Would like to hear what you think. Be gentle with me though, I'm a sensitive soul

 

My link

You have the "alt" tag in a link, remove it as it's not a valid link source e.g.

 

you have <a href="#" alt="#" title="#">

 

alt should only be used on images, if you remove the alt's you will pass the w3c standard

Would like to hear what you think. Be gentle with me though, I'm a sensitive soul

 

My link

hmmm well your contact form on your site you need to do validation and such otherwise you could get spamed all day long

hmmm well your contact form on your site you need to do validation and such otherwise you could get spamed all day long

 

That was you then sending me blank messages!

 

I need to find out how to change the form so that it can't be sent with no input.

I've just had a look at it from a different machine and now the layout is all over the place!

 

Could this be because I'm viewing it in explorer 7 now rather than IE8 which I have at home.

you need to check your site in all web browsers, IE5, IE6, IE7, IE8, Chrome, Firefox, and safari. Someone add if i've forgotten any.

 

you can use IE tester

which you can download here

 

IE Tester.

 

this software will let you see your website in all the different IE browsers.

 

This has helped me time and time again.

 

a must have for all designers

Check FF2 & 3.

 

FF2 is still in pretty wide circulation, and it has a few odd quirks.

 

&& i wouldn't bother with IE5.

Thanks guys

That was you then sending me blank messages!

 

I need to find out how to change the form so that it can't be sent with no input.

 

hmmmm yea sorry just testing it out and giving u tips on it the site looks great though i will give u that

Ok, i've hopefully fixed the layout problems and looked at it in browsershots and would be greatful for any feedback please?

 

Thanks

 

kerstey.co.uk

Nice job on the site. i hate to be the spelling nazi.

 

first, there is a typo on your portfolio page. The subtitle under your main content heading reads, " a selction of..."

 

second, again on your portfolio page, your first paragraph, second sentence. you should swap out the question mark for a period. first paragraph, fourth sentence, you should apostrophe "beginner's." first paragraph, fifth sentence, "discovered" and "fondness" are misspelled. second paragraph, first sentence, "offered" is misspelled. I make it a priority to throw my text in Word or something like that to spell check.

 

third, on your cool stuff page, your links have underlines that are extending into the border on the left side. IMO links look much better not underlined, or possibly rollover underlined.

 

small things. otherwise great job!

 

>Michael<

Nice job on the site. i hate to be the spelling nazi.

 

first, there is a typo on your portfolio page. The subtitle under your main content heading reads, " a selction of..."

 

second, again on your portfolio page, your first paragraph, second sentence. you should swap out the question mark for a period. first paragraph, fourth sentence, you should apostrophe "beginner's." first paragraph, fifth sentence, "discovered" and "fondness" are misspelled. second paragraph, first sentence, "offered" is misspelled. I make it a priority to throw my text in Word or something like that to spell check.

 

third, on your cool stuff page, your links have underlines that are extending into the border on the left side. IMO links look much better not underlined, or possibly rollover underlined.

 

small things. otherwise great job!

 

>Michael<

 

Thanks Michael! I'm obviously an idiot, must remember to spell check first, doh! Although I did spell discovered correctly. Maybe it's different in America??!!

Check FF2 & 3.

 

FF2 is still in pretty wide circulation, and it has a few odd quirks.

 

&& i wouldn't bother with IE5.

 

 

To be honest, I wouldn't bother with FF2 either when you consider this Firefox usage

 

The people who tend to install firefox are also the people that are more likely to update there software and the stats show this. It's the IE crowd you need to worry about.

 

Firefox 3/3.5 and IE 7/8 are the main ones to focus on with IE6 being the one you put a few quick plasters on to get the basics of the site working.

 

 

As for your site, I can't help feeling slightly overwhelmed by the colour pink. Maybe look at a diferent background colour that compliments the header and site colouring.

 

Try and incorporate your blog in to your site as well rather than opening in a new window. The softer pink background of the blog would be an improvement to the current one (if you're mad about having pink that is).

 

Noticed there's a small blue dash in the top left of the header that links to the home page. I'm assuming the whole header is meant to be a link?

 

Pretty straight forward to fix, just give your link a width and height to match the header and display it as a block; something like:

 

#header a {
width: ;
height: ;
display: block;
}

 

Getting rid of the ' ' should make the blue underline disappear as well. If not just 'text-decoration:none;' the little sob.

The people who tend to install firefox are also the people that are more likely to update there software and the stats show this. It's the IE crowd you need to worry about.

 

Firefox 3/3.5 and IE 7/8 are the main ones to focus on with IE6 being the one you put a few quick plasters on to get the basics of the site working.

 

 

As for your site, I can't help feeling slightly overwhelmed by the colour pink. Maybe look at a diferent background colour that compliments the header and site colouring.

 

Try and incorporate your blog in to your site as well rather than opening in a new window. The softer pink background of the blog would be an improvement to the current one (if you're mad about having pink that is).

 

Noticed there's a small blue dash in the top left of the header that links to the home page. I'm assuming the whole header is meant to be a link?

 

Pretty straight forward to fix, just give your link a width and height to match the header and display it as a block; something like:

 

#header a {
width: ;
height: ;
display: block;
}

 

Getting rid of the ' ' should make the blue underline disappear as well. If not just 'text-decoration:none;' the little sob.

 

Hiya taylor223

 

Thanks for your comments, very helpful!

 

I tried a few other pinks for the background and they just didn't work for me I'm afraid. Hopefully the black helps a little bit. I expect I'll play around with the design as I get new ideas in my head!

 

I wanted to get the blog incorporated into my site, but I just couldn't work out how to do it. Any ideas?!

 

I didn't even notice the blue dash before, thank you! I've changed the header link now as you suggested and managed to get that to link back to the home page.

 

You've been a great help- thank you

 

Kerstey

I wanted to get the blog incorporated into my site, but I just couldn't work out how to do it. Any ideas?!

 

Could maybe use an iframe although it may not look too pretty, not really keen on iframes myself.

 

You could maybe look around for a blogging service that is more flexible in what you can do with it. I'm not too involved with blogs but wordpress is one of the best. Think you need to host it yourself using php/mysql, which is a downer if your hosting is limited. From what I remember its fairly straight forward to get going and they have a few guides and a large community on the forums willing to help.

Could maybe use an iframe although it may not look too pretty, not really keen on iframes myself.

 

You could maybe look around for a blogging service that is more flexible in what you can do with it. I'm not too involved with blogs but wordpress is one of the best. Think you need to host it yourself using php/mysql, which is a downer if your hosting is limited. From what I remember its fairly straight forward to get going and they have a few guides and a large community on the forums willing to help.

 

Awww, I don't have a clue about php or mysql yet. They're on my list of things to learn!!

the color combination is good but the layout its not so good but i like it...

the color combination is good but the layout its not so good but i like it...

 

 

Thank you.

 

What would you suggest I do with the layout?

Nice work!

Nice work!

 

Thank you!

Hi just had a little nosey round your site, i love it i think the colours are great and its laid out really well

 

i was just wondering on a male point of view would going onto a site with that much pink put you off?

Hi just had a little nosey round your site, i love it i think the colours are great and its laid out really well

 

i was just wondering on a male point of view would going onto a site with that much pink put you off?

 

That's an interesting question. I hope that the black has helped balance it out a bit, but it is pretty bright!

 

Thanks for your feedback

Hello, Kerstey!

 

Nice site, I love it.

 

However, I would make some remarks.

 

I`ll not discuss neither color scheme nor typeface choice.

 

http://volodko.ru/tuning/ck_1.png

 

1, 2. Both header and navbar (and content box, and footer) must have the same width and must be aligned. Devil is in details.

3. Header shadow is too bold and is cut to the right.

4, 5. Gray margins must have the same size, say 12 px.

 

Voila tuned Portfolio page:

 

http://volodko.ru/tuning/ck_2.png

Header shadow is more transparent, page elements are aligned. I added the rounded corners to the preview pictures to maintain the unity of style.

 

Yet another variation:

http://volodko.ru/tuning/ck_3.png

Edited October 30, 200916 yr by Lev

NICE COLORS!!!!

You should pad the divs out a bit more

 

Very, very pink