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Some people told me that it's terrible on there side because text overlaps images and I don't understand how I can check this if it looks good on MY computer with IE and FF?

Ok, it's not even close to finished but I would like some constructive feedback as I go along so I can make changes while mistakes are still fresh. I am not a web designer and I'm making this site for my video production company. As of this moment, please check the only working pages which is the index and contact page. (The social links work too but that's just links.) I know that templates are a no-no so let me say that I only used the background (orange-black) from a template but the rest of the graphics and design are mine. Here are some things that I know already: 1. Some good people made it come to my attention that my code started out as a mess so I fixed it up a bit so now most things are divs and css but I didn't have time yet to get a grip on spans and other crucial things so tell the truth but be understanding. 2. During the coding, it would sometimes pass at W3C and sometimes not but that's ok for now. 3. I read that white text on dark background is not always the right way to go but due to the design, I'd like to hear if it's comfortable to read. 4. My main concern is that it shouldn't look like a site that was built by a 14 year old amateur. For instance, in the footer, next to my email, there is an image of people holding envelopes. I keep thinking if that is not professional and take it off. Those are the things I think about. Here's the site: http://yellowsparkle.com/ I will re-post as I go along so I can keep improving. Thanks guys!

Ok, so I'm creating a new site for my video production company and I'm now at the part where I need to decide how to embed my videos like demo reels, example videos etc... I've been reading about this and here are some points I educated myself in and I will list them here so you can reply accordingly. 1. I've decided not to have videos on my server (to save bandwidth) but to use some hosting site, free or paid. 2. I've read all about the pros and cons on "YouTube vs Vimeo" (free vs paid, content(HD) limitations vs no limitations, quality vs cheesy, etc...) so no need to list them here. I would like to here though if there are any of you out there that was debating on these 2 services, what did you choose and why? 3. I am debating if to simply embed video in a page (static view size that I decide)) or have just a thumbnail of a video and when clicked, the page darkens and a video window opens and expands (like you see in many places). 4. I am not putting 20 videos on a page. It's just going to be 2 - 3 videos of my best work. 5. I know never to have a video play on it's own (same goes for music), I HATE that! 6. I am siding to only use HTML for video embedding but even though we are supposed to stay away from flash as much as possible, I was thinking that maybe for video display, it can be good since you can create nice video displays. The reason I'm leaning away from this is that I don't want someone to not be able to view a video because he doesn't have Flash installed and doesn't know what Flash is so he will just move on. That's about it. What's your 2 cents? Thanks!

Attached is an image of my nav bar. It's one jpg. Would you guys keep it as one jpg and put hidden containers on the actual words with links or slice each word into it's own jpg? I know it's probably best to have those nav words in text and not an image but I don't have time to figure out how to get those nice fonts with drop shadows into text so I'll stick with the images and hope that the alt tags will be enough for the search engines even though that Goggle now says that it focuses more on content then alt tags and meta data.

Thank you very much. I will crop and div up the site quite nice thanks to you. Yes, I have a basic understanding and have used css, php and java in the past so I'm pretty sure I can catch up.

This is the site I'm working on: http://yellowsparkle.com/ In Photoshop, I made the whole top part into a nav slice (besides the little slices for the elements). I want to be able to use this top part of the page for all my other pages and I'm trying to figure out the best way to do so. Here are some thoughts I had and please correct me. 1. Re-size the index page to just the top part (navigation) and save this to a separate file and this will be the only file that would contain this information. Then resize the image page, deleting the top part. 2. Leave the index file as it is and make some css, ssi, javascript, php etc... code that would point to the top part of the index file containing the navigation elements and each page on my site would get that information from some code to display it. That's all I have. What to do? Thanks!

I use Photoshop to cut up slices and then bring it into Dreamweaver. Whenever I make changes to the page layout, in addition to the images, Photoshop creates an html page that has <!-- Save for Web Slices (index.psd) --> that lets me easily copy\paste the code between this comment and paste it into my real index page in Dreamweaver without messing up all the other meta tags and data I have saved there. Problem is that now I want to start creating DIVS in my html to seperate the navigation, content, footer etc... but now what do I do if I make changes to the photoshop layout and save it out again? The new generated html page of Photoshop won't have my divs. What is the workflow for creating and making constant changes to a photoshop file and then bringing in just the changes to my original index page? Thanks!

I am new to slicing in Photoshop and have a question. Check the site I'm working on: http://yellowsparkle.com/ Now check the attached photo on how I'm trying to slice this up. As you see, the elements are sliced nice so I can name them, give them links, etc... but what I'm going to need for my web design is to split up the sections of the page into divs. Navagation top bar, content, bottom, etc... Problem is, if I make a user slice over the whole top of the page for a nav bar, all my other slices go away. Do I have to start over and make the big slices and then the layer based ones again or is there a way to make a big slice over the little ones without combining them to one big slice?