Re: personal homepage

Being a designer for a company, I tend to look at things from a very
corporate perspective.  Please forgive me if my observations are a little
too "gray flannel suit" for you ;-)

If you can do it, I would make the graphic on the opening page a transparent
GIF.  I can see where the background color is a little different from the
page background.

Try to give a little more information on the opening page, let the viewer
know what it's about.  Perhaps just a text navbar at the bottom with the
links found on the next page.

Every site is always under construction, so I'd dump the under construction
graphic on the second page.

I like the llamas.

I also like the white text on blue background.  Reminds me how nice
WordPerfect 5.0 for DOS looked on a color monitor.  I'm not so keen on the
purple background on the chicken page.  Especially with black, serif text.

All in all, a pretty good job.

HTH -
Mike Eovino
Webmaster
Estes Express Lines
http://www.estes-express.com/beta



-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Doylend <mcei8nd2(at)fs1.ci.umist.ac.uk>
To: hwg-critique(at)hwg.org <hwg-critique(at)hwg.org>
Date: Thursday, June 24, 1999 3:00 PM
Subject: personal homepage


Hello, I've just been browsing through this list; it appears to be
stuffed with helpful people ready to tear apart (in the nicest
possible way) a shakey web page.  Perhaps if you've got a
moment you could tear my page apart, as well as my poor
spelling and questionable use of the semi-colon!

It's a personal page, so it doesn't have to sell anything, simply
showcase my own design skill (?!).  I've attempted to avoid the
'techno-nerd-with-homepage' look as much as is possible for a
techno-nerd with a homepage.

Some of the older parts are not consistent with the style of the
'front end' parts, but I'm working slowly towards integrating
everything nicely.  It ought to be OK in most browsers on most
pc configurations.  The newest parts look best in Explorer, the Quake
stuff looks best in Navigator, it all looks OK in Opera!  (Sorry
'bout that, it's just what you get for developing a page really
slowly on different computers!)

Before I forget:

http://www.geocities.com/soho/2177/

Thanks for any constructive criticism!

Nick

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