Hi all,

I built this website using dreamweaver (please dont laugh first attempt ever!) but its no good for people who don' have flash, I think an animation on the start screen is quite cool (not that one its shite gonna spend time doing another one) but is there any way of putting up an animation that can be seen by all i.e. not just people who have flash? Also need to ditch the shite pictures cos they take too long to load!

site is www.hudsonltd.co.uk

any advice much appreciated

 

Your button's need to be better, you can see that some of the words overhang the button

Better writing it in html, be faster loading as there will be less crap, paintshop pro or adobe photoshop let's you design animated gif's I think

 

yeah I see what you mean! I have photoshop so maybe I should play around with that, and resize the text in the buttons, took me ages as it was my first one lol, but need to fix pic sizes etc to make pages load faster

 

p.s. cant do html lol

 

Open internet explorer, go to www.google.co.uk and search for A Beginners Guide To Html

 

Put a link to the Macromedia site for them to install flash when they go to your site.

 

A things that I noticed.

1. I am assuming that you have your images as background image because they are repeating a number of times through out the site.

2. I would advise against having frames in the site as the search engines dont view them to well and so make it hard to index them in their search engines.

3. I wouldnt have any links to on the right as everyones eye movement is left to right, so having all your links on the left would be the first thing that they see.

4. On this page http://www.hudsonltd.co.uk/CLIENTLIST.html I would put the housing association list on the left with the others because if I was just skimming through I would of probably missed them, especially as could be some high profile clients.

5. I would also change the text to not being so bold, perhaps a Verdana font at a size 11 or 12 px.

A good place to look if you are going to star learning html is www.w3schools.com got everything for beginners.

I hope you didnt think I was being to picky, Its just I am a web developer/designer so always pick on some of the smallest things that some people dont notice.

 

Optimise those images!!

 

cheers for the comments guys! il take it all into account