I am happy to announce that my website www.pyromythgames.com is up and running without banner ads and pop ups!!! Why go through all the trouble and expense of getting your own site when you already have a free site. The pop up for starts but the real reason is I am selling hand made copies of my game Cannon. Please have a look and let me know if you have any problems with it, I have only been able to test it with IE 6.0 and Mozilla.
P.S. I know the date is off by a day but I finished it early.
I am happy to announce that my website www.pyromythgames.com is up and running without banner ads and pop ups!!! Why go through all the trouble and expense of getting your own site when you already have a free site. The pop up for starts but the real reason is I am selling hand made copies of my game Cannon. Please have a look and let me know if you have any problems with it, I have only been able to test it with IE 6.0 and Mozilla.
It's a nice elegant design. So many small sites have a cookie-cutter free template look to them it's great that you avoided that.
The only thing I'd suggest is that the blue links and black text on a red background on the left are kind of hard to read. It's even worse once the link has been visited and it's pink on red. Maybe you can change the link colours.
I also find that the default serif font makes a site look more amateur. It's probably just me, but I usually change to a sans-serif font like Ariel.
Also, the images are quite slow to load.
Overall it looks very good.
Jason
Seems to display and look ok in Safari on OSX.
As stated by Oracle, I might consider changing the font to an arial style. It might make some areas of the pages look cleaner.
The images seem to load fine for me, but I am running on a cable modem. Looking at the sizes of the files, someone still using 56k modem might have a little to long of a wait.
As Oracle stated, it is nice that you are not being a "cookie - cutter", though I like my company site, even though it is a cookie cutter. I will change it down the road, I just needed to get something up and running as quick as possible. And what is currently online only took me about 20 hours of my time to put together.
The images seem to load fine for me, but I am running on a cable modem. Looking at the sizes of the files, someone still using 56k modem might have a little to long of a wait.
I'm also on a cable modem. On the Cannon screen for example I saw an outline of where the image should go for about 30 seconds. I thought the image link was broken, and then it came up.
Now it seems to come up within a second or so, but that could be because it's cached.
As Oracle stated, it is nice that you are not being a "cookie - cutter", though I like my company site, even though it is a cookie cutter. I will change it down the road, I just needed to get something up and running as quick as possible. And what is currently online only took me about 20 hours of my time to put together.
Since your site uses Nuke, it's not so much like you downloaded a template and made a few minor tweaks to call it your site. Nuke is your whole content management system and you certainly don't want to do that from scratch.
You can see a Nuke site I put together in about 10 hours at http://www.indieboardgames.com/canada . I do have the domain name that goes with it but I'm not really doing anything with the site now. I tried to push it for a while but it really had a chicken-and-egg problem.
Jason
It looks good, but I do have one minor suggestion. Your navigation bar on the left has the section titles underlined, making them look like links. I kept clicking on them, thinking that they would go to summary pages.
For example, it's natural (for me) to click on "Our Products" to get a summary of the products.
So, I'd suggest either not underlining the titles or creating summary pages that they point to...
Hi Dralius. Would you mind it if I put a link on my website over to your free games page? I have recently put everything needed to make some of my games up on the website for free. Having games published is not a goal for me so I am putting them out there for anyone to download, print, and play. If others have print and play games on their site I would be happy to create a link to you.
http://www.geocities.com/crosstowngames/
Rob
Nice work David ... the Cannon set looks nice.
Red/Blue combinations are hard to pick up since those are "opposite" colors to the receptors in eye ... the brain has a hard time organizing clear border areas between the two colors.
I would recommend saving down to PNG, GIF or JPG (in that order) if you have a program that can do that for you without hacking up the color of your pics. With bigger pictures, I sometimes save to all 3 formats to see which one gives me the best combination of looks/size.
:)
-Bryk
Dear Dralius, we are presently adding to our website and with your permission we would like to add your company to our links section.
Please advise if this is acceptable.
Dean Humphreys
Forty Ninth West Games Inc.
http://www.49west.com
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Thanks everyone for the web design advice, I am not real experienced in this area so it’s not a surprise that it needs some improvement. I will do some work with the links and find a better compression for my images.
Please feel free to link to my site and if I have not linked to you let me know and I will be glad to add yours to my listing. You know "All for one and one for all"