Please review

[Teke]

Hello Webbies,

I'm a developer who in the past left design to the designers. But recently
waded into css ( the water is fine ). I would be grateful for any constructive criticism you have to offer and of course, compliments are welcome too!

http://users.pullman.com/teke/mulesear/index.asp

Teke

[Teke]

some things I haven't had time to do are link the logo to the home page and link the three boxes on the top page to their content pages.

[the tree]

That's a pretty neat design, there's a few validation problems but they're only stuff like not closing empty elements.

I would suggest that you have a contact form as well as/ instead of your mailto link.

[Green-Beast]

I like it as well. I'll add to what tree wrote by one thing: I found the banner a bit difficult to read. A subtle white glow around the text might fix that.

You should probably change your charset to ut-8 or ut-16 since you're sending the document without the xml declaration and as text/html instead of application/xhtml+xml.

Very nice site. Good design.

[wamboid]

Nice design. I like things that are simple in nature and get the point across. I agree that a form would be better than the mail to link.

Also, I would change is that it starts down on the screen just a bit too far for my taste. Not much though, I wouldn't want it too high either. It just felt a bit off to me.

Only other thing I notice is the font sizes, not that they are bad, just unchangable. You use px for them in your css, which won't change size in ie. Using em rather than px would allow someone with poor eyesight to increase the size.

Again, very nice!

[zingmatter]

Nice design. Might think about moving the whole thing up a few pixels as there's a lot of dead space at the top (prehaps more obvious on my 800x600 monitor). The drop shadow on the ME logo is cropped and would look better if all the shadow was there. Also, it isn't necessarily clear what ME stands for.

Just little niggles though.

[Big Jay]

the black text on drop shadow on pattern is too hard to read. glow idea or maybe making the text white or another bright color might help.

there is too much space above the layout.

PAGE NOTES
Navigation. Since you use a white rule under the buttons maybe the same color between them might bring it together a little more.

the brown rule under the title image seems more like a mistake than a design element. repeat that rule at the bottom of your content box would help tie it all together.

The portfolio might be confusing to a new business looking to see what you have done. I would assume the images are actually links. may want to make them all the same size, maybe use screen capture of page. Because of this I had to wander around clicking on the other names to see if they where links. causes a moment of confusion so you may want to rethink the presentation.


Those 3 catagories seem like nice big buttons. maybe make them links.

Alot of my crits are based on my looking at your site from a client's perspective, who is getting to know you and wanting to make their entry into the site as easy and informative as possible.

[Teke]

Thanks everyone for you comments. I learned a lot.
One question ...the comment about content type and meta

tags, I didn't understand.