hey everyone talk to me

[d17oug18]

i have a starter website up, only 2 links work, ^_^ one of them the contacts page, take a looks and gimme some comments on there, either from the site or here =) thanks guys. mantisplace beware! lol jk ill never get your status of greatness =P

 

[hibiscusmile]

greatness is all in the mind, make yourself great!

 

[d17oug18]

This might sound lame and stupid but you my "GIRLFRIEND" lol, are my insepration! i only have like 4 mantis' so that site is far from going "live" for real ^_^

 

[hibiscusmile]

Well keep working on it and you will get there, it takes a lot of time!

 

[d17oug18]

why hasnt anyone told me about my site? lol i really need honest opinions on changes and effectiveness! come on ppl look at my site and tell me what sucks about it lol

 

[Katnapper]

It might help if you supplied a ready-to-click link like this (the web address is buried in your signature, or else you have to go to your profile to find it):

[SIZE=18pt]Doug's Website[/SIZE]

The background is cool, but there's not much yet to critique. Clicking all over the page, I couldn't find any active links. It's a good start though!

 

[Eldur]

It looks good but I found it very difficult to read the text with that background in the middle, hard on your eyes.

 

[d17oug18]

oh snap, im working on firefox and everything works there, wonder what happened with IE lol thats wierd! lol

ok everyone, browser problem is fixed, and are now working again, please check it out once more and goto my contacts page, OR just critize here, thanks yall!

 

[Giosan]

Hey Doug!

I kind of know some things about making websites... As i did go to school for it.

Anyways!

The red is unreadable and actually not done. Red + Blue is a very hard combination and not easy to use. The way you use it, is not reconmended.

I would change the red into white, and put the opacity of the black background to 50%. You could also chose to change the background color to white with 50% opacity, and black letters. Maybe red letters will be acceptable.. not sure!

The menu is fine, and easy to use!

I will not go into details and stuff, but i think in the overall it will look much better if you would just change that little thingy thing

Good job and good luck

 

[PhilinYuma]

Congratulations Doug!

It now seems to work in any of the browsers that I tried, including Chrome.

Everybody is right about the color, though. Yours is a commercial site, and its one purpose is to have people read about your wares as quickly and efficiently as possible. They don't need to be distracted by strange color schemes and shadow effects.

It comes up immediately on my setup, but remember that a lot of people are still using dial up (right, Orin?) and it might be slow to load . Have you tried it on a dial up machine?

Lastly, you might want to have someone look at your text and edit it for formal grammar and spelling ("your" for "you are," "skeam" for "scheme"). Lots of people have problems with formal writing, but they are easily solved by using the services of a third party proof reader. Right now, my dog is reading this over my shoulder and will point out any errors for a couple of biscuits.

All in all, though, it looks very promising. Good luck!

 

[PhilinYuma]

BTW, Doug,

I don't know whether or not you saw the tiny link that Giosan have to their website, but it is well worth a look: http://www.beestje.eu/homepage.html.

Notice how easy it is to navigate through their pages, even if you don't speak the language!

 

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BTW, Doug,I don't know whether or not you saw the tiny link that Giosan have to their website, but it is well worth a look: http://www.beestje.eu/homepage.html.

Notice how easy it is to navigate through their pages, even if you don't speak the language!

[SIZE=14pt]hey Phil do you speak the language?, that website looks cool nice clean.[/SIZE]

 

[PhilinYuma]

[SIZE=14pt]hey Phil do you speak the language?, that website looks cool nice clean.[/SIZE]

Nope. I don't even have a Dutch-English dictionary, but it's the best language I know to fake into English. Look at the Home Page and the item that begins "We heeben hier een ootheek..." I take that to mean, "We have here an ooth that we expect to produce nymphs soon."

O.K. Giosan! Tell me that it really has to do with an old man riding a bicycle into a wall!

 

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[SIZE=14pt]Ya the Ooth I think that it would be what there are saying.[/SIZE]

 

[d17oug18]

i made some new changes, made the letters more legdable changed the writing around. tell me what you think ^_^

 

[Giosan]

Haha Phil, That's quite right actually We Dutch people use a lot of English words Or well... with a twist. Woul love to hear you pronounce it though, haha!

Much better Doug.

 

[hibiscusmile]

Hi Doug, the site is nice, but I still had a hard time reading the white lettering and I think the background was the problem, and also I needs to be caps!

 

[PhilinYuma]

Haha Phil, That's quite right actually We Dutch people use a lot of English words Or well... with a twist. Woul love to hear you pronounce it though, haha!Much better Doug.

Giosan: No way! I know my limitations!

Doug: It does look better, but the background does tend to compete with the text. Any way that you can soften or blur it a bit?

 

[d17oug18]

i put in a new background image, i think it makes reading a little bit easier, let me know D-PLACE WEBSITE