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Nimco, thanks very much for all those points, that is the most informative and helpful post i've read for a while, and i'll take all those parts into consideration.

The Flash intro is something that still does need some tweeking, it's the first real flash work I've done, so I'm proud of it so far, but it still does need a few changes made.

I'd only so far checked the index2 and home pages for validation, so that's why those work. I'll make the changes you suggest to the CSS, thanks for pointing the button out too, I didn't notice that, so I'll change it later.

The site's still not finished yet, so the Meta Tags and non-iframe content I'll add in later, when i've got the rest done (probably just a divert to another version all together or something).

I'm kinda proud of the design, I think it's clean, user friendly and simple, which is the entire theme, so it kinda goes well and suits the target audience of people who aren't computer geniuses.

Portfolio site I'll redo with both your and tyla's suggestions, i'll take some screenshots and take the Under Construction part out (must finish that site some time..).


As for the services page, this is the one I'm working on at the moment. Eventual idea is that each Product Name will be a link that will open a small JS window that dispays more details of the package (number of pages, technologies used etc), and below the packages I'm going to add lots of little options so people who know what they're doing can pick and choose what they need.

I am planning on some kind of form for the contact page, as well as e-mail and phone/postal etc etc.

Thanks for all the comments, I understand that it might seem negative but it's exactly what you need when your doing a site, some good critism not just "looks good" or "looks crap" or whatever. Your points were excellent, really helpful. Thanks.

Nimco wrote:
> Tyla wrote:
> http://www.tyla.org.uk/new
> (still being played with, may actually finish it one day)
>
> The first thing I thought when I visited your home page was:
> "WOW!!". You have used a black background and it works -
> well! And as for your green lighty thing in the middle - how cool is
> that?

Thanks... I love it too and can teach you in about 10mins...


> This is when I noticed the first problem - the green lighty thing. I'm
> using IE6, and when you hover over an image in IE6, it gives you an
> Image Toolbar where you can opt to Save, Print, or Email the picture.

I forgot about IE6 and it's irritations... will fix soon. As I said though, this is still being played with so none of the code is final of finished yet.

>Confident that your graphical design capabilities far
> exceed mine, I decided to venture into the code.

Eeek!! My boss told me that i was dangerously creative and that she would rather emply that creativity than loose it:-)


> You declare your DTD as HTML 4.01 Transitional.

**See previous note on unfinished

> I also noticed that your images (at least on my
> PC), did not restore onMouseOut - you may wish to look at this.
> Finally, as I said to Whooo!, always ensure that effects do not rely
> upon mouse action - add an onFocus and onBlur to complement
> onMouseOver and onMouseOut respectively.

Excellent... will do. Still picking up JS but getting there.
Ther are a lot of bugs still to be fixed, and it's been a great help having someone like you point them out. It's funny how after working in this job all day, I fail to notice these things in my own site!

Thanks for the awsome and constructive feedback, it's nice to have someone whose capable of giving proper comments as opposed to something pointless. Hopefully I'll get around to finishing it soon, have loads of changes to do and some new additions...

As for the email address, I should change it really as I have @tyla.org.uk now too.

Anyway... I would have replied in more detail, but fingers hurt!! Cheers again...

Tyla

Tyla wrote:
> http://www.tyla.org.uk/new
> (still being played with, may actually finish it one day)

The first thing I thought when I visited your home page was: "WOW!!". You have used a black background and it works - well! And as for your green lighty thing in the middle - how cool is that? I've been trying to make something like that for ages, but I dunno how - lol! So I started playing around with some of the things on the page, hovering on this and that.

This is when I noticed the first problem - the green lighty thing. I'm using IE6, and when you hover over an image in IE6, it gives you an Image Toolbar where you can opt to Save, Print, or Email the picture. This spoils the image, so here's what to do. You can either add the following code to your :



or change the to the following:



Either way, this will prevent the Image Toolbar from showing on that image. Next I started playing around with your links. I think that white border effect and subtle colour change works really well on that background. Confident that your graphical design capabilities far exceed mine, I decided to venture into the code. I noticed some things here you may wish to take a look at.

You declare your DTD as HTML 4.01 Transitional. I ran a W3C validation on your page, and it threw up some errors. The first most obvious one was with your

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