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Old 25-04-2008, 07:21 AM
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For a first attempt it's better than a lot of sites I've seen, but coming from a designer I have to say the design is quite bad. I can see where you are trying to go with the black/silver/gold colour scheme, but it needs a lot of work.

Some general tips...

1) Changing the background/rollover colours in the two menus from purple and red respectively to gold would make a big difference. At the moment there are too many colours (for example on the "Sell Avon" page, I would remove the yellow, pink and green highlighting as this is the first design sin!).

2) I wouldn't mix fonts so much. You have sans-serif fonts in the top menu and other areas and then you have a serif font (Times?) used in the menu on the left and throughout the site for headings etc. This can throw a design off straight away . As a rule of thumb, try to use sans-serif fonts for screen, or at least stay away from general fonts like Times.

EDIT: This is a very handy tool for sampling fonts for use on screen...
Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen

3) Not sure why the "Contact Us" page needs to open in a new window/tab?

Hope this helps!
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Last edited by ButtermilkJack; 25-04-2008 at 07:24 AM. Reason: Added link to Typetester website.
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