Looking for feedback on my new site

[AhDirts]

Technically, not my site. A site that I helped a guy I know with.

Basically the only main main main concern I had was with formatting the page correctly to support all screen resolution sizes. We're happy with the site in 1024x768 res., but anything other than that throws it off.

Anyway, take a look when you have a second and make any comments you want :)

www.the-loud.com

[MattS]

It's good...

...On the intro, the picture of the CD that fades in is a little bit cumbersome. The song itself has a pretty "energetic" feel to it (not the best word for it, but you know what I'm saying), so the slow fade in sort of contradicts it. Does that make any sense? :p

Aside from the links not working at the top (which I'm assuming is due to the page still being under construction), it all looks really nice. Good job!

[Enraptur3]

you kinda need to revamp it again, like Ahdirts said, music on the intro, dont go along with the start up, use some flashy lines in the bg, keep somethin moving,

comin to the inner page, text overflows on my resolution, use tables and stuff like that, and if you have problems using them as 100% , keep them stuff to a particular width in pixels, that would help

Cheers!!
colors are nice though

[AhDirts]

Originally posted by Enraptur3
you kinda need to revamp it again, like Ahdirts said, music on the intro, dont go along with the start up, use some flashy lines in the bg, keep somethin moving,

comin to the inner page, text overflows on my resolution, use tables and stuff like that, and if you have problems using them as 100% , keep them stuff to a particular width in pixels, that would help

Cheers!!
colors are nice though

Thanks for the feedback (both of you as of now). Good idea about using more tables. We originally used layers which, I think, is why things were jumbled at different resolutions.

Im fairly new at this and kinda learning as I go. Thankfully its not my website so in the end, i dont care if it stinks or not. haha. Although I am just trying to help someone I know.

Thanks again. Keep the tips coming.

[peniculum]

just wondering what programs you used to develop your site

[AhDirts]

I used Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 for the html, and I used PaintShop Pro 6 for the graphics. For the Flash intro i used KoolMoves.

Does anyone know how to fix the resolution issues? Is it as simple as actually building the site for 2 different resolutions -- then putting a line of code into the main page to detect the users screen resolution & redirect that user to the correct version of the website?

[Crestien]

Yeah, don't use layers on your site is how you fix the resolution problems.

You can use DIV tags if you want to and use CSS to control them, see www.csszengarden.com for tips and examples, but based on what I've seen you just need to stay away from the divs and stick with table layouts.

Making two versions is just a waste of time and in the end will be a horrible upkeep nightmare.

[Silmaril8n]

Don't waste your time trying to code for different browsers and resolutions. It will be a total content waste.

The site itself looks great though! Viewing with FireFox 9.1 i686 Linux @ 1024x768

No flash here for me but at least you were smart enough to add the "skip" in html underneath rather than inside the applet. :D

[jemtman]

I like the intro, but like it's been said, layers are bad for different screen resolutions, (and every IE before 6 wont show them). CSS is really good for different screen resolutions. The one thing i really don't like is the red mouseover effect on the text, it looks kind of strange on the green background.
The site looks pretty good, though, keep up the good work.

~Jemtman

[jruhsmith]

More tables?! Gah! Adding more tables wouldn't make sense in this layout. You should look into using CSS.. It would lighten your code a LOT, and would solve your text overlapping issues.

My only criticisms about the design would be to use a more subtle gradient as the background image, align it to the bottom of the page and set your background color to black so you don't get a blank space when the viewable area is bigger than the background image, and get rid of the javascript/image mouseover buttons... You're not using a special font so there's no reason to use javascript and make the buttons images. Just use the hover CSS state to change the background color and font color.

[gio~logist]

that is nice, nice into, god ive been trying to learn flash but it's SSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOO complicated