Hello again for all of you who haven't killfiled me yet. (although I'm
beginning to wonder) I would really appreciate a critique on the *first*
page of this site"PLEASE"
I got some great suggestions the first time I put this up. THANK YOU!!!! and
I reworked it.
You can be honest! I do appreciate your input.
http://jcbantiques.com/

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With warm regards,
Tony
http://artonio7.com

That was what they did in the 1800s though. Over design, ornaments
everywhere.

I think it works, I'd buy from them. I'd change the fading pictures though,
that's kinda annoying. Make them all at full opacity. The one picture at
the top, the guy in the vignette, his background is white, change it to the
nice yellow colour that's behind the pic...the white doesn't work.

Also, in the second frame, don't use all caps for the text. All caps are
hard to read and just look bad.


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Oh, and try and use curly quotes instead of the inch marks.


"Baeowulf"
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"Ornate" doesn't have to mean over-designed or poorly designed. Tony has an
opportunity to borrow some really nice elements from that era and integrate
them into a modern website. That's the current struggle.

I agree with all of your points, Baeowulf, but none of them fix the big
picture.

Dan
http://www.FreelanceWorkshops.com





"Baeowulf"
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hi,

not bad I guess. but antique websites always raise the same question in my
brain, do antique website have to look antique?

to me you seem to have created an old smoky bar room, not that this is a bad
thing I just think its the same old cliche.

I personally would have tried hard to create something elegant in design
(like antiques are) but lighter and more 'against the grain' of all the
other mediocre antique sites.

Chris.

Tony,

I guess I'd second or third the comment about too ornate. I love the color
scheme. You've really captured the look of the time with those colors in a
very simple and straightforward way. I'd keep the horizontal accents with
diamonds, but don't think the mauve boxes arond the headlines are needed.
Especially with the two different kinds of vertical stripes they get to be
too much in my eyes. The fit to the screen now is much better with the
resizable table.

A personal preference would be not to scroll down quite so far on a home
page. To me, a home page should be short and sweet and to the point,
introduce you to the navigation and content to be found in the site and move
you into the site to the content you want. I know you can't always control
that, however.

I hope this helps. It really looks good and is very close to what you want
to don in my opinion

--
Fred Doyle
www.leafpublishing.com

I agree with Dan.

How about moving the center image 'up' - and just using the same elements at
the top - but - in the same tones/hues - a little darker than the content area,
and faded some.

Too much is vying for your attention - rather than working in 'harmony'


Deb.

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Tony,

I wonder why you made a change in fonts on your first page - the bottom
right: "E-MAIL THIS LINK
Enter recipient's e-mail:" to another font? In my opinion, it should stay
the same as the Verdana font on the rest of the page. (Keeping everything
the same that is outside the box - I think the Georgia is reserved for
within?)

Also, when resizing the page the "bulbs" below the top line they move
together. Is that what you meant to happen?

I don't think it's necessary to add the extra links under "home" since you
have already included them at the bottom of the list of links. Perhaps it
should be one or the other. Adding "alt" tags are advisable, too.

The bottom of the page is cut off with white line at the right, but the
line, perhaps should be the same yellow you have on top of the page and it
should span the entire width of the page and copy the top. Otherwise, you
have many elements going on at the bottom. You have the red ending and the
striped box ending (both without closure lines), and then next to it you
have the white line with a maroon vertical line below that. If anything, I
would eliminate it all and end at the end of the maroon box.

One last item, I am questionning the numerous colors you are using within
the "box" For continuinty sake, I might look at keeping it similar. (You
have pink background, white text; another is beige background, white text;
the "neat" looking "bulb" design" vs. the blue/gold design below.)

Sharp looking page. I can see you put a lot of effort into it. I hope you
take these comments in the vein they were intended.

Kathy

Curly quotes are proper and only look disgusting if the designer of the font
made them that way.


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I see changes now. It looks nice. Especially now that the pictures don't
fade in and out.

One thing though, html effects on type...don't use them. I notice a few
things have a shadow applied to them, and it makes them look bad if
cleartype or AA is enabled on an XP or OSX machine. Plus, IE 6 at least,
takes a performance hit when it reaches any type of text like that.


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