wensk
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posting on the comuter forum for a while which relates to my day job. One of my hobbies/part time jobs is web design. I am far from a graphic artist or even a professional webmaster/designer but I feel I am fairly accomplished. Everything I know is self taught. I'm desparately trying to teach myself CSS but my old brain has a hard time absorbing 
And..it is still a hobby.
I recently was asked to work with a graphic artist to redesign a site I host which was done using Frontpage....very textbook FP...easy to use, update/maintain. The site was done a few years back and serves its functional purpose but desparately need a redesign.
Although I wasn't included in the design review process, I agreed to take on the work. The graphic artist is a print designer who works almost exclusively Quark and gave me all the files as flat graphic files of which I have had to use PS to layer over his designs and recreate them. I'm far from done. I'm actually asking you folks to review the basic design and see what you think. I balked at the original design becasue i though it looked like a ransom note. The pages all had different size/colored fonts. I've tried to incorporate some consistency into his design but also tried to stay true to his design so he could see how some of just doesn't work for the web.
http://www.intelab.com/gsc_new
Old design here===>http://www.germanschoolct.org
Trying to program it in CSS was a nightmare for me (old brain syndrome) so I went back to FP 2003 which has actually improved quite a bit.
Please check it out and give me your comments. Be gentle. TIA
And..it is still a hobby.I recently was asked to work with a graphic artist to redesign a site I host which was done using Frontpage....very textbook FP...easy to use, update/maintain. The site was done a few years back and serves its functional purpose but desparately need a redesign.
Although I wasn't included in the design review process, I agreed to take on the work. The graphic artist is a print designer who works almost exclusively Quark and gave me all the files as flat graphic files of which I have had to use PS to layer over his designs and recreate them. I'm far from done. I'm actually asking you folks to review the basic design and see what you think. I balked at the original design becasue i though it looked like a ransom note. The pages all had different size/colored fonts. I've tried to incorporate some consistency into his design but also tried to stay true to his design so he could see how some of just doesn't work for the web.
http://www.intelab.com/gsc_new
Old design here===>http://www.germanschoolct.org
Trying to program it in CSS was a nightmare for me (old brain syndrome) so I went back to FP 2003 which has actually improved quite a bit.
Please check it out and give me your comments. Be gentle. TIA
