Topic: Critique my update to website!!

[gaza165]

http://www.thedesignmonkeys.co.uk

feedback would be greatly appreciated. Where have i gone wrong??? What else maybe could i do.. thanks

I know at the moment it is not w3c validated... on my way to it!!

thanks

Garry

[Chicken Little]

Add some monkeys to the banner!?
I'm not a fan of black backgrounds but the contrast with the image borders and the white font works.
Would the navigation section work better on the left? or below the
banner?
Needs an intro to the site and what you are trying to present.
Move the stories to a separate page and enable image click to view posted story. Increase image resolution for larger images.
Move your bio stuff that repeats on each page to the portfolio page and beef up your portfolio with more than just images.
The contact page does not load.
Increase font size in username field for login form. Ditto for username and email fields in register form. Needs a better redirect for login when errors occur.
Enforce username to have more than 5 and less than 15 characters. Make these alphanumeric or allow some other special characters.
Enforce the password to be at least 8 characters, alphanumeric, case sensitive, and allow only certain non-alphanumeric characters.
Some typos.

[dreamwest]

Good design

great background positioning

Only one thing, look at all the large sites.....they are all clean looking, a black background doesnt look clean, gives a feeling of shadyness

[eddie21leeds]

looks good... one thing i noticed is the portfolio is a bit untidy in my browser (IE7 xp)

i dont have a screenshot but have you tried running it through http://www.browsershots.org this isa great site that shows you how pages look on different set-ups.