load

[j1188]

KrOnic_2000: what type of connection are you on? The whole site is only 30KB.

bastard(nice name:)): done

[bastard]

keeps getting better n better. good job
make it more obvious to users that you are using frames either with line or colour.
yellow n green n gray is a nasty combination.

[j1188]

I'm not using frames

[bastard]

sorry it was still stuck in my mind from earlier :emb:

[Auri87]

im on cable. the forums here load in like 1 second and most other sites (gamefaqs, gamespot...) all load in a few seconds but for some reason yours takes like 3-5 minutes to load

[j1188]

It works okay for me. I delete any tempory internet files on my HDD and try again.

Does it load slow for everyone?

edit: I've deleted my tempory internet files and it loads fine.

[Auri87]

much faster now

[j1188]

The server probaly got slow

[ammoQ]

Originally posted by j1188
ammQ: The resalutions meant to be 1024x760, my mistake.
Unless you have a very uncommon resolution, it's 1024x768

[ShADoWFLaRe85]

Yeah...it's either 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, or 1280x 1024...which are the more common resolutions. :)

[ammoQ]

Other common resolutions are 1152x864 and 1280x960.

[Ali]

maybe the green back ground can be changed to something more dull so to suit the menus and text background.......!

Ali

[j1188]

sorry again, I'm not very good at rembering resolutions

[SnakeBite]

I'm no expert at this, but I would change the rollover color (or what the heck it's called) to a brighter one...

[sniff_381]

then what do you think is the best resolution??? an about the server???... it's just working fine. isn't it?

[j1188]

I said the server might have got slow as Kr0nic_2000
said it took a while to load.

In my opinion the higher the resalution the better, it's just that my page was designed on 1024x768(yay, I got it right!)

[Kurbster]

A little color might liven the site up