Feedback on updated site please?

[Mchilly]

I was checking your website a while ago and I think your website is too simple since you do graphic arts, you might as well put graphic design in the homepage or something to catch attention, sorry but I have to say its quite boring.

[Intbel]

I was checking your website a while ago and I think your website is too simple since you do graphic arts, you might as well put graphic design in the homepage or something to catch attention, sorry but I have to say its quite boring.

What do you suggest?

[Availor]

What do you suggest?

May I suggest the following: Go to your promp command and type in format:c\
then press enter.

Will solve all your problems trust me

To be honest: Your site is still too long, I like your flash scroller but there is an empty cell so either put more information or remove it.

Your Javascript has a bug (for me using a firefox) Check the screenshot - that's what I see when I press the arrows.

Keep it up!

[Intbel]

May I suggest the following: Go to your promp command and type in format:c\
then press enter.
Will solve all your problems trust me

I have no problems ..

To be honest: Your site is still too long, I like your flash scroller but there is an empty cell so either put more information or remove it.

There will be more cells. There will always be a blank cell between the end and the beginning of the sequence.

Your Javascript has a bug (for me using a firefox) Check the screenshot - that's what I see when I press the arrows.

I reckon Firefox has a bug

[miress]

to Alanstancliff:

Yes "We are a friendly group of people here" as you said, but everybody have own opionon and this forum is there for to say own opinion. Good or bad.


I agree with Mchilly....youe site is so boring....I advice to look for inspiration on actual trends, graphic design etc. Learn something about design, about presentation, reset your site, and start again. It is my personal opinion.



hold on....I keep fingers

[Intbel]

I agree with Mchilly....youe site is so boring....I advice to look for inspiration on actual trends, graphic design etc. Learn something about design, about presentation, reset your site, and start again. It is my personal opinion.

Suggestions welcome ...

[pauland]

Hi Intbel.

It seems to me that your site has a small identity crisis. On the one hand it has personal musings and on the other hand it's offering your services. I think that can work if your musings and the services you offer coincide, but I'm not sure that is the case here. I think most talkgraphics people accept your site as a personal one rather than a marketing one, so in that case we can accept the warts and all.

As a marketing venture it's got problems and miress and others have a point. The best way forward if you want to develop a site to market your services would be to have a marketing specific site and really work on that to get the presentation as it should be and remove any personal musings.

Big Frank has already mentioned "Before and After" magazine in another thread and that would be a great place to start; I'd also suggest googling for other sites that offer similar services and check out what the opposition is doing.

If you're approaching all this as a laid-back hobby, then just leave sleeping dogs lie, as it were.

Paul

[alanstancliff]

Hi Mchilly,

I see you're new here, so welcome aboard. We are a friendly group of people here.

I suspect Raymond isn't going to respond directly to your statement that his site is "boring." With all due respect, that characterization does not give him feedback he can use to improve his site.

In my opinion, Raymond's site is not boring. But then he's an on-line buddy of mine. It is a personal site, not a business site, so I was not bored looking at it, even though it certainly is not the most flashy and compelling location on the web.

From what I know of Raymond, graphics is a hobby and his site is a hobby too. He will charge one a nominal fee for making a signature, but that's because a lot of people have asked him and he didn't have the time to fulfill all the requests. He is currently "redundant" (a horrible term), and he has been spending his time on art, music, motorcycles, and an approach to "personal development." He's been on this board for donkey's years and has made lots of contributions here.

So what Raymond is trying to do is learn about building a site, showing of some of his artwork, providing a place for a few friends to talk about stuff, (his forum), and as he says, it's a work in progress. Even making a simple site is a fair amount of work and involves a fair amount of tedium. Probably when he gets bored, he whips out his mandolin and practices that for a while. What Raymond would appreciate are specific suggestions about how he can improve his site.

We engage in a fair amount of good-natured ribbing of each other here, and it has been rumored that some of us are a bit eccentric. But most of us (at least in our better moments) attempt to be supportive of others efforts when they ask for help.

Looking over your site, I see you have some experience in graphics and web sites. We will welcome all contributions you can make here too.