Im working on a website. I need your critiques

Well, im learning to use Dreamweaver and a Chef asked me to create for her a web site that looks elegant. I ve focused so much in understend how dreamweaver works that I don't know if the design I made for the site is OK.

You would help me a lot if you just take a look of my page and critique it.

The link is www.banquetespuntadeleste.com

Thank you very much.

By the way, the white box in the right is suposed to be a flash but i ve been unable to paste it in the page.

The colors (black, grey, cream) you have chosen are nice but I don't think it's quite there yet:

1. The design is not as elegant as I think it could be. I don't think the left nav has to be buttons -- text would be more elegant for the links. The buttons are too big and too bright.

2. The logo needs some work; I think it's hard to read especially with the drop shadow.

3. Try a different fade for the flash slide show. Something more simple would be more appropriate.

Just my opinions -- hope they are helpful. I think the site needs to look clean and professioanl to achieve the elegance your client wants. Good luck!

The colors (black, grey, cream) you have chosen are nice but I don't think it's quite there yet:

1. The design is not as elegant as I think it could be. I don't think the left nav has to be buttons -- text would be more elegant for the links. The buttons are too big and too bright.

2. The logo needs some work; I think it's hard to read especially with the drop shadow.

3. Try a different fade for the flash slide show. Something more simple would be more appropriate.

Just my opinions -- hope they are helpful. I think the site needs to look clean and professioanl to achieve the elegance your client wants. Good luck!

Thank you so much, I really appreciate your opinions and I'm already working on the improvement of this site. I'll have in mind all what you've said. When you have some free time i'll apreciate your visit to the site, and all your comments are welcomed. Thanks.

Well, im learning to use Dreamweaver and a Chef asked me to create for her a web site that looks elegant. I ve focused so much in understend how dreamweaver works that I don't know if the design I made for the site is OK.

You would help me a lot if you just take a look of my page and critique it.

The link is www.banquetespuntadeleste.com

Thank you very much.

By the way, the white box in the right is suposed to be a flash but i ve been unable to paste it in the page.

The navigation links ...make sure all of them have same font sizes.... look akward..

I'm not sure if you've designed that site for a resolution higher than 1024x768 but with that resolution horizontal scroll appears.
Particularly, I think it's soon to design websites with high width. A lot of people has 1024 or 800 configuration yet.

I'll remove the left column and I'll place a horizontal menu just under those pictures.

I don't know if the content depends on you but it has so many spelling mistakes.

You've used divs with absolute position and that's no very recommeded. For example, in contacto.html that last gallery si so down and it generates a big vertical scrolling. Maybe it looks nice in your screen, but it doesn't work with another resolutions. I advise you to learn about "float" attribute for divs.

Anyway, if you're learning web designing you're doing a great work!

Hey, found this check it out!
Look the size and distribution of all elemnets, it is simple, elegant and provocative, do not over size images if you dont have a good resolution file, it is better small but sharp, than big and foggy.
Martinelli's - S. Martinelli & Company

Thanks to all of you for helping me out. And yes, I'm learning web designing. I know Im not really good at this but i'm trying to improve. The fact is I just sat at my computer and tried to do something with dreamweaver but it was harder than what i've thought.

Im really glad i found people willing to help me with this issue. You can all be sure that as soon as I'm able to keep working on the web site i'll try to use all your recommendations, so thank you and please pass by the site soon so you can tell me if i did it right. Thanks.

Hey, found this check it out!
Look the size and distribution of all elemnets, it is simple, elegant and provocative, do not over size images if you dont have a good resolution file, it is better small but sharp, than big and foggy.
Martinelli's - S. Martinelli & Company

This is the first site i've created. Thanks for the link, this is a really good site, I'll try to do something to improve the site I'm working with. Thanks.

I'm not sure if you've designed that site for a resolution higher than 1024x768 but with that resolution horizontal scroll appears.
Particularly, I think it's soon to design websites with high width. A lot of people has 1024 or 800 configuration yet.

I'll remove the left column and I'll place a horizontal menu just under those pictures.

I don't know if the content depends on you but it has so many spelling mistakes.

You've used divs with absolute position and that's no very recommeded. For example, in contacto.html that last gallery si so down and it generates a big vertical scrolling. Maybe it looks nice in your screen, but it doesn't work with another resolutions. I advise you to learn about "float" attribute for divs.

Anyway, if you're learning web designing you're doing a great work!

I didn't knew i had to set a resolution when working on a site so I think i've solved that problem (please tell me if not).

Im working on the design of the menu, and i think ill put it under the pictures as you said.

You were right about the spelling mistakes, so ill change it as soon as I submit this.

Maybe I should but i don't know what a "div with absolute position" is. Anyway i'll search it in google or something.

I have to learn about that float attribute you talked about, so I think I have a lot of work to do. Thank you for your comments, they really helped me.

And sorry if i don't respect english grammar, I'm still learning it.

The navigation links ...make sure all of them have same font sizes.... look akward..

Checked

By the way, do you think the slideshow is too informal because its made on Slide?

Should I learn to use flash and do it by my self?

By the way, do you think the slideshow is too informal because its made on Slide?

Should I learn to use flash and do it by my self?

Honestly I'd say yes to this ... it's not that you have to learn flash by yourself either ... I guess there's plenty of online flash-recourses. On the other hand: stuff like this you will easily leanr by using Flash. If you got the program, I'd say go for it Else try online recourses, it's really not worth buying Flash, if you're only going to use it this time .. or only for slideshows.

Good luck!

Honestly I'd say yes to this ... it's not that you have to learn flash by yourself either ... I guess there's plenty of online flash-recourses. On the other hand: stuff like this you will easily leanr by using Flash. If you got the program, I'd say go for it Else try online recourses, it's really not worth buying Flash, if you're only going to use it this time .. or only for slideshows.

Good luck!

Thank you for cheking the website im working with. I guess i'll remove the slides sonn. I already own the Flash software so ill try to learn how to use it. Thanks.

Well, ive made changes in the webpage.

This is the new link (because i havent finished yet, its not the same)

Nueva Pagina en sectores

I hope someone can see it and tell me how does it look.

I would try using a sans serif font for the text ( excluding the navigation links) , and maybe make it a bit smaller?

Writings on the menu are a bit hard to get, I would make them a bit less saturated and darker to achieve a more calm and elegant look.
The right part is well done except the figures and text are too stuck the one onto each other, they need to breathe a bit. try making more white space where needed.


Good choose of pictures.

i think it's dull... very simple that doesn't make the web elegant.. add more colors - but not too much

All that orange/yellow text over the white is really hard to read, there is too little contrast! Try darkening that color a little bit. And that font you're using looks good on the buttons, but it's hard to read it on the texts in black. I don't know how large was this site before, but it looks really too thin now... And the buttons on the horizontal menu are really too big! Hope I've helped, don't feel down after you read all this, I bet you can fix it in no time

I would recommend finding a different font altogether for the heading and buttons. The font you've chosen really doesn't say elegance to me at all. I would recommend either a very clean, wispy but decorative sans serif font, or go all out and go with something more flowing, like a script.

another thing would be try and have as much text as text and not as an image for search engines to pick up simple things in my opinion like just taking off the underlineing on the left side under each heading might help give it a cleaner more minimal look. maybe some grey to break up the orange too, the big top heavy buttons arnt working for me either- perhaps long long bar or subtle gradients

hope something helps