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vedica · Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Noida, India

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I am just done making it and am looking for any kind of feedback on the colors, the frames, the navigation, coding, whatever. also this is my first serious website, so be as critical as you like. I want to learn and improve!

jmbuford · Joined: 14 Apr 2007 Posts: 20

You forgot the "r" in computer.

SteveH · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 208

Beautiful site, Juhi.

I particularly like the design treatment, palette, and your use of text as graphic elements.

I have a handful of points of criticism for you:

-- The site looks fine in Firefox, but breaks in IE 6.

-- The navigation could be more intuitive in a few places. For example, I want to click the thumbnail images beside the gallery link. Also, when I click a link in the box on the left, I want to go back to that box to select another link.

-- The guestbook entry page, where people can leave a comment for you, is a little wider than the iframe, which makes me want to scroll right to see more message options.

-- The tabbed navigation in the gallery makes the page feel top-heavy.

A few notes on HTML code:

-- As you advance your coding skills, stick to CSS and XHTML standards, For example, use CSS in place of font tags.

-- Declare a document type, at the very least for validation purposes.

-- One particular pointer: you can combine your table cells in your code like this:

Instead of:

vedica · Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Noida, India

vedica · Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Noida, India

Thanx SteveH!

SteveH · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 208

Your graphic design is already professional, and you should be paid for that (as opposed to an unpaid internship), even if you are wanting to learn the coding and haven't yet.

You're very likely to find you have an aptitude for either design or coding. That doesn't mean you won't be able to do both professionally, but that one or the other will feel more natural to you, and you will feel happiest doing work which requires you to rely most heavily on your greatest aptitude.

As far as the tabbed navigation in the gallery, it could be slimmer, or you could counterbalance the top heaviness with something at the bottom of the page. Maybe a combination of the two.

But you're the designer and that's your problem to solve.

Meginoz · Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 29 Location: Australia

I can't help you much with "why" but as I view it on IE6 it seems to have some big problems:

- The main cell and the News cell have no background, and the text runs all the way hard against the edges.

- As these cells are showing with a white background, none of the text in white shows up in them.

- The News cell has a scroll bar, which it doesn't have in FF, which looks terrible as there doesn't seem to be anything to scroll down to anyway.

- In the menu along the top, the word "gallery" has jumped up above the others.

The problem with the cells doesn't happen with the bottom left one with links to deviantart, that looks fine.

Also, on your gallery page, you say "make sure pop-up blocker is disabled" - shouldn't that be "enabled"??

Otherwise, looks great. If you can get it to look as good in IE as it does in FF, you'll have a great site.

vedica · Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Noida, India

vedica · Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Noida, India

thanx meginoz for the feedback! i fixed all those points just now...now it looks just the same in both FF and IE...the updated version is : HERE.

Meginoz · Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 29 Location: Australia

Hmm, now other stuff seems to have broken. In both IE6 and Firefox 1.0 there is now a big white band to the right, and a white space at the bottom that doesn't go all the way across (a section of dark pink juts down below the table.) I think the white space on the right is because you've made you table fixed width, but not centred it, so on larger screens it sits to the left. My codings not good enough to figure out what's causing the rest of it.