What do you think of my website???

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2003-04-17 11:47pm

I was hoping that someone could give me some feedback on my website. It has absolutely nothing to do with star wars, but nevertheless I was hoping someone could give feed back on the design, layout, etc. Thanks guys I really appreciate it.

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2003-04-17 11:47pm

how could i forget the webaddress
http://www3.telus.net/theportal/

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-04-17 11:55pm

Not horribly obnoxious with java toys and popups, with a clean design. The text on the buttons should be centered, but overall an attractive and functional site.

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2003-04-17 11:55pm

anyone?

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-04-17 11:55pm

Basic and easy to use. Perfectly suited to it's purpose. Nowhere as cute as your avatar, however.

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2003-04-17 11:59pm

Not horribly obnoxious with java toys and popups, with a clean design. The text on the buttons should be centered, but overall an attractive and functional site.

Thanks I was going for the clean look, as suggested by website for dummies guide. And I really don't know how to use java.

Basic and easy to use. Perfectly suited to it's purpose. Nowhere as cute as your avatar, however.

Aw Thanks...yes the little bovine dances the night and day away. I wonder if he ever stops...

The site was *cute* before someone complained about seizures. I was going for the techno, bright purple clashes of yellow look before. But it ended up looking tacky so I made it all white.

Thanks for the feedback!

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2003-04-18 12:18am

say were any of you guys able to get the search engine to work? I don't know why but it doesn't work. Maybe its just my browser.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-04-18 12:21am

brothersinarm wrote:say were any of you guys able to get the search engine to work? I don't know why but it doesn't work. Maybe its just my browser.

Works fine here.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-04-18 12:23am

Do you want me to be nice or mean?

The Search thing is ugly, and the main page looks a bit empty...

Is that Times New Roman I see? Its passable, but I'd recommend Verdana, Tahoma, and other fonts like that... I guess its decent, but I think you could probably just stick the news stuff on the front page.

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2003-04-18 12:23am

were you using the site search or the websearch? For some reason the site search doesn't seem to work. Maybe the spider didn't go through yet but every time i do a site search it says not found.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-04-18 12:25am

brothersinarm wrote:were you using the site search or the websearch? For some reason the site search doesn't seem to work. Maybe the spider didn't go through yet but every time i do a site search it says not found.

Site search for Psych turned up 5 hits on the site.

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2003-04-18 12:26am

the search thing is free...and that's all that matters

:):):) As for the fonts I'm using the website making tool that comes free with netscape and it doesn't have a lot of fonts. Most of them are even worse. I'm kinda strapped for cash and I don't think I could convince anyone to advertise on the site until more people visit it

:(:(

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2003-04-18 12:28am

thanks Dalton. Its working now. I guess I was just alittle bit panicky as this is the first time I tried using a search bar on my site. Its kinda tricky and I'm not very good...

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2003-04-18 12:29am

say if i wanted to use other fonts how would I do this using the netscape webcreating program?

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-04-18 12:39am

<font face="Verdana">Text you want</font>

I'm assuming you know how to edit the HTML directly.

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2003-04-18 12:45am

yup I can edit html, just don't know how to create them. Haven't memorized the codes yet.

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2003-04-18 12:45am

oh and thanks Exonerate

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-04-18 12:48am

No Problem

You could also embed it into your CSS files, which saves more space and to me, is a lot more convenient.

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2003-04-18 12:52am

whats a css file?

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-04-18 01:31am

Check http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/ref ... eet_guide/ for more information...

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2003-04-18 02:19am

thanks again

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-04-18 12:55pm

Maybe add a javascript rollover. I'll maybe post code later.

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2003-04-18 04:44pm

well I decided to remove the buttons and start over with the design. Here is the website, again redone. Tell me what you think.

http://www3.telus.net/theportal/index.html

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-04-18 05:19pm

Well I suggest reduce font size, and fill up the empty space.

Dump tables for layout and use CSS instead. Go to W3C.org and look up some stuff. I think the news should be on the right also.

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2003-04-18 08:21pm

boy this is so time consuming