You guys want to look at something for me?

[layla]

I'm working on a new, improved, CSS-heavy version of my website. This is just the rough draft and there's still a lot of work to go -- also, none of the links work -- but it would be great if different people could look at this and let me know if it looks okay for you, as I'm still learning/debugging CSS. There should be an image strip across the top (with a bigger image on the left), some links at the left and the main comics links in the middle. I'm also curious how long it takes to load on different people's systems; I don't want to overload the main page with images.

http://www.laylalawlor.com/testpage/

Comments

[acoustic-rob.livejournal.com]

Popped right up for me, Layla, using Firefox and a cable modem. Nice to see Fleetwood on the big splash; he hasn't been featured for a while.

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

Excellent, and thanks for taking a look!

Yeah, leaving Fleetwood out is really quite an oversight. I'm happy he's there now, too. I'm tempted to add in a couple more of them, except that it was enough of a pain getting the top bar to wrap around, and if I add more characters I'll have to do it again...

[jkcarrier.livejournal.com]

Loaded pretty quickly for me too, and I'm on dial-up. Looks great!

[arcana-j.livejournal.com]

It loads really quickly, but I think it needs a little more imagery to balance the text.

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

Actually, after staring at it for a while, I don't think it's that there need to be more graphics -- I think there's just too much text. It's too busy. The layout that I'm using here is almost identical to the one I used on another page that I did a little while back, but while that one worked beautifully, THIS one isn't looking as good to me, and I think you've helped me nail it. The other page didn't have nearly as much text and the navigation was more straightforward, as well as the top graphic being cleaner. This page is simply too busy. I think I'm going to streamline my navigation a bit and see if I like that better.

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And I'm especially glad to hear that it loads quickly on dialup -- that was one of my concerns.

[arcana-j.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think you're right! Text heavy pages always make my eyes cross and automatically start searching for images to rest on, ya'know?

[neosquirrel.livejournal.com]

Came screaming onto the desktop. Is it supposed to sound like that? ^_^
I'm on the computer at work anyways. Freakin' T3 or something.

You fibber! Some of the links work.
Freebird was funny. ^_^

And so, I would like to invite you to check out my new strip today!
Here it is! (http://24thecomicstrip.livejournal.com/13792.html)

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

*grin* Thanks! Glad you liked it! :) And fast is exactly what I'm going for here. I don't want to load the site down. It's all about the content, y'know.

I don't watch 24 so I haven't got a clue who the characters are, but your strip still amused me. :)

[neosquirrel.livejournal.com]

No, thats quite all right! The idea with it is to also amuse without necessarily knowing the characters as much... but EVERYONE knows Jack Bauer.

[(Anonymous)]

I like it. Your art is getting better and better.

Dan - operator101.com -