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[hoppo]

Ok i am a driving instructor who is looking to get into web design, my driving school site get good traffic and is on first page for google with a pr of 2.

I lack a bit of flair and i know they are a bit raw but would appreciate some honest views/comments on my sites, they are:

www.mphwebdesign.co.uk and www.martinhopkinssom.co.uk

Just bought dreamweaver so looking to learn this to help jazz them up a bit.

[Mickoe]

Put more colors, put more life! I suggest you also to put more contrast in your links, make them blacker. Also, you need a logo design job bad . But well, it is a nice start.

[Hoot]

what may help it look better is insted of just simply having a background with all of the text slaped on it, create a design with images (don't get me wrong simple isn't bad) when I mean images, look how Pixel2Life is layed out there are set columns you can see where the content goes.

Hoot

[hoppo]

added a couple of new name/logos what do you think?

[PSUser77]

I like the pricing and web packages available on your www.mphwebdesign.co.uk site...but you might want to spruce the site up a bit - I'm thinking maybe a fancier header and some better buttons would help.

Just curious...what programs do you use? Fireworks? Photoshop? HTML coding? What?

[SebLev]

well yeah maybe keep it simple but add some images to make it feel more alive... like Hoot said for the content make it like have a place of its own..... make it look like it belongs and not just slapped on there.......

-try and not use marquees (in your price page of the driving school site)
-Make your subtitles stick out from the rest of the text... not just underline them.... and underlining usualy signifies a link....
- i dont know what font you use but try and use Verdana... <--- most user friendly font i find....
- in your navagation in the driving site... one of your rollover links resizes wront and makes everything move....
- For a professional site make sure theirs no mistakes.... "You can pay her for your training"
- Your .html files should match your pages but try and make the file name more simple... like dont add "the" and certan other key words that dont need to be there. ... "/The%20Driving%20Test.htm"
- on your email button you created maybe make the text on it more visible.... change the text color so its more visible
- In yoru site mape page use tables and set "Width" in your <TD> tags.... and make your link order the same order of your actualy links in your navagation.....

Well those are jsut a couple of things I notice while i looked threw it fast....

Edited by lilman, 31 March 2006 - 07:05 PM.

[hoppo]

re done my design site would apprecaite some new feed back www.mphwebdesign.co.uk thanks

[DarkSuiyoken]

I'm guessing you got the free buttons from a website. Or did it from a tutorial. Those buttons are nice. But they don't fit the design at all.

Try doing a fixed width layout.

Also, the apples look stretched. But the concept for the banner is good. The treatment to your logo could do with a softer drop shadow too, as the colour you use for the text itself is pretty dark, and the drop shadow kinda spoils the feel to it. Use a similar blue which is on the buttons instead of the red now.

There could also be more improvements to the laying out of the information. The banner "it's time to reach out to the world" should look better on the left of the page as well since the composition of the picture is such that a person is "reaching out to the world". But. it hits the edge of the screen there and then. So, putting it on the left will allow more breathing space for the picture.

If you have time, you can even slice that image and make it such that the text flows around the text, instead of the image being a rigid rectangle.

http://www.bigbaer.c...e.text.wrap.htm

Edited by DarkSuiyoken, 06 April 2006 - 02:35 PM.

[DarkSuiyoken]

I had some free time and I went to do this in photoshop.

I hope you don't copy anything, this is just an idea. And I am also learning at the same time.

So, here is just a suggestion of how it could work:

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[hoppo]

DarkSuiyoken,

Thanks for your input, i like your ideas. I had already thought of the cliff picture being on the wrong side and rather spookily already changed it. Like the text at the top i am not sure about the buttons

[DarkSuiyoken]

You're welcome. I just couldn't sleep so I went ahead and did it.

[tjl30]

I would set up a cool color scheme with 2-4 colors that work with eachother.

[SebLev]

yeah i like what Dark did that was a nice design and you did a nice color scheme...

-Seb-