is Text on my website readable???

[Nabil-A]

Im after some feedback on the readability of the text on my website.
ive had some people say it looks too fuzzy and is hard to read.

www.designerportraits.com.au (http://www.designerportraits.com.au)

Thanks.,

[Carzee]

Well the dark grey on grey is a little bit much. If you are going for the greyscale theme -you'll have to stick with it. But if you're flexible, try it with a creamy colour (nearly sepia).

Overall nice website.

[Carzee]

BTW, are you aware that the WYSIWYG web coder for your website has made all the links dependant on the server? (ie, addresses are not relative).

Its usually easy to fix... why its not a default setting in Frontpage etc is beyond me.

When the addresses are relative you can burn the site, complete, to a cd and hand it out. Its a cheap thing to do; your snazzy portfolio goes home with a potential client, for example, 30's something soccer mum, and she loads it into their home PC and shows the husband your portfolio. Not all homes have the web.

[Nabil-A]

Thanks Carzee,

I think the link suggestion is a great idea.. i use dreamweaver so making the link changes will be easy.

[dandan]

ooook, my webdev side is comming out here.

Try not to use AA unless its in a header image, or it REALY needs it.

Also, some (stupid) people still use 800 x 600 resolution, those with that resolution have to scroll sideways to see your whole website. Notice that most professional websites ( msn.com google.com yahoo.com ) display fine, without scrolling on a 800 x 600 resolution.

And the rollovers in the navagation, Home goes to a bright grey (CCC?) whereas all the others go to white. Was that intentional?

Your whole site is image based (all the text is in images). This tends for slower loading times, and its harder to update.

If your server supports PHP (as most do) then you can use something like cutenews ( www.cutephp.com ) to have a CMS system, so that you can update your website much faster.

besides that, its nice. looks pretty professional.

[Nabil-A]

Try not to use AA unless its in a header image, or it REALY needs it.

Not sure what you mean by AA.


Also, some (stupid) people still use 800 x 600 resolution, those with that resolution have to scroll sideways to see your whole website. Notice that most professional websites ( msn.com google.com yahoo.com ) display fine, without scrolling on a 800 x 600 resolution.
Yeah i kind of realised this after i got about 70% through the design. (photoshoping , slicing and then creating html etc).. for now i think ill just keep it the way it is, but a future revamp and ill need to take this into account.. thanks.


And the rollovers in the navagation, Home goes to a bright grey (CCC?) whereas all the others go to white. Was that intentional?
Only just realised this ill have this updated in a giffy.


Your whole site is image based (all the text is in images). This tends for slower loading times, and its harder to update.
Yeah i kind of agree with you.. i tried the text option initialy by the hard edge to fonts was not the look i wanted. so i decided to go the graphic route.. ive optimised the images as gif for text and most pages will load within 10sec on a 28.8 connection (at least thats what dreamweaver tells me). its not my usual approach - graphic text- try to use it sparingly. i guess i just got lazy.. dont anticipate updating text too much and even still its just a quick adobe ps edit and save for web procedure.



besides that, its nice. looks pretty professional.
Thanks... for your feedback much appreciate it...