Hello all,

I'm working on a freelance/contract job which involves creating a website. The site is located here, and I'm looking for some feedback. Currently none of the navigation links work as I'm creating each section as we speak, but this part (the tag gallery) is functional (to a point, requesting a tag isnt completed yet).

The images are displayed in a custom DataList which I created that incorporates paging (the default DataList doesn't offer this functionality). Can I get some feedback?

Well I can't say I particularly like it. Not a huge fan of the color, but I notice there are some problems with the lining up of graphics between the menu choices and the background. I like the graphic with the moon etc, I like the rollovers, and I like how the tags are displayed. You might want to try making the color behind the tag images and such a variation of the purple but with a soft feel to it. Might be worth a try.

Oh and the whole .:: ::. thing in the header is so old school 90's. It might even mess a bit with ranking on search engines but I can't say for sure.

On a scale of 1 to 10 I put it a 5. Nice start, has potential but long ways from being something kick ass.

Keep up the good work

They made the graphics for me, I didn't get to decide on that They had everything decided, color scheme, graphics, the works. I was just told to make it work, which is fine because I'm not the worlds greatest graphic person.

Thanks for the feedback though

Overall, I like it. I think something more extravagant needs to be done with the title though.

But the only actual problems I see are (1) the Creationz button jumps for me (using FF2 atm). The other buttons don't move on mouse over, just the Creationz button. And (2) the buttons are out of alignment with the background.

This post has been edited by BenignDesign: 26 Jul, 2008 - 07:07 PM

Tagz /w a 'Z', & Designs /w an 'S'. Not l33t enough.

Also, on FireFox, the banner doesn't line up :


Another note, the search bar color is exactly the same as the background. Kind of gives it a poor feel, in my opinion. Makes the page feel not solid, sort of lifted off the background. This is just my 2¢, but I would make the search bar a lighter color.

And why is there a green line on the sides of the menu, but not on the menu buttons themselves?

Methinks these Angelz peoplez needz a new graphicz person.

For Rizzle! Their Graphicz are teh suck!

Well, it doesn't seem to want to compile for me. The thing keeps popping up and error saying this:



and then it allows me to see the whole source code, you may wnat to do something about that...

I'll post more once it lets me see a web page.

Sorry Beta was working on something (they don't provide a dev environment to work with). I seen the same thing you just seen lol.

Y'all are even more brutal than I am about the graphics. They handed me an HTML template (and a folder of graphics) and a list of functionality to create. The one I showed here is a DataList with paging (which doesnt exists unless you create it)

Im working on creating custom error pages (already have the 404 and 403 complete and implemented, well last time I checked it I did), as well as using jog4net to log things like that

Okay it is back up, now I will disect it for you.

The banner has darker sides than the background, though this may be on purpose it does throw off the eye a little. The navbar is off the background (or the navbar) as stated above which makes it look a little wierd. There is a 1px dark green line on the bg of the navbar that is not carried accross the navbar buttons, again making it look wierd. The vertical division bg between the menu and content goes all the way to the top of the layout (behind the banner) which looks out of place, especially since the banner top has the illusion of gradient to transparent and the column can't be seen through it (and again this makes it look wierd). I would say the "Tagz gallery" bg and the like on the menu should go all the way across their respecive areas (so they don't have the visible margin between the center column and outer border) and they should also be made to lign up with eachother, as if they are a continuous bar. I would suggest saving the thumbnails as .pngs instead of .jpegs and then implementing the IE 6 PNG fix to make it look [sic] perty in IE 6 as well as the other browsers, but that is a minor thing. Also, I would suggest making the menu background color a little different than it currently is, it doesn't give much depth with things as is but if you were to put th emenu's bg color like a darker tan (something out of the gradient in the column bar, or navbar bgs) I think it could look really nice.

Other than that it looks fine. The white text goes well with the pale purple/red background and the overall look. I think the site has potential, but needs to have some tweeks to look better than it currently does.

Sorry if this seems harsh and everything but it is honest, and will possibly help your site out with business/hits.

Keep up the good work ,
BetaWar

Sure it's harsh, quite honestly that's what I expected. I think when this thread has reached its end I'm going to print it out and take it to the client and tell them that they can either go a head pay me for what I did, or give me 100% control on functionality, look and such. I'm quite excited regarding the functionality I'm working, the AntiXss Im implementing, the DAL I'm trying to work on (when they leave me alone long enough lol).

I'm also working on a QueryString validation control that validates all QS key's to make sure they haven't been tampered between the request and response. So if they end up not giving me control over the look of the site they may end up with one of the most secure ugly site in the Interwebz (lol)

That'll put the ball in their park then.