My new webpageis now up and running. I’d really appreciate it if you people would look at it and give me some focussed critique.
hi,
the only thing that I personally would change is the left menu. You should move it a bit right so it’s not so near to the left side of the window. I think it’s a nice design, very clear and easy to navigate in. Good use of blank space. And maybe the images could be sorted into categories, just like…
Villas
[image] [image] [image]
Mansions
[image] [image] [image]
Also, the webpage is a bit slow. But it must be since it is in Zaire, right? And the images are pretty large in file size (KB), have you packed them with a really high quality?
Nice.
The images are very professional looking.
It was slow loading for me too.
I would suggest doing something with the menus - the text for the links looks very generic. I think using a font like you have for your logo and making the text in the links be a graphic.
IMO most of the elements dont fit together nicely…
The links are way too spaced out, and the way the blue buttons are above the text looks awkward. The image on the ight hand side doesnt fit in either, it just appears to be there as a void filler when the main text should probabily be in the center of the screen…
For accessability reasons, you should make the text below the buttons hyperlinked too, not just the blue squares.
Hi,
I would strongly advise against the use of frames and of using tables for layout. Your site appears quite dated both visually and ‘under-the-bonnet’, though it’s at least clean and uncluttered.
You’d be much better off, especially on such a simple design, to use CSS for all presentational requirements, a technique which at the very least eases the time it would take to make future design tweaks.
Your HTML contains redundant markup. For example, you’re left justifying each paragraph in your main content thus
<p align="left" class="style4">
. A better way would be to wrap your main content in a #div called ie div#content, and set up a CSS rule to left justify any paragraphs in that layer
div#content p {
text-align: left;
}
That way, any paragraphs within the div#content will automatically get left-justified.
There’s no point duplicating these classes either
.style3 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #666666; }
.style4 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; }
You’d be better off declaring the font in your body{ } or div#content CSS
body {
font-size: 12px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #666666;
}
then using
.style3 {
color: #ff0;
}
to override the rule where neccessary.
CSS would help you enormously in your Gallery section also. In short, you’ve got a vast amount of presentational markup that could be shifted into just a few lines of text in your CSS.
Andy
Ok, I’ve packed the images a bit tighter, to try and speed things up a bit. I don’t want to loose quality though, because many (prospective) clients actually don’t realise why images are often compressed on the www - they simply think that’s the final quality of my work. However stupid (and irritating) it may be, these are often succesfull people that give me work.
Falgor, I’m in South Africa, which is technologically far more advanced than Zaire, unfortunately our internet traffic is mainly controlled by one company (Telkom SA), which just so happens to be 40% owned by our lovely government. Its a bit of a sore point here for the few of us that would actually like to see some progress in dark Africa…
Lukus, I’m trying to give priority to images over text, as it is a site about 3d graphics.
As far as the left menu is concerned, I seem to be the only person that likes it. I’ll propably have to make a plan.
Thanks for the comments, keep them coming!
I understand that, Im not telling you to get rid of them but rather present them in a better way 
You want the website to be presented in a nice way with or without images. At the moment it looks a bit like it’s been sloped in rather than throughtfully placed.
Edit, the links IMO are fine to a certain degree (i.e. the the blue squares etc… /text), where they are placed just doesnt fit. I might have had them placed to the right of the header “eb3d” horizontally. That way their flowing with the header, which is also in the same blue etc…
Getting the text /blue squares working together might be hard, I can only personally see them workin in a “bullet point” style. i.e.:
[ - ] link [ - ] link2
not
[ - ]
Link
Nice. Are all those renderings done in Blender? They look very professional.
I’ve shuffled the webpage layout a bit, since the old navigation frame on the left seems to have been a problem. Comments? Lukus? 
it’s not friendly to my 800x600 window, and the designs are too small. show them off!
I just don’t feel like putting a notice on that sais: “designed for 1024 x 768 resolution”
Btw, why do you have such a low res?
That actually looks alot better. Keep it up.
You might want to consider the 800*600 compatability lua commented on, and as a helpful hint: 775px with body margins set to 0px (some browser have defults high than 0) is basically the max you can sqwish in, though a lower value /+liquid design is better since some people have oversized window elements like scroolbars messing the above rule ^ up:)
The small triplets of images on the pages look a little bit sketchy, esp where it is choped up into two parts i.e. right/ v left… Maybe on the front page you could try bulk it with some more text then have “here are some examples of my work, for more please visit my gallery” then just have one line or so of thumnails hyperlinked to larger ones (ideally your best works)… or just plonk them down maybe. And the profile page could have 1 bigger image or something?
Just some thoughs you can play with however the last thing I want to do is tell you what to do, it is only ment as an opinion 
Lol, cool, I’m pretty much done with the webpage now - unless anyone comes up with some major screwups! Thanks for your input, it did actually lead to a better layout.
because i can. jackass.
haha, just kidding. 
But seriously, why only 800 x 600?
because i can. jackass.
haha, just kidding.