Like Pie: Metal-Morphous.com

[kickarse]

Yup... easy like pie...

Another Wb site done! Client is supremely happy because she can edit it herself EASILY! Well that and a nice design and good guy to work with.

www.metal-morphous.com just launched tonight.

[kweitzel]

does look really good ... on first view, nothing else really to say

cheers

Klaus

[generic]

ie 7.0 does not like your site, it pushes the whole site down in the browser window, a few pages nav bars dont start until you scroll down a lot...

[kickarse]

Thanks for the comments..

IE7.0 is BETA! They still haven't even come close to compliancy.

Get a browser that is actually being used normally, then we'll talk.

[burki]

just call it *nice made*
site looks cool, design is well done... thats one for the hall of fame

ps: some pages look different, try to keep the layout .... straight

[kweitzel]

talking about this, yes, it actually looks like you made 2 templates ... 1 for the pages without the secondary navigation menu and 1 for the ones with (it has 2 columns, right?).

Maybe try to put the secondary menu under the banner "specialising ... call ..." as a horizontal menu (if possible with all the links) so that is seems to be the top of the content area and is not displayed, if there is no childlevel page ...

cheers

Klaus

[kickarse]

I appreciate the responses. 

I didn't want to have a secondary horizontal nav because of the amount of sub pages. The pages are different for different reasons. There's actually three templates. One for information pages, like contact, one for the main page with a second box, and a third for pages with multiple sub pages. Everything is very similar, the only thing that changes is the content.

[mysticcowboy]

The basic design is very attractive. Unfortunately you have a problem.

You need to  size and optimize your images before placing them on the pages instead of just using html to make them fit. The wood platform stage image is 152KB all by itself and has real dimensions of 1354 X 1062. There's no reason your entire home page need be more than half that.  Some of your other images are just as big.

It's a shame for such a good looking site to suffer from such long download times. 40% of Americans are still on dialup. That statistic just came out last week. With a basically simple site like this, just optimizing your photos would speed your load time to less a third.

[kickarse]

The images came to me in this fashion. I haven't had a chance to resize them all because of time restraints. A deadline they put upon me late in the game and would have drastically increased the time it took to finish the site out.

But my intentions are to resize them. Nice catch though.

[mysticcowboy]

For two jelly beans and a good word to Santa Claus, I'll tell you the secret.

Any good web photo gallery program or  image editing program like Photoshop will automate the task. I let my computer do most of my image optimizing while at lunch.

best,
michael

[kickarse]

Having been using PS for over 8 years. I'm in the know on that one, but thanks. 

I just don't have the time right now. Plus not every picture can be exactly the same format (GIF or JPG) or the same size. I'd rather the idea to choose those parameters.

[generic]

Thanks for the comments..

IE7.0 is BETA! They still haven't even come close to compliancy.

Get a browser that is actually being used normally, then we'll talk.

I would have given you a fix, but i guess you know it all.

[kickarse]

I obviously don't know everything or else it would work in IE 7.0  ... BUT It's still in beta and isn't even web 2.0 certified yet. 

But I still appreciate any help.