A website?

RayOchoa · 1 Feb 2009, 01:25

Hey yall i tried one with google. Im working on it and it will be full of info and car stuff be sure to bookmark http://sites.google.com/site/automotivedesignochoa

todd burch · 1 Feb 2009, 03:14

I like the blue graphics, but lose the tiled background. I haven't been following posts of your designs, but based on your current set of categories in your gallery shell, I'm looking forward to seeing them.

Todd

Gaieus · 1 Feb 2009, 08:56

Definitely lose that background image. If you are going to put design things up there, the site should focus on visual content anyway and everything else is just distracting (not to speak about those background images tiling very badly in the side bar and the images covering it really ugly like here ). Put maybe a header banner like image instead on top but also design the appearance of the whole to be consistent.

I'd alkso lose the detailed sitemap for now as you don't have the content for it. Build the website along with the content and don't leave toomany "coming soon" pages.

RayOchoa · 1 Feb 2009, 14:57

Thanks for da advice, i changed it to all plain colors

reymond · 2 Feb 2009, 19:45

Hi Ray

Watch this.

ist free with advertising links on the site.
http://www.jimdo.com

its realy easy to use.

todd burch · 4 Feb 2009, 16:25

Your fonts are too fat, and it takes WAY too long to load. Other than that, it's OK!!

Double Espresso · 4 Feb 2009, 18:38

Ray,
My advice is keep it simple. People are coming to your site to see your car designs not how fancy the site design is.
Essentially... my name is Ray... this is what I do... these are my cars.
Right now it takes way too long to access the designs, perhaps more folders with less cars in each.
I think you are close to a great site that shows off your talent... good luck.

RayOchoa · 5 Feb 2009, 01:25

http://ray-ochoa.webs.com

Edit dammit i had to change again i hope yall don't mind.

RayOchoa · 5 Feb 2009, 01:25

okay i changed it. i will make it simpler.

RayOchoa · 5 Feb 2009, 01:26

okay i changed it. i will make it simpler. i edited the post before this one

RayOchoa · 5 Feb 2009, 01:27

CRAP okay i changed my website from cardesign-rayochoa.com to ray-ochoa.webs.com LESS TO WRITE

Gaieus · 5 Feb 2009, 10:18

Ray, just an advice on images. If you upload an image to be displayed in a certain size, the html code can display a bigger image smaller than the "real" image is but it's a waste of bandwidth as well as loading time. So if the images are displayed in 328x295 but the file is 800x552 (which is the case with your website), it will take to load as long as if it were displayed in the original (880x552) size but you can only see the "smaller" version.

So if you do that, resize your images to smaller and upload them that way instead (or link to the bigger version somewhere). Loading time will multiply.

RayOchoa · 5 Feb 2009, 11:53

you mean for the album?

Gaieus · 5 Feb 2009, 12:01

No. for the Homepage . I wouldn't even have looked if it hadn't ben suspicious for loading too slow. Go to Properties in the context menu for the image (see attached - in Hungarian)

RayOchoa · 5 Feb 2009, 13:16

I put a direct link from photobucket. i changed it to this one green car. idk if its better though, all the computers i go to my site with have fast connection

todd burch · 5 Feb 2009, 13:39

I seem to have issues when people link to photobucket. Long load times, even for small images, and may times, images fail to load altogether. Maybe it's just Safari.

Gaieus · 5 Feb 2009, 14:01

I have many issues with such image sharing sites as well (Imageshck being even worse). Sometimes I don't even click on a posted thumbnail in the Gallery because my driving license expires by the time it loads.

Alan Fraser · 5 Feb 2009, 14:15

The image still takea while to load...better, but still draggy. If you're having a slot that's 214x428 then that's the size the image ought to be. Your 400x800 pics are taking almost 4 times longer to load than necessary (twice the size in both directions).
I too don't like Photobucket or Imageshack. It's also the case that sourcing your images from there means you are dependent on them...if they're down, your site is useless, even if it's having no problem with the actual hosting. If it's possible to stick all your images into an images folder...maybe keeping the general site graphics and gallery images separate...I'd do that instead.

sketch3d.de · 6 Feb 2009, 13:48

domains & hosting is cheap, ray-ochoa.com is (still) free:

http://www.godaddy.com/

for generating content, get a WebCMS, e.g.:

http://www.wordpress.com/
http://www.joomla.org/

tons of free and commercial templates avail.

have fun,
Norbert