My New Site Design

Design Forums > The Design Studio > Work/Project Feedback & Critique > My New Site Design


Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
Mikey is offline
Junior Member
15 Posts
UK
My New Site Design

This is my new site design I have been working on...

Mike Ingham | Design Portfolio - Web & Graphic Designer

Still need to add more work and tweak a few bits but let me know hat you think.


Last edited by Mikey; 18-01-09 at 03:39 PM.
  Quote Post 1 Posted 14-01-09
Jazajay is offline
Senior Member
578 Posts
Leicester, UK
Hay buddy a few things ~
This can be removed ~
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="INDEX,FOLLOW" />

Because that is what search engines do, unless you tell them otherwise, so is a pointless piece of code.

The keywords meta again can be removed as it is not even indexed.

Your menu should be in a list form, it would reduce your code bloat and be semantically correct as it is a list of links.

This ~
<div id="banner"><img src="http://www.designforums.co.uk/images/home.jpg" alt="The Cutting Room Flyer" /></div>

Can be reduced to ~
<img id="banner" src="http://www.designforums.co.uk/images/home.jpg" alt="The Cutting Room Flyer" />

So again reduces your bloat.

hello should start with a capitol as it is a beginning of a sentence.

This whole section can be changed from ~
<div id="hometext">
hello, welcome to my online website which showcases examples of my work within<br />the <h2>web</h2> &amp; <h2>graphic</h2> design field
</div>

to ~

<div id="hometext">
Hello, welcome to my website which
showcases examples of my work within
the <strong>web</strong> &amp; <strong>graphic</strong> design field
</div>


Then give hometext a rule of
#hometext{white-space: pre}

As that will reduce the br tag, change the h2 tags which are heading tags to the correct strong tag which makes it semantically correct.

Your home link shouldn't be active on your home page, leads to confusion to what page they are on.

Create a plain file call it .htaccess and place this code in it ~

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mikeinghamdesign\.com/ [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mikeinghamdesign.com/$1 [R=301,L]


What this will do is redirect your www. and non www. versions to the www. version.
This in the search engines eyes makes the site 1 site, other wise it is classed as 2 and you will be penalized as a result.

Upload that file to your root directory.

Design wise, simple but I really like it.
Hope it helps
Jaz



1 in 5 children who use computer chatrooms has been approached over the internet by paedophiles ~ Detective Chief Superintendent Keith Akerman
Do your bit - Keep children safe and report illegal content to the IWF.

Proof PC rocks over MAC
~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDedb1Kgjys

Last edited by Jazajay; 15-01-09 at 06:32 PM.
  Quote Post 2 Posted 14-01-09
Alex is offline
Web Designer
14 Posts
Ottawa, Canada
Perhaps it's just me, but something sounds funny about "welcome to my online website..."

I think it could be rephrased to sound a bit more formal.

That being said, I like the simplicity of the site.

  Quote Post 3 Posted 14-01-09
Mikey is offline
Junior Member
15 Posts
UK
Heys guys cheers for the comments.

Thanks for taking the time to comment on my code Jazajay, always good to learn new stuff, I used the <h2> tags for the one that one bit for the only reason that it may have a slight benefit in my search rankings. Is there any benefit?

  Quote Post 4 Posted 15-01-09
Jazajay is offline
Senior Member
578 Posts
Leicester, UK
Hay buddy,
My fault ~
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mikeinghamdesign\.com/ [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mikeinghamdesign.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Should be ~

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mikeinghamdesign\.com [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mikeinghamdesign.com/$1 [R=301,L]


No trailing slash on line 2, it's giving you a redirection loop because of that error, change it and it should fix it, let me know if it doesn't.

Yes h2 tags do have a minor effect but strong tags also have a minor effect and strong is more semantically correct. It is also very doubtful you make any major difference by keeping them as a h2, so you want them to be semantically correct TBH.

Jaz



1 in 5 children who use computer chatrooms has been approached over the internet by paedophiles ~ Detective Chief Superintendent Keith Akerman
Do your bit - Keep children safe and report illegal content to the IWF.

Proof PC rocks over MAC
~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDedb1Kgjys
  Quote Post 5 Posted 15-01-09
Mikey is offline
Junior Member
15 Posts
UK
Changed that, thanks.

  Quote Post 6 Posted 15-01-09
Jazajay is offline
Senior Member
578 Posts
Leicester, UK
No worries,
Having an off day.



1 in 5 children who use computer chatrooms has been approached over the internet by paedophiles ~ Detective Chief Superintendent Keith Akerman
Do your bit - Keep children safe and report illegal content to the IWF.

Proof PC rocks over MAC
~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDedb1Kgjys
  Quote Post 7 Posted 15-01-09
tbwcf is offline
Print/Web Designer
548 Posts
Hi Mike, I like the design only thing I noticed is on your about page you have letter heads as two words (not being picky as I'm rubish at spelling n grammer just guessed you'd missed it.


  Quote Post 8 Posted 15-01-09
furto is offline
Web designer
44 Posts
Sydney, Australia
The site is just great, i love that dark wood grain background. One thing i noticed is the image for 'the cutting room' portfolio item is pixelated and a bit blurry. That is on the home page only, not in the portfolio. Also, on all the pages clicking 'home' takes the user back you your old site, however im sure you will fix this once you implement this as your primary website!

Other than those minor minor things, site looks amazing!



Ryan Furtner
Web & Graphic Designer
www.furtzdesigns.com
  Quote Post 9 Posted 16-01-09
Mikey is offline
Junior Member
15 Posts
UK
Cheers for the comments guys. keep them coming.

  Quote Post 10 Posted 16-01-09
Tags: design, site
Reply

« Previous Thread | Next Thread »

Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


vBulletin® Copyright ©2000-2009, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Content Relevant URLs by vBSEO 3.2.0