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AaronG
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Hey everyone,
I recently started re-working my website. As some of you know, I rarely complete a site, but I feel this is a solid design I can work with.

And, since I'm amateur I need tips and crit. So, lay it all on!

http://www.axifer.co.nr

I did use a little "BigAddness" in the logo, but hopefully it's not too much, because I really do not want to steal his style.

-AaronG

enjoy!


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SirFire
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Posted: 15th Jul 2008 06:16 Edited at: 15th Jul 2008 06:19
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My only complaint is that it's not centered in my browser.

Also, it seems like a lot of wasted space on the page.

See attached image.

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Osiris
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Overall it looks good. But that scrolling text in the little box makes my eyes hurt.

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Xenocythe
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It looks very nice. Slow down the scroll box, or just make it wrap the text instead, and have it only scroll up and down.

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AaronG
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Posted: 15th Jul 2008 06:28
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Oh ok, thank you for the crit. Hmm, I'm going to have to try something other than <center> tags I guess.


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Sunflash
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Posted: 15th Jul 2008 07:06 Edited at: 15th Jul 2008 07:13
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If I remember correctly from my ASP.NET class, the <center> tags are on the list of deprecated tags, so they probably won't work past IE7 (correct me if I'm wrong). I believe you have to use the <p align="center"> or div tags.

As for the website, I really like it. You have something there. I would just make it use more space, from the looks of it it won't fit much inside it, but that could be the intent. Other than that, it looks great. Oh wait, when you mouse over the buttons on the navbar, it would be helpful if the cursor would change, but this might just be because you haven't defined a link for each of the buttons, I haven't taken the time to check.

btw, I'm Andrew Craswell from facebook, you added me almost a year ago, nice to finally see some of your work

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Benjamin
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Quote: "If I remember correctly from my ASP.NET class, the <center> tags are on the list of appreciated tags"

Someone appreciates their use?



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Sunflash
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Posted: 15th Jul 2008 07:13 Edited at: 15th Jul 2008 07:14
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omg, forgot the term, meant to google it before I posted, lol, sorry

EDIT, on another note, yes, I did really appreciate the <center> tag!

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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 15th Jul 2008 07:38 Edited at: 15th Jul 2008 07:45
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I take it you wrote this old school and didn't use Dreamweaver or something? Not bad, but there are some bugs in there. For one, the proper tag is <div align="center"></div>. Don't forget to include the quotations.

Also... I saved your site onto my desktop and opened it in dreamweaver... and holy cow, you definitely made things crazier than needed.

I've built a few sites myself, a couple old school (using notepad), but also several with dreamweaver. My latest project was a professional project for my church. To see an example of my work visit [href]www.beapart.org. [/href]

Your site would be really easy to create if you wanted me to wip something up. I would use the graphics you already have, but just redo it simpler and finish off the rest of the site. I wouldn't work for free, but I wouldn't charge very much. If your interested email me and maybe we can work things out. I'm pretty flexible. Just looking for some spending money.

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AaronG
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Posted: 15th Jul 2008 09:20
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Thank you for all of the replies. I am young and I hope one day to be a Web Designer, focusing mainly on graphic design. Yeah this was old school, and I just kind of threw it together based on my knowledge on basic webpage construction.

@ Sid

That's a very nice site, but I might have to bypass the offer because I'm looking to complete the site myself and use it to house a possible future portfolio.

-AaronG


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Image All
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Posted: 15th Jul 2008 10:31
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I like how it's not centered.


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Veron
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I really like the design, the only thing, as other people have mentioned, is to slow down the marquee text, or better still, make it wrap.

But otherwise, very nice!


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Its very nice! Orange on black/dark grey always looks very good.

Keep up the good work.

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AaronG
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Posted: 15th Jul 2008 16:39
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Thanks for the compliment BiggAdd!

@Image All

In my browser it is, but I'm going to have to fix that anyway.


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Alucard94
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Posted: 15th Jul 2008 16:47
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I really like it! Way better than I ever cared enough to make!


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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 15th Jul 2008 18:32
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I quite like the design but dont like the absolutely positioned elements... Bad form.

If you want a centered div - the best/easiest way is to fix the containers width and then set the horizontal margin on it to auto.

Dunno if you use Firefox (for webdev you SHOULD)... But if you do, Get FireBug - it allows realtime editing of the page and display so you can get measurements right and THEN save the CSS rather than resorting to trial and error.

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Sid Sinister
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No problem.

A few hints though. Run your code through an html validator. Do a little research on the different types of doctype also, and choose which doctype you want to check your site against.

I like using tables better than layers. You can do both, but tables feel more professional to me. Designers choice though.

It's important to know HTML before you start using a program like Dreamweaver, because you'll still need to go in and edit the code sometimes. My best advice is take a few classes that have to do with HTML and Web Design, keep building sites, then when you feel your ready purchase Dreamweaver and Photoshop (possibly Flash and Illustrator too, roughly a $500 package) and you'll be happy you made the transition. What you accomplished in 5 hours doing things old school you can now do in minutes and it looks so much better to boot.

I never did a site like this before my last project, but the graphic designer I was working with made a layered (not the same as HTML Layers) site template in Photoshop and sent it to me. I then used my copy of Photoshop to slice her image (basically a screenshot of the webpage) of the site and export it to Dreamweaver. When Dreamweaver picked it up, all the tables were already perfectly made, and every image was in place already. It was a very beautiful thing! Saved me a crap load of time and frustration spacing the site and inputing images. It's crazy when a software package actually works together like that =]

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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 15th Jul 2008 19:03
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Quote: "Dunno if you use Firefox (for webdev you SHOULD)"


Be sure to test with IE though. They don't always render the same. If you have a good validation though, it should be able to work on both for the most part. There are some Netscape problems that slip in there sometimes but who the heck uses Netscape anymore


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AaronG
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Posted: 15th Jul 2008 20:49
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Yeah, I use Firefox.

@ Sid

I've got Photoshop CS3 (through hard work all last summer, man it's expensive) and have become quite good with it. I guess I'm lacking HTML and CSS skill. Does DreamWeaver accept imported .PSD's? If so, that'd be really nice to work with.

I should be making alot of changes to my site today.


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Sid Sinister
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Dreamweaver does not accept PSD's. However, if you slice your image of your site in Photoshop (even if you just make one big slice. The idea with slicing is to create different images in the appropriate area. Like buttons and logos and such), you CAN import that into dreamweaver. Actually, when you slice and save it, you pretty much just save it as a .html file and all the slices turn into images placed in the images folder. Then you open that up with Dreamweaver. But when you open it up in dreamweaver, everything is arranged pixel perfectly in tables, just the way you had it in Photoshop. It's really nice. I also enjoy Photoshop's image quality controls, so I can adjust the loading time/quality on my images that are going on my site.

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ImageReady works better than PS for slicing your image. You can export your image from imageready to HTML, but it does a messy job.

The overall width seems a little small for the site. Oh, and it's not centered.


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Sid Sinister
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ImageReady was abandoned in CS3. Photoshop now handles all that.

EDIT: Maybe abandoned is the wrong word. Integrated maybe?

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Torrey
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The only bad thing I see on that website is the content area is just too small. Once you start to add pictures and text you'll start to wish it was wider. Great job so far!

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