Rob, Good job, its always hard to put yourself at the mercy of the masses - even those so polite as cfaussie :)
If I can give you one piece of advice; with anything in design (and life) the simplest solution is often the best. Don�t over complicate things just to show how smart you are. Your clients and the users will be much more satisfied. Also consider that the screen resolution you are designing in is not the screen resolution of your users (except perhaps with an intranet). Does the site feel the similar on all resolutions? Wherever possible try to use scaling content - have you seen your site @ 1440 x 900?, theres a lot of blank real estate. One of the hardest things we all face is easy to understand navigation structures, try not to use a lot of items in your navigation (unless you have no other choice, keep it in small manageable groups and expand from there. Yours seems to be quite well structured As designers sometimes we focus on the images of the website; which is what the client wants, if you feel you are graphically challenged you can always use of a graphic designer there are two things from my point of view that are equally important - we should focus on the flow of the website - is it easy to navigate does it follow a logical path - can your grandmother use the site? - is the code easy to understand and easily maintained - its easy now because its fresh in your mind, could you maintain/modify it in 12 months when you cant remember. [comment, comment, comment] it will save your hair falling out :) One thing that will assist you with simpler coding is better use of your style tags - keep them in one place either in the document header or as a separate file also be careful of things like this; <a href="%20http://www.nscomm.com"; target="_blank"> the space in your code - as shown by %20 stops its functionality (at least in safari) All up, pretty good effort, learning never stops so keep at it. just my opinion :) Steve On 11/11/03 9:53 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thank you all that posted a comment. This list is one of my greatest > resources for inspiration and technical support. > > I am sitting down this afternoon with the client to draft out a new website > with changes to the design, however the code is something i am going to have > to spend many nights getting right, i think one of my issues is that the > client is putting in their own content via htmleditor and the other is that > due to this being my first site i am constantly finding new and faster ways to > doing things however everytime i do i leave a bit of the old code there..... > > This has been a very steep learning curve as it is my first experience with > code. > > Thanks again > > rob. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Michael Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Monday, November 10, 2003 4:33 pm > Subject: [cfaussie] RE: my first cf page > >> OH dear. What on earth are you on about Taco Fleur? It's wonderful! >> Magnificent. Made of the finest cloth in the land. These are truly >> fineImpe > rial Robes and I will look simply WONDERFUL in this >> Sunday's grand >> parade through the town. >> >> You do know, don't you Taco, that only those who are dull, and >> lacking in >> many ways are unable to see this fine cloth. I should be reluctant >> to admit >> this if'n I was you. >> >> >> Excellent work Rob, you will have a great career as tailor to His >> Majesty. >> >> Cheers, >> Michael Kear >> Windsor, NSW, Australia >> AFP Webworks. >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Taco Fleur >> Sent: Monday, 10 November 2003 3:39 PM >> To: CFAussie Mailing List >> Subject: [cfaussie] RE: my first cf page >> >> It's looks very transparent, almost as if it wasn't there... >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: rob shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, 10 November 2003 2:36 PM >> To: CFAussie Mailing List >> Subject: [cfaussie] my first cf page >> >> >> Good afternoon, >> >> I am > a student at qantm, I have developed this website for a small >> company and was wondering what people thought of it.... >> >> And most importantly what would you change if you could.... >> >> Any feedback would be much appreciated. >> >> I am looking at doing this next year and i want to know what level >> potential employers (you) are looking for. >> >> Thanks people >> >> --------------------------------------------------------- >> Robert Shaw, >> 0422 222515 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> --------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> >> >> --- >> You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-cfaussie- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia >> http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004 >> > > --- > You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia > http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004 > --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004
