Please review my website: www.pacesol.com I want to redesign it with more appealing design. Please give me some helpful suggestions and point out the flaws.
You'd have better luck with this in the reviews section of the forums. But, you asked for it... *** WARNING *** I can seem harsh, but I'm trying to help. Think of me as Gordon Ramsey or Charlie Frattini, and you'll understand WHY I'm being "harsh" (and if you think this is harsh, you should see how I treat my own work). The ONLY way to make things better is to strip them down to the bone and build them back up -- anything else is a wad of chewing gum on a puncture. Your fixed width layout is uselessly large on my netbook and a crappy little stripe on my workstation... this is why fixed width layouts are a steaming pile of /FAIL/. The fixed metric (aka px) fonts are useless on my desktop without zooming in 50% or more, which of course doesn't fit the amount of screen I usually use for the browser thanks to the non-fluid layout. The text color contrasts combined with the absurdly undersized fixed metric fonts and the goofy hard to read content font results in a page that's pretty much useless. The stupid jerky animated rotating banner crap (Have I mentioned how much I HATE those?) and massive page bloat results in a painful 30 seconds or more download time -- and I'm on a 22mbps cable connect! That the page is so poorly constructed with it's 11 validation errors and complete lack of separation of presentation from content, much less it being little more than a five minute turdpress template that nobody's bothered neutering out the rubbish markup WP saddles you with sure as shine-ola isn't helping you any. You've got 111 files totalling a whopping 1.5 megabytes to deliver less than 5k of plaintext and maybe three content images! Handshaking alone real-world on firstload would measure in at anywhere from 9 seconds to a whopping minute on certain types of cable connections... and for WHAT? The markup ALONE is 39k, easily three or four times as much code as should be neccessary for what is a very simple page. Of course, I smell the "but I can do it in photoshop" approach to design being present, given the number of "not viable for web deployment if you care about accessibility" elements like the five across equal-width equal-height part, the inaccessible rubbish form, and of course the aformentioned fixed width and fixed fonts. ... and that's without mentioning things like the pointless bloat of the HTML 5 asshattery, inline-level tags wrapping block level (which even when 5 says it's ok, it isn't in practice), endless pointless wrapping elements for no good reason, nonsensical use of heading tags, scripting crap doing LABEL's job, absolute URL's just wasting bandwidth on nothing, etc, etc... Seriously, if you don't know what's wrong with this: <h3>GRAPHIC</h3> <h4>& WEB DESIGN</h4> Code (markup): You have NO business making websites for yourself, much less others.