Critique website real quick please

[LuckyTaxi]

I'm redoing our school's website. Our current website is ugly and is written in ASP, which some dude designed and then up and left w/o giving us any support whatsoever. So, I took the liberty of redoing it in php with mysql on the backend.

I need to make it CSS, but considering how most of the visitors wont have firefox, i was forced to use tables.

Main Page

 

[sswingle]

Looks good. Get some links working now.

 

[SagaLore]

Well I think it looks very nice, no complaints on the overall design and layout.

I would suggest that you don't break up the image vertically like that. Each image varies in size, from 5k to 20k, and altogether there is just too much being loaded. If you have to break up the images, try and break them up horizontally - GIFs can compress more data into when finding repetition from left to right. Also try and reduce your color resolution until you see a big jump from good detail to poor detail - and then stay at good detail. For most of my site graphics, this happens around 32 colors. Yours might be 64 colors.

:thumbsup:

 

[tami]

it looks pretty good. the only thing i'd change is that i'm not so fond of the italicized fonts.

 

[necine]

8.5/10

 

[LuckyTaxi]

once i get the ok from my boss that the design looks good, then I'll work on converting it to CSS before i dive into it any deeper.
it sure beats our current website. www.cdssh.org

 

[jds2006]

looks nice

 

[lavagirl669]

Originally posted by: tami
it looks pretty good. the only thing i'd change is that i'm not so fond of the italicized fonts.

yes...they are hard to read.

Otherwise, nice! :thumbsup:

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

:beer:

 

[Rock Hydra]

Not liking the italics, but other than that. Schway.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: lavagirl669

Originally posted by: tami
it looks pretty good. the only thing i'd change is that i'm not so fond of the italicized fonts.

yes...they are hard to read.

Otherwise, nice! :thumbsup:

They're harder to read than the other fonts, but I still read them with no problem and thought they matched the site nicely. 😕 Maybe they just need to be sharpened a little.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: lavagirl669

Originally posted by: tami
it looks pretty good. the only thing i'd change is that i'm not so fond of the italicized fonts.

yes...they are hard to read.

Otherwise, nice! :thumbsup:

They're harder to read than the other fonts, but I still read them with no problem and thought they matched the site nicely. 😕 Maybe they just need to be sharpened a little.

Yea, I was tired of the boring dull fonts (Arial, Tahoma, etc...) so I wanted to try something different. Also, what screen size are you guys using? A majority of our visitors are still using 800x600 so they should be able to see it clearly.