Hi all,
Just starting life as a freelance web designer.
my site is www.motivateddesign.co.uk
What do you think? Any feedback welcome (so long as its nice)
Also wondering what the best way to attract me clients is? I am
looking for small creative work, nothing to big.
Regards
Barry Cooper
In article <1182883693.416045.33860@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
barry@motivateddesign.co.uk says...
> Hi all,
>
> Just starting life as a freelance web designer.
> my site is
> What do you think? Any feedback welcome (so long as its nice)
> Also wondering what the best way to attract me clients is? I am
> looking for small creative work, nothing to big.
>
> Regards
>
> Barry Cooper
>
>
"What do you think? Any feedback welcome (so long as its nice)"
If you don't want to hear the good with the bad, then don't ask for
feedback.
barry@motivateddesign.co.uk wrote:
> Just starting life as a freelance web designer. my site is
> www.motivateddesign.co.uk What do you think? Any feedback welcome
> (so long as its nice) Also wondering what the best way to attract me
> clients is? I am looking for small creative work, nothing to big.
Stop thinking in pixels.
http://k75s.home.att.net/fontsize.html
(for both font sizing (use %) and for block/div sizing (use em).
--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:48:13 GMT barry@motivateddesign.co.uk scribed:
> Hi all,
>
> Just starting life as a freelance web designer.
> my site is www.motivateddesign.co.uk
> What do you think? Any feedback welcome (so long as its nice)
> Also wondering what the best way to attract me clients is? I am
> looking for small creative work, nothing to big.
>
> Regards
>
> Barry Cooper
I started viewing your site in ie and tried to enlarge the text so I could
read it.
Have you ever thought of a career in longshoremanship?
--
Neredbojias
He who laughs last sounds like an idiot.
barry@motivateddesign.co.uk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just starting life as a freelance web designer.
> my site is www.motivateddesign.co.uk
> What do you think? Any feedback welcome (so long as its nice)
> Also wondering what the best way to attract me clients is? I am
> looking for small creative work, nothing to big.
>
http://www.motivateddesign.co.uk/fish/fish.html
No background in Firefox. You don't test in Firefox? If you're testing
against IE you are in for some heartbreak when viewing your pages in, well,
anything else.
Get someone else to proof read your site. On that particular page "nice
affect" should be "nice effect" but there are plenty of other little things
like that scattered throughout.
On Jun 26, 10:01 pm, "Nik Coughlin"
> b...@motivateddesign.co.uk wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> > Just starting life as a freelance web designer.
> > my site iswww.motivateddesign.co.uk
> > What do you think? Any feedback welcome (so long as its nice)
> > Also wondering what the best way to attract me clients is? I am
> > looking for small creative work, nothing to big.
>
> http://www.motivateddesign.co.uk/fish/fish.html
>
> No background in Firefox. You don't test in Firefox? If you're testing
> against IE you are in for some heartbreak when viewing your pages in, well,
> anything else.
>
> Get someone else to proof read your site. On that particular page "nice
> affect" should be "nice effect" but there are plenty of other little things
> like that scattered throughout.
I tested most of my pages in Firefox I even use FireFTP, I must have
missed that one.
Will fix it tommorow.
Thanks
Barry
barry@motivateddesign.co.uk wrote:
> On Jun 26, 10:01 pm, "Nik Coughlin"
>> b...@motivateddesign.co.uk wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>
>>> Just starting life as a freelance web designer.
>>> my site iswww.motivateddesign.co.uk
>>> What do you think? Any feedback welcome (so long as its nice)
>>> Also wondering what the best way to attract me clients is? I am
>>> looking for small creative work, nothing to big.
>>
>> http://www.motivateddesign.co.uk/fish/fish.html
>>
>> No background in Firefox. You don't test in Firefox? If you're
>> testing against IE you are in for some heartbreak when viewing your
>> pages in, well, anything else.
>>
>> Get someone else to proof read your site. On that particular page
>> "nice affect" should be "nice effect" but there are plenty of other
>> little things like that scattered throughout.
>
> I tested most of my pages in Firefox I even use FireFTP, I must have
> missed that one.
>
> Will fix it tommorow.
>
> Thanks
>
You're welcome. I like the design of the main site (visually). Maybe the
header could be toned down a bit but otherwise it's quite pleasing.
barry@motivateddesign.co.uk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just starting life as a freelance web designer.
> my site is www.motivateddesign.co.uk
> What do you think? Any feedback welcome (so long as its nice)
> Also wondering what the best way to attract me clients is? I am
> looking for small creative work, nothing to big.
Google will penalise you for the white-on-white text "Cambridge web design".
Don't do that. Don't try and hide things from the user that you want search
engines to see. They are smart enough to see that you are doing that.
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> On Jun 26, 10:01 pm, "Nik Coughlin"
> > b...@motivateddesign.co.uk wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> >
> > > Just starting life as a freelance web designer.
> > > my site iswww.motivateddesign.co.uk
> > > What do you think? Any feedback welcome (so long as its nice)
> > > Also wondering what the best way to attract me clients is? I am
> > > looking for small creative work, nothing to big.
> >
> > http://www.motivateddesign.co.uk/fish/fish.html
> >
> > No background in Firefox. You don't test in Firefox? If you're testing
> > against IE you are in for some heartbreak when viewing your pages in,
well,
> > anything else.
> >
> > Get someone else to proof read your site. On that particular page "nice
> > affect" should be "nice effect" but there are plenty of other little
things
> > like that scattered throughout.
>
> I tested most of my pages in Firefox I even use FireFTP, I must have
> missed that one.
>
> Will fix it tommorow.
>
have you seen what happens when the text size is increased a couple or so
times on the tree site? i quite liked the trees though.
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> Hi all,
>
> Just starting life as a freelance web designer.
> my site is www.motivateddesign.co.uk
> What do you think? Any feedback welcome (so long as its nice)
As you'll soon discover, a lot of the regulars here are only capable of
sarcasm and put-downs. However, it's best to keep in mind that many of them
are code technicians not web designers.
From a design perspective, your site is nice in terms of layout, colour
scheme, etc. It has some nice eye-catching elements.
There's work to be done from a technical point of view. For example:
http://www.motivateddesign.co.uk/html/gallery.htm
in FF is completely broken. Lots of overlapping divs (and the text within),
images out of place (compared to the IE layout -- the one I presume that's
your intended layout).
If you don't have it already, get the Web Developer toolbar extension for
FF. Great tool for seeing how everything "fits" together.
Also, I sometimes use Amaya for the same purpose. It's a crappy editor, but
it's great for debugging an already designed page.
M
"Nik Coughlin"
news:f5s14a$udh$1@aioe.org...
> barry@motivateddesign.co.uk wrote:
> Google will penalise you for the white-on-white text "Cambridge web
> design". Don't do that.
Where did you learn that from? Serious question -- I'm trying to get a
handle on SEO.
M
M wrote:
> "Nik Coughlin"
> news:f5s14a$udh$1@aioe.org...
>> barry@motivateddesign.co.uk wrote:
>
>> Google will penalise you for the white-on-white text "Cambridge web
>> design". Don't do that.
>
> Where did you learn that from? Serious question -- I'm trying to get a
> handle on SEO.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe r=35769
Specifically:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe r=66353
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<1182883693.416045.33860@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
"barry@motivateddesign.co.uk"
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just starting life as a freelance web designer.
> my site is www.motivateddesign.co.uk
> What do you think? Any feedback welcome (so long as its nice)
> Also wondering what the best way to attract me clients is? I am
> looking for small creative work, nothing to big.
>
You have a talented print-page eye. This is a compliment, trust
me (not many have). And you are clearly competent in all sorts of
ways in actual technical html/css knowledge. So it was super
surprising to me how you could miss the fact that your pages
break into a sort of hell at very small user text size
adjustments.
--
dorayme
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:48:13 -0700, "barry@motivateddesign.co.uk"
>Just starting life as a freelance web designer.
Hi, welcome to the shark pond.
First two rules:
1. It's about the money.
2. It's not about the technical merits of your work. Any old crap
sells, and the worse it is, the more they spend -- just look at the
rubbish that's palmed off on government IT projects!
>my site is www.motivateddesign.co.uk
>What do you think?
That said though, you've asked the techies what they think, so you're
going to get a techie view of things.
It's all a bit halfway-there to be honest. 8-(
There's an XHTML doctype to show how you're a whizzy right-up-to-2001
sort of guy, but then the pages aren't actually valid, so that's a bit
silly.
There's a "click here to validate" button, which is the web equivalent
of wearing a sign saying "Kick me". And yes, you're not all valid, and
now it's dead easy for your customers to see this, even if they didn't
know what the term meant a minute earlier..
There's stuff like this:
>