first .com website needs thoughts

[mcgarrah]

this site is meant for family/friends viewing. i am clearly in the process of workin on it. my server got shut down and im still putting my pages up but please give my ui simplicity and design/color theory a critique. keep in mind its for family
as always any and all feedback is greatly appreciated. thanks -john mcgarrah

http://www.mcgarrahfamily.com

[Scoooooty]

Very nice site welldone

I like the color style of the site and the layout. Also like how you can easily navigate between the family members.

keep it up

[planetgman]

Overall this is a good job of color and layout (no content to really look at).
Some minor fixes are in order though.
- You need to lose the "coming in June '05" intro
- You need to fix the links which go to your Comcast 404
- There are some spelling errors on the site (in the browser content, the word particular)
- The word US in contact us is capitalized and also goes to your online portfolio and isn't really a contact

There are also a few things I'm curious about.
You have a domain for your family site, but for your online portfolio you have a link to a comcast page (that is way too long for anyone to remember).
How can you effectively promote your portfolio without your own domain?

None of the links work so it is really hard to evaluate your site on content.
I think you have done a good job design wise and have a good looking site.
Good luck with it.......

[mcgarrah]

thank you for your post planetgman, it lead me to a few corrections but like i stated above my server got shut down so im currently running off a lame *** isp server. that will change again. and to be honest i dont know how that contact link got there lol. thanks again and keep checking back.

[Fido]

It looks good.

I looked into your source though and it was kinda scary. You use way too many tables. divs and css could probably cut your code size in half or more. There are a few places where you need to use tables, like keeping 2 side by side collumns the same length, displaying actual data like an excel sheet, and for the handy valign atribute. Luckily you only need to use one or two very simple tables for those cases and 90% of the time you can get by with div.

One other thing, is there a reason the entire thing is inside one big frame? When I opened the source that confused me.

[mcgarrah]

yes, my site is being redirected from another. its server created. (not my source). looks like you found the original url and my source though. the meta tags there are in fact mine though