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Hey All
I’m not sure if people are going to freak on me because my site isn’t programmed in CI but my new website is programmed using the Yii Framework.

Let me know what you think

Site-Byte

If you are interested in SEO, check out this experiment (same site).

doodle

It’s ok, the text is too white an black. You are talking about seo but hidden content isn’t good.

Thanks for the feedback but what hidden content?  Look at the page source, it’s all there??

doodle

The design breaks when browsing in Firefox (and probably Chrome, Safari too).
I see some bad coding practice when looking at the html source (inline css, bad markup etc.).

Personally, if I was to choose a company for webdesign I would not choose the ones that uses bad practices on their own site.

/Johan

It doesn’t brake using, Chrome!

Well in my Firefox (latest one) it does.
I guess it’s not a feature to have the header displayed behind the navigation…

http://i46.tinypic.com/jv66xc.png

Thanks for the feed back guys, I will check into the inline css, some of it I can control but some is being created by widgets.

The site seems to be ok in Firefox for me, it looks best in Chrome, it even works well in IE without the rounded corners.

I guess I have a few things to fix up.  Unfortunately there are too many browser OS combinations to be thorough without a little help from folks like yourselves.

doodle.

Johan

I just upgraded to Firefox 3.6.6(latest) on a Vista machine and I can’t see what you have captured in your jpg.

Regarding the inline CSS , the inline styling is being added by the TinyMCE editor.  All of the content of the site can be edited through the admin panel, it’s essentially a custom CMS using Yii.

I could define styles and apply them using the editor but I’m not convinced that the inline styling in this case is so bad anyway I can clean that up.

Could you let me know what browser version you are using and what OS?

I tweaked the CSS also, please let me know if that fixed the issue.

Thanks for your feed back.

BTW I checked out your site, it looks great and seems like a really fun project.

doodle

Hey!

It looks much better now! 😊
I’m on OSX Snow Leopard with the Firefox 3.6.6.

Thanks for checking my site. Actually (I assume you don’t read swedish) it Swedens largest competition for unsigned bands and artists, but the season is over since May. We will startup again in October with ALOT of enhancements to the site. It will be built based on CI2.0 (seems stable enough after alot of tests).

Take care!
Johan

The document does not validate.

The “breaking” in older Firefox versions is not a problem with Firefox, but with improper nesting of list items.

I am not web design expert but I see some problems. First (highly subjective) orange and black makes it look like Halloween. I think this is a poor choice of color (again highly subjective) for a “professional” web design company. When I look at this it almost “scares me away” and I am sure this is not the feeling you want. Second (again subjective) the image gallery is highly distracting. Either slow the images down or don’t have them change at all: only change them randomly as the user navigates the menus. Third, there is no contact phone number. Since you emphasize client contact I would assume you want this published, and in fact I have read that one of the top ten mistakes of business websites is not to have the phone number in the banner. I would not hire a web design company which I couldn’t phone and immediately talk to a person. If you cannot afford a business phone number you will probably lose 80% of your clients as HTML only forms are notorious for poor response time. Fourth (and in my opinion fatal to the site) is lack of branding. A original company logo at the top is required. It does not have to be large or particularly complex, but without it the customer has no way to identify with you.

Anyway I hope this wasn’t too visceral, and I hope you have success with your new web venture 😊

@Johan I’m looking forward to seeing the new site then!  I’m a musician myself, I play flute, sax and guitar.  My band has a couple of CD’s out and is getting some recognition but it’s definitely a hard road!

The only change to the CSS was to put a width value on the DIV that holds the slide show.

@BrianL Thanks for your feedback, when you ask your friends what they think they will usually say, ‘oh it looks great’ so the shit kicking is appreciated.  You really hate the colors do you :shut:  The color scheme is based on a jquery ui theme. UI Darkness

I should probably do up a few themes, I don’t think any of the inline css will mess up theme changes and I will check into the list nesting.

Anyway thanks for the comments, I’ll keep at it.

doodle