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che09

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As I can see,your site is GREAT! I would only ask for the back ground color,I think you can do much more in that aspect!

i really like how you made it! Well done!!! :)
 
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d a v e

New Member
nice colour scheme but why oh why did you make all your content - bar the menu - one background image?

it means your content is invisible to search engines, takes longer to load and can't text can't be made bigger
i though your site was broken at fist because there wasn't anything but he menu and two blank squares

your text feels very cramped - it's too small, needs more line height. Split it into smaller paragraphs to make it easier to read. YOu only need ONE space after a period . not two, unless you're using an old typewriter.

your logo should be a gif (you can do it again from the original image) because it is not a photographic image or one with millions of colours/gradients

use the horse as a favicon
download this file (if you want to!)
http://gekkoweb.com/stuff/favicon.ico
and follow the instructions on this page http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/
where it says More information on favicon

remove the red eye in your photos

don't underline text that isn't a link: if it's emphasized then use strong

your site has a nice feel but it needs some technical polishing up ;)
 
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BigRed

New Member
I have to say I enjoyed your website, the slide show really works, showing people and horses together. I would like to see more working horses, slow the pace down and get folks closer to nature, man working with nature more as a partner than as a lord and master. I don't know a whole lot about horses but they sure look in great shape :)
So I guess it's user friendly, puts the message across and it all works . :)

As Dave said the text could be formatted/presented in a better way, but it still works as it is.
 
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d a v e

New Member
making all text as an image doesn't work for people trying to access the site with screen readers - and it's a legal requirement to make your site accessible.
 
smoovo

smoovo

New Member
re-do! Your big luck is if you have all the material you worked with. Go online and get inspired by other websites, good luck.
 
creativityunltd

creativityunltd

New Member
I have to echo some things that have been said before me- text should not be an image, search engines think there's no text on it, and you are essentially ignored. I would re-do the images and layer the text over top. As a southern American, I enjoy the color scheme, but I am biased to the rural overlay. I think it is an acquired taste, and I would still add a little flare to the site. You may be excluding those who are not farm minded, and visitor exclusion is not a good thing in general. I would also broaden the site out. Allow yourself to go to at least 960 pixels wide for the body (including sidebars and/or frames) and spread everything out. Bigger text is good. Try to jump to 12 or 14 point text in a larger standard font like Arial or Garamond, and make it separate from your images. However, for your first website, it's rather good. I have seen (and done) much worse than that for a first website.
 
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spiik

New Member
Designwise, it's more than ok. But it seems you just have uploaded your design dummy and put that as a background-image. When you have finished your design in Photoshop or whatever you are using, you have to make a html and css page out of it with the text in <h1>,<h2> and <p> tags and so on, using i.e Dreamweaver.

You don't have to redo anything, you just havn't made a complete website yet. The usability is really bad and the search engines have no idea of what your site is about. Your next step is to recreate it all in html and css.

Keep going strong!
 
notarypublic

notarypublic

New Member
Good choices with the colors! It's not a color pairing I would have thought of, but it works very well. I'll echo a few of the comments made earlier, about changing your content to text instead of an image (and if you have questions on that, don't be shy to ask! We're here to help :) )

The other thing I would change is this.. Using tables for layout is a tempting choice for beginning designers, and for a site of this scale it works out fine. When making it in Dreamweaver, though, a "space" character is put into every cell of the table. This ensures that it displays properly across browsers, but if you move your mouse over these spaces, you can see that they're there (a moderate faux-pas). I've tried to bold these spaces in an example from your HTML, we'll see if they show up (if not, it's the &nbsp; in each <td> tag).

Code: 
<table border="0">
      <tr>
        <td width="391" align="left" valign="top">
        
         <table width="390" border="0">

           <tr>
             <td height="31">[B]&nbsp;[/B]</td>
             <td>&nbsp;</td>
             <td>&nbsp;</td>
           </tr>
           <tr>
             <td width="73">[B]&nbsp;[/B]</td>
             <td width="280"><img src="imagesv3/MRLogo.jpg" width="280" height="206" /></td>
             <td width="23">[B]&nbsp;[/B]</td>

           </tr>
         </table>

Delete the &nbsp; 's and incorporate the other suggestions, and you'll be have a site that any of us would be proud to call our own :)
 
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Pinewine

New Member
Respectfully intended:

I would politely suggest that there is too much information for the user to read on the home page. I would encourage you to put all the text/copy on the home page on a ABOUT US page.

Give them buttons and pictures and a clean idea of what the site is for on the home page and let the pictures and buttons pull them inside.
 
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