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Wow

Hey I haven't been very active in any graphic forum but these are my early attempts to start.

I'm Leblanc Meneses and this is my online web presence
http://people.tamu.edu/~leblanc
You'll also be intrested in my links I have on my site to other kewl graphic artists... one of them even has my same last name.

- Leblanc Meneses

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I encourage all of you to give me any feedback maybe help on placing me on google.

Neways also check out my portfolio section... just click on the button labled portfolio.

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1. Make the site smaller so it fits on most screens (i'm running on 1024 * 768)
2. Maybe use a better font.

The rest is great. I love the desk like feeling of your site. I definitely picked up some pointers there!

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reply to wow

Your not the first to tell me that. LIke you said I want it to feel like a desk view. If I was to make my site smaller. My text would look crammed in the smaller boxes.... if you have any ideas about fixing that

then I'll try shrinking down the site.

leblanc

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its way too big. even on 1280 x 1024, and it loads very slowly even on broad band

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Neverside Sucks.

the pencils in the bottom right looks odd..
the site is big(as everyone has already said ) but i dont have any suggestions on fixing it sorry...

not a bad layout..

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change ur link colours, default is baaaad, and give them a rollover colour...

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Too big. (file size and dimensions)

It is not really good coded and "sliced" (not as in Photoshop slicing or anything but how the images are laid out I mean).

Some things you should do is cut down on the un necessary images (actually remove them all) and take off all the gray parts on the images and optimize them better.
Code the site with div's and css, it is nothing that holds it back from that.
Scale everything down as said above, It isn't anything as unprofessional looking as side scrolling sites unless they are meant to be (some css designs at csszengarden is).

The whole page is full of images, no matter where I right click it says view image witch of course means that it is a image right there.

If you would have used css/div's then this would have loaded so much faster and iframes is the absolutely last option you should take, and I see no need for that to be in this site either.

To sum this all up:

The designing itself is pretty nice and I like it but some of the elements could be worked on some more and especially the content area.
Think about accessibility. You should have it made so that most people on the web can see the site as meant to be. The best thing about css and div's is that if the user has a text only browser then he/she can still see the page and read it.

Here is a list of links that could help you out a bit:

CssZengarden - Great inspiration and shows the possibilities with css.

Mezzoblue resources page - this is one of the best head starting places you can find

Glish - Css layout techniques, this shows some easy and some more complex techniques for making layouts with css. (This one is linked from mezzoblue to)

A List Apart | ala - this one has more articles about css and other similar topics then you have time too read.

Bluerobot - not the biggest resource but it deserves to be on the list here because of many reasons that you'll have to discover yourself.

Spoono - Well its spoono, compact web knowledge... lol

Tutorialforums | Client Side section - I can't think of all links and I don't have to either. Everything else and more that you needs to know is in the stickys here.

/Spater

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Last edited by Simon, March 27th, 2004 05:18 PM (Edited 1 times)

Hey thanks

I've been wanting to learn more about css and div tags.... I was use to frames so Iframes was almost exactly the same.

I once tried to make the site with div tags but depending on the browser all the different layers didn't match up like before. Meaning my graphics didn't line up and it just didn't look good.
Thats why I'm doing it in iframes.

Thanks for the info and feedback. I'm really intrested in changing the site. If you have any sites that your really impressed by how they created something as I have but with out iframes I'll really like to take a look at them.

Thanks for the links I'll look at them tonight.

- leblanc meneses

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http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=057%2F057%2Ecss (the navigation is not working in IE so to experience the true beauty one that one you'll need mozilla or something like that. but the design is still nice)
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=083%2F083%2Ecss
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=044%2F044%2Ecss
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=026%2F026%2Ecss
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=025%2F025%2Ecss
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=017%2F017%2Ecss
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=019%2F019%2Ecss
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=047%2F047%2Ecss
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=058%2F058%2Ecss

that was some of my csszengarden favorites...

http://www.angryblue.com/
http://www.groteskandmonstrous.com/
http://www.dubtastic.com/

some random nice designs...

All those sites don?t have something as in the site you have but it should still give you ideas. There is so, so much more to find on the web...(duh!) lol

hope that gives you at least a tad of inspiration

/Spater

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