disaster-master — Thu, 17 Oct 2002 01:56:45 +0000

WOW! What big letters.

I think you have too much stuff at the top. First there are the adds, then an image of something....looks like some people playing a game of some type. Then there is that "knock you back in your chair" header that says "Crewe Alex Fanzone". You should consider lightening the load at the top and moving your important content up.

I am not crazy about all of the boxes. If you are going to use them, at least narrow the borders around them.

You need to get yourself some rollover colors for the navigation too.

Cheers,
Sonia

The Webmistress — Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:10:52 +0000

If you are serious about carrying on with website design then I suggest you stop using publisher, read up on coding properly and learn CSS (cascading style sheets).

Timewell — Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:08:43 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by The Webmistress
You didn't answer Busy's questions, what did you (or your friend) use to create the site and does it have to be built using only CSS? Get those images changed, have a go at making some of the alterations suggested here and we'll look at it again for you.

My friend used Publisher to make it and no it doesn't have to be built using only CSS (whatever that is).

Yeh I will change the images and colours etc!

sambeckwith — Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:47:28 +0000

Regarding the colours, I had a look at the official Crewe Alexandra site (http://www.crewealex.net) and they use a slightly darker red, which is a little easier on the eye.

The Webmistress — Wed, 16 Oct 2002 07:05:34 +0000

You didn't answer Busy's questions, what did you (or your friend) use to create the site and does it have to be built using only CSS? Get those images changed, have a go at making some of the alterations suggested here and we'll look at it again for you.

Timewell — Tue, 15 Oct 2002 21:19:57 +0000

Well my friend designed it and currently there is no content yes!

Busy — Tue, 15 Oct 2002 21:01:23 +0000

It looks like it has been made with just CSS, very boxy with big font and very plain. you need more of a theme going.
There is a horziontal scroll bar at 800x600, had a look at your source code (which is way to big to fit in note pad), noticed a few problems:
your tags are all out of order, you have a html tag, table and iframe tags then head tag ....
your contents don't show up because you have your C drive path on them:

The Webmistress — Tue, 15 Oct 2002 17:58:24 +0000

It depends what you mean by drop down and where you are planning to put it. At the moment the site is just boxes so maybe try to get more of a layout going with a theme and incorporate the colours and logo into that.

Megan — Tue, 15 Oct 2002 17:56:59 +0000

A dhtml drop down you mean? That would be good if you can get it to work. IME those things are generally a pain in the bum.

If you have to go with red & white as the team colours, it might be a better idea to base everything on white and just use red as an accent colour, like for logo and header text. I'm assuming that the team uses that particular shade of red as their team colour.... (it would be nice if you could just change that to a darker shade...)

Timewell — Tue, 15 Oct 2002 17:55:16 +0000

Yeh Red & White are the team colours...that is why they have been used.

I think that maybe a dropdown menu would look better than the current navigation. What do you guys think???