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[Dh.]

My new site Reality Web Design is just up and running. It's my place to show off my web design.

What do you think

Dh89

[MAdEinUK1]

Nice clean design =)

[Aussiestinger]

simple and nice, reminds me heaps of that sthreer blog, but oh well, nice colours, just maybe add a roll over effect to the navigation.

[Dh.]

Yeh, added the rollover, and it is similar to sqthreers but i can promise I did not copy it.

[Aussiestinger]

That helped it I dunno if a light green would be better, to keep the pink/green going obviously and to make it stand out more. =/

[Indigo]

- Try making the gradient on the top blend in a bit better with the rest of the design (making the gradient grey>white instead of grey>brighter grey).
- It's incredibly like sqthreer's blog, the colors, the layout, everything. But I like sqthreer a lot better for some reason I can't really explain. Maybe just because I saw it first?
- Too simple! It's hard to make just text on a white background looking good, I'd try to add some more elements.

[sq3r]

I really like that light gradient you added at the top, it gives it a much nicer feeling.

As for some things it needs done: When ran through an XHTML validator it doesn't pass, so that's something you could work on. And I don't know if it was purposeful or not, but the links in the sidebar aren't consistent among all the pages. On any pages beside the home page, the affiliate section is gone and the resources section shows itself.

[amcdeathknight]

Nice; check your spelling though. I found several words wrong on the Designs and Web tempates page.

[Wybe]

I do think you mixed in minimalism to a nice degree; it's not too plain/boring, and not too busy/chaotic

a.k.a. brilliant

[Dh.]

Yeh theres a couple of small things i need to do, then it will be ready, cheers for your help

[sq3r]

One thing is that I would rather you link to my blog, since there's nothing on my main site other than a link to my blog, and it's gonna be like that for a while. And is there any way you can prevent it from displaying your domain name in the address bar even when you're browsing my site?

[Matthew.]

nice colour schemee (u mind if i nick it lol). I think when you do a design that simple, the dividing lines is a no. try to use something to else seperate content. But overall its not bad

Edit: oh and for the adress bar-less thing you wanted. A giant address barless popup would be your best bet (forgive the desription, i cant remember the parameters at this second )

Edited by .Matt, 14 May 2006 - 10:41 AM.

[Dh.]

Sqthreer, I will fix the address bar thing for you, (make it pop-up in a new window maybe) don't forget about my link though mate

Thanks for the comments guys

[Futingkiller]

Sqthreer you look realy mad in that picture (joking)
ya you could make it a pup up window for that
I don't get something :

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META name="resource-type" content="document">
<META name="audience" content="all">
<META name="distribution" content="global">
<META name="robots" content="INDEX, FOLLOW">
<META name="revisit-after" content="10 days">
<META name="description" content="Web design by Dale Humphries.">
<META name="keywords" content="web design, dale humphries, web, design">

what is all that meta for?
can any1 explain? pls pls

[sq3r]

.Matt, on May 14 2006, 03:39 PM, said:

nice colour schemee (u mind if i nick it lol). I think when you do a design that simple, the dividing lines is a no. try to use something to else seperate content. But overall its not bad

What dividing lines are you talking about? Do you mean the ones on the Designs and Web Templates page? If so, I agree. The plain old horizontal rules aren't very pleasing to the eyes. You could maybe style them so they're just a regular light gray line.

Dh89, on May 14 2006, 05:15 PM, said:

Sqthreer, I will fix the address bar thing for you, (make it pop-up in a new window maybe) don't forget about my link though mate

Thanks for the comments guys

Yeah I just added your link :]

Futingkiller, on May 14 2006, 07:07 PM, said:

Sqthreer you look realy mad in that picture (joking)
ya you could make it a pup up window for that
I don't get something :

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META name="resource-type" content="document">
<META name="audience" content="all">
<META name="distribution" content="global">
<META name="robots" content="INDEX, FOLLOW">
<META name="revisit-after" content="10 days">
<META name="description" content="Web design by Dale Humphries.">
<META name="keywords" content="web design, dale humphries, web, design">

what is all that meta for?
can any1 explain? pls pls

Yeah I was purposely making a mean face, don't worry.

Most of that meta stuff isn't totally necessary, but here's an extensive list of meta tags and their purposes: http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/

[Indigo]

Quote

- Try making the gradient on the top blend in a bit better with the rest of the design (making the gradient grey>white instead of grey>brighter grey).

WHOA, I quoted myself

But I´m glad you changed it, looks a lot better now

[Dh.]

Thanks Indigo, it does look better. Also i'm looking for some affiliates, so if anybody wants to affiliate, then please PM me

[Matthew.]

sq3r, on May 15 2006, 01:35 AM, said:

.Matt, on May 14 2006, 03:39 PM, said:

nice colour schemee (u mind if i nick it lol). I think when you do a design that simple, the dividing lines is a no. try to use something to else seperate content. But overall its not bad

What dividing lines are you talking about? Do you mean the ones on the Designs and Web Templates page? If so, I agree. The plain old horizontal rules aren't very pleasing to the eyes. You could maybe style them so they're just a regular light gray line.

That as well I also mean seperating the nav from the main content area.