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Old April 14th, 2005, 07:42 PM
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Lending-Locator.com Design Critique

Hi.

Looking around for everywhere possible to get some advice on the design... that being header, footer, internal pages etc...?

Thanks.. I can change anything needed.

- Jules

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Lending-Locator.com; Fast, Free, Simple....Find a home loan, Home loans, Mortgage Rates, and Home Mortgages. One-on-One with each home loan, and home mortgage. Lowest Mortgage Rates daily... Find a home loan today for free.

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This thread will probably be moved in time, so I'll just answer.

Looks really good.
Try giving your header a background colour. Maybe a darker version of the background colour of your content.
In Firefox (and Mozilla, Netscape), the menu items down the left of your inner pages (Mortgage center for example) extend over the top border. I'm not exactly sure why that is. You may need to give the table cell the same padding you're giving the anchor link.
Also, the width attribute for the anchors don't work in Firefox like they do in IE. If you want the links to extend to the end of the line, use display:block; instead instead of width.
For the spanish, use the proper ñ. This can be done by using ñ

Again, it looks good! Keep it up!

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Good design. Quite a lot of info, but it doesnt look cluttered. My only critisism with the design itself is the mouse overs. Why purple? It goes with nothing else on the site.

The only thing i'd change is the menu, i'd give it a background colour of some sort, maybe even the same light green used around the content.

The design is good... but you should really be using XHTML along with CSS for the presentation, not using tables.

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i like it, but one crucial thing you are missing is called "company identety". thats basically a catchy logo and other small icons that make ur company stand apart, right now you just have text for ur company name and no apperant logo.
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Very Nice.

Nice clean layout that is not cluttered. I usually don't like using New Times Roman fonts, especially in headers. You might want to consider changing that.

The rollover images on the front page - something is wierd. All of them are triggered by the link at the top ("home mortgages", "refinance mortgages", and "education center"), but the last one on the right is triggered by the text on the bottom ("start loan request"). Not a big deal, but decreasing confusion is always a good thing.

I fail to see the connection between the pictures of the two people at the top with a lending company. The guy with cell phone is definitely out of place. Consider a picture of a home, or cash, or someone talking to someone else to represent a friendly mortgage banker.

Good luck and good job.

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Hey

Can you guys please check back to the site again, I changed the header and a few small details.. (i came back to this posting to add the link) sorry about that IT IS

www.lending-locator.com

If any of you design really well, and code html/css/java... I need some things done.

please contact me at: constantchangez@optonline.net > this is my email

My other contacts are:

MSN MESSENGER: theteamnetwork@hotmail.com
AIM: ns0mniak420
YAHOO: constantchangez@yahoo.com

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I forgot the link sorry

WWW.LENDING-LOCATOR.COM

The Lending Locator

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Just a sidenote to the site,, its the menu looks of in Safari for mac,, else I am on the positiv notes above.
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i like it, but one crucial thing you are missing is called "company identety". thats basically a catchy logo and other small icons that make ur company stand apart, right now you just have text for ur company name and no apperant logo.



hey can you put together a logo for me? actually ive got like 9 websites im gonna launch within the next 2 months all need logos.. lol.. but im doing most of this work myself

my aim: ns0mniak420
msn: theteamnetwork@hotmail.com
yahoo: constantchangez@yahoo.com

feel free to contact me. I really need design help on the new sites, banners, logos etc..

THANKS!

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Still looks good.
Did you translate into Spanish yourself? I could be wrong, but some of the sentences in Spanish seem a little off, like a couple words should be reversed. Little things like that.
The menus down the side still look funny in Firefox.

But again, it's a good design and layout!
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