Critique a web site I'm building?

[george graves]

Feedback welcome....

Here is the link. When you click on it you will be prompted - just hit ok. (I'm testing out some image rotation code that I don't have the rights to use yet.)

Here is the link:

http://www.digitalunderpants.com/bhe_art/home.html

I'm not getting some of the pages to line up well - something is screwy - I'll fix it later.

Well I'm exhausted.

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Thanks in advance...

[Digitalwave]

Looks pretty good. I take it thats a template. The only thing that bothers me is the photo in the logo that just kind of ends... I like things to flow or have some sort of border.

[tanksta]

it looks good.

some of the smaller pages have empty space at the bottom. have you fixed a min. size of the page?

[trent]

under gallery, the picture artists names don't show up correctly, Diane is right to the right of the picture and the rest of her name is below the picture. needs a <br>

[trent]

also
i don't see text links, these are a must have for search engine placement. You must remember, that search engine crawlers follow text and text links. If you can view the site from lynx, then you are good, if you cannot, then you might have some troubles.

[DEV0 E30]

it looks good.

some of the smaller pages have empty space at the bottom. have you fixed a min. size of the page?

+1

+SEO is important!

I like the color palette used.

No need to scroll on a homepage unless there is tons of info as well. There are a bunch of paragraph tags at the end.

Header image could be cleaned up as stated, with some fading from black around all of the edges it would be more fluid maybe. In the gallery many of the images of the paintings don't take you where you expect to go, when clicked they take you to the first painting with enlarged picture and details, I assume this was on the to do list?

I'm a firm believer in valid markup without tables but I know not everyone goes about that so if you throw the correct doc type on there I'll let it slide.

[LINUS]

Is it necessary to have that script come up about a valid user agreement or whatever? It kind of kills the flow into seeing art to have to hassle with legaleese.

Also, what is the language on the front page - Latin? I gues the only reason I ask is that when you navigate to a pic you get English for the titles & artist.

Like Devo said, color palette is nice - inital feel is that it's worth poking around the site to find interesting info, not like some sites where the cover page is them barfing up their coolest stuff, and there's no substance on any of their detail pages.

[s0urce]

1. Fix that hard line in the banner
2. Ditch the Cheesy Mouse-Overs
3. Consider using CSS styles to format content and layout. Your code is redundant.

[blunttech]

i dont know shit about this stuff but i need someone to do my wifes dental practice site. she has some retard doing it now and its pathetic.
do any of you freaks do this for a living?

[george graves]

Looks pretty good. I take it thats a template. The only thing that bothers me is the photo in the logo that just kind of ends... I like things to flow or have some sort of border.

Nope, not a template - I HATE people that use templates and call themselves a web designer. Not that I am really a "web designer" - I only do 2 or 3 sites a year. And I know just enough to be dangerous.(you can say that again!) I know waht you are saing about the "hand" - I hate it. Looking to change that out or add a border to the edge so you don't see just a severed hand.

it looks good.

some of the smaller pages have empty space at the bottom. have you fixed a min. size of the page?

I've got blank lines on the bottem of some of the shorter pages to force the browser into giving me a scrool bar on the right. Without it, the shorter pages shift to the right as the browser has more room with out the scrool bar, and tries to center the main table - I have no clue how to get around that.

under gallery, the picture artists names don't show up correctly, Diane is right to the right of the picture and the rest of her name is below the picture. needs a <br>

Awesome, thanks! I was just throwing the text in - you're right a <br> is needed. BTW, what browser are you using?

also
i don't see text links, these are a must have for search engine placement. You must remember, that search engine crawlers follow text and text links. If you can view the site from lynx, then you are good, if you cannot, then you might have some troubles.

Meta tags and text links I didn't have time for - will do! Haven't tried Lynx - I'll give that a look! Thanks!

Header image could be cleaned up as stated, with some fading from black around all of the edges it would be more fluid maybe.

I'm a firm believer in valid markup without tables but I know not everyone goes about that so if you throw the correct doc type on there I'll let it slide.

Yea, I thinking of re-doing the header image in flash to make one art image fade into another on a loop, 5-6 images.

I'll look at the doc type - that's just what dreamwaver gave me.

Is it necessary to have that script come up about a valid user agreement or whatever? It kind of kills the flow into seeing art to have to hassle with legaleese.

Also, what is the language on the front page - Latin? I gues the only reason I ask is that when you navigate to a pic you get English for the titles & artist.

Like Devo said, color palette is nice - inital feel is that it's worth poking around the site to find interesting info, not like some sites where the cover page is them barfing up their coolest stuff, and there's no substance on any of their detail pages.

The dialogue box is cause I don't have premission to use someone's Java code that will make the images on the homepage different every time you load up the page - just to make the site more interesting at each visit.

The text is "kinda sorta" Latin - it's just a place holder untillt he client send me the his verbage.

1. Fix that hard line in the banner
2. Ditch the Cheesy Mouse-Overs
3. Consider using CSS styles to format content and layout. Your code is redundant.

Hard line?

Might look into CCS - I've used it before...I know the mouseovers are a bit 1995, but clients love them. They feel it gives their static site some movement.

Thanks all for the advice so far and the compliments...looks like I have a bit more tweaking. Anyone care to tell me what I *should* be charging for a site like this?