new site

[Carrotnapper]

right, I have actually come up with a site idea that has (imo) potential, this is by no means the finished product, in fact it's nowhere near but I'd like some judgement on it so far. The banner and footer will probably stay as they are, but the content area will undergo some major cosmetic surgery soon :p

Thomas Spray: Freelance Designer

critique please :D

[PR Design]

I think you need to change it a little bit more.

[Carrotnapper]

yeh, i might change the icons, took me ages to get the coding sorted though lol

[philjohns]

change the icons to something of your own and change the background and will be good!

dont have the icons enlarge so much either

oh, and flip the grad of the footer upside down to flow in with the header

[ellomoto]

i'd fix the footer to the bottom - this will purge the stripes a little.

changing the icons and flipping the grad are good ideas + your menu is 100% dependent on js.

[Carrotnapper]

2007 JavaScript On JavaScript Off
January 94% 6%


if every 94 out of 100 people can see my site then i'm not really bothered lol, i know the grad needs flipping, icons will be changed, footer will be fixed to bottom, any comments on the look?

[Toon]

About

This is not good practice

[tommylogic]

You could do that menu in CSS just as well, but that's your choice... I like it.

Originally Posted by Carrotnapper

... took me ages to get the coding sorted though lol

hmmmph, aparently not long enough....

Markup Validation: FAILED 13 ERRORS

..but I'm sure you knew that

[PR Design]

your menu is 100% dependent on js.

Yes, the nav is js dependent for the looks, but degrades gracefully and still can be clicked, meaning the links still work, meaning it isn't an issue.

Also, where are your h1 and h2 tags? Google won't like that. Your h tags are supposed to give SEs an idea of the hierarchical structure of your page.

[Carrotnapper]

Originally Posted by tommylogic

You could do that menu in CSS just as well, but that's your choice... I like it.



hmmmph, aparently not long enough....

Markup Validation: FAILED 13 ERRORS

..but I'm sure you knew that

I meant sorted as in... working lol

If i did the menu in CSS I couldn't have the OSx style effect as I currently do, that's why i 'borrowed' the Javascript lol.