demonhale — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 01:55:41 +0000

Nope, wait til you activate you digital vibrance to high, LOL! are you reading the front part? oh and what resolution are you in? help me out will ya!

amberstar702 — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:37:01 +0000

Wait a bit til I take two extra-strength Tylenol...........EEEKKK!! I could not get past the glaring green. Also the text on my browser is very small and hard to read. Have you considered a softer green and enlarging the text?

demonhale — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:33:05 +0000

Hmmm I was using this old post of my old design as I said which is now located in http://www.demonhale.com/indexorig.html ;

demonhale.com is my new design which should be called alien green and the lonely flower ... LOL!!!!

lex — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:03:09 +0000

Demon and Lavender Flower? I love your demon smilie. However I just got sooo confused when I went to your site. I think its the neon green and Lavender. I would focus on the Demon smilie and its supporting colors.

Oh and remove the "Illegal Sites that Copied from demonhale" it leaves a negative feeling that you have it out for people

demonhale — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:02:32 +0000

Good Suggestion Uglued, I actually was thinking the same thing... While reading the other threads...

Uglued2 — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 14:33:23 +0000

The Site has a Good Clean Interface But the FAULT I feel is the COLOR ......... The Color of the part where U have Written Introduction abt Ur site is Pleasent But the REST that is Ur navigation Tree & site Options Part the Color HUrts the Eyes I wld say U make a Change in those Areas Use a GRadient a mix of Green & white to make it more Soothing for the EYES of teh Visitor ......

demonhale — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:47:29 +0000

Oh incase your wondering the old site design was the lavender, located at http://www.demonhale.com/indexorig.html

demonhale — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:43:31 +0000

I agree rob, but then A php preload is needed to load my internal pages faster. And you say you need usability and accessibility, then a preview of whats to come without loading too long is good for my site, so it serves its purpose. Specifically, I wouldnt want to use splash pages, but I want to explain that search engines are having problems with php commands and active php access, so to compromise between SEO and my actual content, having that splash page puts everything in the middle. Accessibility and usability is good inside, where one would quickly click enter anyways on the splash which serves its own purpose.

As to Blue's Question you could actually save an jpeg image in progressive encoding to slowly load an image as the page loads, the flower image in the splash is a background div, while on the contents of the site is background to the body...

I like it when theres a varying opinion, I learn something new from people right away...

robfenn — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:09:33 +0000

demonhale wrote: Yes Im using FF @ 1024x768 too, its supposed to be like that its purely for SEO purposes , anyways the content on that part is the same on the welcome page... Thanks for noticing that...

Fixed it anyways incase someone reads it...

I don't mean to have a go but you say you want to promote standardisation but you are willing to compromise accessibility and usability for the sake of SEO?

That is a tad hypocritical my man!

My biggest problem with these validation tools is that just because you pass, doesn't mean your website is sufficiently accessible. For an inexperienced web user (your target market) then it is important that your website is very easy to navigate and understand. Your splash page does not contribute anything.

-Rob

Blue — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:59:00 +0000

Not real keen on the green, but if eighties is your bag then go nuts. I really like the logo and font on the home page but I think the purple flower takes away the impact. Seems a little out of place - or maybe it's there for contrast. The face is a good logo I'd make that the feature logo throughout the site rather than the flower. The colours clash badly for me - red/purple/green .... I need shades lol. I really like the way an image displays while the page is loading (like to know how you do that), but again I wouldn't use the flowers. Why not make just the face appear on the screen while the page loads ....that would be a great effect!

Finally, fix the typos nd grammatical errors. There are quite a lot of them. If grammar is not your forte (and it's not everyone's) get a friend to go through and fix them up. Very important for the image of your business.

But I like the menu's and overall design.

Blue

PS just noticed the flower image sites behine the page. I suspect the preloading has something to do with that. Is it a background image?