My New Site...

[Anim8or666]

I'm pretty sure this belongs in the programming forum.
Anyway, I recently finished re-doing my whole site in HTML, and I think it looks ok. I'm finally getting paid hosting in one month, so it will have a real domain soon.
The site is here.
Any ideas or comments?

[Jessii]

Yuck!

Here's why:

Your title banner is wider than the content's table.
You're using tables.
The colors are ugly.
The latest news thing doesn't look like the rest of the site when you visit the other pages. Layouts should serve as a template for the whole site and so the whole site should look uniform/the same.
Same with the character bios & pictures/drawings pages.
The clock is cool but not necessary and the navigation is kinda cool but it's too big.

Suggestions:
Learn CSS and use divs instead of tables. It's much easier and more dynamic, especially when changing your layout.
Make all of the pages look uniform so that nothing looks out of place.
Shrink the navigation/header.
Get rid of the ugly blue images that you used for the content stuff. Since you can make stuff with flash, you should be able to come up with a much bette/less ugly image layout than what you have now.
If you want to keep with the blue, grey and charcoal colors, lighten up the blue and make a steel grey/blue color, it might look better. Also with the links use CSS for them too so that they're not the default colors.

That's all for now. Hope I didn't beat you to death too much.

P.S. Go to http://www.w3schools.com to learn CSS.

[greenkube]

I kinda like the menu bar. It needs to be stylized in a less cartoonish way, but the concept is good. And the stuff Jessi said above will also help greatly.

[Aksumka]

You should know that not everyone will have Featured Item as a font, so it won't show that font for them.

Stick with the basic fonts, ones you did not download.

[That-Is-Bull]

Make the dock smaller, make animations faster and tone down the contrast a bit and it'd be decent. Take that navbar copyright off there though, you copied it from Leopard and I've been doing shit like that for a long time anyway.

[Anim8or666]

Thanks for the tips! This is exactly the kind of criticism I need. I'll definitely try shrinking the navbar, and rework it a little. The links I could change also. I thought tables looked better than a simple page, but I guess they don't. I'll definitely put a different font for the pages. I'll post again when the site is redone.

[Anim8or666]

Well, I started using CSS, and so far it looks good. Expect a redesigned version by tomorrow. In the meantime, I wanted to ask something. How do you add the little image by the URL in the browser. Look at the screenshot below, if you don't know what I mean. What I wanted to know is, how do you put that image into a site using Dreamweaver?

[Jessii]

It's called a favicon and I'm going to tell you that you need to stop using dreamweaver because it's not the solution to anything. It's only good if you actually know HTML and CSS, that way you can manipulate everything the way that you want because the program can't do it for you.

Anyway, this website will tell you all about the favicon and how to use it: http://www.favicon.com

[Anim8or666]

I stopped using tables, and I redid the homepage of my site. I only redid the homepage so far. But why are tables so bad? I started to use div tags and they're almost the same.
My Redesigned home page.

[Seachmall]

Looks better but you should center it all.

body{
text-align: center;
}

#wrap{
margin: auto;
text-align: left;
}

Then place <div id="wrap"> around everything.

[Jessii]

At 11/25/07 02:26 PM, Seachmall wrote: body{
text-align: center;
}

The centering isn't even necessary because it'll end up centering all of the text. As long as the body has a width set, it'll center everything inside of it as long as the divs are floating left or right with margins set accordingly.

body { width: 790px;}

[Rustygames]

At 11/25/07 01:54 PM, Anim8or666 wrote: I stopped using tables, and I redid the homepage of my site. I only redid the homepage so far. But why are tables so bad? I started to use div tags and they're almost the same.
My Redesigned home page.

It's a future-proofing thing. Plus you have to move with the coding trends or people will laugh at you in the street.

Get off freewebs, it's lame. If you can be bother to waste time making a site then im sure you can bother to a waste like $10 to get a domain and hosting for a year.

[Seachmall]

Or go to a decent free hosting site.

hosting365/blogs365

have PHP and MySQL and Domain support. There good but I'm sure there are better ones.

[Rustygames]

At 11/25/07 03:51 PM, Seachmall wrote: Or go to a decent free hosting site.

hosting365/blogs365

have PHP and MySQL and Domain support. There good but I'm sure there are better ones.

$10 will get him a year free hosting with php and mysql installed and a domain name of his own.

www.netfirms.com

[Anim8or666]

At 11/25/07 04:49 PM, Rustygames wrote:

At 11/25/07 03:51 PM, Seachmall wrote: Or go to a decent free hosting site.

hosting365/blogs365

have PHP and MySQL and Domain support. There good but I'm sure there are better ones.

$10 will get him a year free hosting with php and mySQL installed and a domain name of his own.

www.netfirms.com

I said at the beginning of the thread that I'm getting hosting and a domain. The host I'm considering is Fastnext hosting, because they have affordable rates for hosting. Having PHP support is something I'm really looking forward to, because making a comic archive out of Flash is really time-consuming.

[Rustygames]

Netfirms is perfect for you. You get the hosting for free with the domain. And it will be more then enough b/w and power for you. And I have had no problems with them