Venom Graphics

[Murray]

Finished my new site design.

What u all think?

www.VenomGraphics.co.uk

[donbenni]

Not bad, the design is nice and simple. I wouldn't have put my mobile number on there though!

Got a few things to suggest, hope you don't take offense, it's all meant in a friendly manner.

I feel it's too dependant on images. Your design could be achieved just as easily in code rather than Imageready. Slices really aren't the best way to create a website.

Take the homepage for instance. The only thing there that needs to be an image, is the blue image in the centre. Having the whole thing as an image makes the page 234 kilobytes. Doing that page in code is very very easy and will be much smaller in filesize:

Working with a table layout, apply a border of roughly 6 pixels to the top and bottom and roughly 8 pixels to the left and right. Create a blank row roughly 70 pixels high. Create a row with the blue image (including the black borders top and bottom) in. Create a row roughly 220 pixels high and stick the copyright info in as HTML text.

HTML code file: 3 kilobytes
Blue image: 60 kilobytes (possible a gif file too to help reduce size)

This way people won't be waiting for the whole page to load, just the blue image.

I started webdesigning with Imageready and it was great, but after finding out how easy was to create images in Photoshop and then create the page in HTML i now only use Imageready to create animations and rollovers.

Oh you spelt Brochures wrong on the Services page :wink: