Opinion wanted about new website

[Julie Gerleman]

I know what you mean about feeling like you can't win. That's my least favorite part of being a web developer. You make one change after 10 people have been complaining about something and afterward, most of those 10 are marginally happy but another brand new set of 20 are now noisily unhappy with the change.

By the way, this site could be done up completely in violent shades of fuschia and I'd still be here as much as I could. Because it really is that good.

[Enzie Shahmiri]

Hi Monique,

I looked at your site and like what the way it looks. Navigation is really easy and your work shows well. But.....

You should know that my site used to be black with a soft pale color for the text with lots of personal touches, which I was very proud of, because it was soooo unique (at least that's what I thought!). Then I was told, my site looks to busy, is hard to navigate, etc.... After learning what makes a good web page design and why, it was back to rethinking everything and simplifying.

With that said, I have to agree with Julie's comments. White text on a black background is too harsh on the eye. Although, I for one love slide shows, not everybody will be able to view it and instead get a blank area. I Phones won't show anything flash related. Also check your site in Firefox and make sure everything looks as it should. Firefox, unlike Avant can show things differently or not at all.

Your work is very nice and it deserves to be seen by everyone!

By the way, how do you space the navigation links on the top so they have equal spaces between each link? I couldn't figure that one out.

[Karine Monaco]

Hi Monique,

I must admit that I am using Firefox, and couldn't see the pictures on your website.

It is soo hard to make a website that everybody, with every software, can read as we want them to read it.

I happen to live now in a place where the internet connection can be achieved only with a 64 kb modem (!!!), and I would like to give a little advice to other artists, concerning websites : please try to put pictures as light as possible (without, of course, dimishing their quality) so any computer with a modem connection can download them in a fair amount of time (or people won't give a second look to your website before a certain time). This advice goes for my own websites too, I have to work on them now!

Cheers,
Karine

[Cynthia Daniel]

Originally Posted by Julie Gerleman

I know what you mean about feeling like you can't win. That's my least favorite part of being a web developer. You make one change after 10 people have been complaining about something and afterward, most of those 10 are marginally happy but another brand new set of 20 are now noisily unhappy with the change.

By the way, this site could be done up completely in violent shades of fuschia and I'd still be here as much as I could. Because it really is that good.

Thanks, Julie. As you know, there are so many variables that can change how someone sees a web site that it is quite a challenge to a web designer.

Even when I use a black background, I never use pure white text.

And, animation / Flash - I think a lot of that is too busy and distracting for elegant artwork. The attention goes on the animation instead of the work.