Alright...tell me what you guys think!

[portalgraphics]

Web, Logo & Print Design

http://www.portal-graphics.com

Tell me what you guys think.

[MooseToga]

Stuff I like and wouldn't change:

- The gradients/colors are nice.
- The menu is clear and simple.
- I kinda dig the html tag thing you have going on with subpage headers/footers. That being said, I get it because I'm a web designer. Will your potential clients get it? Or will they think it's a mistake and that the page has an error?

Stuff I'd change:

- This (http://www.portal-graphics.com/images/logo.jpg) shouldn't be a jpg. It would look better and be a smaller file if it was a gif or png.
- You've got an h1 tag wrapping your header image, which doesn't even have an alt tag. I'm not sure what kinda kooky SEO thing you were going for, but it isn't going to work, trust me. Use one of the common image-replacement techniques (http://mezzoblue.com/tests/revised-image-replacement/) instead.
- You should try and clean up your validation issues (http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.portal-graphics.com%2F).
- Bump up the lightness of the gray text a few notches; it's a little hard to read even on my nice high-contrast monitor.
- I don't get the "blog" link. The front page of the site is a blog... and then there's another blog? And the other blog is green and doesn't match the main site at all? Why?
- Some of the links are a deep blue that is completely unreadable on the black background.

[jakkihm]

It's a nice looking website. However I would make the background color lighter so to create a contrast.

[portalgraphics]

Alright! Thanks for the pointers guys!

I'm trying to fix those validation issues, and it's funny you say something about the darkness, it looks fine on my screen, and then I went to a buddies house and it was very hard to read. So thats the next thing I will be doing.

I wasn't very happy with my logo as a .gif...too low of quality and I can't really lose detail in the "portals." But I will play around with it!

Thanks for the pointers!

[WebJoel]

Instead of using HTML in a non-semantic manner to create that 'dashed line' (see screenshot), -just give the element below a dashed border-top:<div id="content" style="border-top:2px dashed silver;"> Add some padding-top to this, and maybe a margin-top to 'space up' the vertical whitespace, and you've improved the code. :)

(change pixel-size, color, etc. to whatever you want).

[portalgraphics]

Instead of using HTML in a non-semantic manner to create that 'dashed line' (see screenshot), -just give the element below a dashed border-top: Add some padding-top to this, and maybe a margin-top to 'space up' the vertical whitespace, and you've improved the code. :)

(change pixel-size, color, etc. to whatever you want).

oooooooooooh i like that! thanks!

[clarkvan]

im not the most experienced here so I shouldnt be sayin' anything but I would change the center logo to something with more depth... other then that VERY NICE LAYOUT!! I love the way the menu bar and page stick up into the orange, georgeous!!

[WebJoel]

...You've got an h1 tag wrapping your header image, which doesn't even have an alt tag... Postee means title="describe this element" "alt=" is for image-only and displayed in the absence of the image ('images turned off'), or for the blind as descriptive text.