What do you think of my new site?

Enchantedragon · 12-21-2004, 03:45 AM

Hey, i just started a site not long ago to promote my self before going to university. It's still under construction, so i'm hoping for some suggestions/critisms/recommendations etc, any thing, good or bad ... i dont mind, i'm still a beginner at 16 years of age and still learning. So all comments will be appreciated. Site is still under construction.

heres the link to my site,
http://astute.f2g.net

Ber|Art · 12-21-2004, 04:46 AM

Looks cool to me, I would not use a google banner on your second page

tcarr · 12-21-2004, 09:49 AM

Nice job! It looks like you been designing awhile, and not just starting out.

adam_uk · 12-21-2004, 01:42 PM

its nice and all but that anim on the intro page, annoying as hell imo

Enchantedragon · 12-21-2004, 05:35 PM

Thanks for the comments, I'll remove the google advertisement and put it somewhere else, and ill change the intro page.

Thanks again!

oblivious · 12-29-2004, 02:07 PM

sweet, very sweet

aretee · 12-29-2004, 03:44 PM

im not too sure about the grey..... otherwise love ur work !!

Enchantedragon · 01-03-2005, 03:17 AM

whats wrong with the grey??? too much ??

aretee · 01-03-2005, 03:27 AM

u shud light it up a tad. or make it shiny

Enchantedragon · 01-03-2005, 03:31 AM

should i make the template silver?? because i wanna also keep the template easy on the eye.

dynamikdesigns · 01-03-2005, 09:58 AM

Use padding within those content boxes! Text should NOT be touching the border. The rest is looking good though

Enchantedragon · 01-03-2005, 09:45 PM

What do you mean by using padding ?? do you mean having some kind of image along the left of all text ??

cerebus · 01-04-2005, 02:08 AM

Easy on the eye color scheme, I like it. Nice header on the page itself.

My suggestions (in order of my subjective importance):

- Make the web site accessible in more than IE, most importantly Firefox. My Firefox renders it totally wrong, Konqueror rather fine but with minor flaws. I had to switch to the laptop running Windows to even write this set of suggestions.

- Skip the adsense ads alltogether. In my opinion ads aren't suitable at all on a portfolio-type site.

- Skip the intro. I see no use in having the intro page at all.

- Lose some 50 pixels or more of the header image. It takes too much height from the browser span in my opinion.

- As suggested above. Add some padding within your content holders to make it a bit more 'airy'. It can applied to most object by adding style="padding:10px" or by alternative means of applying styles on elements.

It may seem like alot of critique but other than the first point I think you have done a great job.

Veolus · 01-04-2005, 02:29 PM

* Easy on the eyes
* the santa on the main page looks retarded
* the banner is nice
* good choice of font and font colour
* very nice site, overall

8/10

Tjobbe · 01-04-2005, 03:46 PM

nice design but:

Dont click on the advertisement if you dont feel comfortable with it

is a bit corny, the advert looks too much like your site and people will click it thinking it is part of your site and you will lose visitors because of it i think, otherwise very very nice design.

aretee · 01-04-2005, 04:43 PM

dats the point of the ad

reallybites · 01-04-2005, 08:02 PM

the navigations are simple.maybe you could create icons to replace it? just a suggestions.

and the google ads,maybe you should remove it to the right.put it on your sidebar.

and the home text box,i'm not sure its due to my screen resolution or me using firefox,but it dosent seems to be aligned with the updates box below it.

Enchantedragon · 01-05-2005, 12:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cerebus

Easy on the eye color scheme, I like it. Nice header on the page itself.

My suggestions (in order of my subjective importance):

- Make the web site accessible in more than IE, most importantly Firefox. My Firefox renders it totally wrong, Konqueror rather fine but with minor flaws. I had to switch to the laptop running Windows to even write this set of suggestions.

- Skip the adsense ads alltogether. In my opinion ads aren't suitable at all on a portfolio-type site.

- Skip the intro. I see no use in having the intro page at all.

- Lose some 50 pixels or more of the header image. It takes too much height from the browser span in my opinion.

- As suggested above. Add some padding within your content holders to make it a bit more 'airy'. It can applied to most object by adding style="padding:10px" or by alternative means of applying styles on elements.

It may seem like alot of critique but other than the first point I think you have done a great job.

How can i make it accessible for other browsers?? Because i only use internet explorer. And the ads .. Just thought i might put them in hoping to get something out of it.... because i thought if i made it blend in with the rest of my website, it wont bother the audiences experience..

Why not have intro??? i've seen alot of portfolio sites having intros, oh i'm planning to remove that flash on the intro, many people found it annoying.

Thanks for your comments, didn't know what padding was till now, thanks heaps.

Enchantedragon · 01-05-2005, 01:02 AM

[QUOTE=Excel9
* the santa on the main page looks retarded

8/10

[/QUOTE]
Can you state why ... because i am still a beginner.. i started using 3ds max like 3 weeks ago, so to me, thats not bad

Enchantedragon · 01-05-2005, 01:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tjobbe

nice design but:

Dont click on the advertisement if you dont feel comfortable with it

is a bit corny, the advert looks too much like your site and people will click it thinking it is part of your site and you will lose visitors because of it i think, otherwise very very nice design.

lol, Someone told me to use reverse psychology to make people click my ads.

Enchantedragon · 01-05-2005, 01:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reallybites

the navigations are simple.maybe you could create icons to replace it? just a suggestions.

and the google ads,maybe you should remove it to the right.put it on your sidebar.

and the home text box,i'm not sure its due to my screen resolution or me using firefox,but it dosent seems to be aligned with the updates box below it.

I tried putting the ads to the side, but it made my site look very cluttered. I'm planning to use rollover images for navigation, i'm trying to keep it simple, and clean. The reason the home text and the undates text box is because their widths are totally differant...

aretee · 01-05-2005, 03:48 AM

have u thought about taking the ad of ur intro page? ? becoz i think google dont allow it ... i took it off mine

Enchantedragon · 01-05-2005, 03:58 AM

thanks for telling me, does anyone know how to make forms ??? because my form doesnt seem to be working, http://astute.f2g.net/signup.html
my form options is

<FORM name="formmail" action="application.asp" METHOD="POST" ENCTYPE="text/plain">

and i have a file called application.asp with the following code:

<%
For Each x In Request.Form
message = message & x & ": " & Request.Form(x) & CHR(10)
Next
set smtp=Server.CreateObject("Bamboo.SMTP")
smtp.Server="mail.astute.f2g.net"
smtp.Rcpt="administrator@f2g.net"
smtp.From="astuteapplication@f2g.net"
smtp.FromName="Application Form (ASTUTE)"
smtp.Subject="Astute Application"
smtp.Message = message
on error resume next
smtp.Send
if err then
response.Write err.Description
else
Response.redirect ("http://astute.f2g.net")
end if
set smtp = Nothing
%>

Some helpp pleasee..

aretee · 01-09-2005, 12:26 AM

try and go to http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html

for form help ...

i like ur banner.. 10/10

fisicx · 01-09-2005, 06:51 AM

Like the artwork. Looks really good.

The website however needs a little work.

1. Lose the intro/spalash page. How many company websites do you know with an intropage? Not many I bet. Think of it like this: would you use a store that made you wait in the lobby before it let you through the main entrance? I want to walk into your site and be hit, BAM! Give me the real thing straight away.

2. Fix the site. Using Mozilla all I get I a bunch of empty boxes on your portfolio page.

3. You have got some bad links, end up with a 404 page on some of them.

4. Lose to Google ads. you are going to earn about 2 cents so why bother. Lowers the tone of the site so get rid.

5. Simplify the site. Too many tables, lots of JS and a complex design that takes a long time to resolve on dial-up.

There is a lot more that you can do to showcase your talents but think on these for now.

As to the browser issue. IE is the worst. Download Opera, Firefox and Mozilla and test your site on all of them. Find a mate with a Mac and have a look in Safari as well.

12-21-2004, 03:45 AM	#1 (permalink)
Enchantedragon NamePros Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New Zealand Posts: 77 152.00 NP$ (Donate)	What do you think of my new site? Hey, i just started a site not long ago to promote my self before going to university. It's still under construction, so i'm hoping for some suggestions/critisms/recommendations etc, any thing, good or bad ... i dont mind, i'm still a beginner at 16 years of age and still learning. So all comments will be appreciated. Site is still under construction. heres the link to my site, http://astute.f2g.net Last edited by Enchantedragon; 12-21-2004 at 03:58 AM.

12-21-2004, 04:46 AM	#2 (permalink)
Ber\|Art Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: the Netherlands Posts: 1,583 97.85 NP$ (Donate)	Looks cool to me, I would not use a google banner on your second page __________________ Berrie Pelser Ber\|Art Visual Design (www.ber-art.nl) DNOA Member LinkedIN Profile

01-03-2005, 03:17 AM	#8 (permalink)
Enchantedragon NamePros Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New Zealand Posts: 77 152.00 NP$ (Donate)	whats wrong with the grey??? too much ?? __________________ Visit my personal website, still under construction, but feel free to send me comments. http://astute.f2g.net --(Enchantedragon)--

01-03-2005, 03:27 AM	#9 (permalink)
aretee NamePros Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 77 154.00 NP$ (Donate)	u shud light it up a tad. or make it shiny __________________ bored out of your mind ??? visit http://wahta-dumb.f2g.net u can tell its a crack up jus by the name of it !!!! not completed tho.

01-03-2005, 03:31 AM	#10 (permalink)
Enchantedragon NamePros Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New Zealand Posts: 77 152.00 NP$ (Donate)	should i make the template silver?? because i wanna also keep the template easy on the eye. __________________ Visit my personal website, still under construction, but feel free to send me comments. http://astute.f2g.net --(Enchantedragon)--

12-21-2004, 09:49 AM	#3 (permalink)
tcarr NamePros Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 35 61.00 NP$ (Donate)	Nice job! It looks like you been designing awhile, and not just starting out.

12-21-2004, 01:42 PM	#4 (permalink)
adam_uk Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 2,211 6,170.25 NP$ (Donate)	its nice and all but that anim on the intro page, annoying as hell imo

12-21-2004, 05:35 PM	#5 (permalink)
Enchantedragon NamePros Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New Zealand Posts: 77 152.00 NP$ (Donate)	Thanks for the comments, I'll remove the google advertisement and put it somewhere else, and ill change the intro page. Thanks again!

12-29-2004, 02:07 PM	#6 (permalink)
oblivious NamePros Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 181 312.00 NP$ (Donate)	sweet, very sweet

12-29-2004, 03:44 PM	#7 (permalink)
aretee NamePros Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 77 154.00 NP$ (Donate)	im not too sure about the grey..... otherwise love ur work !!

01-03-2005, 09:58 AM	#11 (permalink)
dynamikdesigns NamePros Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 58 8.00 NP$ (Donate)	Use padding within those content boxes! Text should NOT be touching the border. The rest is looking good though __________________ AEL Solutions: Web Design, E-commerce, & consulting AEL Hosting: Private web hosting

01-03-2005, 09:45 PM	#12 (permalink)
Enchantedragon NamePros Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New Zealand Posts: 77 152.00 NP$ (Donate)	What do you mean by using padding ?? do you mean having some kind of image along the left of all text ?? __________________ Visit my personal website, still under construction, but feel free to send me comments. http://astute.f2g.net --(Enchantedragon)--

01-04-2005, 02:08 AM	#13 (permalink)
cerebus NamePros Regular Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Sweden Posts: 395 655.10 NP$ (Donate)	Easy on the eye color scheme, I like it. Nice header on the page itself. My suggestions (in order of my subjective importance): - Make the web site accessible in more than IE, most importantly Firefox. My Firefox renders it totally wrong, Konqueror rather fine but with minor flaws. I had to switch to the laptop running Windows to even write this set of suggestions. - Skip the adsense ads alltogether. In my opinion ads aren't suitable at all on a portfolio-type site. - Skip the intro. I see no use in having the intro page at all. - Lose some 50 pixels or more of the header image. It takes too much height from the browser span in my opinion. - As suggested above. Add some padding within your content holders to make it a bit more 'airy'. It can applied to most object by adding style="padding:10px" or by alternative means of applying styles on elements. It may seem like alot of critique but other than the first point I think you have done a great job.

01-04-2005, 02:29 PM	#14 (permalink)
Veolus Account Suspended Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 4,313 4.00 NP$ (Donate)	* Easy on the eyes * the santa on the main page looks retarded * the banner is nice * good choice of font and font colour * very nice site, overall 8/10

01-04-2005, 03:46 PM	#15 (permalink)
Tjobbe NamePros Regular Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: UK Posts: 572 136.83 NP$ (Donate)	nice design but: Dont click on the advertisement if you dont feel comfortable with it is a bit corny, the advert looks too much like your site and people will click it thinking it is part of your site and you will lose visitors because of it i think, otherwise very very nice design. __________________ Web Site Design \| Web Designers Blog

01-04-2005, 04:43 PM	#16 (permalink)
aretee NamePros Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 77 154.00 NP$ (Donate)	dats the point of the ad __________________ bored out of your mind ??? visit http://wahta-dumb.f2g.net u can tell its a crack up jus by the name of it !!!! not completed tho.

01-04-2005, 08:02 PM	#17 (permalink)
reallybites NamePros Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 103 194.90 NP$ (Donate)	the navigations are simple.maybe you could create icons to replace it? just a suggestions. and the google ads,maybe you should remove it to the right.put it on your sidebar. and the home text box,i'm not sure its due to my screen resolution or me using firefox,but it dosent seems to be aligned with the updates box below it.

01-05-2005, 01:02 AM	#19 (permalink)
Enchantedragon NamePros Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New Zealand Posts: 77 152.00 NP$ (Donate)	[QUOTE=Excel9 * the santa on the main page looks retarded 8/10 [/QUOTE] Can you state why ... because i am still a beginner.. i started using 3ds max like 3 weeks ago, so to me, thats not bad __________________ Visit my personal website, still under construction, but feel free to send me comments. http://astute.f2g.net --(Enchantedragon)--

01-05-2005, 03:48 AM	#22 (permalink)
aretee NamePros Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 77 154.00 NP$ (Donate)	have u thought about taking the ad of ur intro page? ? becoz i think google dont allow it ... i took it off mine __________________ bored out of your mind ??? visit http://wahta-dumb.f2g.net u can tell its a crack up jus by the name of it !!!! not completed tho.

01-05-2005, 03:58 AM	#23 (permalink)
Enchantedragon NamePros Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New Zealand Posts: 77 152.00 NP$ (Donate)	thanks for telling me, does anyone know how to make forms ??? because my form doesnt seem to be working, http://astute.f2g.net/signup.html my form options is <FORM name="formmail" action="application.asp" METHOD="POST" ENCTYPE="text/plain"> and i have a file called application.asp with the following code: <% For Each x In Request.Form message = message & x & ": " & Request.Form(x) & CHR(10) Next set smtp=Server.CreateObject("Bamboo.SMTP") smtp.Server="mail.astute.f2g.net" smtp.Rcpt="administrator@f2g.net" smtp.From="astuteapplication@f2g.net" smtp.FromName="Application Form (ASTUTE)" smtp.Subject="Astute Application" smtp.Message = message on error resume next smtp.Send if err then response.Write err.Description else Response.redirect ("http://astute.f2g.net") end if set smtp = Nothing %> Some helpp pleasee.. __________________ Visit my personal website, still under construction, but feel free to send me comments. http://astute.f2g.net --(Enchantedragon)--

01-09-2005, 12:26 AM	#24 (permalink)
aretee NamePros Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 77 154.00 NP$ (Donate)	try and go to http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html for form help ... i like ur banner.. 10/10 __________________ bored out of your mind ??? visit http://wahta-dumb.f2g.net u can tell its a crack up jus by the name of it !!!! not completed tho.

01-09-2005, 06:51 AM	#25 (permalink)
fisicx NamePros Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 43 79.00 NP$ (Donate)	Like the artwork. Looks really good. The website however needs a little work. 1. Lose the intro/spalash page. How many company websites do you know with an intropage? Not many I bet. Think of it like this: would you use a store that made you wait in the lobby before it let you through the main entrance? I want to walk into your site and be hit, BAM! Give me the real thing straight away. 2. Fix the site. Using Mozilla all I get I a bunch of empty boxes on your portfolio page. 3. You have got some bad links, end up with a 404 page on some of them. 4. Lose to Google ads. you are going to earn about 2 cents so why bother. Lowers the tone of the site so get rid. 5. Simplify the site. Too many tables, lots of JS and a complex design that takes a long time to resolve on dial-up. There is a lot more that you can do to showcase your talents but think on these for now. As to the browser issue. IE is the worst. Download Opera, Firefox and Mozilla and test your site on all of them. Find a mate with a Mac and have a look in Safari as well.

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