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Stupot_

Stupot_

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Hi all,

I've been working on a website for our uni studio, would appreciate some feedback on what does/doesn't work. I also have a couple of questions regarding a couple of problems.

Firstly, the website is www.urbanismstudio.co.uk

There are a few holes and we'll be constantly adding content.

It's been made in iweb, with a couple of extra html snippets thrown in like rollovers and iframes.

Couple of things I would like to do:

On the blog page, when you click on someones name at the end of a post, it opens up their profile within the iframe. The problems pretty obvious, can I get this to open in the same window, not the iframe. i.e navigate away from the blog page?

On the main page I'd like a very simple scrolling/fading etc image rotator. Any good ideas? How easy are they to implement? I've found a few tutorials but they don't really go in to how to style them, and I'd like it to fit in with the site theme.

Thanks for any feedback,

Stu
 
For me, the design is far far too simple - looks like nothing is going on at all - gives a bit of unfinished feel for me personally. Also not a fan of using vertical scrolling for content either.

The site is also very poor on SEO and the whole blog seems to be inside an iframe - which is a total SEO killer. It's quite a simple job to get a wordpress running, styled to match your site - this way all the content is hosted on your domain, as opposed to externally.

For the main page image fader I'd recommend a jquery plugin called innerfade ( http://medienfreunde.com/lab/innerfade/ ). Stupidly easy to setup (<5 mins) and looks good.
 
Thanks suarve, it is unfinished! As we get more work done we'll be adding to it but as of now the only worthwhile content is in the blog.

I did give wordpress a go and couldn't even get it installed :/ lol. Will look at that fader plugin thing, thanks:)
 
For me im the opposite for the first reply and i think this minimalistic look is perfect for that kind of environment.

The use of the photos makes it look fresh and easy.
 
Thanks stoke, appreciate the feedback, and yes, we did feel minimal was the right direction to go considering the content we'll be adding.
 
Looks nice, great images, only thing im not keen on is the scrollbar on the blog page. On a 24" monitor this make the viewing area very small compared to the size of my screen. Other than that is pretty good.
 
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