OK…I am putting my ass on the line here…I want your opinion of the website that I have been working on. I know there are flaws and stuff, so just mellow about that. I am NOT an HTML super smartie, so just BACK OFF.. Just joking. Anyways, if you guys & girls could do me the fav of going on, and giving me an HONEST (but polite LOL) answer on how it looks, I would appreciate it mucho!!! And don’t forget TO SIGN THE GUEST BOOK…That includes YOU TOO GENE!!!
~Wen~
Given that you said it was not complete, I think it is a pretty good effort. Gives you the important information without any BS.
Good job.
Not bad wushu. I wasn’t diggin the blinking red lights though. Too busy. Where the hell is the guestbook anyway. I’ll be glad to help you out with some html if you need it. Actually, I think 80% of the people on this board can help with that.
go to www.tucows.com and check out the web develepment toolz. Did I mention that all the downloads are free?
wen,
for the love of pete, would you pleeeeeaase fix the centering!
-dave
overall I thought it was alright.
I didn’t really like the blinking red lights either.
At one point you mentioned that anyone with a black sash at your school has earned it then later on in another paragraph you mention that your kwoon doesn’t use belt rankings. huh?
If it is a visual tool you desire may I suggest dreamweaver. Of course notepad or editplus is my choice for windows development. Stay away from frontpage. If you decide to incorporate server side code do NOT use a WYSIWYG editor for the love of god.
YAH I dont know about those red dot’s
maybe green but it might make budget your layou, what i do like is how you used the whole black&white levi’s picture, i don’t know kind of give’s it a 50s feel, cool
but the blinking light’s, ugh horrible, girlfriend??!..
I’l sign your guestbook later, i hate those thing’s, Be sure to put some technical info on N.Shaolin up eventually!, General overview of Application, and skill’s aquirred, etc!.
Constructive criticisms
But good job WushuChik !
At least it doesn’t say “Loin Dance” anymore, hahahahahah
:eek: 
Blinking lights will be gone soon. I don’t know how to change it so that it fits the page. Illusion…uh, you have talked to someone TOO MUCH!!! Thanks guys!! I appreciate it! It’s NOT html yet…ok, so i am stupid and i went to homestead and got a point and click website, OK?? SHEESH…but it’s getting changed as we speak, so I really appreciate everyones imput…
One thing…how DO I change the width?
~Wen~
Looks good to me, im just an unbiased non web trained dude who wouldnt know html if it hit him in the face. I just call things as i percieve them and the site is nice clean and has a good working layout.
One thing i would possibly recommend though im sure you will anyway when you get time.
Some information on the instructors you have including maybe a brief personal bio(whoops just found it sorry). Some action shots of practical application so people can clearly see your a combat orientated system and not simply another ‘shaolin’ wushu class.
So yeah i think it looks cool and although i cant look at it as a design professional neither will half of your audience:D
Well i have a pretty fast connection (512KB ADSL) and it took about 2-3 seconds to load that picture, so it might be too big (let the modem users here tell you ).
I agree you should drop the lights, you could have some sort of bulletin insted of the dots, but i would still recommend keeping them as just bulletins and let the text itself be the link (insted of the image).
Might be a nice idea to change the color of the “Yes we’r still here!” into something that fits better into the pages color scheme.
Other then taht it’s OK by me.
And about the centering, personally i’d use a table for it so i could control the width of it , dunno how others feel about that, i dont really do homepages that much but when i do i usually use tables for just about everything.
Good stuff.
To have is better than to have not, IMNSHO.
It would be nice to have the page set at the standard size.
I like the B&W pics. Looks stylish.
The ‘Mission’ is a tad hardcore in terms of how it comes across. At least I thought so. I would offer that it is better form to state your methods and philosophy without slamming others, even if stated in general terms. Makes it read as if you are defending your kwoon as opposed to informing the gen puplic of your kwoon’s individualism. Ya know what I mean?
I know Tun Da #6. I study Bak Hsing CLF Gar. Interesting pattern.
nospam.
I’d put some of the mission statement stuff on the homepage, put some of the homepage stuff elsewhere.
When looking at an introductory page, I want to see things like “Styles” and “Instructors”. The more personal, the better.
Events and stuff are nice and necessary, but it’s not the primary interest of most people who browse your site.
People want to learn about YOU.
few comments
a few personal comments, take or leave as you wish
That’s all for now, best luck for your site
Overall a nice job, WushuChik. Only criticism - I’m on a fast connection myself, and trying to scroll the first page was a bit of a nightmare.
The pic on the right of the index page - your people wouldn’t happen to be doing “Silk Weaver’s Exercise” by any chance, would they?
what hkv said when im doing a general search
first things i look at in order, is the gallery, then i check the main teachers bio, if it looks like crap i may read the history, but that’s what i look at, is the technique taught and that the lineage is of respectable status, so even if the master isnt freakn conan atleast i know his lineage is the shiz, so i would highlight those parts with big balloon’s:D
everything else, is commoncourtesy, unless i was refferred to it i prolly wouldn’t delve deeper…Now in particular your site sells N.SHAOLIN, you may want to build the site as your average site, give students something to play with, and those interested in say kuyucheung and thier close to your school a sign to start-up, but with a Huge lineage as N.SHAOLIN, i would definatly try to link that market, around the promotion of your school, like have the basic overview hi this is us, were really polite and near you, check it out—then get really flashy, like this is NORTHERN SHAOLIN TENHANDS…uno
some thought, bored.
I can dig it baby, looks good.
Originally posted by Qi dup
I can dig it baby
Is your name Williams?
Did you star in Enter The Dragon with a mofo afro?
I can’t believe people still talk that way!