SITE REVIEW: Daniel Gilbey homepage

I have a feeling I'm going to get ripped apart here...

I'd just like some general feedback about my site.
If there are things that you really feel should be changed please let me know.
Enjoy...

Nice clean looking page. It does look a little amateur in terms of design and layout, but we all need to start somewhere.

The header images on each page are cool, and liven it up a bit. Maybe align the text to the left instead of centering it.

Brian

Nice header image

I would stay away from centering main content. Align it to left.

Try to set up a more obvious navbar. It's pretty plain right now.

Set up a common look and feel for your site. Keep it consistent. Right now you don't seem to have one at all. You need a central focal point for your site. Each sub page I visited, my eyes wouldn't know where to focus first.

As for your fave links, if you're going to use images, try to keep them all the same size. If not set them up as text links. It would look alot better if they were all the same size. Try it out.

Don't forget your alt tags for your images!

Good keywords

Set up an external CSS to call up your fonts instead of an embedded font tag in your code

Good code writing tip: remove all the spaces in your document names. I found one so far titled "Your%20pictures.htm", the "%20" means there is a space. Try to stay away from spaces for document naming conversions. Good practise is to either put it all as one word or seperate the file names with dahses "-" or underscores "_" DO NOT USE SPACES, COMMAS OR PERIODS.

Good luck with the rest

613flavah once again does a great job identifying problems and critiquing. But this particular comment definitely needs to be implemented asap. I agree with the sentiment that we all have to start somewhere, but particularly when you have lots of content like in the "Comedy" section, the information is troubling to read for the user centered... always go with align left when theres a lot of information.

Thank you for your comments thus far, I have 'fixed' a couple of issues, namely alignment of text...
Keep 'em coming..!

613Flavah already touched on everything (as usual ). I think basically what I dont see from your site is content definition. You need to make your menu stand out (first and foremost). It should be placed right under your header image. You also need to differentiate your header from your content from your footer, maybe some horizontal lines may do the trick. If you can, put a border around that google ad, because some sections, it looks like part of your content and it gets quite tricky. The site itself is rather good. Its simple and straight to the point. So kudos.

In closing, you'll have to revise your code, not only to meet W3C standards, but to eliminate bad html in general. You've included closing </input>'s in some parts, you dont need them, there's no such thing. So go over to http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fhomepage.ntlworld.com%2Fdaniel.gilbey%2F and fix up the bugs, it also caught some redundant <tr>'s and stuff. I have to say though, good job.

I would just like to post a
BIG THANKYOU
to those of you who took the trouble to review my site, thanks again for your comments. I have modified things in line with points mentioned...
Check back soon...

Nice site, But try to use a new font

some of the links are now very hard on the eyes to see.. the white text just isn't working with all of those images as-is.

It is standard to have the "Home" link on the left so, that kind of confused me.

You need some kind of background and/or border around your main content to create a focul point. Right now, I look at your page and my eyes are drawn straight to the bottom because of the images and motion etc. I think a good site for you to look at to get an idea of what I mean would be http://pushingthrough.com/ which in my opinon is simply superb.

In my personal opinion, the text is a bit light but, my monitor is also set up fairly light, so that may just be me.

Perhaps organizing the images on the bottom by size would give it a better, more balanced look. For instance, bigger images (height-wise) in the middle, smaller ones on the outside, if you insist on having different size images.

The counter on the bottom is maybe a little tacky looking because it's just in the middle of no-where and isn't really custom matched to the site or anything but, that's fine since it's a personal site, that's 100% your choice.


like your pharmacist joke btw

Noted : About to be remedied also, I wasn't too sure about the link images either...
Decided to get rid of the counter - google ads keep a note of page hits so... I'm also going to resize the fav websites bit too.

Thanks again for looking.

To me it looks way to plain.

I really like the idea of your site....it's a great way to show off your pictures. But you could definately add alot to this site to make people keep coming back.

The biggest thing that stood out to me was that the main navigation was always moving up or down, and changing. Having a consistent layout is huge. Also, as mentioned before, you should try out different fonts. It is a bit plain right now.

I enjoyed checking out all your pics, but maybe a bit more color or background images will add to the overall appeal of your site!

Good luck....it is looking good so far!

Lisa

What does someone have to do to find you again!!!?I miss you and had to join this website just to write!! Email me and I'll send you that card!!!!Love me xxx

it is nice I do graphics so in time I may need to get in touch with you for some stock photos
but the lay out is nice you can see the font and read the text nicly I think imo dude. I do think you shoud keep your text centred

Add some styles, and you got something.