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redpop
06-25-2005, 03:40 PM
You guys have been great.
Recently (5 mos.) started coding again. Hadn't done anything in about 15 yrs.

With the help of HTMLGoodies.com and yourselves, I was able to recode my wife's art site that she created using one of those design programs(?). Added a one page catalog/order form and contact page that runs through NMS, hooked in a CSS.

Will start checking out the SEO and Ecommerce forums next.

the site is: www.blessingsbyjule.com (http://www.blessingsbyjule.com)

Any and all feedback welcome.
Thanx to all!

bokeh
06-25-2005, 09:48 PM
That background image doesn't tile properly!

LJK
06-25-2005, 11:41 PM
Hi -
It's a good start but please get into your css studies...
[Just selfish, of course, hate sifting through the tabular gook ;-).]

Once you get more confident, play around with alternates to the centered page that's much too long [-get the Back to Top anchors going!] My favorite arrangement was About the Artist since it wasn't smack dab in the middle.

Background would still be effective if the content had a white - even transparent white, to help show the text better. Those top links grew on me, but overall were hard to see and read - thank goodness for the hover effect.

Keep going & have fun,
El

P.S. - Nice sculptures!

dera
06-26-2005, 09:50 AM
welcome back, if your starting you should start with the latest so you dont get into any bad habbits try XHTML. Your navigation isn't clear dont use the image as a backround it would look better if you had a box design like with the content right at the top with a certain colour a softer or darker colour below for the title then the content and footer somthing like that postioning like though will work better. Good work though with Valid HTML i hope you enjoy webdeveloping and stay with it./

Rabidus_lupus
06-26-2005, 09:52 AM
I think you should put everything in a background size division. Just use "overflow-y:scroll" in the style part. Also, I would recommend a different picture for your "About the Artist" section. People want to see a face when they learn about someone. Not the back of their head. I think you should make your links more noticable somehow. I'm not sure how many people will notice that you have links after "Name..." in the science section. I got lucky because I was actually looking for them. You want people to just notice them as they come. Perhaps if you lighten the background a little bit with a photo editor you will be able to see the text a little better. Maybe.