Enigmatic — Mon, 08 Oct 2001 14:54:33 +0000

Hi there,

I suggest changing the concept of the layout completelly.

Back color is too bright - does not match anything else (as a matter of fact, may hurt eyes).
Did you consider to try out from white as a back and building the site with less bright colors then - it does not have to stand out - must be pleasant to read.

I found the borders to be too big and out if style.

Best Regards,
Enigmatic

Web Site

dfraser — Mon, 08 Oct 2001 07:13:38 +0000

Hi,

I personally think the colour scheme is a bit bright. Might be a suggestion to tone it down a little

Also I find the buttons a bit to large and blocky and the center text a little hard to read. Must admit the colour scheme does strain the eyes a bit. But all in all its a start and we all start somewhere.

mbdw6708 — Sun, 07 Oct 2001 06:44:24 +0000

I would have to agree with everyone else, definitely need to change the color scheme. The very first site I made looked very similar to the one you have. The first thing someone told me was, "you made it in Frontpage right." I still use Frontpage but have made sure it doesn't look like a FrontPage site. My main suggestion is to take your description of the page from the bottom and put it right under the main title so that people instantly know what your site does. Visit sites that you like and then custom your site after those. It is much easier than coming up with your own ideas. Even with color schemes, go to sites and see those that are pleasing to the eye and then match their color schemes.
regards,
dave waters
http://www.supplychaintoday.com

MrCanzine — Sat, 06 Oct 2001 02:59:07 +0000

Wow, yeah, I agree with ah,Shrum. I haven't finished looking at the page, I will in a second but my eyes hurt. I found what happens with the gradients is that the focus is going towards them, instead of the links. Might be one of those left brain right brain things lol.
Also, I'm not too sure about this, but I would probably put "About Us" last and "GPS Homepage" first on the navbar on the pages, but it's all good.

My Eyes! My Eyes!

S_Shrum — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 07:22:06 +0000

I've been "gradient" blinded!

Gradients are kewl if done in moderation (and in the right places at the right times).

That was just the first thing that caught my eye.

Megan — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:59:05 +0000

You know, I just wanted to say that most of our first sites probably looked pretty bad too Don't give up hope.

The good news is that you have done some things right. YOu do have an organized navigation menu. You have used a similar design for every page. You know that you need to put a navigation menu on every page. You do have some sort of a logo. See, you're a few steps ahead of most newbies

The first thing you need to do here is refine your colour scheme. There are too many incompatible shades of blue on the front page here. That globe looks nice though - what I would do is take colours from there. Maybe start with a white background and choose a medium and dark shade of blue from the globe logo and use those for accent colours.

Now, since you have that globe it should be easy to make a good logo. Take the globe into your graphics program, put a white background around it like the smaller ones on the other pages. Then expand your canvas to put some space to the right of the globe. Find a semi-interesting font and type "Global Project (line break) Solutions LImited) next to the globe. Do the text in a nice dark blue. Use your colour picker to grabe a dark and medium blue from the globe and find their hex codes so you can use them in the site as I suggested above. Put this new logo at the top of every page.

A few more things quickly:

Lose the cheesy freebie type 3D bulets and lines.
Make all your text in a sans-serif font like arial or verdana. It's easiest to use a stylesheet to do this.
Agree that the blue and whtie stripey pattern needs to go, as well as the red lines on the front page.

The Webmistress — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:30:10 +0000

For the basic text on the page use Ariels or Veranda, but the logo/headers can be any font you choose if you use a graphics program to create them, save as gif's then put onto the page as images. The visitors don't need that font on their systems then as it is a graphic not text.

Good advice....I need more ....

cofton — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 08:45:16 +0000

Hi all,
Yeah, you're all absolutely right, I can go with everything you have advised, some of what you have said I think I knew but I was in denial ! Maybe due to it being 'mine' and no one else should 'slag it' off type thing, but I knew it wasn't right so you have all confirmed my thoughts.
About the comment about using a different/unusual font style, I was advised sometime ago to always use 'standard' type fonts because not all computers have the more unusual styles and that this may piss some people off, is this not good advice?
I will put nav bars on every page and of course advise to show a location for the business. I'm afraid the punter insists on a blue background so I'm stuck with it.
I am using Coolpage Pro at the moment because basically I like how simple it is to use, I know a little about HTML but not enough yet to be proficient. Would this type of software be okay to use or is not good enough ? If it ain't good enough can you advise another that is also easy to use ?
Thanks again,
Cofton

The Webmistress — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 02:28:23 +0000

My first impression was 'Frontpage' and had this been a site I'd found I'd have gone on else where.

As said previously, the buttons are way too big and in ya face. Do a proper logo or create one in a unique font. Big html text looks blocky and very unprofessional, so again on each page create a heading as a graphic.

Definitely need to create a navigation system and have that on each page.

The globe thing is fine but looks odd with a white background to it. How about having a white background to the page and use the blue for the graphic text & navigation.

I personally don't like to see Times New Roman on screen, hard to read.

The red line graphic reminds me of licorice twists!!

Good base for a start but needs some tweaking.

mairving — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:55:47 +0000

It could use a bit of work. The navbuttons were way too big. They are about all that you see. And with the size that they are, it would be hard to have the same navbar on every page which you should. Here are some other things to do:

Logo - you should have a better logo than the one that you have which is mostly text. On text that large, it should be done as an image(.gif) to make it look proper. Ask your customer if he has a business card or anything with his logo on it.
Color scheme - The colors are kind of blah. It looks sites did several years back that were done in Frontpage.
Home page - the home page needs some pictures and a short mission statement about the company. You have a little bit about the company but other things like where you are located are vital for the Web.
Code - this is one of the greatest examples of overcoding a site that I have seen in awhile. Lose the editor that you are using or try Dreamweaver. HTML is pretty easy to learn.

The site need work before I would consider it ready for prime time.