What do you think of this site?

dantonkin

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Knocked up a design n build of the index page yesterday.

www.redboxonline.net/temp

What do you guys think?

Don't even look at the coding, its probably carp as i know nothing about css really.. Just the basics.

Would love to get into it but i'm strictly a print designer and have no time for it all.

Any way.. poke away!!
 
It's "ok".
I find the text a bit odd. A serif font is used for the smaller text and a sans-serif for the larger. If anything, it should be the other way round as a sans would be easier to read in that small size.
At the moment it puts me off reading the paragraph text as its quite hard to read.

The special offer "boxes" are nice, neat and professional.
The navigation is a bit boring, needs sprucing up. Colour scheme is quite nice.
 
You got it Boss.. That text is pretty hard to read now i'm looking at it after a nights sleep.. Will go back to the boring font set that is arial, helvetica blah blah blah
 
You could make it larger mate?
Although Verdana is the dogs when it comes to small text sizes :)
 
Made all the text Verdana..

Thing is the boss doesnt know a single thing about webdesign. I might be me just moaning, but he wants the entire site up and finished by friday. Including samples of our work, every page sorted.. Online quote system etc..

Kinda does my head in..

Being from a print background he thinks a fairly decent website can be knocked up in 2 days... start to finish!

I mean i can knock up a carpy little site, but not a decent site that'll work well for the company.


END OF RANT...
 
yeah i know that. just oone of those things i didnt take into account. I've always told the big man 800x600 is a default size for webpages, but he wont have none of it.. wants it big!!

my web skills are not up to much, so i dont know of any way to have the web site scale.. unless i do a few different versions for different browser sizes..

Or... create it in flash
 
well, a lot of sites are for 1024 and above now, so if thats what he wants then so be it. I dont really agree tbh.

I just saw it and it looks masses better, good work! :)
 
My only comments would be that the logo text is a little hard to read and the navigation text could maybe be a little smaller? Other than that, very good :)
 
Looks good, I like the cut off corners being carried through the design. I'd have the lighter red with the horiontal lines behind the main nav as well. And you've got Redboox in the title.
 
hahahahah... Thes offers are not correct.. I've just cut-n-paste bits form old offers and not thought about the finished product yet.... so there!!! ;)
 
paulsheff said:
Looks good, I like the cut off corners being carried through the design. I'd have the lighter red with the horiontal lines behind the main nav as well. And you've got Redboox in the title.
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Lol i saw that... Redbooox.. made me chuckle.

Same as the time i accidently wrote the word... Sh!t instead of shot in a clients world war 2 mag!!

that made me laugh. no one even noticed it.. and still hasnt
 
I like the look of it but what is the point of using tables when you're using CSS? I think you need to ditch the table layout in favour of a CSS orientated one :)
 
I would love to do so but i don't know CSS enough. I know the basics, ie. text stuff, forms etc. but not enough to go build the site in CSS.

Unless someone can show me a really really brilliant site to help them i'm stuck with tables.
 
I know this already been covered but the site is over 900px wide.

This is far too wide, you're making a lot of users scroll horizontally which is a major annoyance factor for visitors. Dig up a few articles from Google about this, there are literally thousands to use to try and pursuade your gaffer.
 
iCraig said:
I know this already been covered but the site is over 900px wide.

This is far too wide, you're making a lot of users scroll horizontally which is a major annoyance factor for visitors. Dig up a few articles from Google about this, there are literally thousands to use to try and pursuade your gaffer.
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That's true, the site needs to be around 750px (that's what I always do mine as that's fine for 1024x768 users).

Other than that I like it, nice and neat & clean.
 
got a few more pages up if any ones interested in the progress of the site..

About us & Contact page.. Online qoute system is on there but needs amending to fit in with the site design..
 
About 20% of the Web still uses 800x600. That should be accurate as it's from W3. You have to decide whether that's enough to warrant changing the page.

I designed my personal website for 1024x768, since I'm not designing for the dinosaurs if it impacts upon the experience of the majority. With a business site, though, you don't really have that luxury - there are accessibility guidelines, etc.

Of course, a fluid-width layout beats both. Look at popular websites - eBay, Wikipedia, BBC, even this forum - and you'll find that they look just as good in 800 as they do in 1280.

Or... create it in flash
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Nooo! A site that's too wide is far preferable to one that's in Flash. Flash sites annoy a lot of people to hell because they often don't follow the rules of the Web re: linking, scrolling etc, they break the browser interface as back/forward buttons and mouse wheels don't work, they take too long to load and they're just generally tacky. :)
 
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