Magnolia — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:03:40 +0000

The clothing site did nothing for me - I wasn't inspired by any of it - navigation was clean and easy to use with clear headings. Never heard of any of the folks in the portfolio so not impressed by them.

The property site was good but too much information for me to be bothered to read on the front page. I was always under the impression that the home page is to introduce the visitor to the content not have the whole description on there.

The maths site - wow!!! aimed mostly at kids? Love the funky colours. Will look forward to seeing that develop.

The Coder — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:33:26 +0000

your site contains very simple graphics..... i would recommend u to use photoshop for that...... or if u cannot use that i would recommend u to made sites on simple white background template....

andy206uk — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 14:49:57 +0000

mscreashuns;212687 wrote: ...I am sure developers have found some new simpler or cleaner way to go about it.

Nope... as I understand it, that's still the best way!

mscreashuns — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:39:48 +0000

With CSS, this is what would be required, or at least how I have done it. I am sure developers have found some new simpler or cleaner way to go about it.

a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}

Of course you would include any other embellishments in there you need.

Mathsology.co.uk Revamped

starzone — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:04:43 +0000

Hi all i have just redone http://www.mathsology.co.uk please have a look.

I have a problem in getting the link to be underlined with the a:hover tag can anyone help?

starzone — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:19:36 +0000

Thanks so much for your replay i didnt think anyonw would actually bother, let alone this soon. I will make further improvements based on your recommendations and let you know when you can have another look. Thanks once again.

Megan — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:42:09 +0000

Clothing site:

That splash screen has got to go. It's not communicating anything useful to the visitor and is only forcing them to make an extra click before entering. It also doesn't provide any good information to search engines (and makes them crawl another link to find the good stuff).

I like the logo and colour scheme here. It's obvious that the site is unfinished right now though. You'll need to feature some of the products on the front page. That's really important. Let the visitor see right away what the site has to offer. The logo should be much smaller. I like the way you've done the page headers side-ways like that. That's an interesting change from the usual. I think the text in the main body area should be darker so it doesn't look so pink. That would provide more contrast in the design.

On the navigation menu, I wasn't sure what "plant" or "portfolio" meant. I think "Manufacturing" and "products" would be more meaningful labels.

NAZ Property Services

This is not bad either. I have a clear and immediate impression of what the site is about. I like that photo in the header but it seems fuzzy to me, like it was resized poorly or something. Same with the logo actually.

I'm not sure about putting the navigation in the top-left corner there. That's sort of an unexpected position for navigation. The logo usually goes there. My mouse cursor isn't changing to a hand there either (don't know if that's just me or what) which is also confusing. I think it would be better to put the navigation horizontally underneath the header area. Then move the logo part over to the left and fill the remaining space on the right with a short statement about what the company does and/or what the benefits are for the viewer.

It would be nice to see more colour contrast with this site. The monochromatic blue is kind of boring.

Mathsology

This site needs a lot of work. The logo and top navbar are okay but the rest of the layout really looks unfinished. The worst problem here is that there's nothing to say what this site is really about. It's got something to do with maths, and it looks like there's some help stuff for students but I'm not clear on who is providing this or why. I think it would be nice to keep the content area here nice and light looking, with mostly white backgrounds and blue or red headings, maybe with a gradient like you have on the navbar.

All the text being in caps is a problem too - that's hard to read.

Overall these aren't bad at all. Good effort for someone new to web design