Anyone have experience with Dreamco Design?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by Gentile2, Apr 18, 2008.

  1. #1
    I'm looking into having dreamco design create and host my website, however first I'd like to know if any of you have had any experience with them, and if so how were they?

    They have an enormous and great portfolio but then on some of their few pages they have one or two small yet obvious spelling mistakes that make me second guess their professionalism.

    They can be found here.

    http://www.dreamcodesign.com/webdesign.php
     
    Gentile2, Apr 18, 2008 IP
  2. Payton Designs

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    To be honest, it doesn't look any different from templatemonster.com . My first guess would be that they're on some sort of an affiliate program through template monster and when you purchase the design they will merely customize the pre-made design.

    If I were you, I'd contact them and ask if all of their designs are 100% Unique and Never been sold before.
     
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    I can't find a single page in their portfolio that validates!

    The code is horrific in most of their portfolio, including their own site. The graphics aren’t much to call home about either.

    Along with that, the grammatical and spelling mistakes that you have picked up on also would make me question their professionalism.
     
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    Like nicangeli said their code is horrible. Very outdated. Just say no.
     
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    What do you mean the code is horrific? How do you now that?
     
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  6. Gentile2

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    What does that mean that their code is horrible, I'm not very knowledgeable about web design.
     
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    Oh, also what does it mean that you can't find a single page on their site that validates? Thanks!
     
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    View > Page Source.

    The code is completly outdated, table based layouts, completely bloated. Using flash for the main navigation (completely inaccessible),

    
    <!--
    <br />
    <b>Warning</b>:  fread() [<a href='function.fread'>function.fread</a>]: Length parameter must be greater than 0 in <b>/home/.herald/structure828/dreamcodesign.com/webdesign.php</b> on line <b>6</b><br />
    -->
    
    
    
    Code (markup):
    I haven’t got a clue what that is doing in the source, especially above the doctype.

    and what I mean by code that doesn't validate, visit validator.w3.org and put some of their portfolio sites into that. A good well written site should validate (most of the time...)

    I wouldn't recommend them to you.
     
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  9. Gentile2

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    Thanks for the thoughts, I greatly appreciate it.

    Are there any good web designers you could recommend me?
     
    Gentile2, Apr 18, 2008 IP