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[rhsunderground]

hello, all. after a 1-year hiatus from website work i have returned with a new domain (http://kayeskinner.com) and a new design. i solicit critiques of the initial design - i haven't added content yet and when i do, you know i'll be coming right back here. mainly i'm worried that the text isn't legible enough.

[dtm32236]

it's really nice. and the text is perfectly legible. i like the mouseover background color idea on the text.

everything is fine on the site - layout, load time, navigation. the only thing that i can really think of, is that there is no "you are here" type of thing. like a "THE MAN" before the content of the 'the man' page, nor does the link change color or anything to indicated where the user is. although, with only 4 main links, it's hardly a problem.

the site's nice... good job with it.

[kgnfdeagle]

Some of your website features and design characteristics are innovative, visually aesthetic, and lively.

What I Like:
-Your Choice Of Colors

-Your Graphics

-Organization Is Simple And Navigation Flows Well

Suggestions For Changes:
-When you hover the mouse over text, the background color changes. This may seem like a cool effect, but typically when content is accompanied by a mouseover effect the end user assumes it is a link, or that it will provide access to additional content. Since your comment links and other links have the same effect as your textual mouseover effect, there may be confusion. Then again, I'm not 100% sure if those big blocks of text you enabled the highlight feature for will be static, or if they are summaries designed to catch the user, have him / her click to then read more. If that is the case, you should provide a "Read More" link to provide that functionality, I think the simplicity in that would add some elegance.

-Add a mouseover effect for the main navigation bar at the top of the page. I think it would add some additional "wow" factor to your page.

-Everything is in lower-case. I would advise you use proper punctuation, I'm not sure if you wanted to acheive a certain style by avoiding this, or if you were just lazy because this is pre-release. It's very annoying trying to read something completely in lower-case, it's difficult to see where sentences start, and where they end.

Other than that, overall nice job. I like the style and the flow.

-kgnfdeagle

[kgnfdeagle]

Somehow, I accidently double posted. My bad.

[dtm32236]

i like the mouseover background color effect because it allows the user to focus on one paragraph at a time.

like in the 'the music' section. if you try to read it, everything kinda blurs together... with this effect, you're able to focus on the section you're concerned about and lose focus on what you're not.

it's confusing at first glance, but i think that a user would quickly realize what's going on, and will know that it's not a link.

[rhsunderground]

everything is fine on the site - layout, load time, navigation. the only thing that i can really think of, is that there is no "you are here" type of thing. like a "THE MAN" before the content of the 'the man' page, nor does the link change color or anything to indicated where the user is. although, with only 4 main links, it's hardly a problem.
take a look at the header image on each of those 4 pages.
-Everything is in lower-case. I would advise you use proper punctuation, I'm not sure if you wanted to acheive a certain style by avoiding this, or if you were just lazy because this is pre-release. It's very annoying trying to read something completely in lower-case, it's difficult to see where sentences start, and where they end.
line 13 of the css file:
text-transform:lowercase;

i did that on purpose.


ps - thanks for all of your comments.

[dtm32236]

take a look at the header image on each of those 4 pages.

nice. i didn't notice that.

it looks nice... good job with it.

[WebJoel]

Sweet graphics. :)

Dichotomy with the CSS values and HTML implementation (multiple instances. example-) :
<img src="images/home.png" alt="Home" height="60px" width="200px"/>

There are no "px" in HTML as there are in CSS. The unit of measure is of course "pixels" but it is implied, not actually written.

It might be wise to provide a 'whitespace' before the forward slash "/" for the self-closing tags to let older browsers know that this is not an invocation for a 'shell command'. It probably will never come back to bother you, but later on if you were to maybe add javascript, this might come up.

[rhsunderground]

Sweet graphics. :)
There are no "px" in HTML as there are in CSS. The unit of measure is of course "pixels" but it is implied, not actually written.
it's been so long since i've written img height and width into the html that i'd forgotten that :)

It might be wise to provide a 'whitespace' before the forward slash "/" for the self-closing tags to let older browsers know that this is not an invocation for a 'shell command'. It probably will never come back to bother you, but later on if you were to maybe add javascript, this might come up.not sure why that didn't get in - thanks for pointing that out.