What do you guys think about the new website design?

smh0101 · Post by **smh0101** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:51 am

Well, the website is almost ready for posting...

Here is like a Version 1 model... http://simplysubie.150m.com

Any feedback would be a great help... Right now I am cleaning up the text, i mean spelling and grammar.

Thanks everyone, and no, the Rides page is not done...

What do you think of the logo?

smh0101 · Post by **smh0101** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:54 am

OH And dont mind the pop-ups and banners... Those are from the free hoster as an idea of how it will look.

Aerotech · Post by **Aerotech** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:03 am

smh0101 wrote:OH And dont mind the pop-ups and banners... Those are from the free hoster as an idea of how it will look.

Haha, apparently I'm the 999,999th visitor! What did I win?

Nice site. Clean & uncluttered, easy to navigate, nice touch to have the contact info on all the pages.

smh0101 · Post by **smh0101** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:22 am

Aerotech wrote:
smh0101 wrote:OH And dont mind the pop-ups and banners... Those are from the free hoster as an idea of how it will look.
Haha, apparently I'm the 999,999th visitor! What did I win?

Nice site. Clean & uncluttered, easy to navigate, nice touch to have the contact info on all the pages.

Ugh, those banners SUCK!

And thanks! We've worked a lot on it!

jamal · Post by **jamal** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:35 am

-jpeg compression is pretty terrible

-The tables get all wonky when you change the width and text size

-The centered text makes it harder to read

-You might want to ditch the images on the right side

Additionally I have a wide monitor so there's an ocean of that light blue on each side.

smh0101 · Post by **smh0101** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:43 am

Whoa!

- Which picture?
- Dont most sites? Oh and its designed table-less... All with CSS Every site with a table got really screwed up.
- Duly noted
- Whats wrong with them?

And, although critical yet helpful... Thanks!

Fkyx · Post by **Fkyx** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:47 am

jamal wrote:-jpeg compression is pretty terrible

-The tables get all wonky when you change the width and text size

-The centered text makes it harder to read

-You might want to ditch the images on the right side

Additionally I have a wide monitor so there's an ocean of that light blue on each side.

Harsh, but as a webdesigner, I agree. Still, it does its job of getting word across, and it doesn't come across as terribly unprofessional. Keep it up.

jamal · Post by **jamal** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:58 am

Well, when you turn the font size up the side bar interferes with the main body of text.

The images and the graphic look pretty pixelated, and could be compressed at a higher quality/resolution.

As for the side images, they're just kind of, hanging out there and seem out of place. Maybe if the were spaced out a few pixels or had a border.

Here's a scaled down screenshot of my desktop so you can see what I mean by all the blue on the sides:

It just seems like there could be something in all that empty space. I think maybe it should adapt to different resolutions and text sizes a little better.

Also sorry for sounding harsh in my first post.

smh0101 · Post by **smh0101** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:05 am

jamal wrote:Well, when you turn the font size up the side bar interferes with the main body of text.

The images and the graphic look pretty pixelated, and could be compressed at a higher quality/resolution.

As for the side images, they're just kind of, hanging out there and seem out of place.

Here's a scaled down screenshot of my desktop so you can see what I mean by all the blue on the sides:

It just seems like there could be something in all that empty space. I think maybe it should adapt to different resolutions and text sizes a little better.

Also sorry for sounding harsh in my first post.

Hmm... On the graphics... they are compresses as high as I could go... I'll see what I can do...

And I'm not sure what to do on the increased text size problem, but we'll figure it out...

And I may replace the side pics with a clickable map to the shop location or something...

And the blue doesnt really effect me... 13.3 in Laptop Screen...

BUT I'll see what I can do... Do you have any suggestions?

smh0101 · Post by **smh0101** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:08 am

Oh and what do you guys think of the Gear and Subaru logo?

jamal · Post by **jamal** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:43 am

For the image quality I think you just need to start with higher quality sources, and save them to the desired size in the first place instead of re-sizing in any editing software if you do.

The logo design is cool but I think it needs to look better. I don't know enough about image editing to tell you how to format it though.

Fkyx · Post by **Fkyx** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:49 am

PNG are all the rave nowadays. It isn't as lossy as jpeg or gif, and (somehow) allows transparency.

As far as the image itself, it has some rough edges, which would be somewhat easy to take care of.

asc_up · Post by **asc_up** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 12:59 pm

I think it looks good. There was a typo or two that I found. Typos always deter me from sites lol.

Other than that, it looks great.

smh0101 · Post by **smh0101** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:01 pm

Thanks Guys!

I re-did the logo... And saved it as a PNG... Look tits now!

I also fixed all the typos...

AND A HUGE THANKS TO FLYX!!! He helped with the formatting issue.

Thanks Everyone, no that free host isnt updated, but its better now!

Post by **Legacy777** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:22 pm

I'd suggest making the "contact us.html" to not include a space in it. Use an underscore or hyphen.

TheSubaruJunkie · Post by **TheSubaruJunkie** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:44 pm

Pretty much everything I was going to touch on has been brought to attention.

But the Centering of the text is cheezy and does make it harder to read. Use indents if you plan on listing things. Center only headlines.

File Names should never have a space. MSIE, Netscape & firefox interpret them differently. Some webhosts dont support them. Best if you replace spaces with underscores.

However, the site design is very nice. Easy to navigate, you make it simple for customers to go from one section of the site to the other without having to backtrack. The font and color choices are nice and easy to read. The images, I dont think there is much wrong. If you insist on having images on the right side of the screen, maybe change them for each page and have one or two that relate to the page in question.

i.e: the pic of the 2 subes in the shop, put that in the service section. The pic of the GT powersliding, put that in the performance section etc...

I give it 3 out of 5 stars, woulda gotten 4 but that free webhosting crap & free domain are guaranteed killers. Spent the $100/yr and get a real host and domain.

-Brian

smh0101 · Post by **smh0101** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:57 pm

Thanks guys...

We have an actual host... But we wanted to finish the site before using it.

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What do you guys think about the new website design?

What do you guys think about the new website design?