reciprocal_link — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:04:52 +0000

adding grey links with the back ground at the bottom of the home page isn't good practice. If google catches this.. It could be banned.. The use of title tags and alt tags will help with your search engine rankings.. Also exchanging links with other websites will help a lot. Keyword nesting of your title,description, and the body is vital in getting excellent ratings in the search engines. Over all everything else looks great and good job.

urbanmist — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 03:36:28 +0000

I think that there should something more on the top. The flowers in the lower left corner look a liitle out of place, maybe that could go on top. I don't really like the brown border that frames the site. On the logo page i think there should be thumbnails of all the logos on one page so that I can pick which one I want to look at.

-Ian

cinfinity — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 23:17:49 +0000

I am on 1024x768 IE 6.0 also tired in mozilla. I guess you intended to have the left nav area sort of cut off on the left side, but when the white flowers below the nav also gets chopped it just looks like whole page has shifted to the left and been cut off a bit...Otherwise I really like the calm feel that the colors and the layout give.

more text

freelancewell — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 02:13:21 +0000

i would use more text on your home page ,

the site navigation is easy .

i would also use more color contrast

chad

http://www.freelancewell.com

Megan — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:52:10 +0000

Those are the buttons I was talking about. Maybe try putting them in a footer with that greyed out text. Put another line there to separate it and it'll be okay. Then they're at the bottom where they won't be as distracting. I don't think they're really that bad looking as it is.

pteglia — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:44:21 +0000

Ok, Thanks for all of the comments everyone.

Megan, if you take a look at it now, http://ptwebdev.com you will see that I pulled it together a little bit more, hacked the crap out of a new CMS to make it produce valid XHTML, cleaned up my CSS so it was valid, made new XHTML and CSS valid buttons from a really cool website I found (because those from W3C are just ugly) moved the text in the nav bar to the main content area, and removed the extra print category until I can complete my graphics for those items.

Whew

Did I leave anything out?

Oh yeah, I also added a blog, and a newsletter subscription page, both validate now as well!

Pat

pteglia — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 01:34:09 +0000

Hehe, I started riding when I was 16, Yamaha FZR 600 Fun!

teammatt3 — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 01:22:02 +0000

Quote: Do any streetbiking?

Not yet, considering I can't be on the road;) (I'm 15) I am going to try it though! I have a CRF250 but I haven't raced for about 2 years now, I started riding in the sand and I can't stop

pteglia — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 01:16:37 +0000

Hey Matt,

Cool, someone else in Washington! Sweeeet. I see on your profile that you motocross. Do any streetbiking? That is where my heart is I moved recently from Idaho, back here to my home state, and I had to leave behind some of my friends, a Ducatti Monster 900sie and a BMW R1100RT. Still kindof crushed by that But I am going to get another pretty soon!

About the site, actually, I am still trying to figure out how to have that text on my front page without having it distract from the look of the place, just like those buttons are doing

I have to go make me some tiny buttons that will fit into my design better.

Pat

teammatt3 — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:36:49 +0000

A fellow Washingtonian on the board, finally:)

I like the design a lot. Very smooth, it's easy on the eyes. I just noticed a little bit of text above the W3C buttons, are people supposed to be able to read that?