New site design

[Vanda]

Right now I'm just working on the look of the site. Well also want to make sure my coding is good though I did have some help by doing the initial layout in Image Ready and Photoshop. So some code was done for me. I've been adding some more here and there based on stuff I've found so far in books and on the web. Anyway if you have the time please take a look and tell me what you think of it so far.
It's way different than it was before.
Take a peek huh?
Graphic Ills (http://www.graphic-ills.com)
Thanks ahead of time for anyone looking and basing an opinion and sharing :D

[zingmatter]

Your code looks fine. Your design: might want to get some fluidity, i.e. rather than having it all boxed off, see if you can get the elements to "flow" into each other a bit - just a thought anyway.

Tighten up the width of your text a little and re-consider your choice of fonts - Times, being the usual browser default - doesn't render well (and looks a bit dated these days on the web) - and (this is just a personal thing) Comic Sans is horrible font.

Overall, my main impression is that your site might benefit from pulling all you elements together and avoid some much white space.

Oh, I'm not sure about the nav buttons - do you really need the glass/gel effect? It doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the site.

Hope this helps

[Vanda]

C'mon guys! I need more input. Good or bad.
The glass buttons are supposed to go with the theme of the page. You know how you see those little jade elephant statues in the asian decor stores? (Green of course) That's what the buttons are supposed to resemble, jade.

[rapid]

i quite like the buttons, but i agree about the look of separateness of the different elements. the white and grey seem to bland and boring for a subtle graphics site. id suggest sticking with red and green. could use an eyedropper (http://eyedropper.inetia.com/) to get a pale red from the graphic ills title and a pale green from the jade buttons, and use them in place of the grey and white. or have the whole background dark red so it blends in with the header.

font difinitely needs changing.

what is the 'choose your path' thing for? looks like its asking the user to do something...

in firefox the red text continues on below the grey box its supposed to be in.

[Vanda]

The choose your path thing is directing people to pick which button to click on or which page they want to look at.
I could try other colors for the background but the buttons are set against a whitish color.
The font has been changed. I went with georgia. It seems to look nice. I just have netscape and IE at home and work, sorry if firefox is having issues. Unless there's a way to fix that?

[Jona]

Overall, I think it looks pretty good. A good idea, and a decent choice of colors. There's just a couple things, though, that might be better.

I'd recommend using CSS for your rollovers. You can even preload them (http://wellstyled.com/css-nopreload-rollovers.html).

Your text is breaking out of the Slice-06 DIV. Take out the "height" property to fix that.

And, finally, change the font. Times or Times New Roman is the ugliest font I think I've ever come across. I'm not talking about the header tags that you gave the Georgia font -- that's fine. That font is great. I'm talking about the normal text. I'd go for something sans-serif and easier to read, such as Verdana or Trebuchet MS.

Good luck!