talkmagic.co.uk

It looks great!

However, I use an old desktop machine with a CRT monitor at my parents and the menu to the right is off the screen. Ideally, sites should be designed to work on screen with at least a minimum width of 1024 or you will have some users who can't see the whole thing.

Also, having text as images is really not good for SEO or for people who want to cut and paste info into emails to show their friends.

Hi I like the overall design of the site. The only thing that I would say is, I have no problem with the menu on the right instead of the left as many sites now use WP formats and a right had menu.

The problem I see is the menu is to big it over powers the rest of the page. I would suggest that you want something on the home page that grabs the attention of anyone that visits and the menu is out of proportion with the rest of the site.

Other than that I really like the site, the colour, fonts layout etc are great.

One quick question people have mentioned a rotating graphic on the home page. If it does not effect the load time much it is a great thing to have on the home page, but I did not see it on the site when I viewed it.

I may have some business for you in the near future so thanks for showing your website on here.

Nic

Nic Castle wrote:.

One quick question people have mentioned a rotating graphic on the home page. If it does not effect the load time much it is a great thing to have on the home page, but I did not see it on the site when I viewed it.

Nic

I did have a rotating image at first, but took it off as I am now experimenting with just the still image.

Thanks

Hope to do business in the future.

I use one of those very popular netbooks with smallish screen (1024x768), and the right quarter of your site is chopped off on my screen because you have set absolute values for your image links. You'd be better off using tables so the window can be resized while keeping everything aligned and in view at all screen resolutions and sizes. I like sites that don't hide links all over the place, but your's are about six times bigger than necessary. I bet you did that to balance the look of the page. I'd move them to just below the left banner for neatness and reduce the page width.

If I have to scroll sideways to view a whole page I don't bother. Otherwise it has the right mood for a magic site.

Well, you did ask.

P.S. You've done yourself a bit by using such a big background image (as style) then adding more images over it for links. You are limited in making any changes without starting from scratch. You could use just one background and use image mapping for the links instead of slapping even more images on top which slow load times.

I'll stop now.

gillows wrote:You'd be better off using tables so the window can be resized while keeping everything aligned and in view at all screen resolutions and sizes.

Don't use tables.

Responsive web design is where it's at

It is not necessary to have a fluid layout (as Gillows suggests...sorry Gillows). It is designer preference these days and is only worth doing if your design is based around it. Just make the current one thinner.

Tables are a big "No!". Separate your site into nested DIV tags and position/style them with CSS. This means your site with have a simple logical structure with no formatting at all before the CSS file is linked to it in order to apply formatting.

This means you'll have consistent styling through the site and you can make changes to all the headings/paragraphs/etc in one go by adjusting the one file. It also means you can entirely re-skin your site through just changing the CSS file and uploading your new images.

kolm wrote:

Don't use tables.

Nothing to do with being psychic but I KNEW that comment was coming!!

As for the site, I love it... with one exception... text links in the portfolio. I'd rather see thumbnails, over multiple pages if necessary. The reason is this: As a prospective client I want to see the kind of work you've done that is 'roughly' in the same arena that I'm looking for. I'm going to quickly tire of clicking through each and every link to see something that's possibly irrelevant. (Example, if I want something really contemporary and 'grimy' I'm not interested in designs like Mad Scientist).

Nice Site !

I might contact you sometime

bye bye !

WeedIsMyCheat wrote:Nice Site !

I might contact you sometime

bye bye !

Thanks.