http://80.202.127.4

I'm just playing around with my new site, which will basically be a semi-personal page where I post this and that that I find interesting. It's still at the development stage, but I think I've got the design and layout part done. So now I'm just after some feedback on the visual design, and the layout. Also if there are any bugs or flaws, please let me know.

It's being hosted locally as it's under development, which could and probably will cause downtime and lag. But if you're patient enough, check it out at this IP:

http://80.202.127.4

If you can't stand the lag, or can't connect, I've also taken some screenshots that show the layout:

http://img18.exs.cx/img18/5770/sshot11gd.jpg
http://img18.exs.cx/img18/9664/sshot22hf.jpg

Can't wait to hear what other people than me think

Hei,

Likte den jeg. Det som plaget meg med designet er bunnteksten. Den med hvitkant og blå fylltekst. Den så litt "billig" ut. Resten av designet er virkelig bra.

Jeg får litt portal følelsen av den (nuke osv). Liker at du har holdt deg innen et fargeskjema.

Lykke til med siden!! :-)

Directly translated in English:
Nice design, fix the bottom blue text with the white border, kinda looked "cheap".

Peace out!

It's a little too much gray on gray. If the background is going to be gray, make the print black. From photography; even a low contrast image should have a full range of values.

cheers,

gary

What, you mean remove the text, or... ?

Guess you ment me :-) No Keep the tekst just make it a different color or something.. Just kinda looked off. You dont have to agree with me!!

BTW. er du ikke norsk da,, din nexgentel knøll ?

Seff er jeg norsk, men andre folk må jo også få sjansen til å skjønne det jeg skriver

Vet ikke hvor lurt det er å ta imot råd fra folk som pugger IP'er, jeg, menneh, hvilken farge skulle det eventuelt blitt, da?

:-) yeah we should write in english :-),,

Why not try one of the orange colors in your banner ?

You definitively need more contrast, specially for the menu images,
the font on those images isn't the best choice in my opinion.

The font-size on the page is also way too small, and if you really have to adjust the font-size you should always use an relative unit like em, %.
This is because absolute sizes can make it more troublesome for some users to scale the text if needed.
Why this in combination with verdana is bad:
http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2004/01/avoid-verdana
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html

Some comments on the code, you seems very fond of spans and divs remember both those elements has no semantic meaning, they add nothing to the content.
For headers use the header tags h1-h6, for text use paragraph p.

http://lachy.id.au/blogs/log/2005/01/semantics-of.html
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/structure/

Also note that when using xhtml1.1 the document should not be served as text/html.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/
http://keystonewebsites.com/articles/mime_type.php
http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml

you got a good color scheme there i just think you need to elaborate with it more then just 2 squigly lines.