The New DoubleImage

[Jupac]

http://doubleimage.net


Tell me everthing any little thing you want to be fixed i want to make it perfect :cool:

[Ben Rogers]

I'm not a big fan of those colours.
The whole design seems a tad bland, you might want to try drawing something a little more elaborate out, then once you have the design down, doing it with CSS.
There's no real continuous theme... I'd advise expanding on the header, 3d, gellish, grayscale; simple-like.
The smileys are kinda tacky, I'd junk 'em
This layout should be fluid, really. It's too simplistic and lightweight to be static.
Why is everything jammed together in the nav? It's just... bleh. I'd redo that totally, no offense.
You really shouldn't use <i>, if you're using CSS. It'd be easier to just give them an element (a paragraph, or data to the term which would be the date and topic) and giving it a font-style (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#propdef-font-style).
On that note, those updates are a list of updates, ne? So why aren't they done in a list?
Try to avoid line breaks. Block level elements with wrapping text = better.
The sidebar should come after the content, for screen readers sake.
No skip nav link?
Center aligned text is a bit tacky...
"proud to help out webdevelpers by prviding 1st class" This is a business web site, and things should be done more proffesionally than that.
The forum link is dead.
<span class="underline">?!? What is that? Are you emphasizing that text? Shouldn't you be using the <em>phasis tag?

[Jupac]

Done

The smileys are kinda tacky, I'd junk 'em(like the new ones?)
You really shouldn't use <i>, if you're using CSS. It'd be easier to just give them an element (a paragraph, or data to the term which would be the date and topic) and giving it a font-style.
<span class="underline">?!? What is that? Are you emphasizing that text? Shouldn't you be using the <em>phasis tag?(em is italic btw)
No skip nav link?



A little help w/ The sidebar should come after the content, for screen readers sake.

[Ben Rogers]

Originally posted by lakers01
A little help w/ The sidebar should come after the content, for screen readers sake. http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/layout2.html

[chrismartz]

i see you fixed the rollovers....looks much better now!

[Raw Kuts]

I looked at it in Firefox 1.0pr, Konqueror 3.3.0, and Opera 7.54 (all linux, too lazy to go downstairs to a windows machine). In both firefox and konqueror the menu item "WebDev Tools" was broken:
http://rawhide.homelinux.org:1280/~rawkus/images/doubleimage.net.jpg
Or if that was how you wanted it, then it was broken in Opera. I could fix the problem in firefox by reducing the font size, but in konqueror it didn't help even with the font size at it's lowest.

Setting the width of "#navbar li a" to auto would fix it I think, but then it wouldn't go very well with your fixed width layout. So I'm not sure how it could be easily fixed, sorry.

[Jupac]

I fixed that i took out WebDev and just left it as Tools

[Daniel T]

My one main complaint about the site is the general layout. I've gotten really bored of the banner, 2 columns, and footer in a page-like formation layouts. I really like to see layouts that a fresh and orginal, and not like any others I've seen.

I myself am guilty of using the banner, 2 columns, and footer in a page-like formation layouts, but I shall hopefully break that pattern if I ever start blogging again.

[Paul Jr]

You have way too many hacks in your CSS. Some of them are useless, too, like this one:

width: 100%;
\width: 100%;
w\idth: 100%;

What is the point of that? They're all set to 100%, so it doesn't matter which one the browser reads. :confused: Way, way too many hacks.

[lindamoran]

Nice colors on this site, and I like the lettering style of Double Image. The layout is simple and it's easy to find stuff. It is much more important to have a simple, standard layout than to have something new and dazzling because real users want information, not to be dazzled. You've created a site that doesn't shout to be noticed, and that's good.

Try and look at your pages with an artist's eye. (If you don't have an artist's eye, fake it. It works for me!) That is, look for whether a page is visually appealing. Simple things like more margin space around your content can make it more visually appealing.

Fix your spelling on this page--doubleimage.net/?p=tools
It reads:

"DoubleImage is proud to help out webdevelpers by prviding 1st class tools to help them at what ever they are wroking on"

(Get in the habit of always running your page through a spellchecker before uploading it. Whether it's fair or not, some visitors will leave if they see a spelling error.)

Cheers! Linda Moran
My writer website (http://www.lindamoran.net)
My publisher website (http://www.betterwaypress.com)

[Jupac]

Originally posted by Paul Jr
You have way too many hacks in your CSS. Some of them are useless, too, like this one:


*Hide Face from shame*:o




And I still Sux at CSS :(

[chrismartz]

what exactly is the point of doubleimage? is there a company behind this or what....you can't really tell by coming to the homepage

[Jupac]

Its my company :cool: Well the site is iffy i lack motivation

[chrismartz]

ah...i see...you should make that known somehow....

[Jupac]

Ehhh I need to make the site its only like the news part i need like content.

[MstrBob]

One thing really bothers me about your page, though. Why must you have dynamic links to non-dynamic pages? Why? WHY? What happened to good old fashion page names. You want to have all info stored in a database, okay. But you're running on an Apache server! Mod_rewrite! It makes it look a lot better, and is much easier to navigate. I'd rather:

http://www.doubleimage.net/tools

then this:

http://www.doubleimage.net/?p=tools


And custom 404 pages are good too. Have the 404 pages retain your layout, that makes it look more professional. The background bothers me. That colour is a bit too bold, methinks. I lighter shade would suit you better. And a bolder border. The grey border isn't cutting it.

You nav column border bothers me as well, a bit more substance? And padding, padding is always good for your news boxes. And something to make the date and author stand out from the text of the update? Seperate them, add some colour, or size, or colour, or some mixture of the three.

Whatever happened to headers? Mark up semantically, then style. Navigation and Misc. in your nav columns, those are headers. Your entry titles are marked up as headers, but as h5? Where's h1-h4? You're nav headers should be marked as <h2> each, methinks, your titles as <h3>, and perhaps these lines:

October 17, 2004, 04:30:01 by admin

as <h4>. Then style them accordingly.

Your site is nice and clean looking, though. Gives a professional touch.

[Jupac]

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ModRewrite Done!!!! Thx you bob and Thx you ryan for the tuterial
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Ima do the <h#> problem later i have to finsh this amreican history poster for school

[dera]

Originally posted by sirhcchris3
what exactly is the point of doubleimage? is there a company behind this or what....you can't really tell by coming to the homepage
it says in big writing website hosting and design

[Ben Rogers]

No offense, Lakers, but don't you think you're biting off more than you can chew by attempting to start a (albeit small) webdesign company? I mean, you're having trouble with your own site...

[Jupac]

Originally posted by Ben R.
No offense, Lakers, but don't you think you're biting off more than you can chew by attempting to start a (albeit small) webdesign company? I mean, you're having trouble with your own site...


HAHAha i See well thats Jick's department. Im in charge of the server and money