alex-hardy

@ Priti - I have written a blog post about the text recognition issue, and what I plan to do about it. I hope this helps. http://www.alex-hardy.co.uk/2008/02/11/utf-8-php-mysql/

Thanks for your comments @ Priti - I think you may have uncovered a text encoding problem. I will look into fixing this for the next release.

You've misspelled "broadcast".

I agree, you can presume that many visitors to the site already know you. The important details of the day (e.g. WHEN and WHERE) shouldn't be buried away in a subsection, they should be on the homepage. You can probably trim the site down a bit. The "special thanks" message doesn't merit a page of its own - you could easily put it on the homepage. A few interesting pages are better than a lot of empty ones. I'd like to see more photographs (in colour!) around the site. It would liven up your biographies in particular, and some images of the wedding venue would be nice.

PNGs are not sufficiently supported in browsers. I'm sure the users of this forum are technically knowledgeable enough to view them, but unless you're prepared to <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/pngopacity">jump through hoops</a> to implement them you should not use them at all.

Nice logo! I'd lose the pixellated band at the very top though - it adds nothing to the design. Try and work some more visual content (e.g. screengrabs) into your posts to liven things up. It may be worth looking into whether you can get a poll plugin to see whether public opinion matches yours. Some people that are too shy to comment may vote... I like your idea of pitting products and services against each other. It's inherently controversial and invites ongoing discussion. Good work.

I'd drop the lozenges, and just have typographic links. I'd keep the colours warm. If you need to conserve space, you could probably afford to drop the "client login" link from your nav, perhaps down to a footer. Do your portfolio and contact mechanisms need to be discrete sections? I like the idea of a really simple navigation based on: * WHAT we do * HOW we do it * WHO we do it for You could include examples of your work and include the "contact us" call to action on every page.

I'm not a huge fan of light-on-dark websites, but this one is pretty nice. A few comments: * I like the font choice on the logo. Attractive serifed fonts are not used enough in the current "Web 2.0" world. * The coloured navigation links lack the subtlety that is present elsewhere in the logo and header - take care also to make sure that they all have the same baseline for text. * Make sure you have an alternate thumbnails panel for people who can't see the Cover Flow style Flash object. It's not just the less technically savvy user who can't use Flash, and search engines will fail to crawl your Flash-only links. Use a replacement technique like UFO - http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/ufo * You seem to have a pretty substantial portfolio - ask your clients for testimonials!

Hello everyone, This is my first time posting on this site, but I'd like it to be the first of many I've been working on a self-hosted PHP/MySQL contact form app which I have given the working title of "simpleContact". It's now at version 1.2 and I'm keen to see what people think of it under the hood as well as above it. Design, functionality, code, tell it like it is. http://www.alex-hardy.co.uk/downloads Thanks!