New site again.

Finally someone who knows how to write semantic, standards-compliant code! There are a few things I would recommend you could improve, but bare in mind this is me being an anal standards zealot:

  1. A styled unordered list would be more semantically correct for the 'about', 'portfolio' and 'contact' links on the main page. This would eliminate the "div soup" you've got going on there at the moment!
  2. I know the main page acts more like a 'splash' page and doesn't contain much information, but I think it might be a good idea to make the logo at the top of each page link back to some sort of index page, be that the current one or one with more information on.
  3. I'm not a big fan of the font and font sizes you've used. I have a resolution of 1280x1024 and I do have to strain a bit to read the text. I think the headers should contrast more to the general text, and you might want to add 'line-height: 130%;' or something along those lines to make large blocks of text more pleasant to read.
Apart from that, it's a very nice website. Looking at the source code is a pleasant experience and overall, it's very well made :)
 
Definitely needs more contrast on the text, im finding it quite hard and by no means have bad eyesight, although i think its getting worse.. :(

Also, it does look like someones ordered a grey pizza.. i like the splashes of colour, but its grey everywhere else.. maybe just change the text first then see..

I also agree that the index page is kind of odd.. i cant get back to it and i dont like it.. it also is positioned slightly to the right of my screen?
 
Thanks for the comments, much appreciated :) I'll have a look at making the main body text a tad darker. Al Vallario, you've made a vaild point about the logo pointing back to the index page, I'll look into it.

The main page is a tad on the strange size, but I wanted to go for something a little different, my index pages always end up being a "jazzed" up links page anyway, so I thought I would get straight to the point and not pussy-foot around it. I like it anyway, it strays from the norm :p

gord, are you sure about it being off center? Im running 1280x1024 and it looks central, it should be central on every resolution though :confused:

Thanks again :)
 
if where on the subject of semantics the contact page could be better :)
first it could have been done without the use of tables.
Seccond its more semanticly correct to use label tag's for the "your name" etc and link them o an id in the text box's.

Apart from that spot on, only other thing is the text colour could be a tad darker as already mentioned.

One last thing, I like the three images you've got on the splash screen for the about,portfolio and contact. Seems a shame to have them there because as soon as you enter your site you don't see them again. Might be worth while trying to incrporate them into you design more.
 
Gman said:
if where on the subject of semantics the contact page could be better :)
first it could have been done without the use of tables.
Seccond its more semanticly correct to use label tag's for the "your name" etc and link them o an id in the text box's.

Apart from that spot on, only other thing is the text colour could be a tad darker as already mentioned.

One last thing, I like the three images you've got on the splash screen for the about,portfolio and contact. Seems a shame to have them there because as soon as you enter your site you don't see them again. Might be worth while trying to incrporate them into you design more.
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Thanks. I was hoping no-one would mention the contact page, its diabolically put together :p I know what you mean about the first 3 images, when I was designing the site, I tried my best to incoperate them, but they always seemed out of place, hence why they are semi-incoperated in the title bar along the top of each page.
 
Flanders said:
gord, are you sure about it being off center? Im running 1280x1024 and it looks central, it should be central on every resolution though :confused:

Thanks again :)
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Definitely, make the window smaller on your screen and youll see what i mean, it must be a fixed width on the left that there is extra, as when the window gets smaller it becomes more obvious..
 
gord said:
Definitely, make the window smaller on your screen and youll see what i mean, it must be a fixed width on the left that there is extra, as when the window gets smaller it becomes more obvious..
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OK, thanks for that, not sure why thats happening, I must have made a mistake in the CSS.
 
I've tinkered with the colour of the text abit, gone from #b9b9b9 to #a6a6a6. Is that any better? Hard to tell on my screen as the previous colour seemed OK :)

Thanks again for taking the time to have a look.
 
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