website - thoughts please

[JonnyBlaze]

im working on a website for a lil business i want to start. i only have the basic layout done so far. im working on content, which is the hardest part. (for me anyways)

now im pretty new to doing web design, so im just looking for some comments on the layout.

good bad, whatever, let me know what ya think


thanks

JB

oh yeah. linky

 

[Sir Fredrick]

I say lose the image rollovers at the top, or find a more efficient way to do it...it's kinda slow.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

yeah. my cable bandwidth is maxed allways. its gonna be on a real server ones its finished.

if it were faster would you still say loose em??


thanks

JB

 

[syf3r]

the roll-over links worked nice and quickly for me... however, since you're using dreamweaver, you might want to explore the possibilities of what stylesheets can do for you in terms of rollovers and other link-type effects.

-syf3r.

 

[DonNiggera]

I would give more of a full-screen look. Having a blank space to the side is kind of 'blah.'

And make sure it can fit in 640x480. Some business machines are restricted to that. God knows why though, just my personal experience with them.

Oh no... The blue thing is like 20 images that must be loaded... You don't, I repeat, DON'T want that. On slower machines, it takes a god-awful long time to load something like that, and just being a menu, it would upset many people having to wait on it to load.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

thanks for the tips.

ill have to read up on stylesheets. i have never used em.

and about the menu, im sure theres a better way to do it also, but im new with using slices and doing sites alltogether.



JB

 

[DonNiggera]

shoot... haven't done anything w/ HTML in about 6 months... Don't remember anything any more...

<table width=100% border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
<tr>
<td bgcolor=lightblue>

<table width=100% border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr>
<td width=20%></td>
<td width=20%>Service</td>
<td width=20%>Support</td>
<td width=20%>Sales</td>
<td width=20%>Contact</td>
<td><img src=graystripe width=100px height=30px></td>
</tr>

</td>
</tr>
</table>

This will work. Just edit the text to how you see fit... you can add a bg=bg.gif, having the bg.gif the color of the table you have now, and it'll tile across. The image should be 100x30, you can change the numbers, but make sure the image's w/h and the w/h on the page are the same.

 

[DonNiggera]

Learn how to use the <div style> command too, it'll help a lot in using it instead of images for text.

 

[gopunk]

maybe i'm missing something, but all i see is the top menu/title. there's nothing below it.

 

[Talon]

JonnyBlaze,

You might want to research your company name more. MDS is a major international corporation in the medical imaging and diagnostics technology field. Do a search for MDS on Google and you'll find several of their websites.