http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/my_design/ A Layout forum thread at WPDFD.com en-us 10/26/07, 299 59 2007 2007:%i:1193435962 16:59:22 07/23/08, 205 57 2008 2008:%i:1216871833 22:57:13 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss NineLabs Framework Feed Generator sitemaster@wpdfd.com sitemaster@wpdfd.com http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/my_design/#p2118 http://www.hardheaded409.angelfire.com[url] please give me some feed back good or bad i want to hear what you think]]> 10/26/07, 299 59 2007 2007:%i:1193435962 16:59:22 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/my_design/#p2118 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/my_design/#p2120 http://hardheaded409.angelfire.com/[url]sorry messed up link]]> 10/26/07, 299 02 2007 2007:%i:1193436155 17:02:35 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/my_design/#p2120 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/my_design/#p2122
The design of the site is very well done, but I would like to see a little more content before giving a full review.

I normally advise against a strictly flash-based site simply because you have to work much harder to get indexed by search engines. There's also the possibility (although a small one) that a visitor will not have Flash installed and they'll see a completely blank page.

I my opinion, flash should be used sparingly on the page and only where it makes sense. You can cut out most of the flash by creating a CSS-based navigation menu with links to separate pages and only use it for the ministry's banner (since this is the only piece that actually needs to be animated). Again though, I would like to see the full site before making a final judgment call on what to keep and what can be changed.

Look forward to seeing it.]]> 10/29/07, 302 56 2007 2007:%i:1193669796 09:56:36 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/my_design/#p2122 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/my_design/#p2125 10/29/07, 302 38 2007 2007:%i:1193683119 13:38:39 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/my_design/#p2125 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/my_design/#p2127 A List Apart. The gist of the article though is that since navigation menus are just lists of links, you can create unordered lists and use CSS to style them by creating rules for the ul and li tags. This article has inspired dozens of designs and workarounds at: Listamatic.]]> 10/29/07, 302 58 2007 2007:%i:1193691526 15:58:46 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/my_design/#p2127 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/my_design/#p2128 10/29/07, 302 18 2007 2007:%i:1193692734 16:18:54 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/my_design/#p2128 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/my_design/#p2130 Robert Newton said:
LOL.. I am trying to start a new thread in this forum and can't seem to find the submit/continue/post button after I've written what I need.. LOL.. Can someone help me out here.. I feel like such a Dork..

Choose a category from the main page, then you can click the "Start a new thread here" link. I'll check with the webmaster and see if we can make those a little more visible.]]> 10/30/07, 303 14 2007 2007:%i:1193753687 09:14:47 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/my_design/#p2130 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/my_design/#p2165 http://www40.brinkster.com/universal007]]> 11/09/07, 313 50 2007 2007:%i:1194591038 00:50:38 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/my_design/#p2165 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/my_design/#p2166
My first reaction would be to remove the splash page. Visitors are already at your site, so there's no real need to get them to click again. Splash screens can also have a negative impact in your search ranking, since to them there's no content on the homepage. Remove this and put the most important information you want to convey on the homepage.

Next, I see you have a table-based layout which was made from slices and spacer gifs. While still a valid and useful technique for beginners, it bloats the size of your html pages and can be a pain when it comes time to make changes.

The preferred method now is to keep as little presentational markup in the html as possible and instead use CSS to position and style the elements of your page. It's understandable if you're just getting into web design (as I suspect this is your first site), but there are tons of great tutorials online to help you along the way. Take a look in the article archive here for CSS primers or elsewhere online.

As with the Omar, I'd like to see more content before I give a full critique of the site. I'm a firm believer that the content of a page is much more important than how it looks. If you don't have original or well-provided content, no amount of presentation will help it. It's like putting dressing on a loaf of bread. There's no meat in the sandwich.]]> 11/09/07, 313 36 2007 2007:%i:1194644166 15:36:06 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/my_design/#p2166 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/my_design/#p2348
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