Please Be Brutal!

[Swordfish]

I've been working on the company site, and have come up with a simple, but effective (in my view!) site.

I will build on it, but it's a start!

Please tell me what you think :


Click Here To See It! (http://www.digitaltune.co.uk)

Thanx In Advance,

Matt

[DCElliott]

Rigid design, but most corporate sites go with that sort of template. It is not cutting edge, though. Although you are using CSS and divs - with which I approve, I might add - you are a little heavy-handed with all the absolute divs and fixed font sizes.

Tab menu mouseovers are too subtle. Also, sometimes the dashed border of the tabs and the slogan boxes interact with sometimes a dashed border, sometimes solid (on the services page). I'd either move the tabs up or make them with no bottom border so they get their bottom from the the slogan top border.

The Marketing Strategies button overlaps the bottom border.

Graphics need to be optimized. If you do the main slogan.jpg as an optimized gif you can get it down to 4K. You really only have three colors + white in the palette. The jpg seems to be near max quality because the type has no jpg "fringing". All in all - give the graphics a going over.

I think you are using too many fonts. By my count there are 4 and the "scratchy" looking font on the services page doesn't work for me - use one of the main fonts from the logo or the services we provide font to achieve consistency.

You did ask for brutality . . . :D

[Swordfish]

Thank you very much for your replys!

I'll begin improving :D

DC, how can i make the tabs have no border on the bottom edge?

O, and David, what can I put instead of absolute to improve ?

Thanx!!


Matt

[Swordfish]

I just tryed to position:relative, and everything on the page went everywhere, and messed up.

Should I have made every position relative?

[Swordfish]

OK, Have done the
Link hover colour change
Tabs and main 'box'
The slogan image is much smaller
Meta Tag typo fixed ;)
And ID attribute erased.

The relative positioning will have to be done tomorrow, it's getting late here! Thanx for your help so far as I try and improve the site LEEPS AND BOUNDS , more critisism / praise / suggestions will be kindly recieved :D


Matt

[Swordfish]

How do a make the background of a div change when it is hovered on?

I've been looking everywhere!


Thanx,

Matt

[Swordfish]

I tryed this - just wont work :(

Can I do anything with 'onMouseover' which I have seen once or twice before?

[BigTony]

I would never use this in my own code, but: create two CSS declarations (similar, but with different backgrounds), let's say "on" and "off".
<div class="off" onmouseover="this.className='off'" onmouseout="this.className='off'">Your Stuff here</div>

NOTE: "className" has to have that capital "N", at least in IE, anyway.

HTH,
Tony

[Swordfish]

Thank You Tony, But may I ask why you would never use this?

[BigTony]

Hi Swordfish,

I don't want to make it sound like this code is not valid (it is according to the W3C). However, for me it is too long and takes up uneeded space.

So what I personally use, most of the time is a link (<a href="..." class="cssclass">Link</a>) and in the css declarations I add a "a.cssclass:hover"!

Tony

[MalcolmSm1th]

Hi!

I hope you don't mind me very picky but on the first page there is a spelling/grammatical error in "Here at Digital Tune we are determined to get your business built to it's full potential." In this case the "its" should have no apostrophe (yes, the wonders of English grammar!).

On the services page you have "This May Loose You Customers! ". Unless you are going around them all with a spanner (wrench) to tighten them; may I suggest you use "lose".

Best wishes
Malc
www.ukhorseracing.co.uk

[Swordfish]

Cheers - your thoughts have been taken into consideration and are being implimented into the BETA version ;)


Yours,
Matt

[GOSOMER]

Site looks great to me . simple and neat , good job !

[D856C]

Refer to this later, as it is about content.

In addition to a splash page, traditionally shunned by usability folk, you put any real text under a *third* layer. I understand some like "clean" design, but you can still put something out there like a tag line of brief customer benefit unique to your business. You know Interaction and communication with the customer is at the heart of our services. stuff.

What's customer centered design?? ...Perhaps pictures of people. ...Perhaps a little more information up front. ...Could be benefit (not feature, benefit) web page copy. For example instead of using only the word service, it can be "we return phone calls in seven minutes on average." Or something tangible which represents service in the minds of customers.

[javaswiller]

I like the simplicity of your site.

But my first thought was this ....
Since you have so much white space, why not tighten the front page up a bit so that the entire page shows up with no scrolling needed on a 17-inch monitor set to 1024.

You need to remove only about 50 pixels of white ...