Critique my website please

[titch]

As the title suggests. Positives and negatives. Feel free to slag it off. Obviously its not THE best looking website and still has some blank pages but the brief was its needs to be easily updateable by anyone in school. Would love your opinions!

 

http://www.orchardjunior.com

Edited November 22, 2012 by titch

[aerospacemango]

Ummmm....Do we get a link to it? Or should we just guess random words until we happen across it?

 

LOL!!!

[rush_tech]

Linky!

[titch]

Its a minimalist approach...................

 

OrchardJunior sorry guys

[AlexB]

Looks to have been designed for screen widths greater than 1024

[titch]

Looks to have been designed for screen widths greater than 1024

I did it at 1024 width. Is it looking dodgy on your screen? What browser? Cheers

[AlexB]

I did it at 1024 width. Is it looking dodgy on your screen? What browser? Cheers

 

Chrome and IE9, I have to scroll horizontally for all the text and the banner on the main page (default zoom)

Edited November 22, 2012 by AlexB

[glennda]

Chrome and IE9, I have to scroll for all the text on the main page (default zoom)

 

As mentioned with this - In a smaller window (my laptop is 768 High). For the bulk of the information on the first page I would remove whitespace between twitter feed and also at the bottom. I personally would also reduce the image at the top of the screen to something slightly smaller.

[aerospacemango]

To my eye, the light green is a little too eye-straining to be comfortable.

 

With my res at 16x12, everything is perfectly readable and no scaling problems.

 

The slightly darker green of the shortcuts doesn't really make them stand out enough for my liking!

 

Hope you're not too offended by what i've written, and please remember it's ONLY my opinion!!

[AngryTechnician]

The top image is 1200px wide, and the CSS specifically sets the page width to 1200 too. Your screen resolution must be higher than you think it is!

[titch]

Not Offended at all. Appreciate the input.

[titch]

As mentioned with this - In a smaller window (my laptop is 768 High). For the bulk of the information on the first page I would remove whitespace between twitter feed and also at the bottom. I personally would also reduce the image at the top of the screen to something slightly smaller.

Do you mean horizontally or vertically? Cheers

[titch]

The top image is 1200px wide, and the CSS specifically sets the page width to 1200 too. Your screen resolution must be higher than you think it is!

Correct. I have messed something up with that. Change of plan. Made the page scalable now so should adjust by itself.

 

What dimensions for a header do you think anyone?

[padilla]

Please use some CMS and theme and it will be ok

[r0bbed90]

Not too sure if it's intentional but on the Shorcuts menu the trolly image overlaps the text for 'Affiliate Shopping' - Personally I think it would look better if they were seperate with a bit of space between the text and trolley image.

[mikeglover]

On Chrome there is a green space on the left about 100px which seems to push everything over so it doesn't look central. As regards width I recommend 960px it is a common standard which fits well. Apart from that looks clear

[edwase]

I like it! Trying something very similar at the moment so useful as a jumping off point.

[scorcher89]

I don't like the colors however you can easily find all important information which is the biggest plus imo!