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Text is way too small

Make the background something other than black, it looks very newbish.

your portfolio looks like crap.

you just mirrored everything so all the lighting / shadows are off.

and you call yourself canadian, you don't play hockey

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Text size is staying the way it is. Put some glasses on.

BG = I said earlier I would try a dark gray, what do you think?
http://www.ramsaygraphix.com/pics/v4-fixes.jpg

Portfolio looks like crap = care to translate into what I should do to fix it ?

I am fully canadian, and yes I do play hockey for fun, sorry I forgot to include that with the million other things I like to do. So sorry.

Judging by the width of your main table, your going to visitors with a 1024x768 resolution. Your font size is 10px. I would understand that for artistic reasons or space restrictions, but right now, you don't have to worry about either one. But you seem set on your font size, and don't let me influence your design, I obviously know nothing.

Oh, and for the portfolio, the image fade outs look.... like crap.

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Last edited by gunar, March 5th, 2003 06:58 PM (Edited 1 times)

yes ramsay, I may be a "zit-faced-f**k", but I know my shiz

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3.5 METAL BEVEL IS EVIL!

There is no ... "metal bevel" It's all lighting. I'll be working on updates this week, mostly to spruce up the content area.

It's pretty nice bro, but one thing I would change is a prob with your shadows. If you look where the shadows run into the content area, it seems a little funky and blurry because its the same color... I would work on that a little... maybe its just me. Anyways... other than that I think its a very clean and sweet layout! Peace!

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that site fkn* OWN

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hey man -
cool I didn't know you had this thread here until now hehe... guess I'll say some stuff while I'm here in class The teacher's just been flustering around for the last 45 min with installing an updated flash player and some dreamweaver extensions, which he can't since he doesnt have admin rights hehehe...
I saw the design as it was progressing, but I'm sure I can think of a few new pointers hehe

Let's see.....

I do think you should consider a slightly lighter background for the content area (currently black). Maybe its because the screen I'm using right now is a tad on the bright side (though as I understand it, that's pretty common really... I'm much too used to my ultra shaweet viewsonic haha). So in essense, the extremes between the white and black seem to be a bit "too much" to me.

Link colors.... I wanna suggest a bit darker set of blue for your active and over textlinks. Maybe you just happen to like the teal look hehe.... but personally I prefer richer shades of blue.

Font.... consider trying 11px for the content instead of 10px... it's just ever-so-slightly too small imho.

I still feel your CSS file is a little superfluously bulky for what it appears to do... but I dunno - I don't know anything yet about XHTML so maybe that's necessary.

I know it'd be a real pain in the arse, but if there's any way to smooth that top curve out just a little bit more then definately go for it. It looks a ton better than before (to everyone: originally photoshop did something funky and the curve was just ultra jaggy for some reason, and it was too late to go back without reworking a whole lot)... but still it's pretty jagged.

I guess I won't go too much into resolution compatibility... personally I still think it's much too early to rule out 800x600 users. I know it is still one of the predominant resolutions (I know, 'cause I have some quite massive logs to learn from.. very nice sample group hehe). Since you're going with latest-browser type coding, I'm sure there are some not-too-hard ways you could have the centered logo "float" and have a flexable mid point that stretches to fit the higher resolutions.... then it would stilll look the same for 1024x768 users, but at least be compatible without sidescrolling for 800x600..... I dunno, might be more work then you want at this point since you've already finished all your coding and layout, etc.

Lastly it's just a personal preference, but I seriously can't read your html code without getting... eh... seasick.. or somethin'... haha... well I just hate code with tabbing and lowercase, lack of spacing, etc.... well that's just me, raw-coder extraordinaire haha
Guess if you can read it, that's fine hehe

Well that's all I can think of at the moment.... overall quite nice

Peace.

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