Can someone give me some objective opinions?

[neil_cardiff]

Hey all,

I've been fiddling and learning from scratch how to make a website and have knocked something which, so far, I'm proud of. However, I'd like some objective opinions on how it could be improved or made to work/look better.

The website is www.neilbolton.co.uk

The main thing I'm finding is whether layers or table work best, I can't get table to do what I want, so I used layers to get the 'free form' editing in Dreamweaver MX that I'm using.

What am I doing wrong - or am I completely missing the point?

[JoolzB]

Your webber looks ok to me. Some of the content in the center does seem to jump around a bit moving from center alignment to top aligned etc.

I'm not totally sure what the layers are doing but prob not alot as most of the formatting is done within a DIV tag.

If you wanted to use a table then you'd have tables within tables. So your outer table would contain 2 rows and then 3 cols I think. Then the top TR would be colspan=3 and then onto the content is each column(3 cols) below. Then within the TD's you could define another table etc.

That prob doesn't make alot of sense...

[_DJ_]

neil_cardiff said:

Hey all, I've been fiddling and learning from scratch how to make a website and have knocked something which, so far, I'm proud of. However, I'd like some objective opinions on how it could be improved or made to work/look better. The website is www.neilbolton.co.uk The main thing I'm finding is whether layers or table work best, I can't get table to do what I want, so I used layers to get the 'free form' editing in Dreamweaver MX that I'm using. What am I doing wrong - or am I completely missing the point?

It looks OK to me. However, I'd be tempted to reduce the amount of personal information on there. I may be paranoid, but giving your phone number and address on a web site probably not the best idea - there are a lot of nutters out there!

[miniman]

It looks good, but it's a little wide - even for a 1024x768 display. A lot of the text disappears off the right hand side of the screen. I would personally drop the size of the nav buttons down a little, and drop the text size down. Otherwise looks good!