[adamjhunt]

Hi All,

Im new around here, but thought id see what you all though on my first website that went live. It was created for a writer that wanted a simple html/css site to promote herself, and just wanted to know what you all thought...

http://www.amandajevans.com/

All views appreciated...

[ChristopherDarling]

Hey Adam,

Welcome to the forum and congrats on your first site. I like it, a suggestion would be to look at the navigation, on the active page you have a border around the top, left, and bottom sides which I personally don't like (maybe it's a bug in your CSS?)

Looks good though Well done

[SEOLover]

Hi Adam,

I think the site is quite stylish and certainly modern, I think it would be nice to see more of the copy, this way a user wouldn't have to scroll as much, there is no reason why the copy can't have more line spacing to make it nice to read, as presently it just feels a little cramped..

Nothing wrong with the design though.

[BlueIce]

Decent design, nice and simple.

[Peter000]

Hi

Looks super.

Just move the words at the base to the left.

Good luck

[Shaba]

I like the color scheme and layout however Im not a fan of the white box, especially with the scroll bar appearing on some pages.

I think it would be better to remove the box and just have the text flowing instead of it.

Other then that very good work for a first site.

[Shaba]

I like the color scheme and layout however Im not a fan of the white box, especially with the scroll bar appearing on some pages.

I think it would be better to remove the box and just have the text flowing instead of it.

Other then that very good work ofr a first site.

[pereira]

Interesting Typography, i like it.

It's v.simple which is what the client wanted so fair enough.

Not sure tho about the split navigation, top and bottom, would be nice to have it all in a line.

But effective and to the point.




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[Acej]

Nice site. Would be good if the About and Services didn't scroll, but I think it looks professional.

[tigerlabs]

Inline styling = Bad.

JavaScript navigation = Bad Bad Bad.

8 Errors in your XHTML = Hmm... Bad.

Other than that, very good site.

[adamjhunt]

Shaba, on Jan 13 2009, 09:26, said:

I like the color scheme and layout however Im not a fan of the white box, especially with the scroll bar appearing on some pages.

I think it would be better to remove the box and just have the text flowing instead of it.

Other then that very good work for a first site.

yeah, thats what i had, but when i sent it to the client, she wanted it to have a white background with black text. she was the one paying so i wasn't going to argue lol

and yeah, i know there are a few coding errors. but i'm more of a designer, and am working on my coding lol

thanks for all replies guys btw!

[BritZin]

It looks modern but I have a couple of minor jibes:
1) I hate (with a passion) JavaScript! I've never been that fond of it and very much dislike it. As such, I don't like it in sites. But that's a matter of opinion!
2) I don't like the "inlining" it looks a tad to obvious. Try loosing the white backdrop on them.

Apart from that, very well done!
Like Mesach said, 8 Errors, but nothing that can't be fixed!

Goodluck,
B.

[T_break]

I basicly like the site, like a few others have said the text is a tad small and personaly would have sized the site so you could dispense with the scrolling and enlarge the font.

Did you create this in Dreamweaver by any chance? it defaults to creating rollovers in javascript, you will be better off creating them in your css and stashing all your css in an external style sheet, you may also want to create your class/id with a name, instead of leaving the default "style4" etc so it makes editing in future easier.

Personaly I would have advised the client against using the portrait pic, its not great quality, and frankly looks like it was taken by a mate on a night on the sauce, not very flattering, she is not centered in the picture and this has the knock on effect of throwing out the site composition balance wise.

When all is said and done if this is your first site I think you should be proud of it, it is a good looking site that is simple and stylish.