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vegeta�ONAC · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2001 12:01 am

ive been workin on this art portfolio website since july 15th almost 3 monthes off and on. im just curious on what people think of the layout and everything...what are yur likes and dislikes...also if u want to...crit my art and tell me whatcha think

http://www.geocities.com/vegetasonac
the link is also under my signature

Matt Elder · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2001 12:11 am

The intro image is really nice and grabs your attention. I can see the effect that you are going for but I had my browser window set to a larger size and images started to repeat. thus it took some time to see what was going on. I would think about maybe making your background images bigger even if that just means they have black added. This might look better than the image repeating itself.

With the gallery section, you use a combination of years and page numbers. I would have the full year ie '1999' instead of '99'. Some navigation buttons (ie forward, back etc) would help out navigating through the site.

vegeta�ONAC · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2001 12:16 am

great suggestions. about the size thing...i added a warnin on how to properly view the site on the splash page just so viewers would notice. im not too knowledgable in site making past what u see in the site.

Icannon · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2001 12:45 am

the curtain images repeat for me too. i always like my browser big. maybe the curtains are a little too intense. their pinkness and the brown of the floor really clash, in my opinion. also, i had trouble finding the menu 'n stuff. i took for granted the white text at the bottom of the screen was just the usual copyright mumbo jumbo. maybe a bigger, more prominent menu is needed. .. but good work so far.

vegeta�ONAC · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2001 4:38 pm

due to the fact that i am obsessed with this site and will do ANYTHING to make ppl keep comin, i am workin on fixin the site for 1024 x 768 pixeled viewers. ugh -_-' its a never endin battle i tells yas! i dont know what ima do....i been contiplatin the idea of changin the whole layout all together, but its a shame cuz i like it oh well....i will see what i can do...

Matt Elder · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2001 6:25 pm

one thing you might like to try with the curtains is take them from a background image and placing the image in a table. Then on the image tag, table tag, td tag, set the width and height to either fixed properties ie width="50px" or percentage ie width="100%". This might stretch the images a bit but at least it will get rid of the repeating pattern. Another thing to note, is that percentages (ie width="100%") works slightly different in netscape and IE. At the moment 90% of the market is IE and you already have some ill effects at the moment - maybe it is trading one problem for another. Should you use this idea, another couple of tags that are helpful to achieve the desired effect are:

<body marginwidth='0' marginheight='0' rightmargin='0' leftmargin='0' topmargin='0' bottommargin='0'>

and

<table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='100%'>

Hope that helps.

Mendler · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2001 7:34 pm

alright, here's the low-down dude:

intro screen, very nice. make the text, however, on the bottom, red, and the link as well as the screensize white. a downsize of the text is appropriate, you want your viewer to look at the image, not the text.

the inside is a mess. frames came in for a while there, but nested tables are big right now just for the aesthetical appeal. i agree with past posters, make the curtains less of an obstruction and confinement and more of a decoration to be admired. obviously, if possible, find a hosting that doesn't post little geocities things in the corner.

lastly, if you're serious about making this page more professional and resume-like, you need to do typing that people are impressed with. the title of the page is something you don't want to do .. it's not a good read. the multiple colors of text in the news section makes it hard to concentrate on what it's saying. and just a little developer hint: making text smaller goes a long way.

wallabee http://www.armcircles.com/

vegeta�ONAC · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2001 9:17 pm

thanks matt and mendler all very good points and most of them i already know....its always a hard battle to balance function and art. i think i tried usin those images in tables instead of backgrounds once b4...but ill try it again. according to the splash page text...i did once have it all white and at the bottom solely because i liked the image alone but most people dont want to read fine print and fuse over it not workin on 1024 x 768 format so i made sure they read that til i fix my problems...i also didnt add that inside homepage table til jus a couple days ago....i wanted to make the site more personal so viewers would keep comin back to check out whats goin on. overall its been a pain in my ass and because i like it so much im stickin with it

edible snowman · member Member # Joined: 12 Sep 2000 Posts: 998

i didnt read through completely all the crits so i dont know if this has been mentioned. maybe add another set of the buttons between your character guy on the news, i didnt notice them at first. you might want to get some kind of reference for those curtains too, they're not looking a whole lot like clothe right now.

vegeta�ONAC · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2001 4:12 am

thanks for the info ill see whta i can do...but lately i worked on a 1124 x 768 complimentary site for the site and it looks great its another design i been wantin to do and it may be my more favorable one...theres still lil things here and there but please let the crits keep comin i welcome anyone ^_^

vegeta�ONAC · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2001 7:02 pm

i know this post is draggin on and on and i dont intend it to but instead of makin a new thread i decided to jus keep the general questions about the site in here.....anyways i fixed up the splash page and im kinda lost about it....i need some suggestions about the layout please help me out itll only take 5 minutes for u. thanks ^_^