My Pathetic Website

[youngdesigner]

Would you be a kind soul and see what you think of my Lord of the Rings Themed website looks. I really appreciate this! The url is included below. Be be tough, cause that is what makes a good website!

http://www.freewebs.com/telpeathsgift

[geraelindsey]

I like it (of course, I'm an LOTR fan!) except for:

the background (I don't feel like the color matches)
the centered body text (I prefer left aligned)
the font color of the body text and
the italicized body text (makes it harder to read)

A few other suggestions: you have a few spelling and HTML errors and you might consider optimizing your images to speed up the load time of the page (run it through NetMechanic.com for help with these).

Hope that helps :)

[bldstr]

Do you have Firefox? When I view the site in firefox the black background doesn't work, instead all i see is the text on the purple background which is unreadable. I'm not keen on that background image either, the colour is a bit strong.

How about some CSS rollover effects on the links and nav bar? It's very easy to impliment and can look very effective. You might want to put a border round the navigation bar also to section it off and make it stand out more.

The text in the page title image is a little difficult to read.

[pcthug]

Basically what bldstr said; looks horrible in Firefox (screenshot attached) and I really think you should incorporate a :hover state in your navigational links.

[youngdesigner]

I am wondering why it looks so crappy in Foxfire. I used a series of tables, and firefox should alow that.

[geraelindsey]

It looks the same in Netscape - I think it's your code, not the use of tables. Try adding # before your table background color:

<table align="center" width="714" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="000000" >

change to:

<table align="center" width="714" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#000000" >

I tested it out with your code and adding that in displayed the background color in Firefox and Netscape for me.

[youngdesigner]

Cool I will try that pronto!!!

[youngdesigner]

Well, I would like to try this again, but looking for specifics this time. I was wondering if you could look at my site, and see what would make navigation easier or the layout to look better. I have been thinking of adding a iframe, so that the main page images only load once, but I would like to hear any suggestions about navigation and the layout from another point of view.

Thank you for helping!

[Racoon200]

man, i recomend you to add more decoration, to make that font style not italic, maybe add some mouseovers, and smoothen up that text with some images, or separate it in sections

[the tree]

For what it is, the design isn't bad at all. The code is outdated and dodgy in parts but not painful to look at.

I agree some hover effects of the links would be nice, take all of the attributes out of your BODY tag and replace your styles with this:<style type="text/css">
body{
background-image: url(pattern.jpg);
color: #699;
}
a{
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
color: #699;
}
a:hover{
color: #8bb;
}
</style>In fact, your code could do with a lot of work, but with time. Good work so far though, seriously.

[Vairkjosa]

Well it's not pathetic! Looks better than my first try. Actually looks better than my first few tries. I'd work on the text though, the color is barely visible. I'm using FFx and I see most everything okay. Some links appear to be missing or the words are not rollovers.
Good job!

[Ascendancy]

That's actually really really good for a first site. I like the whole layout, the banner, hell you even added a working forum! Congrats man it looks great.

[youngdesigner]

Well the site got a huge Change. Please go check it out and re-evaluate it. I would appreciate if you could tell me if the speed is better, and if anything is working improperly. And please give me any other comments that could make it better. I appreciate this.

[webfinity]

It's not pathetic at all. I would get rid of the frame though.

[youngdesigner]

What frame?

[Vairkjosa]

Looks much better! I like the layout, but is the theme Okay?

[youngdesigner]

Is something wrong with the theme?

[Vairkjosa]

Not at all! Just be sure you don't forget the "copyrights".

[youngdesigner]

Could you explain what you meant by copyrights? Are you saying that I should post that I made the image somewhere, or what?

[youngdesigner]

Well, i did alot of revamping, and i was wondering if someone would like to critique it. Im open for many suggestions, due to that i will be changing it shortly.

[Racoon200]

Man i still have the picture of how your wbsite looked like at the begining. And man, I tell you, you've advanced a lot man, its fkn cool now.
Congratulations!