Please, what do you think?

[clsgraphisc]

Ok, here is my site. I am still tweaking in the coding, so please don't pay attention to the fact that there aren't any meta keywords! haha...

anyway, here it is:
www.clsgraphicsonline.com

Feedback is appreciated!

 

[LavaEagle]

With those nice nav buttons i would like to see a "smoother" background image than the stripes kind of plays with my eyes a bit.

I would like to see a mission statement as well "We are a...." so i don't have to search for what you do.

 

[wetgravy]

Avoid images that consist of nothing but text. Your flash on your front page doesn't have working links, a load graphic or appear to be done in flash since it's got a HUGE load size. Layout is ok, and your auto scrolling portfolio aggravates more than showcases your work, look into a simpleviewer flash script if you're gonna have a flash portfolio.

 

[clsgraphisc]

Ok, so if I made the lines blend a little more so it looks more solid do you think that would be better?

Also, thanks for the comment about the images and text! I meant to change that and completely forgot!
I have heard so many people say bad things about intro pages, do you think I should go ahead and put a simpler intro page on there to give my home page time to load up?
I am not very good in flash myself. So, with work, at least until I get the hang of it better, I subcontract that out. Myself...I am not sure how to make a link in the flash video...I have been trying to figure it out, but I do not know enough about flash to get it right. Definitely not interested in a flash portfolio...I used deamweavers scroll tabs to create that portfolio layout. Maybe I should just list the information without the tabs? Do you think that would work better?

 

[wetgravy]

well when i do a portfolio or gallery of images i almost exclusively use simpleviewer or i use thumbnails with a lightbox script

you could try a javascript image replacement script, but really anything else annoys people.

 

[Modern_Media]

No - don't use Javascript for image replacement, there is a MUCH simpler way that doesn't require it at all.

CSS works just fine!


Just take your <div> with the image you are going to replace it with-

<div class="imageReplacement">Text used in your image goes here!</div>

.imageReplacement {
	width: 490px; /* Replace with image width */
        height: 0px;
	/* Replace H1 Tag with background image */
	background: url(/images/blank.png) no-repeat center top;
	padding-top: 78px!important; /* same height as your image */
        overflow: hidden; margin: 10px auto;
}

And there you go - NO Javascript. 100% pure CSS image replacement.

To see an example, check out our home page.

 

[wetgravy]

What you just described was for replacing a piece of text with an image. a javascript image replace script normally replaces one image for another via a link. I used them back in the day, but because people have javascript disabled i stopped using it. Something along the lines of this. Or ... this one is another good example.