Critique this please

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hiya,

this is my latest project: a site for a church.
basically its a kind of christian church that seperated from the roman-catholics in 451, with a community in austria.

currently i’m trying to get a layout done for the main page.

anyways, what you’ll see after clicking the link below is all i could come up with so far and honestly, i’m not too confident with it… :-/

the customer asked me to add links to his old page, plz just ignore them, as well as the german text…

so, if you can drop a few lines about what you think of the layout/look of the first page, i’d appreciate it, and please… be honest :slight_smile:
thanks in advance,

oh, and please mind that i’m no pro at all, just doing this to finance my studies…

[color=#333333]http://www.suryoye.at/[/color]

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c’mon guys, don’t let me die stupid…if it sucks, just tell me…

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i think, its old and nice…very historic

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ty, i just hope it fits the cause, sometimes i simply can’t get enough distance from my work…

keep the critiques coming please

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I like the first page, it looks nice, there really isnt anything big wrong with it, so you probably wont get to many comments

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thanks, harm

i guess i’ll just stick with it then
+/- some minor changes :slight_smile:

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i think its too busy, and you have too many different types of fonts. it need to be unified. bring it all together with a common theme.

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yeah, you’re right, thank you :slight_smile:

i’ll fix this asap!

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Why are the linking pages different from the front page? I think the style on the front page -the parchment bg, litho/etching graphics and nice serif font-totally suit the topic at hand, it looks great. But I really think you should carry this style over to the other pages that make up the site to give it a unified aesthetic.

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i will :slight_smile:

the linking pages were made by some volunteer, who wanted to do the church a favor, i’ll replace them with a cms (mambo) as soon as i dare to call the main page “finished” :wink:

oh, and thanks for the compliment :flower:

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i reckon its pretty good

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I like the index but for example when I enter in “Geschichte” theres too much info and I have to scroll down too much, maybe u can make ur font smaller, its annoying to scroll that much :slight_smile:

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these are the pages that volunteer, i mentioned before, made, before they handed the site to me to fix it :smiley:

i’ll remove these sub-pages soon, but the customer has urged me to link to them, and they’ll have to stay till the new ones are finished

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oh sorry, my bad… :stuck_out_tongue:

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np :stuck_out_tongue:

i made some changes now, including unifying the fonts, so heres the new version. to compare, above is a link to the old version:

old: http://www.suryoye.at/index2.php

new: http://www.suryoye.at

better? worse? :ear:

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I prefered the old one. I’m all against the buttons that don’t have titles. It means I have to put even more of an effort into knowing what’s on the site. If you do that, you’ll atleast need a menu next to it showing all the pages that those buttons represent.

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you’re right, i tend to forget about usability sometimes :trout:

hmm, the layout seems cleaner to me now tho…
…got to find a compromise without having to start anew… :puzzled:

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more changes:

old: http://www.suryoye.at/index2.php

new: http://www.suryoye.at

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There’s not that big of a difference, but I think the new one is a bit better.

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thank you =)

does it still look too busy? :ear: