With the help of Stoney, Ive just set up my very first website.
If you can just check it out, tell us what you think etc, any improvments and that.

www.wilc.co.uk

Cheers.
Wil

again, cheers stone.

wow.

I swear that its my name or something, but every time I post a new topic, or reply to an old one, BANG, thats the end of it.

That happens to me always....

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You have some cool skating pictures man I like the landscapes too, what beach is that? It remember Santa Cruz to me

Edit: I saw the name of the beach...

**** me sideways, you lot DO know I'm here.

Cheers for the kind words, and yea, tis santa monica.

Rather bland? Could have put more thought into the typeface you use, a more interesting colour palette and layout design.

thankyou. It is still my first site, and I do want to use different typefaces, etc, but as for the colour, I want to keep it fairly simple, and black is the simpliest colour I know, lol.

nice site mate,very cool photography also

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Rather bland? Could have put more thought into the typeface you use, a more interesting colour palette and layout design.

Agreed with the above but for your 1st site its not bad.
I would get rid of the welcome page, no need for it. It doesn't add anything except taking longer for a user to visit your site.

hello, resident thread killer here

Really nice photos, good work!
The site looks good as well.
I actually like the welcome page, I normally think they are a waste of time,
but your site is about asthetics so it works for me. Its nicely laid out.
The only thing Id say, is if you are serious about growing your site,
Id look at using CSS more, tables are seriously old school.

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I Plan on moving to LA in a number of years, but unfortunately, even the best layed out planes sometimes go awry. We will just have to wait and see.

Do you mean 9/11 or what the duck

grr, well Im trying to update it now, so that will be changed.

playing around...the verdict?

I like the front page,and I like the site. (Too many websites these days trade useability for bling.)

Oh, and you've some excellent photos on there as well.

Serp.

good job on keeping up the development but I think the old one is better because:

1. typeface were bland, but at least they weren't too loud and take away the focus from the photos (which is the main thing about your site), new typeface are a bit random, not very consistent and too much thick fonts, you generally might want to use thick fonts only for eye catching lines, but too much of it will make the page really crowded and hard to read.

2. square and grid like layout is always safe and easy to master, this vertical column style though would need some more care on the proportion and spacing, the width and space between the columns are not quite there. I would suggest you use a slightly altered grid style, may I present some examples:

http://www.creativosfrenkel.com/

obviously you don't have to do all the flash based stuff, but the site has some good example on how to compose a layout using just squares, you can easily incorporate your photos and also the natvigatio hotspots in one unified object, instead of using chunky natvigation bars.


http://www.cheekydsn.com/mf.html

very simple, very clean, and good use of font face too, notice the difference in weight and importance created just by using different fonts.

hope you find that useful

The bike ones are nice

Yea, I seem to have a knack for motorsport, well at least bikes. Havent been to a car event yet. Would love to go to a drift event though.(your name made me think of that, lol)

Now??
www.WilC.co.uk