Needed professional review of my personal web site!!

**gregoryM** · 12-10-2004, 03:14 PM

Hello to everyone, I would be very glad to get your suggestion about design and functionality of my web site.
GregoryM

Thanks
Gregory

**cal.designs** · 12-11-2004, 02:59 AM

i like it, maybe you can change the quality of your picture, finalize the edges because it looks a lil "pixelized" but exept that, its very fresh and good looking !

**pixelputty** · 12-11-2004, 07:53 AM

Sign up and login need lightening up alittle, rollovers would be nice on the menu area, it`s not a bad looking site, well done and good luck.

**cch068** · 12-11-2004, 07:35 PM

Logos appear to be pixelated or just not quite crisp enough. The overall template and design looks great. My personal opinion would be to focus on making the gifs for the links a little more crisp.

**orsopanda** · 12-12-2004, 04:52 AM

I like it very much because it's different to all the other web site, but the font of this text "Developer: GregoryM Technologies: ASP3 Programming Languages: DHTML, JAVAScript, XML, XSL" I don't like because for me it doesn't seem so good to the rest of the site. And the pictures in the left menu are of a poor quality, maybe just a thumbnail with some of the pic? But it's truely one of the greatest sites that I've seen!

**netdtek** · 12-12-2004, 05:07 AM

Nice site. You've done a great job here. I found some of the reverse text direction and other textual information and hyperlinked graphics a little hard to read or understand at my 1024 x 800 resolution settings. Your logo is eye catching, but vague until you read that the site is for web site work. Maybe catch some attention with larger font size here and there and darker the text on the mouse over info - I especially like the way you use the hover (?) or script with the info on mouse overs of clients and recent projects. Looks real slick only consider a darker font color possibly.

**XIRE** · 12-12-2004, 11:11 AM

VERY NICE. i like it alot. simple layout is very nice in this case.

**wizdude** · 12-12-2004, 01:12 PM

I like it...but the rainbow graphic seems out of place somehow...

**gregoryM** · 12-13-2004, 11:29 AM

I am glad that my work went good!!!

**gregoryM** · 01-04-2005, 04:18 PM

reminder

**davemies** · 01-04-2005, 04:47 PM

on this page http://www.gregorym.net/clients.asp when you mouse over the logos you can see the inline styles displayed before the text (literally <span style=" .....) in firefox 1.0 in win xp

**faze1** · 01-04-2005, 07:19 PM

I noticed the same problem that davemies mentioned, also the mouseovers are a little jumpy. Over all I like it, very original. Personnally I think the rest of the web in general could benefit from a little more roundness, eveything is so 90 degreed. Your site gave me some curves to look at, I appreciate that.

Good job,

**nasaboy007** · 01-04-2005, 08:08 PM

i like the simple layout. only thing is that there should be a button for home more clearly labeled. it took a while for me to find the link. also, there is an image blocking some of the words on the homepage. mite want to look into that

over all great site.

**ZeebleHosting** · 01-05-2005, 05:28 AM

I like it alot, however I would just suggest fading those shapes out a bit more so that they are more of a backgorund.

**TaylorAtCTS** · 01-05-2005, 11:40 PM

I like the overall design of your website, but there are some things I would change..

- I dont like the way you display your content. For example the web development page, it just doesnt flow well.

- It seems to take to long load...

- Your code my friend.. you used tables whyyyyy!!! Tables were NEVER meant for layout, they were meant for tabular data :@ Use CSS for layout

- Another complatint about the tables... well it loads soo ugly.. it loads one piece at a time.. thanks to tables, divs display as they are loading.. not when theyre 100% loaded

- I DO like the graphic with your name, look simple and professional.

- Your website is not at all optimized for search engines

- You have javascript in the html file.. WHY!!! so bad for search engines and its just not good web design practices IMO.

Sorry :P Im harsh but your site looks good overall

5/10

**davemies** · 01-06-2005, 05:17 AM

it's ok to use tables if they are suitable for your design. tables were never explicitly stated to be *not* used for layout - while i agree that css would be the way to go, tables work fine.

**TaylorAtCTS** · 01-06-2005, 08:46 AM

not in my opinion, the look AWFUL here.. when it loads it looks likea puzzle being built right before my eyes. Tables are slower to load and are unprofessional.

**davemies** · 01-06-2005, 09:02 AM

then that's because maybe th page size is too large.

in what way are they unprofessional?

what about using them for data? would then they be slow to load and unprofessional?

interestingly in Eric Meyer's book "Eric Meyer on CSS" ( http://www.ericmeyeroncss.com/ ) he converts an html layout to a css controlled layout - still in tables. He's a recognised authority on css. I'm not saying that this layout wouldn't 'better' as a css-p one, nor that wouldn't load more pleasingly (at least in your eyes) but to say using tables for layout is unprofessional and slow enough to make them not worth using is wrong in my opinion.

it seems strange as well then that you should use tables on yuor own site http://www.customtailoredsolutions.com/ and even font tags! tut tut very unprofessional

though to be fair it does say that "We are currently in the process of redeveloping our website."

i don't want to spend umpteen hours in arguments back and forth over the validitity of using tables or not. I respect and agree with your move towards totally css controlled layouts, but i don't agree that tables shouldn't be used at all.

IMO (and posssibly that of many others) professionals choose the best tools methods for the job... which sometimes may include using tables.

**TaylorAtCTS** · 01-06-2005, 12:09 PM

Lol, I'm not saying never use tables.. im just saying they look bad here... the way it loads looks very funny it looks like puzzle pieces comming together.

**davemies** · 01-06-2005, 12:28 PM

yeah, i know what you mean