Making websites for people :)

[Youngy]

Originally Posted by vampkittie

Wow thats great for only a couple of days work!

The only think that I would say is...give the site a more structured layout i.e something like this:



At the moment your background is a little overpowering and i think that a banner at the top would make all the difference...Keep a structure like this throughout the site and it will look great

I hope that you dont take this as me having a go at you....I am just giving you a little advice from a graphic design point of view

Yeah, i am now his site techy and i willb be doing updates for him, i didn't have much time to do it so its not the best i can do, but i will spend more time on it and make it an awsome site.

[Reptilover]

Originally Posted by Akua_Ko_Nalu

My my, you have quite a weird way of accepting constructive criticism.

Even i know this and im 13 LMAO!!!

[GlasgowGecko]

Hey, Just thought i'd say well done for teaching yourself.
I've been building my website for ages... Get it to the how I want it, and now the other half want to completely re-vamp it!

Andy

[Youngy]

Thanks, hopefully ill make his site into a flash site, will take a couple of months but it will be worth it.

[Ssthisto]

Originally Posted by Youngy

Thanks, hopefully ill make his site into a flash site, will take a couple of months but it will be worth it.

I would strongly recommend against doing websites completely in Flash.

Yes, it LOOKS pretty (if you do it well - how much graphics design experience do you have?).

Unless you really know what you're doing inside-out, Flash is horrendous for being found when people search for you. Most of the search engines can't "read" content that's in Flash.

It also needs to be very carefully optimised, or you wind up with huge websites that take a very long time to load.

Professional functional websites - the ones that work, rather than the ones that irritate people - are better done in ASP, PHP or just plain HTML.

Animated flash elements ON a standard website can be quite effective, though!

[Youngy]

Yea, currently in the progress of a html site with animated flash buttons for the links, wish me luck

[talltom69]

Youngy, its good that you offer to do free sites as it shows your enthusiasm and kindness.


Some people on here have a funy way of showing constructive criticism that can often been seen as "bullying" as you put it, but they are just offering help so try not to take it too harshly as what one person can offer may be a great help.


I used to do basic sites/banners/graphics for people when I was younger and still dabble in the odd site now for family and friends when Im not too busy working, this is my recent one Metamorph training, nothing great, but it kept the guys happy...

Keep up the hard work

Tom