Shouting Tees review request, My custom/funny t-shirts business |
Shouting Tees review request, My custom/funny t-shirts business |
Sean77771 |
Oct 12 2006, 04:27 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 12-October 06 Member No.: 416 |
Hi. I started up this business a month or so ago. I sell funny/custom t-shirts. Would you please review my site so I know what it is that I should change? I feel as though it seems a bit unprofessional and would appreciate any input. Thanks.
www.shoutingtees.com |
Cameron |
Oct 13 2006, 07:15 PM
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Novice Group: Members Posts: 28 Joined: 24-September 06 Member No.: 224 |
The website is great! The design is very well done, and the whole page is fun-filled. I suggest, however, that you convert your logo to a .GIF file. It takes quite a while to load on dial-ups, and will still take longer than usual on High speed.
If you want a more professional look you could make the text a bit smaller and use HR tags to add horizontal rules in between paragraphs. The empty white table on the right of the site also looks a bit odd. You could get rid of it and make your logo's width 700 pixels to match the other table. Awesome site! Fun T-shirts! |
Darin McGrew |
Oct 13 2006, 09:30 PM
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WDG Member Group: Root Admin Posts: 8,365 Joined: 4-August 06 From: Mountain View, CA Member No.: 3 |
QUOTE If you want a more professional look you could make the text a bit smaller Smaller? They're already specifying the font size as 9pt, which is inappropriate for general web pages (because of the pt unit; use percentages or em instead), and which hits the minimum font size my browser is configured to enforce. |
Frederiek |
Oct 14 2006, 03:12 AM
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Programming Fanatic Group: Members Posts: 5,146 Joined: 23-August 06 From: Europe Member No.: 9 |
Pass your html page through the validator (don't mix html with xhtml) and pass your CSS through the W3C CSS validator.
BTW, only styles.css gets loaded by the browser. The other two css files can't be found. All that done might start arranging things in your page. |
Peter1968 |
Oct 14 2006, 09:24 AM
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Serious Coder Group: Members Posts: 448 Joined: 23-September 06 Member No.: 213 |
Page is a minor mess in Firefox 1.5.0.7. Fixing the CSS and HTML errors and being mindful of browser quirks will fix most of that. Your frame images don't align correctly and the header and the image are off-centered to the left a bit. See attachment.
Banner is a raw PNG with no compression applied. Possibly better off as a JPG due to the colours. The javascript image pre-loader is arguably unnecessary. Attached thumbnail(s) |
Christian J |
Oct 14 2006, 10:17 AM
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. Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 9,661 Joined: 10-August 06 Member No.: 7 |
The page looks strange in IE6 too. Fixing the validator errors may or may not help.
Also it appears the white background is an image: http://www.shoutingtees.com/images/back_2.gif Unless this image loads you'll get a brown background, which contrasts poorly with some of the text. |
Sean77771 |
Oct 16 2006, 10:50 AM
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I think I'm gonna put the site through a major overhaul. Start from scratch... Any thoughts?
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Darin McGrew |
Oct 16 2006, 10:59 AM
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WDG Member Group: Root Admin Posts: 8,365 Joined: 4-August 06 From: Mountain View, CA Member No.: 3 |
What are your goals for this "major overhaul"?
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Sean77771 |
Oct 16 2006, 01:26 PM
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I'm going to totally redo the whole site... try to make it look more like a business' site rather than a little kid's "Hey everyone look at my dog" site.
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jimlongo |
Oct 16 2006, 02:30 PM
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This is My Life Group: Members Posts: 1,128 Joined: 24-August 06 From: t-dot Member No.: 16 |
to start with you might consider the KISS approach till you get the hang of what works and doesn't. Keep the navigation and html design minimal.
In terms of professionalism i'd say easy navigation and the graphics is more important than fancy web design techniques. |
Peter1968 |
Oct 17 2006, 01:43 AM
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Serious Coder Group: Members Posts: 448 Joined: 23-September 06 Member No.: 213 |
I'm going to totally redo the whole site... try to make it look more like a business' site rather than a little kid's "Hey everyone look at my dog" site. http://www.strangebanana.com/generator.aspx Have a look at some of these and possibly adapt your site from one of the examples it throws up. For a random CSS generator, it comes up with the occasional clever and professional looking design. |
Sean77771 |
Oct 19 2006, 05:22 AM
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Ok, the site has been totally revamped and is up and running. Check it out and let me know if it's better than before!
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jimlongo |
Oct 19 2006, 08:32 AM
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This is My Life Group: Members Posts: 1,128 Joined: 24-August 06 From: t-dot Member No.: 16 |
Still got some overlapping boxes and stuff . . .
looks better, but i guess you didn't like my KISS advice. This post has been edited by jimlongo: Oct 19 2006, 08:34 AM |
Sean77771 |
Oct 19 2006, 10:38 AM
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jimlongo |
Oct 19 2006, 11:51 AM
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This is My Life Group: Members Posts: 1,128 Joined: 24-August 06 From: t-dot Member No.: 16 |
I never use IE, at least not current implementations of it.
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Frederiek |
Oct 19 2006, 02:14 PM
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Programming Fanatic Group: Members Posts: 5,146 Joined: 23-August 06 From: Europe Member No.: 9 |
He probably saw that in Safari on Mac, as I did, cause I saw the same thing.
You might want to take advantage of a quite good CSS tutorial at http://www.westciv.com/style_master/house/index.html And bookmark thiw page too: http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/support/Training...design/css.html |
jimlongo |
Oct 19 2006, 02:24 PM
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. . . anything on a Mac, including FireFox and Explorer
I'd be surprised if it doesn't look like that on FF for Windows as well. This post has been edited by jimlongo: Oct 19 2006, 02:25 PM |
Peter1968 |
Oct 19 2006, 05:16 PM
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Serious Coder Group: Members Posts: 448 Joined: 23-September 06 Member No.: 213 |
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Darin McGrew |
Oct 19 2006, 05:46 PM
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WDG Member Group: Root Admin Posts: 8,365 Joined: 4-August 06 From: Mountain View, CA Member No.: 3 |
FWIW, here's what it looks like in MSIE...
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Sean77771 |
Oct 20 2006, 05:34 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 12-October 06 Member No.: 416 |
Ok, I fixed the layout problems and tested it in IE, Netscape, Firefox, and Opera and all seems to be working well.
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