i'm breaking in on becoming a pro. can better pros give their opinions.

thanks!

www.passionoverdrive.8k.com

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Hi! The site works well, good flash work, but the theme looks more as romantic novel than web art (it's only my taste and opinion). The most important: Don't use free
hosting, and buy your own domain. There are severals hostings at low cost.
There's no SEO work,no meta tags, no title, no descrption, no keywords!! How can browsers read and classify your site?
You've done a lot of (and good)work, but it's dashing out... Really a pitty. You can improve all those things and have a great site.

Good luck!

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I suggest you get rid of that sound in your flash movie. Very irritating, especially since I have to hear it every time I go back to your home page.

I found the text a little difficult to read. It is not the best choice to have white text on black background. It is very hard to see on most monitors. You have a spelling error on the first page. I assume that the word you wnat is resumès. You should also break up that first sentence into about three or four. It is too long to read easily.

The constantly moving flash animations distract from the information. I tried to read what was there, but my eyes kept getting pulled to the flash. Have it play once and then stop.

Other than the black background, the design is quite nice. I would suggest one more thing. I know that it is now all the rage to change the scrollbar, but don't. People do not like having their browser messed with. The only people that like that kind of thing is designers, and we are not your target audience.

Overall, very good potential there for a nice site.

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Hi.

Good site- but I suppose you want to know the constructive criticism- so here goes!

1) I am not sure about the font used on the flash movie- could it be a little less 'hand-written'?
2) The sound on the flash movie maybe quite impressive, but for most people I would have thought it might be a little annoying. Could you replace it with some music? Also, a mute button for those of us with an allergic reaction to flash sound would be a bonus!
3) This might be me- but I am great believer in obvious sight navagation. On the into page it is not obvious what the links are until you put your mouse over the bottom images. Could you put text links above them, or make it more obvious?

4) The images in flash and the ones from the html are a little low in resolution- making them look a little blocky- enhansing this will make your site look a little more professional.

5) You have made a:hover make the text go bold when the mouse goes over it. I personally don't like this as it makes the text move a little. Making it change colour would look better I feel.

6) There seems to be a lack of headings on each page- headings are important for us knowing what page we are on, and also for search engines!

7) You have used CSS to change the colour of the scroll bar. Unfortunately it is ALL black and so if I want to move the page up and down using the scroll bar, I can't find the scroll bit!

It looks good- just needs tweaking! Also I agree- use a proper host as a free host is just not professional.

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HI baritoneuk, kingman, gsmanzi!!!

Thanks so much for your fast replies. really appreciate them! WOW! big help on yor criticisms, i really forgot all those you have mentioned esp. with SEO, meta tags etc. just too caught up in the art :) *excuses, excuses*

on the domain, i am still having second thoughts, i'm more into "budget" designing that's the reason why i'm using a free domain and hosting so people and small time biz can avail of a website within their capacities. that's the service i give which my comtemporaries here don't. *some charge exorbitant fees for petty high school web work.* but then again, i will take your advise when foundations and schools can give me more tha my prof fees :D

noted all your advise. you all got me tapping on my keyboard again.

here's to carpal tunnel syndrome free designing!!!

cheers!
mike

yes the sound on the flash not only scared and irritated me, but also the kitten that was sitting in my lap at the time.

Thanks for the scratches!

Besides that the flash was nice, but I agree about bad SEO.

Finally, you must find a new server. It is illegal to sell web design on a free server with gangs of popups, err, it should be.

Hi WoWzers!

oops sorry about that and do extend that to your kitten.
working on it!