Please Critique

ok guys.. well just wondering what yall thought of the site.

www.templeofpain.net/illmatik

we are also having a art contest over there so spread the word.
heres a link to those rules and regulations.

http://www.templeofpain.net/illmatik/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21

thanks sidez. ;)

/me finds a chicken to peck his eyes out then offers it to the next person


I would work on the colors and the text doesnt fit onto the bg boxes you made in my res. and the bg tiles funny. and the splashpage text is unreadable, acually most the text is unreadable.

To start it off, why would you put fine print on the web. If your welcome message is in size -2 font, no one will be able to read it or will attempt to make out what it says.

The background definitely needs alot of work. A grid with the Spherize filter all over the place might create an interesting result but to be used as a background, it's not advisable. It's also doesn't repeat.

You should chop up the whole site using the Slices tool and export the images and HTML so that you wouldn't have to use div containers and not have the site as one image and as a repeating background. On screen resolutions above 1024x768, the whole thing repeats and a second nav appears on the right.

The nav buttons would probably look good on a site that uses a white background for the nav. The white pixels on the outside of the GIFs show and creates an ugly, unwanted border around each image.

Font! The typewriter industry has been trampled over by the computer industry, that font is no longer useful to us as it is not pleasing to look at. Use the other websafe fonts such as Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, etc.

In your files section, you have a link to an episode of The Osbournes and it's hosted on your webserver. If the show is licensed, you might want to take it off for it is illegal to distribute licensed media on a private server. If you do get caught, you might face serious legal issues.

To finish it all off, the site needs a lot of work. It's quite a decent start, but keep on remaking layouts until you get the hang of placement and display of objects on the screen.

Looks kinda 'filtermatik' to me. The colors are straining to the eyes. the background psychadelic stuff only gives me a headache... the typeface is hard to read, too big, and inconsistent. The site looks pretty bad in Opera... Since you have the entire web site as a background image, then try to put content on top of it with a layer slapped together in imageready. Your background also tiles on larger monitor resolutions, so your 'web site' duplicates itself infinitely as the screen resolution increases. since the code generated by imageready isn't standards compliant, your text does not fit within the little boxes of your background image. In opera it runs all over the screen, even taking up two horiztonal screens, requiring you to scroll back and forth horizontally just to read one line of text.

i would suggest staying away from the filters a little bit and learn photoshop a little better, as well as html and the basics of web design. you can't rely on imageready to make a web site for you.

My eyes hurt.....

mine too

Title: Pimp'd Blue Navigation Set

Artist: Seakdawg
Date: December 11th/02
Comment: Made for pixelwar site. Buttons
came with it but i didnt bother chewing up
bandwidth on silly ****.

use this stuff you made as your site, it's way better

well.. thanks for the critique..the resolution is 1024x768 and i dunno what you guys talkin about because its actually not one sphere filter.. its actually liquid but you guys seem to act like know it alls.. and maybe if you buy a better video card you might be able to read the text. shows up great on my screen. so w/e i dont see point in changing any of the text.

I'm running on a GF2MX. Besides, the video card has nothing to do with how the browser reads the coding. If you're making a site that many other users are going to see, make sure you cater to their hardware configurations rather than sticking to your own screen.

Take into account multi-browser compatibility, IE isn't the only browser out there and IE itself is not a great web browser. Clean up your coding and give the div container for the text a set width so that it won't expand on its own.

If you're willing to learn more about design, you should listen and consider other's comments and critiques. Our comments aren't flaming your site or telling you to quit now and forget about it. It's there to help. Read articles or tutorials on the basics. There's more to it than slapping text and images together and hope that they go well with each other.

P.S. The spherize and liquify produce similar results. Of course we won't get the exact filter on the first try because most of us had thrown away those filters a long time ago.

this is what your site looks like when viewed on a different setup than what you have on your computer...

screenshot sorry for the poor quality.. but it's already a large file so i compressed it a bunch.

i'm assuming that is not what you intended it to look like.

don't get all defensive about your work either. you posted asking for a critique, and we gave you a lot of really good information to help you improve. but it's up to you whether to take that info and learn from it or not.

Your HTML is causing numerous errors on the page. Perhaps the biggest offender is the blue gradient bar and top of the navigation is repeated at the bottom of the page. Big error. In fact on closer inspection it looks like the whole page is tiling.

The blue mesh background is also very discomforting to look at for more than a few seconds. The striations cause a moire effect that is eye straining to say the least.

Your text in the black box flows way out of it and into the blue mesh beyond.

Why ask or invite comment and critique on your work if you are not prepared to accept the ensuing comments? My resolution is 1280x1024 and I can assure you that it tiles. Fact. As for the compression and choice of fonts, others have been right to point out that in places it is illegible and in others badly optimised or a poor choice of font. Where you have 'illmatik' on the gradient bar it is so poorly kerned and compressed as to render it virtually useless. The choice of courier for the main screen font is also not the best choice, either from an aesthetic or practical point of view.

Sideways scrolling also needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency, it is simply unacceptable to have to sideways scroll to a tiling page. Farcicle.

The navigation contains broken links.

"the text. shows up great on my screen." - So? How many people are going to be accessing the website from your screen? Don't be so conceited and foolish, it is should be your intended aim to make it so that the content is available to as many users as possible, making a website that looks good on your hard drive is all very well, come back when you can make it look good across all formats.

Your comments on graphics cards are indicitive of a deep insecurity about your work. They are neither constructive or of any use. When people offer up good (or even bad) advice have the good grace to accept it and not spit your dummy.