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Fresh site, would love review!

Posted 21 October 2011 - 01:12 AM

Phew, my first site without the use of templates or guidance finally done!
(for those of you who are so very eager to view it, here is the link)

I was give the task to make this website by my professor, who is friends with the owner of a rather small inn next to Remington Park, a large horse racing + casino. My professor told me he wanted to gauge how much I knew about Web design going into the class and gave me one week to make this. Now that the site is up and running, I'm allowed to make changes / work out any bugs produced when the site went live.

Due to the time restriction I wasn't able to add everything I wanted to, but I'll get a chance to make changes next Friday.

A few things to point out:
-That horse image... The client wanted a "sketchy" looking image of someone on a racehorse, though my AMAZING photoshop skills only allowed me to produce what you see at the top of each page(the unedited image was a photo of a real life person).

-Unfortunately I made the mistake of forgetting to save what I did on the last day, so the header text "Remington Inn" is a really boring text. Sadface :(

-CSS is actually being used to change the appearance of the navigation bar when you hover over a link. I did this for two reasons: to let viewers who disable Javascript see what they're about to click on before they actually click, and because I've wanted to try this for quite some time.

-Since the navigation bar is actually its own file(nav.php), changing the class of the <li> or <a> to "current" would just make that one part of the navigation bar red, regardless of whether or not the viewer is actually on that page. Instead, I included a tiny snippet of Javascript on each page to change the class of an li depending on what page it's on, for example, the following script is only on index.php, and adds the class "currentIndex" to the li containing the link to index.php.
 <script type="text/javascript">
			document.getElementById("panel1b").className = "currentIndex";</script>

-The background seems to load fairly slow. I was thinking of using Javascript to preload the image in the <head>, so the background image will seem to load WITH the actual content, instead of after. Would this be an appropriate action, or should I just leave it this way?



PLEASE let me know what you have to say, and thanks for reading this giant wall of text and taking the time to look at my boring site :)

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Re: Fresh site, would love review!

Posted 21 October 2011 - 01:25 AM

On gallery:
Could not scale image: http://remingtoninnokc.com/IMG_0320%20copy.png
Could not scale image: http://remingtoninnokc.com/IMG_0317%20copy.png
Could not scale image: http://remingtoninnokc.com/IMG_0323%20copy.png
Could not scale image: http://remingtoninnokc.com/IMG_0299%20copy.png
Could not scale image: http://remingtoninnokc.com/IMG_0297%20copy.png
Fatal error: Stage width or height is too small to show the gallery. Traced measures: width:500px, height: 18px.


Viewed on Chrome.

It kinda lags when hovering on other links, and the link color stays red.

What's with all the bright red, orange colors?

You contrast it with gray.

The Contact Form and Address looks nice and simple. But the address is already located at the bottom of each page, so perhaps rename the Address link? It shows a Google Map, so maybe change the name of the link something more descriptive, like Address Map or something.

The mini-gallery takes long to load, and the text adjusts in front of the eyes of the user. Maybe do something about that? I also thought the left - right thing is broken, then I noticed there is a thumbnail below and there's only one image.

But overall, the site looks simple and nice. Good job. ^^
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Posted 21 October 2011 - 04:29 PM

nice .... keep it up bro ... :)
would u like to add me as a friend ??
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Posted 25 October 2011 - 03:49 PM

Unsafe Javascript attempt to access frame with URL http://remingtoninnokc.com/map.php from frame with URL http://maps.google.c...00+N+BRYANT+AVE,+OKLAHOMA+CITY,+OK,+731211402+US+&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=6000+N+Bryant+Ave,+Oklahoma+City,+Oklahoma+73121&z=14&vpsrc=0&ll=35.5327,-97.45822&output=embed. Domains, protocols and ports must match.

There are a few Javascript errors, these can be debuged in Chrome.

The colors are SUPER bright, which isn't a bad thing. Check out http://www.colourlovers.com/. It has color palettes so you can find colors that might mix and match.
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Posted 26 October 2011 - 03:19 AM

I don't like it much, no offense.
It needs more design. The colors.. couldn't look at them,
Sorry... But keep up the good work!

Tested on:
Firefox: Ubuntu
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