Critique my website

[dquan97]

Just got done doing page layouts. Haven't put personal pics in yet. Any comments/suggestions?
I'm still trying to put a forum in (invision) and need ideas for laying out a pictures page. Used Dreamweaver for the site.

EDIT: fixed nav bar font size

 

[Grey]

the navigation bar font needs to be bigger or more legible. Other then that looks nice so far!

 

[bUnMaNGo]

Originally posted by: Grey
the navigation bar font needs to be bigger or more legible. Other then that looks nice so far!

same here... work on making the navi bar look cleaner. everything else looks nice.

 

[thirtythree]

Yeah, the navigation is a little blurry but other than that it looks good .. nice and simple. It might just be me but the rollovers take half a second to change even after they have loaded.

 

[jfall]

Same here, it looks really good but I can't read the words on the top bar -- I also noticed this about the rollovers.. maybe they are suppose to be that way?? it seems to make the site seem slow

 

[thirtythree]

Also you might consider using frames.

 

[dquan97]

ok, I'll increase the font size of the nav bar. I don't know how to fix the lag in the rollover...

 

[Phuz]

wth? It keeps refreshing every time hoover a button.... hope thats not intentional.

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: Phuz
wth? It keeps refreshing every time hoover a button.... hope thats not intentional.

...Must be efficient when stalking and killing David Quan.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: Deslocke
Also you might consider using frames.

For the LOVE OF GOD, NO!

Anyways, change the navigation bar button text to be more readable, and preload the navigation bar hover images (so it doesnt delay when you hover over them), other than that it looks very nice.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

preload the images in the nav bar...

if you want you can swipe the code from the site i did it on...
http://www.thejazzartist.com/thejazzartist/artists.htm

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox

Originally posted by: Phuz
wth? It keeps refreshing every time hoover a button.... hope thats not intentional.

...Must be efficient when stalking and killing David Quan.

<-- running off to get my 50 caliber pistol....

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: dquan97

Originally posted by: iwearnosox

Originally posted by: Phuz
wth? It keeps refreshing every time hoover a button.... hope thats not intentional.

...Must be efficient when stalking and killing David Quan.

<-- running off to get my 50 caliber pistol....

It's too late, I'm typing this from your 802.11b connection.

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
preload the images in the nav bar...

if you want you can swipe the code from the site i did it on...
http://www.thejazzartist.com/thejazzartist/artists.htm

While testing the rollover images on my local machine, the images switches perfectly between on and off positions. After uploading it to the webhost, thats when the lag happens. The images were designed to be preloaded.

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox

Originally posted by: dquan97

Originally posted by: iwearnosox

Originally posted by: Phuz
wth? It keeps refreshing every time hoover a button.... hope thats not intentional.

...Must be efficient when stalking and killing David Quan.

<-- running off to get my 50 caliber pistol....

It's too late, I'm typing this from your 802.11b connection.

<dirty harry> feeling lucky, punk?</dirty harry>

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

That font in general is just not eyeball friendly, IMO, even with the change.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

One other thing I just noticed - there is no indication that a link is indeed a link. A different color, bold text, underline, *something* should differentiate links from normal text.

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
That font in general is just not eyeball friendly, IMO, even with the change.

really? I wanted to give it a high-tech look. Anyone else against the font type?

 

[stebesplace]

Two things. . .

First, do not use subdomains, they will slow you down.

Second, for pete sake, since this is a simple enough web site. use microsoft front page and their roll over bots, or at least get a better script for roll over. In some browsers, the images must refresh making quite a delay as people have mentioned.

-steve

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: stebesplace
Two things. . .

First, do not use subdomains, they will slow you down.

Second, for pete sake, since this is a simple enough web site. use microsoft front page and their roll over bots, or at least get a better script for roll over. In some browsers, the images must refresh making quite a delay as people have mentioned.

-steve

GRRR! Jesus people, dreamweaver is at least *alright*, frontpage is the most god awful thing to ever happen to the web, it's even worse than netscape 4. STOP PROMOTING CRAP!!

 

[dakata24]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: stebesplace
Two things. . .

First, do not use subdomains, they will slow you down.

Second, for pete sake, since this is a simple enough web site. use microsoft front page and their roll over bots, or at least get a better script for roll over. In some browsers, the images must refresh making quite a delay as people have mentioned.

-steve

GRRR! Jesus people, dreamweaver is at least *alright*, frontpage is the most god awful thing to ever happen to the web, it's even worse than netscape 4. STOP PROMOTING CRAP!!

ditto... frontpage??!?! :Q

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: stebesplace
Two things. . .

First, do not use subdomains, they will slow you down.

Second, for pete sake, since this is a simple enough web site. use microsoft front page and their roll over bots, or at least get a better script for roll over. In some browsers, the images must refresh making quite a delay as people have mentioned.

-steve

GRRR! Jesus people, dreamweaver is at least *alright*, frontpage is the most god awful thing to ever happen to the web, it's even worse than netscape 4. STOP PROMOTING CRAP!!

hehehe...I'd rather go back to Notepad

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: dquan97

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: stebesplace
Two things. . .

First, do not use subdomains, they will slow you down.

Second, for pete sake, since this is a simple enough web site. use microsoft front page and their roll over bots, or at least get a better script for roll over. In some browsers, the images must refresh making quite a delay as people have mentioned.

-steve

GRRR! Jesus people, dreamweaver is at least *alright*, frontpage is the most god awful thing to ever happen to the web, it's even worse than netscape 4. STOP PROMOTING CRAP!!

hehehe...I'd rather go back to Notepad

Vim

 

[sandmanwake]

What's wrong with Frontpage? I've tried dreamweaver and it's just too complicated to use for me.

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
preload the images in the nav bar...

if you want you can swipe the code from the site i did it on...
http://www.thejazzartist.com/thejazzartist/artists.htm

ok, I used the code from your site and the rollover still lags. Here

Incidentally, it rolls over just perfectly on my local machine, just like my original code.