Website basic frame

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well after a fuitful evening with my web designing friend I have the basic frame for my site, just looking for some feedback: www.forbesphotography.org

The gallery used under portfolio is the basic layout of a sales page that will become integrated into a shop section, so honest and constructive comments if you please
 
Quite like it, although it is possibly a little unusual for a wedding site. But looks good, like the colours. All well.
 
Nice and fast loading. I did have a bit of trouble finding the back button from the portfolio pages though. Maybe "Home" instead of "up one level" might help. Nice retro look to the main page.
 
1. start again and dont use frames
2. look at template with following format:

Header

________

Body

_______

Footer


draw your design on paper and put 2 lines in

header line (just underneath menu)
footer line (Just above bottom copyright section)

Construct the site with DIV's, and wrap the div's in an extra "wrapper" div that centres everything)


keep your eye on the original diagram.. choose your gallery template to suit - so you can draw the same 3 lines

If you choose the right template, modifying it will be easy, as the structure will allready be the same, you will jeust need to carefully replace the template code with your template code, and adjust the CSS sheet

Same applies for wordpress or any other package

3. DO NOT USE FRAME SETS - they cause so many problems, with SEO and searches


<frameset rows="100%">
<frame title="http://www.section-1.co.uk/forbes/" src="http://www.section-1.co.uk/forbes/" name="mainframe" frameborder="0" noresize="noresize" scrolling="auto">
<noframes>Sorry, you don"t appear to have frame support.
Go here instead - <a href="http://www.section-1.co.uk/forbes/">Forbes Photography.org</a></noframes>
</frameset>

DONT DO IT
 
I have to agree on the frame comment above, they are a thing of the past you should be making use of CSS.

On the design side of things I like the general feel of the site but the gallery doesn't have the same theme to it which makes it feel very seperated, almost as if you're going to a different site.

Hope this helps
 
The home page (and others) look cluttered. The viewers eye doesn't know where to go. Keep the layout simple and non-fussy .

Just my opinion though and what do I know.:)
 
Frames have absoloutly nothing to do with the design of this website.. frames are being used as a poor way of url redirecting (url masking) OP shoiuld look at better ways to redirect.. site looks fine :)
 
If you are going to sell through the site then your domain name should be a .uk - with what you have people won't immediately know that you are in the UK - get the .org.uk as well!
 
I always associated .org domains with not-for-profit organisations and charities, so unless you're doing weddings for free (but let's not start that again)....

The 2 things I noticed straight away on the homepage were the footer text is very pixelated and needs anti-aliasing, and the links button at the top grows an extra pixel to the right when you hover over it.
 
Yes, the .org TLD were specifically created for non-profit or non commerical organisations. There is nothing to stop you registering a .org but you will be giving the wrong impression if you use it.

I always register the .co.uk and .com name for all the domains I purchase for myself and clients over the years and map the domains to a single website. Some clients also request the .eu TLD as well, in order to protect their identity throughout Europe.

As for the web design. You need to move away from frames, they are frowned upon these days. Much better to use CSS.
 
thanks for the imput folks, this is just the basics of the site, as in a work in progress, so i'll be taking your pointers onboard for finishing it off, I was just looking for comments on the layout etc rather than the behind the scenes writting off it.

the .org was bought as i couldn't get the .com nor the .co.uk, guess it'll be back to the drawing board on that too if it's ment for non-profit as i would like to get some :)

one last question, whats anti-aliasing?
 
chris250 said:
the .org was bought as i couldn't get the .com nor the .co.uk, guess it'll be back to the drawing board on that too if it's ment for non-profit
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co.uk and simmilar are country specific.
com = commercial and NOT country specific
org = organisations non profit.. also NOT country specific

what about .biz is that available?
 
chris250 said:
one last question, whats anti-aliasing?
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Well I could tell you an answer but there are so many answers on Google you might as well look there.

In a utshell however, it's what stops curved edges and off-axis lines looking 'jaggled'

Anti-aliasing makes intermediate pixels so that things blend nicely.
 
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