what design do you think fits my site

To be honest, I think you current site design is a lot stronger and more professional than the other two.

Perhaps take that and liven it up a bit if you want a change?
 
old one. Though I'd change your pictures on the equipment page to thumbnails as they seem to take a while to load. And use slimbox / lightbox.
 
Ok so old one it is! what improvements do you think could be done though as i still think it looks dull.

Also, I'm trying to find an image javascript page scroller and get rid of the side scroll bar as it effects the div table. can you help?
 
Yeah old one, kept expecting the blurry text in the second idea to come into focus. As to how to make it better, I would make it larger for one. Even on an average res screen it is very small. Maybe get a bit more arty with the site and have some subtle design changes to certain pages to make it a little more exciting. Good luck mate.
 
chrisxuk said:
New layout 1 didn't work for me, and i preferred your old layout to New layout 2 :)
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i got the first 5 replys on this topic and thought ok time to delete the new layouts, but then i thought people are going to be curious to know what they looked like. It was to late to save new layout 1, but i kept new layout 2 just so people could still see it lol. sorry!!!

any way i've been making some new swift things for my site such as a new video gallery. I'll post them on here soon.
 
Old layout is definitely better.

Something on your website, is your equipment page - use smaller images - they'll take less time to load and reduce your bandwidth.
 
Really like the old design actually - really simple and weel laid out (although I'd increase the text size ever so slightly).

I can view the lst new layput and really don't like the 2nd new layout at all :( - looks a bit rushed and the header text is very hard to read.

A few points to improve on your original design though:

the equipment page - use thumbs for the images, not the whole 2000px wide image (that page took a good 20 seconds to load on a fast 8 meg connection)

Your enquiry form has a php header error message (probably due to trying to do a redirect in the form action code). The form also allows me to send a blank enquiry.

The videos page - again nice design. But instead of opening the new video in a popup you could use something like thickbox.
 
suarve said:
Really like the old design actually - really simple and weel laid out (although I'd increase the text size ever so slightly).

I can view the lst new layput and really don't like the 2nd new layout at all :( - looks a bit rushed and the header text is very hard to read.

A few points to improve on your original design though:

the equipment page - use thumbs for the images, not the whole 2000px wide image (that page took a good 20 seconds to load on a fast 8 meg connection)

Your enquiry form has a php header error message (probably due to trying to do a redirect in the form action code). The form also allows me to send a blank enquiry.

The videos page - again nice design. But instead of opening the new video in a popup you could use something like thickbox.
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Thanks for the advice, got me thinking! I’ll work on the equipment section tomorrow as it’s to late now; I’m hoping to get some better quality pictures to.

With thickbox, is it possible to load flv videos as its designed for photographic pictures? I’m having so much trouble at the moment trying to find a nice video player it’s really frustrating and this would be perfect for my site.
 
sorry for the double post but i have tried the thickbox for my videos section but it doesn't work. here's the 'jquery.js' file and the 'thickbox.js' file and the main page code...

But like i said before it only works for images.

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html>

<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="thickbox.js"></script>

<head>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="thickbox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
</head>
<body>
<!-- Banner Here -->
<div id="banner">
 <br /><br>
    <br>
    <br>
<h1>
  <?php include("menu.php"); ?>
</h1>


</div>
<!-- Contant Start -->
<div id="center">
  <div id="textv">
     <h3>Videos</h3>
     
<a href="videos/wspring/wspring.flv" title="add a caption to title attribute / or leave blank" class="thickbox" rel="gallery-plants"><img src="videos/wspring/wspring.jpg" alt="Plant 1" /></a> 

  </div>
</div>
<div id="bottom"></div>
<!-- Content ended -->

<div id="copy"><h1>
  <?php include("copy.php"); ?></h1></div>
  </body>
</html>
 
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