Novel Media Design (70% completed)

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Dman-I know that the opening headers are images and not text and that doesn't exactly fit in with "SEO". I know this, that is also why the content in those images doesn't contain information I consider "rich". It's just "relative" to the page following. And anything I thought was rich in those images, I passed into the pages via text. I also know that the keyword repetition is helpful in terms of making those images textual, but so far I haven't had trouble with my keyword density and whatnot. Thanks for pointing it out, but I am aware. Also, what alert message are you seeing, I have none to my knowledge?

ASPRookie-What does that mean? I'm asking you constructive criticisms on my website, and your shooting a pitch at me for a book? (Which I ALREADY own FYI, great read by the way)

Nsathees-Yes this one flaw I realize after I designed, however I am going to implement some textual link somewhere at the top of all the "content-growth" pages to shoot them to the navigation block. Thanks for the reminder though.

Want to thank those so far for concrete ideas for future success. I have put some to use, so thank you all for the help and for your time to look at my website. I greatly appreciate it. I'd like to also point out, this is an amateur website by nature. I'm doing those before I attend the Rochester Institute of Technology in NY in the fall just for me.

[holmescreek]

I would eliminate, at the footer, HTML 4.01 strict and CSS. If your going to develop web sites, your going to be developing web sites for business owners i.e. accountants, service industry, insurance,

I think they would care less or not even know or don't want to know what HTML 4.01 strict and CSS is.

In conclusion, I'm not trying to be demeaning, but, your selling your business as a website development company and your site is really poor. My peeve, is that in my local area I've had companies come along and throw up a web site (much like yours) and claim to be web developers, and all along sell every little business in town a $99 web page. Then, when someone comes along that has spent years programming, doing design work and working with computers tries to make a business in the area, they can't because the business owners have already been "burnt" and won't settle less than someone flying in from New York that wants to charge $5K a page.

Again, I suggest that you invest in some good design and web programming books, hone your skills and when you step out to do business know that when you get paid that you did your absolute best.

[dman_2007]

Also, what alert message are you seeing, I have none to my knowledge?

This alert box.

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I would eliminate, at the footer, HTML 4.01 strict and CSS. If your going to develop web sites, your going to be developing web sites for business owners i.e. accountants, service industry, insurance,

I think they would care less or not even know or don't want to know what HTML 4.01 strict and CSS is.

In conclusion, I'm not trying to be demeaning, but, your selling your business as a website development company and your site is really poor. My peeve, is that in my local area I've had companies come along and throw up a web site (much like yours) and claim to be web developers, and all along sell every little business in town a $99 web page. Then, when someone comes along that has spent years programming, doing design work and working with computers tries to make a business in the area, they can't because the business owners have already been "burnt" and won't settle less than someone flying in from New York that wants to charge $5K a page.

Again, I suggest that you invest in some good design and web programming books, hone your skills and when you step out to do business know that when you get paid that you did your absolute best.

I want to thank you for your thoughts dman. I visited your website and see you've been in this business for nearly two decades. I have only just flirted with these concepts for a few years but with my schooling not being started until the fall, I don't want to wait to jumpstart my learning. I do invest money in design and code books. I have two books on Photoshop, one on Illustrator, one on Dreamweaver, one on Javascript, one on PHP, two on HTML and two on CSS. This isn't some ******** joke interest for me to see if I can make a few bucks producing mediocre garbage. I know my site isn't strong in a sense of technology used. It's only built with HTML and CSS with a few Javascript sources. But I am learning to do more, and some people only seem to require that much. I have already had a proposition sent to me for pro bono work in my city because the man in charge saw my website and saw potential in me.

I realize there are alot of cheap designers in this industry who produce crap and get clients with their cheap prices when someone else could have done it better and more efficient. I also realize I wouldn't be what you'd call a "professional" yet, but I teach myself everyday. That doesn't also mean that I'm going to advertise my business and services as something like "Online Graphics and Websites for CHEAP! Give Matt a buzz!" But that's besides any point, heh.

Like I said thank you for voicing yourself, I appreciate someone of your stature even commenting my thread. But please don't pitch that industry-precedent at me when in all honesty you have no clue what my intentions are. I'm just trying to get ahead in a field I've wanted to be involved with since I've been online.

[chipper]

My suggestion to help aid the "professional" look of your site is to reduce the number of fonts that you have in your design. Just based on your text that are graphics, there are four different fonts by my count. That doesn't include the text font. Try cutting it down to 2, MAYBE 3. It will help it feel more cohesive. To a professional graphic designer, a bunch of fonts in a single piece says "amateur".

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Chipper-Thanks for pointing that out. I thought about changing the font face for the content to match the opening graphic headers and too possible confusion by different faces. I plan to update a few things on Friday.