Please let me know what you think of www.ray-industries.be. I've just updated the site a few days ago, and I'm asking for your opinion on it's look, content, and ad-position. Thank you.
Well first thing that grabs me is your informing me to use Firefox. However, I have just recently made a concious decision to move to IE7 which in MY opinion knocks the socks off Firefox, and I was very sad to see Firefox 2 copying some of its features almost exactly which also changed my mind somewhat. If you want to be professional, it's up to you to design for the market, not shape the market to how you'd like it to be. IE6 is terrible beyond belief but MS has really brought out a quality free offering this time. I don't get hung up in political stuff, I use the best product that I find is good for me at that particular moment. "to fully experience" - so what am I actually missing out on? Taking a quick look in Firefox doesn't seem to show any difference to me except that message is gone, so hmm Arial looks too squashed up at that font size on a website. I would also suggest changing your templates viewing area to have a small screenshot of the entire template design rather than just having descriptive text. The menus also look a bit squashed up. Now, besides all that (sorry I went off on one about the message but it gets my back up hehe) it's a good design so far, just needs a few finishing touches to have a bit of wow-factor Technically this site/design is not that good right now, it has no DOCTYPE specified so validation of your site cannot even begin to happen. However, if I insert XHTML 1.0 Transitional in there which is the current norm these days, then it shows up with 262 errors in the code. You should also look into the wonders of css for formatting and layout and dump tables which are pretty obselete these days. Don't take this as an attack, I'm just trying to help and I think I've gone off on one a bit hehe
I hate firefox maybe you should take off the firefox thing and at the top make a small banner saying use fire fox. (one from google adsense)
scribbz, thanks for the lengthy post. i'll try and incorporate some of the changes you talk about, although getting rid of tables is way too long of a road for me at this point. and about the "to fully expirience" in IE6 some CSS styles I've applied didn't work due to the lack of full support for CSS (as I know).