Newcomer in need of some advice.

[DiverseMedia]

Hello, I'm new to this forum. I've been searching long and hard for a forum that I can express myself and interact with people who have a passion for webdesign.

I'm a young (not telling my age that soon) Miami native. Webdesigning is my passion. I've been doing it for about 2 and half years now. Half a year ago i decided to work on a webdesigning company. Between the last 6 months and now I have made sketches, plans, and advertising deals on this website/company. I have some of it done but I need an honest opinion on what I have at the moment.

http://www.thedreamfan.com/diverse-media

Its not much but its what I have. Im looking for some honest critism so I can better my skills.

Keep in mind I am young. heh

Anthony always says...

"A life? Hmm... where can I download one of those"?

[Judi A]

One problem, your layout is based on a person using the smallest text setting. Older people like me usually use at least medium text size. If you viewer uses a larger text size the back part of the person (you?) is cut in half, and is also enlarged!

Judi

[DiverseMedia]

I knew I forgot something!. I forgot to make the layout compatible with all resolution and text sizes. Thank you very much!

Anthony always says...

"A life? Hmm... where can I download one of those"?

[DiverseMedia]

Hey guys thank you for your support.
Im on the right track now. Im fixing up my errors and making the design more compatible for other browsers.

Other than that, what do you think of it considering a 14 year old made this , heh.

Anthony always says...

"A life? Hmm... where can I download one of those"?

[DiverseMedia]

Hello, I'm new to this forum. I've been searching long and hard for a forum that I can express myself and interact with people who have a passion for webdesign.

I'm a young (not telling my age that soon) Miami native. Webdesigning is my passion. I've been doing it for about 2 and half years now. Half a year ago i decided to work on a webdesigning company. Between the last 6 months and now I have made sketches, plans, and advertising deals on this website/company. I have some of it done but I need an honest opinion on what I have at the moment.

http://www.thedreamfan.com/diverse-media

Its not much but its what I have. Im looking for some honest critism so I can better my skills.

Keep in mind I am young. heh

Anthony always says...

"A life? Hmm... where can I download one of those"?

[BobInce]

There are a few problems you'll notice with non-IE browsers too.

Netscape 4: broken image shown due to <img>s pointing to spacer.gif instead of images/spacer.gif (oops!). The inner content table inherits the background of the cell containing it, a well-known annoying N4 bug. Workaround: give the inner table 'background=""' or style 'background-image: none'. There are a few small gaps in parts of the table, probably fixable by ensuring all tables have 'border="0"'.

Opera: excessive top/bottom space caused by unnecessary 'height="100%"' in the spacer <img>s. Page not centred, possibly fixable by giving outer table 'width="100%"' or 'align="center"'.

Mozilla/N6: large gaps between some table elements, caused by width miscalculation due to excessive use of colspan. There might be a row with the wrong number of columns in or it may just be a bug in Moz, but using colspan so heavily invites this sort of problem on many browsers and makes the HTML extremely difficult to maintain.

General: the CSS has a few problems - #080880black isn't a valid colour and there seems to be a stray 'text-transform:' that doesn't belong there. Also, are links supposed to disappear when you hover them? This is probably not a good idea for usability.

You could size the fonts in px from CSS to avoid the layout breaking when things are resized, but this wouldn't be a good idea since the current font size is unreadable for most people. A flexibly-sized, resizable-font layout of this nature is entirely possible, but it might not be easy with the already over-complicated sliced-images-and-nested-tables approach ImageReady has saddled you with. You'll need a tiling image for the ceiling bit at the top, and an extended fade-out image for the left so that the content can be any size without breaking, anyway.

Anyway, yeah. Promising. Looks nice. Keep at it, and post here or mail if you need any help with a simplified table or CSS layout approach.