Website C&C

[Russinating]

Hey guys, don't know if this is done here much (seems to be mostly help with programming languages) but I was just wondering if anyone would be kind enough to offer feedback on a couple of websites.

The most recent is: www.finestfilms.co.uk
Design probably took about an hour (off the back of a general design to be used with posters, flyers, etc). Programming the booking system probably took about 5 hours. One thing I've never been good at is testing on different platforms, views, browsers etc so if anyone spots anything off then let me know!

And while I'm here: www.rghjones.co.uk
Just a personal one, thought seeing as I was posting the above might as well get some feedback on this too!

Thanks guys

 

[jonhuz]

Hi Russell,

visual design:

- The reflection of the header (image) text adds nothing. It overcrowds and bulk out the header.
- Navigation isn't obvious enough, especially as you've used the colour for some heading text. You also have given no indication of the structure of the document, where you are sitting currently. When clicking a link, a user should always no where they are on the site, don't make them think (krug).
- Background image makes the text hard to read.
- Text is too small. You've embraced some stylings of the 'web 2.0' with the reflection, drop that and embrace a larger font.
- General design is too constrained, needs freeing up.

code:
- you really need to embrace current standards based markup. Head over to the W3C and read up. Your coding is out of date.

 

[furnace]

you really need to embrace current standards based markup. Head over to the W3C and read up. Your coding is out of date.

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Just thought I'd put some emphasis on that for you

Visually though, I like. jonhuz says it all really... I think they are very good designs that just need tweaking a bit.

 

[TheAlex]

I agree with most of the above though I do like the header. It does look a bit crowded up there so I'd perhaps give a bit more space around the menu.