[iranfromthezoo]

Granted I am not the best web guy (print media) I had to make this website for work. Was wondering if anyone could give me advice? Break Thru 2008 | Official Site

It's not live yet.

[Oisín]

Content aside, it looks quite good. No glaring mistakes that I can see at a glance, anyways. I’d do the menu as pure text, rather than images, though, just for general usability and load times (it’s somewhat slow as it is now, though that may be my connection at the moment).

One thing about the text, though: if it’s a site for any kind of professional company/corporation/association/whathaveyou, the ubiquity of ellipses and exclamation marks needs some attending to. The way it’s written, you’d think “David Cooke, Executive Director” were a 14-year-old geek with pimples. Clean up the writing and you’ll present the cause in a much more worthwhile manner.

Example: the very first paragraph

30 YEARS…. 18,000 teenagers…900 nights of worship….300 seminars…over 60 churches….ONE MESSAGE!!! Jesus Christ!!!

- could easily be rewritten (or rather, re-punctuated) as merely,

30 years; 18,000 teenagers; 900 nights of worship; 300 seminars; over 60 churches. All with one message: Jesus Christ!

- without losing any meaning, but also without looking like a kid’s blog.

[red rocket]

Jesus Christ, 155 KB for a goddamned favicon, what the Hell is going on here?

[iranfromthezoo]

yeah...I have no control over content so I can't change it...But I thought the same thing to be honest.

The reason I made the links images was because if I made them text it would make and underline...and I honestly hate that.

[leblancchris]

the site takes too long to load...you must have large files

[andi*pandi]

Originally Posted by iranfromthezoo 

The reason I made the links images was because if I made them text it would make an underline...and I honestly hate that.

Simple CSS can change that for you.

a, a:link, a:visited {text-decoration: none;}

[besson3c]

Beautiful site! My main comment is your code.. imageready does a very sloppy job at generating HTML code for you, and this will have a number of consequences for you - including how your site will fare with search engines.

[iranfromthezoo]

thats for the info. I am steadily learn CSS. I am still not good enough for the the whole site to go that way but will implement it in the future.

besson3c...thanks that means a lot. I am a moron when it comes to this stuff...I just went into photoshop made the website, sliced it up and went to image ready. I am really unsure of how to "clean-up" my code...

wow...I feel like a first grade who can't wipe his butt.

[besson3c]

iran: if you plan to make more websites, it would be well worth your time to learn some HTML. I'm sure you can do well with it with a little patience! Anybody can learn this stuff as long as you put in the time, and I think your snazzy design warrants this level of attention

With sloppy code (in general), some of the ill-consequences can include:

1) slow page rendering/loading
2) browser display incompatibilities
3) poor search results
4) much more difficult to grow your site and keep a consistent set of styles and conventions
5) there may be difficulties with installing a content management system (CMS) on your site and using it successfully without getting odd display quirks
6) as the site grows in complexity some of the things that work now may crumble due to over-complexity
7) if any of these issues becoming glaring, correcting these problems at a later date may be a more expensive venture than addressing these problems earlier

[shifuimam]

I'd use text for the link bar - not images. You're not using a fancy font, so plain text will work fine. Put a hover effect on the navbar as well - when you hover over a link, it should be obvious which link you're going to click. Change the background color or make the text a different color or underline it or something.