SITE REVIEW: Onyx-Design

Hey guys,

I just finished my online portfolio at http://www.onyx-design.net.

For now it's only available in Dutch so nobody (except righteous_tresspasser ) can read the content. I'm still working on translating it, when I'm finished I'll say so in this topic so you guys can also review the content.

But... for now, please your comments on the design.

I've checked all the pages and except one they're all valid XHTML strict , also valid CSS.

You know what the first thing is I'm going to say ...

Please make the link of the page that a user is on, unclickable, for example if a user is on the "home" page, make the "home" link unclickable etc etc ...

It bothers me a bit that the menu just stops like that, why don't you make the menu's right hand side the same as the left hand side ... (Do you understand what I mean ...?)

Maybe on the "contact" page, you can say that all fields are necessary, or put a little asterisk(*) next to them all ...

On the "complete websites" page, you can add a little "padding-bottom" because the content touches the bottom line ...

There where a user has to choose a sub-category for the website-designs, you could maybe add rollovers for those two links ... and the same for the Graphic-designs ...

On the "About this site" page the menu doesn't highlight the correct item ... "Websites" is highlighted and the incorrect path is shown ...

Further than that ... Excellent ...

//I really still can't believe that you're 14 ...

That's a good one. I did it with the breadcrumps but forgot to do it in the menu. Will take some time though, because it's scripted with PHP and that uses the $_GET to make sure which of the menu-items has to be active. That one has to be active and unclickable now...


Yeah, I understand. I'll change it to see what it looks like and maybe change it back later if it doesn't looks good...


Good one! Job's done!


That one is weird...
You see IE7 shows some padding, but Fx don't... See the screens:

IE7:


Fx:


// I've done it manually now: just added some <br /> tags


And the same for the whole site. I've edited the stylesheet. Links get underlined when hovering over.


It did that because you can also access that pages via portfolio > websites > complete websites but I guess it's not that user-friendly this way... I'll change it.



Thanks Why can't you believe? Too young to make websites or speak English the way I do ?

The english doesn't bother me, and the making of websites doesn't bother me either, it just amazes me ... at 14 I just played PC games the whole day ... I was like a game playing guru again ... there wasn't a game that I couldn't finish ... hehe ... i guess that's why I still want to be a game tester ...

Too young ... Never, for nothing ... Keep it up ...

thanks , I play games too, I've got the Gamecube and 2 gameboys and I play Oblivion, GTA san andreas and Company of Heroes often. Sometimes I play games the whole day then I'm working on a website or designing the whole day. Depends on my mood .

Nice site, but for me the pallet of colors is neatractive

"neactractive", never heard that word before. Does it mean not attractive?

Some updates:

I've made the site SEO friendly by using mod rewrite to turn this: index.php?lang=nl&page=home into /pagina/nl/home

And I've also added key-words, meta tags and more used the h1, h2, etc. tags.

First Glance: Simple and Neat!

However, I think the navigation bar should have a border on both sides. Probably, RT has noticed that too. One thing that impresses me is the clean source code and appropriate use of DIV's. As there isnt much content, WHICH i understand, so I will have to say very well done.
I didnt know you were 14! I remember my site when i was fourteen *shudders* I was horrible with css! But wow, you have pulled it very nicely! Good Job.

Thanks for your reply Sana! There will soon be more content and the english version of the site will ben available next week, I hope.

I've added borders on the right side of the menu, but that doesn't look good. So I tried something else:
http://www.onyx-design.net

Very nice site! But I would add more space to:


CSS


to #footer on the stylesheet.

Good Job

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Thanks for the reply murcielagossi
I suppose you're right, but like I posted before IE does display this space and Fx doesn't...

I do really like your new header image.. cool work.

I like what you have done with the site Fabinator. It looks much better now

Design looks great. At the bottom of the page, though, there's a change in page width, which should be an easy fix. I'm interested to see how it turns out when it's all finished!

Good work.