lethaldose opened this issue on Sep 04, 2002 ยท 5 posts
lethaldose posted Wed, 04 September 2002 at 2:59 PM
Attached Link: http://www.angelfire.com/ego/republicofrkm/
Hi. Just wanted you to know that my homepage has all new design 'cause I have got to know Photoshop better... Please comment my site with hot's and not's... Note that there aren't a lot to offer yet but I just wanted your oppinion before making more. Thanks! http://www.angelfire.com/ego/republicofrkm/
Esgaroth posted Thu, 05 September 2002 at 1:09 AM
The "enter" picture's file size is a bit large, use file>save as for web in photoshop to fix that problem... you should be able to get it down to somewhere of half the file size it is right now. The same goes for your main logo which is a big hard to read. The light blue text is also a bit hard to read... but thats not really much of a problem. To be honist the only magor problem is the un-nesacery file size of all the pics. You could save probably a bit by making some of the pics in your ps tutorials as gifs. A back to top link at the bottom of your tutorial wouldn't go astray either. I like it
cambert posted Thu, 05 September 2002 at 5:00 AM
I like the fresh clean look about the site; it's nice and uncluttered. It's also easy to navigate, which is always a big plus point. I'd agree with Esgaroth's comments about the file sizes - people with dial-up connections aren't going to hang around and wait for everything to download (remember, plenty of people have to pay for phone time when they're online). Your aqua buttons are effective but they fight with the blurred banner - they're two different design concepts. I'd suggest getting rid of the banner and sticking with the buttons. The blurring makes the banner really hard on the eyes, and the grass effect (nicely done in itself) doesn't make much sense in the context of the banner. The aqua buttons are bright, colourful, and lend an upbeat quality to the page - all very welcome. I'm so tired of all those 'mechanoid-black-background-I-wanna-be-a-transformer' styled pages that seem to go with the territory ;-) Congrats on having the vision to do something different. Content-wise, it's hard to say anything much, for obvious reasons, but it's great that you've started off by providing tutorials. Good luck with the site - it's shaping up really well.
spiderwebb posted Thu, 05 September 2002 at 9:41 PM
RKM~Dude your site rocks....I'm iMac with OSX,....which apparently works perfect with your site. There were no large file delays or blurry banners for me. I went through your navigation & everything worked fine. Only one glitch for my visit & that was the hyper-linked "here" off of the Photoshop page to go to the tutorial for the aqua buttons. On the page it linked to, the buttons (RKM) at the top were huge and distorted...but only on that one page. I'll definately be checking back for more tutorials.
retrocity posted Fri, 06 September 2002 at 9:00 AM
Spiders right, the logo "rkm logo.jpg" is set for width="976" height="109" but on the other pages it is set for width="299" height="109"
One other thing I would mention,and this is in the backroom (code) aspect of your site, try not to leave spaces in the name of your images. The HTML generator throws a %20 in between the words to allow the browser to interpet the space, but some browsers "throw-up" and display a "broken" graphic image instead.
I sometimes use a _ or a - to tie file names together. It's probably a good habit to get into.
BTW, good job, looking forward to seeing more...
:)
retrocity