fabrydesign

Looks a ton better than the old one. My biggest problem with it right now is that you're using at least six different shades of blue. Try consolidating them- the links on the navigation bar and the large text titles should be the color of the blue bar (where about and contact are). Also, having the blue links light up yellow on white just doesn't look good. Try a blue background on rollover with white text. The header image could use some kind of border, everything else is bordered but that image just runs into the page background. The Latest Additions and Notice Board are kind of weird with rounded corners since everything else is square. I'd say make them square too. Division boxes at the bottom have really tiny text, they should probably be larger. Overall, well made (again, way better than before). Just needs to be cleaned up a bit.

- It's centered.... yet not - The colors are iffy, especially on the navigation bar, readability is low - Navigation is awkward with the bright, high contrast horizontal bar and then having to use the low contrast, drab out-of-the-way sidebar - Main content area (white) is thin and the padding between the text and the sides is too small -Overall, stuff seems oddly placed and spaced

Looks nice, good color palette. However, I don't like the logo font very much, seems out of place with the simple, clean lines of the rest of the site.

For the first site (http://www.andrewodendaal.com/), it all seems pretty dull. Grey on grey with the high contrast blue used for everything except stuff that needs to be contrasting (use grey for the dividers, and blue for the titles, not the other way around). Also, coming to the home page and all that is there is a form to request a quote seems like you're jumping the gun- as if your site is there solely for people to request a quote. Put some interesting stuff to draw people in on the front page, that would make them want to click somewhere else to get a quote, if they are impressed with what they see. "This site is the online portfolio of work for Andrew Odendaal" isn't a really strong introduction. Also, the only thing the sidebar is used for is a search box. Would be worthwhile to put some content in there, or find a different place for the searchbar instead of having a ton of whitespace. Conclusion: the colors aren't great and are chosen for their elements badly, and there's too much text and nothing that says to me "this guy knows what he is doing and looks good".

Is it possible to allow a background image to be visible outside the bounds of the element it is the background of? If not, is there a clean solution to achieve the same effect? Thanks, FD

I've been learning CakePHP and it's very well documented and has a pretty active IRC channel that's generally helpful.

Terabytes and terabytes and a few more terabytes...

You might want to add a character limit to the submitted message.

Don't like the Times New Roman on the splash either. Looks good, except the layout is broken for me (Chrome on 1280x1024), the main content is offset to the right of the nav and footer.

http://book.cakephp.org/ Is documentation. That's a PDF I really have no interest in reading.

min-width:800px; Ta-da!

Looks nice, clean and simple with a nice color scheme. The only thing that I get hung up on is why the navigation is above the box with the logo, when it looks like you could nicely fit it inside and save that bit of space while making it flow better.

I think we're all going to be saying this until someone does something brilliant and puts us all in awe and suddenly we'll see everyone using it in a ripped-off kind of fashion...

Seems like those big images on the home page should be links. There's a huge thing that says REGISTER but I have to search for a little bitty link off to the side.

I've noticed it is very hard to get back to the home page.