MrDiaz — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:32:11 +0000

Well if you ever need help with anything, drop by on the forums. Im glad to know my site helped you, there are some bugs on the code that I need to clean though, but the layout might help you.

WesB86 — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:31:12 +0000

Being a "newbie" myself I went to your page to critique and while I was there found some info that was useful to me for designing my site and even saved it in my favorites. I've just been designing with HTML and CSS for about 1 1\2 years and decided to design a e-commerce site for my son (WesB86).
I got my site critiqued here and they were extremely helpful. So in turn I was wanting to return the favor.
Best regards,
Carrie (WesB86)
wescosales.com

MrDiaz — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:14:59 +0000

thanks wes, but what do you mean with you have used my site?

WesB86 — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 02:30:53 +0000

All I can say is "thanks"...I've already used your site. I would like the font to be a bit larger but that might be just me...at 46 things don't look as clear as they do at 19. Very good site. I was wanting to find a site I could really critique but it won't be yours...too good. I did notice you haven't correct the p> but I'm sure you will.
Carrie (WesB86)
wescosales.com

MrDiaz — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:24:30 +0000

The clipart images are from YZDock icons and png icons I have found everywhere. Thanks all for your comments, I am working right now on a banner, I know that the one I have now sucks! lol

Blue — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 06:43:05 +0000

Good looking site, easy to navigate, easy to understand. I guess the banner will make the header better cuz it's a lot of empty space ATM. I don't know if you need the black background, it just makes for too many borders/backgrounds around the header. Logo is good I like it.

Where did you get the clipart images for the forums/news etc? They're quite good.

Blue

skadet — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 06:00:34 +0000

Masthead should stand out more. Needs a layer behind.

Otherwise, excellently done.

Busy — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:43:08 +0000

IMO blue sites should never use blue links, unless it's a site about the smurfs.
Your first paragraph is "p>Welcome visitor ..." looking at your code (You sure do have a unquie way of doing HTML) I can't tell if it's a typo or meant to be there, but is there encase you missed it.

That center section isn't right, at 800x600 it's all squeesed together and not very readable, also a little confusing as the topic heading is usally at the top.

Your pages need a link to the top or some navigation at the bottom, even a 'next' tutorial link

You should keep your site true and correct, there is an article about resizing an image with php, is a major no-no resizing with width and height tags, php does come with GD and other libraries to resize/create images on the fly. One bad tutorial like this would put me off a site like this.
Also some of the tutorials are done with upper case tags, XHTML is all about lowercase

bgogol — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:55:46 +0000

I like your logo. I also like how you pack a lot into your navigation panels on both sides of the page.

I have a couple suggestions though:

Seems to be a lot of "dead space" around the page, like in the header at the top and the bottom/middle of the page. I suppose the banners are responsible but maybe you can arrange them horizontally at the bottom and "tighten up" the look by removing the white space. I've never used ads so if it isn't possible to rearrange, I'd remove them or fill up the rest of your page with keyword-rich content. Maybe place the most recent article in it's entirety under your forums/blog/submit links and then link to your latest articles underneath.

Aesthetically, the color scheme is good but a little boring. It could be better with maybe just one more contrasting color in there. More interesting graphics up top could do the trick too; maybe move your link graphics up there? If not, add a couple breaks for space in between the descriptive paragraph and the links, this will make it easier to digest for the eye and seperate the 2 distinct areas.

Check for grammar in the main paragraph.

Overall, nice site.

demonhale — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:02:35 +0000

I have an idea, since I always put all my time building sites... is it obvious? LOL!