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Christian_SEO
01-27-2003, 05:35 PM
...but I sometimes pretend to be on the Internet.

I reciently created a site that I am proud of and wouldn't mind hearing some comments on.

The site is graphic-light and built for speed and ease of navigation.

http://www.river-towers.com

Thanks,
Christian
interseen
01-28-2003, 06:32 AM
That is definatly different, but i like it. I really like your use of table on the frontpage. Good Work!
superalloy
01-29-2003, 02:32 PM
The navigation menu on the left jumps around some dependent on the selection.
ccollins
02-05-2003, 11:37 AM
Interesting use of tables, but the "image" of the towers is, IMHO, too big.

If you change the width of the cells, making the entire thing narrower, you won't really save any space, but, if you replace the  's in the cells with a small transparent gif, you can very the height of the cells. example:

<td bgcolor="#996600" width="153">&amp;nbsp;</td>
becomes

<td bgcolor="#996600" width="75" height="3">
<img src="images/trans.gif" border="0" width="1" height="3">
</td>


I guessed at the numbers, but you could play around until you got the proportions you wanted.

You could accomplish the same thing with CSS (or <font> tags for that matter). Just change the font size of the &amp;nbsp;'s until it fits.

This is all assuming that you wanted the "image" smaller.

One other thing... I would make the bottom table width=100% rather than matching it with the top. This is totally personal preference, but it would allow the table to scale with the size of the browser window.

Overall, it's a good design. I think it just needs a little tweakng.

my 2 cents.

-c.collins
Christian_SEO
02-05-2003, 11:56 AM
Great feedback, ccollins!!!! And very useful suggestions. The Towers "graphic" is too large, and I just did not have time to research how I could reduce it.

I'm going out of the country for a few weeks, but I have sent your suggestions to myself via email and will try to make them work.

Thanks again, and if you would like some free web marketing consulting, SEO or site analysis, just let me know, ok? I realize that you may have zero need for such things, but I appreciate your help.

Thanks,
Christian
ccollins
02-05-2003, 12:02 PM
No problem! glad to help.
ccollins
02-10-2003, 05:56 PM
Something else just occurred to me... If you used a properly optimised image, the size may acually come out smaller than the table thing. IT would also end up being more friendly to text browsers and screen readers.

just a thought.

-c.collins