[Tarnishedwisdom]

hey everybody. i have just finished with this site for my lawn care company...nothing much, but i wanted it to look at least semi-professional. i made it all using notepad, so some of my code might be a little rough, but o well. please tell me what you think and any ideas on how to make it look better/things you didnt like.

http://thelawnwranglers.netfirms.com

thanks a lot ya'll...

[GoJoAGoGo]

Hi:

I looked over your website and could only find one area that could be adjusted to make it look more attractive. The area I'm talking about is the gallery. There is too much white space in the gallery. The pictures aren't laid down straight and even. I believe if you lay down the pictures side by side in a horizontal position with equal space, you will eliminate the unnecessary white space and it will look more appealing.

Just my thoughts in an area that I'm framiliar with. I worked for a few different newspapers over a 10 year period and photo lay out is a key factor in the newspaper/magazine business.

Everything else looks great. Good luck with your website.

[Shadow2531]

I personally don't care for the color scheme (mainly the background), but that's just my opinion. Besides that, I would say it's pretty good.

[NameTooLong]

Ads=Bad... Other than that, the colors don't work well together and I agree with GoJoAGoGo about the gallery having too much whitespace.

[Tarnishedwisdom]

ok ya'll thanks for the replies...i will definately work on the gallery. as far as the color scheme, what colors would you recomend to make it look better? should I go with a solid color like a HEX code...or with the type of background i have now?

Hi tarnished!
I just spent a bit of time at your site
- well done -
The colour scheme is a personal thing, but I am not crazy about the orange on purple either ... tiring on the eyes
this is a neat reference page for colour combos http://entries.the5k.org/171/visualizer.html
I have read some helpful advice on this site ... http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/

I find the light blue on the contacts page hard to read ... again strain on the eyes

... in your Gallery - what if you added some descriptive text in the 'alternative text' field to describe the pic, so you can toot your horn?

... could you mention, somewhere obvious, where you are located? I found out by skimming to the bottom of the Home page, but would suggest it is at least on your Contact page

Also, I took at peek at your source - you need Meta Tags!

al in all ........ very well done<img src="http://forums.techguy.org/attachment.php?s=&postid=764112">
and good luck in the biz!

MDM
(I use NetFirms as well - Great host! ... always there! I am a paid subscriber, but have heard nothing but good on these guys, free or otherwise ... and such a non-intrusive ad )

[deuce868]

I might suggest having some sort of end at the bottom of the page. On the bottom of the prices page there appears to be some sort of bar, but on the home page I do not get any bottom.

I would also suggest going darker on the links...that light blue is rather pale for a while background.

On the gallery I would also think about linking the pics to larger images to get a better look.

I'll echo the color scheme as a bit difficult, but like already mentioned...it is more a personal thing. What really matters is what clients think. I would make sure you have a method for users to provide website feedback.

[GoJoAGoGo]

Perhaps you could enlarge your photos in the gallery to replace the extra white space. But something should be done in the gallery. I like MadDogMugsy idea about putting text under each photo. That would help eliminate the extra white space.

[suzi]

I think you did a great job! Only a few comments - I'm not crazy about the orange either, but I like the blue-purple color. The font is a bit small on my 1024 x 768 monitor, that's with the text size set to medium. Then again, it might be the new progressive lenses The light blue is a bit hard to see also.

The bottom of the pages stops abruptly, expecially the home page like someone else said. The gallery could use some text, or make the pics larger. Or do clickable thumbnails that enlarge, then you could put more pics on. The Lawn Wranglers is a great name!

[Tarnishedwisdom]

thanks for all of the feedback ya'll. i definately have a lot of things to fix. thanks again...your comments were very helpful.

[Tarnishedwisdom]

um...my sense of color is not very good. can you take a look one more time and see how these colors look? i only changed the homepage colors...all the other pages have the old colors. is it an improvement? should i keep on trying other colors? ok, hope that's not too much stuff to ask.

[Shadow2531]

I would change the orange text and orange bullets to a different color.

as for the green for your menu up top and on bottom, I wouldn't use a pic and instead just use bgcolor and set the color to gray.

and a tip for others that want to help.



view Tarnishedwisdom's web page in Internet Explorer. save it as a mht file.

Then view the mht file with internet explorer of course.

Then in IE, view source with notepad and save the source as a htm file. Then you will have a fully functional page with absolute links. That way you can tweak the settings yourself to how you think they should be, then present the full modified page to Tarnishedwisdom. Then Tarnishedwisdom can use that example to change the current page if desireable

[NameTooLong]

I run my display at 1152x864 and this is how the page shows on my screen...

<img src='http://forums2.techguy.org/attachment.php?s=&postid=765623'>

I don't think that's what you were going for. Also, it did this before you changed the color I just forgot to mention it in my original post.

[NameTooLong]

I just viewed your source to see what was causing it and I saw why... your code is a mess. You used a generator didn't you? It is nearly impossible to follow your tables. You need a lot more help than what colors to use, my friend.

[Shadow2531]

NameTooLong is correct unfortunately, but we can all help.

There are some errors in your css file for one and some improper methods are used also.

As for the actual code. Lose the Iframes and just stick to the script and no script part for display the ads, if you must have ads

Also, about 95% of your attrubtes should be defined in css.


Get rid of the tbody tags

use lowercase characters for tags and attributes.

there are a lot more things. I'll set up an example soon.