Website: Portfolio page

[leigh]

Please don't post this sort of thing in the General Discussions forum. I'm moving it the Gallery and am renaming it in accordance with the Gallery forum rules.
Thanks.

[shadow]

I have a few comments on your site:

When you make a website, usually you make the site viewable for all resolutions or at least 800x600, because not everyone uses 1280x1024 or higher.

The fontsize is too big in my opinion. Usually I look at the size of the text of Explorers' buttons for reference.

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I just watched the sites you have in your portfolio and I must say that I'm a bit surprised that they are all much better than the portfoliosite itself.

But to answer your question: I think it's not bad but it could be better. I hope you can appreciate my comments.:)

[Benork]

Just a couple of things...

im in 1152 x 864 and it looks rather buggered to be quite honest. the design is clean, smart and very nice, but ruined by the fact i cannot view the page in this resolution.


another thing. are u using percentages for your tables? i haven't written a webpage for a while but it looks like something in your code is relying on percentages.


percentages should be avoided like the plague. they cause to many headaches to be worth it.


apart ca, cest genial :)

[Martyr]

Hi,and thanks for reply

The main critic is about the fact that its only viewable in 1080x1024...I know what i dont know its how to correct this someone can help me?

[Cyn]

It looks fine to me, maybe it spans across a little too much, but I don't commonly see 3d designers or the like using anything lower than 1024 (especially on a 19" or 17" monitor). Then again I could be crazy. The text is fairly big for 1600 x 1200 i can't imagine how big it is at 1024x768. Still, looks good and clean.

[Martyr]

Hi all, I have made some minor changes I stille have the resolution trouble but it wont be too long that i will repair it:buttrock:

http://www3.sympatico.ca/mgarnier/page/accueil.htm

[linzi]

My personal opinion is that tables are *the* way to go with web design but you can set the frame widths so that there is definite margins and you can choose where the text resides. I would work out how to use tables for it though because having too many scroll bars is ugly. Set the widths and heights with the consideration that there are many many display settings and be considerate to those poor unfortunate individuals who are still running on a 28.8k if you have the compassion.

As for viewability through lower resolutions - your title image and navigation buttons could cope with being narrower especially since your font size is too large.

[Martyr]

I ask to some of my friend to look at my site...And I think i have a problem with my colored scrollbars they appeir to be grey for evryone exept me...I have made some calibration of the colors to have assorted I made it with some java scripting scrollbars on my site (look at the little picture), Why for most of the users who look at my page the scrollbars are in the default window grey? (im am not a programmer)

[linzi]

It's probably because you are using Internet Explorer (or maybe netscape?). There is html which is only intended for use with IE but I prefer to use Mozilla or the likes for browsing. Javascript is unreliable anyway so I've been advised to use stylesheets. I'm not a programmer but my fiance is.

I'm using opera just now and this is how it looks (1600 by 1200 res, 119 KB) - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/irene.mcgough/images/forums/martin_garnier.jpg

And if I resize the window this happens (40kb) - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/irene.mcgough/images/forums/martin_garnier2.jpg

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You can never really be sure how your site is going to look on other screens you just have to find a happy medium which you can live with.

[Martyr]

Wouahh...its not nice in opera!!:annoyed:

I know that the colored scrollbar are made to fit in IE 5.5 but i suppose that they are many IE 5.5 users here!! so for many person it should be like i want with the colored scrollbars If you have some coding solution for me let me know them please
Linzi: please ask your girlfriend to help me please :hmm:

[linzi]

Since it is your portfolio page you should be aiming for it to be viewable and attractive for as many computers and browsers as possible. Presentation is as important as content when it comes to the portfolio.

IE 5.5 is out of date and insecure I suspect most here are using the most recent version of IE but there are a growing number of people using alternative operating systems, computers and browsers so it's kinda important to keep them in mind.

My boyfriend feels that javascript is really too unpredictable and unreliable for website design which I think means that he doesn't see an obvious solution to your problem without personally going through the code and debugging it. He suggests working with stylesheets instead. Learning to use stylesheets is a handy skill anyway and can make updates a lot easier when done well. Making a portfolio site just now myself and I think that's the way I intend on going. I will probably go through a couple of redesigns before I'm happy - the joys of being an inexperienced student.

I'm actually curious as to the reason for going with javascript for your site? I'm not really aware of the benefits not being a programmer myself. I've just been reading up on current opinions a bit bearing my own site in mind. I want to go with the best solution viable for my portfolio.

[Randuin]

nice :) i dig the shaman alot :P

[Martyr]

Thanks,

Linzi: Can you say how cgtalk(and many other site) do their scrollbar in colors...Its not a javacript use?

Randuin: I have some problem to finish him because of my little 400 mhz But thanks again
:buttrock:

[linzi]

Normally the most browsable websites use very few scrollbars if any at all. Cgtalk uses javascript for the forums but they are using the vBulletin code. And the scrollbar I see on this textbox is an ordinary one and the only one I'm aware of in cgtalk. The default one at the side of the browser is normally more than sufficient for browsing most websites. It's not offensive to the design because the rest of the colours work and the only place I see scrolling as necessary is for a textbox.

Quite often anything fancy with regards to design sites is done in flash.

I guess what I'm saying is that your site doesn't need the scrollbars. It would be more attractive and more readable with the scrollbars turned off and it working as one page even if you keep the frames. The information heirarchy isn't working very well as it is because you have your personal details sitting at the side all the time. This makes it seem like the rest of the content of the site is secondary. An introduction page marking updates is a good idea but your personal details should be seperate.

I dont see anything about your site that wouldn't be done easier in html. Keep the banner in a seperate frame as it's best not having to be reloaded but you should really change the title of the index page so that it tells people that they are at your site. It just says index just now which could be confusing.

[Martyr]

Hi, this thread was created to talk about my old site I ve done another and I took consideration of some comments in this thread please tell me what you think of it!:buttrock:

www.martyyr.com

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