Honest review of my site

Hey guys, im new on here. Im actually a student, but the hairdressers at which my Girlfriend works wanted a website made, and because im studying computing they asked me to do it. This is the first thing i have ever published on the web. Any tips, suggestions, do's, don'ts would b very helpful, its not finished yet by a long way.

Thanks in advance,
Cokes

www.tony-wright.com

Hi,
... pretty nice.

2 things I would pick up on are the the fact that the links at the bottom get bigger when you mouse-over, I don't like that as the whole section of the page moves.

Secondly, your content box is on the left in Morzilla. Tested in IE 6 and it is centered, so I would check that too.

In your gallery page, I would start having a model and not have the mouseover effect -> instead of the grey boxes.

Your code doesn't validate through the
w3c validator -> I would take a look at that too, but as you said you aren't finished yet.

Otherwise, pretty good I would say...

Hey, thanks for the tips.

I know that the content box appears in the left in Modzilla i think i have the same problem with netscape. I think it's because they don't support the iframe tag, any ideas to get round this?

I take into consideration what you say about the links at the bottom and the gallery selector thingy, i agree with you there and will probably change them in the near future.

When you say the code doesn't validate through the w3c validator, what do you mean, im new to this and never checked any of this out. Does it matter that it doesn't validate?

Thanks for all the info and tips, keep em coming

Cokes

Later versions of Morzilla / Netscape do support IFrames. More info. One way to get around this could be: Making valid code ensures that the browser understands what is trying to be downloaded (viewed). It reduces download speed too, so yes, it is important.

So what, in relation to my code, is there wrong that the W3c thing cant validate, could you give me an exmple?

cheers for that code man, really useful. Its just that i was told by a guy on my course at university that those other browsers dont support it.

I have another question i hope you can answer for me........I am hoping at some time to make the website have to different layouts, one for normal 56k modem users etc. with a slow connection....i.e the one i have just now, and one for high speed broadband etc users, one in flash. The thing i dount know is can u embed html pages into flash style web layouts, if you know what i mean. So i would have it layed out as i have now with the frame in the middle, but all the buttons etc, do cool things when clicked, also have a bit of animation in the background or something, but som eof the actual pages that woiuld appear in the middle frame would be html, is this possible, or if you're haveing your site in flash its all or nothing?

thanks again

Cokes

My first impression is that the site is a fine start.

The graphics are interesting. Plus, you make them functional by using them nicely to set the center alignment.

The iframe is too narrow on 1024 resolution using IE. You are losing content on some pages with the horizontal scroll. It's not good. You have so much screen real estate. So, why don't you widen the iframe?

I don't like the tiled background graphic on the pages. I'd experiment with a solid plain background.

I would recommend first creating the site in html, meaning no flash. After you have a working site, then do the flash bit. You could give the user two links: "html" or "flash" site.

Yeah, I agree with jabba_29 about the links.

I think the start is good, but I have a few suggestions on the design I think might improve it somewhat.

I think it would be nice to have the logo animation smooth into the home page some more. Possibally when the log zooms in, having the site load into the white spaces of the logo. Not sure how to say it, but making it so it's like you are entering the site through the logo.

I also think your site is lacking possitive emotions. Try replacing the girl on the home page with one that is smiling. It would make your site so much more inviting.

I hope these are helpful.

Regards Joe