rcorlew Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 I have recently remade a fairly blah website that I threw together to just do something. I tried to restructure the whole thing to flow from no more than 3 clicks to see everything in a particular area. I tried to keep it straight forward and pull everything together with a very pleasant theme. I made what in my opinion is a very elegantly simple photo gallery class that you should look at, and the blog was rewritten to paginate results from newest to oldest limiting 5 to page. Let me know what you think! http://www.corlewland.com/index.php?homepage Chao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willpower Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Ok well its not awful...and with a few tweaks you'd see some much better results. start by adding some more white space between the image and the text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roopurt18 Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I'd use a more crisp family photo for your logo; you don't people thinking you and your family are made of legos do you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
448191 Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Who died? † Seriously, I see more and more sites with these things and frankly they remind me funerals an cemetaries... Combined with the concrete grey you could have told me I was looking at a funeral company website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcorlew Posted March 12, 2007 Author Share Posted March 12, 2007 Ok now I think that I may have made something that everyone will hate, just kidding. I tried some different techniques, and totally redid the site. http://www.corlewland.com/index.php It is very different from what it was before! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 Those bevels and shadows look pretty cheesy. Just get photoshop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 I'd have to echo the comments above... but I had one other problem with the site... why are many of the "guestbook" entries either by you or your family??? That's not what a guestbook is for! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFilmGod Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 You should make it private and tell your whole family about the site to talk with them. That is what most family websites have, this is because they can talk about private "their own family" things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcorlew Posted March 14, 2007 Author Share Posted March 14, 2007 Ok, see what you think of this one. I took a screenshot of the old one and it is here http://www.corlewland.com/webshot.jpg http://www.corlewland.com/ Is that something better?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Why the same picture in the header and the body? I'm not a big fan. The header is too big, you need more color, you need a little more style. Why do you have two menus? Either drop the horizontal menu, or make the side menu only relate to the current section. This is too redundant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 http://bancomicsans.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcorlew Posted March 14, 2007 Author Share Posted March 14, 2007 Actually, the two menus are different depending on the link you have clicked. I can change the photo rather quickly and will do that, the colors are based on my wife's input that it be purple, kind of hard to do and make look nice, but I tried anyway. The reason many of the guest book entries are from myself and family is because the sql server crashed and I lost all of that. I had backed it up but was not able to restore all the stuff because I could not post the 14mb of info there. I was actually originally more concerned about the functionality of the site in relation to how it navigated than I was with the original design. I have visitors that not the most web savvy and tried to keep it very straight forward. I also tried to keep the contrast relatively high when it comes to text color on the background to make it easier to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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