airwolf

nice try! take this ----> 4/5

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Hi Mr.Jim,
Thank you for you time and reviews.I guess I have few things to explain over here. Let me just answer you in series. Please do not take offense to any of my replies as I just intend to make my point & Iam thanking everyone for helping me out even though they rated me the lowest and left the baddest of the baddest rating.

1) Regarding the ego,may I point it out to you that I have titled my post "I think I have the best design...Please rate" and not "I have the best design...Rate".So you see the difference between those two. Saying that I have the best design doesn't really mean that I truly have the best design,unless it truly is! That was just to get open criticisms,which I needed for the development of my design,considering the very little time I have bey the end of the day and they have helped me a lot.

2) The best thing in the title was a,should I say,a mistake in my website as I had a previous template which i grabbed on but did not realize that I grabbed a stale copy and posted the same meta info just to get the template started.I haven't SEO'd my website fully.It's in the process and I believe very soon you will get to see my website in a pretty good stand among other website.

I know you might be tempted to say that there are billion other established websites that have earned themselves a niche and that too long before I even knew what website designing was.Very true! But there is always a chance and I am striving for that one.And done in a proper and patient way,it pays!

3) Regarding the non-availability of one of the portfolio works,I noticed it.It was a total disaster when I was trying to handle that account.Yahoo completely swept and erased all the files from that account.Don't have a hint why! Tried to upload the files over and over again & instead of saying File upload complete,it just showed up a square box.YES! A square box.Now I have never seen anything like that before and that's why I gave up working on the yahoo site and thought of getting back to it later.Can you tell me what must have happened,kind sir?

4) OK.This is something which you don't know at all and I am sorry to say but even your experience didn't help you in looking at things from a positive perspective. Looks like the post title did have a lot of effect in your decision. Regarding the ranch sales website, my client gave me the project of initial website design.Now he is the webmaster of his own website and he himself takes care of the website.As such,when I initially created the website,I had all the images sorted out and the best lowest possible size on disk.But the client changed the images later on to further customize his website according to his liking and I have no control over that issue. My client knows little about Fireworks and he uses that to make his images and probably does not pay much attention towards the optimization.That's the only reason why images must have appeared bulky and took tons of time to load...just because probably he does not know how to..or he probably doesn't really mind it. And now I don't think I can be accounted responsible for what he does with the website,can I be?

So basically you see,it's not the fault of the designer all the time.A designer would do all his best to ensure his work is complete and compact.And that's what I have always done.That is why I spent more time towards my clients' websites and should I accept,neglected mine a lot just so that I can invest that time in making my client's website a better one.That's why at some point of time you might even feel that my client's website has superior looks than my websites'.Well that's good.Looking at the brighter and positive side of it,that just shows how much I prefer my clients' work over mine and my dedication.

As before,nothing was intended to hurt you or anyone else in any way.It's just that I had a feeling that I under spoke. Good luck to you too, Mr.Jim. Have a nice day

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extremewebdesigns

Thank you buddy.Can you please tell me where I lost the 1 point??? Thanks.

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podja

2 maybe 3 out of 5.

If its a portfolio it should be your best work! It needs to stand out from all the other sites, and this one doesnt in my opinion.

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detoam

Sorry it took so long to respond, my other job had me running around town all day.
I do mean the banner. That specific green colour makes white stand out. Changing to very light green might do the trick. Or maybe simply tunning down the white towards greyish-green. Try #e6f6e6. It's basically the same thing except it does not have as much saturation.

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dumm

i will give you a score 4/5. the site is simple and nice.

extremewebdesigns

Hi everyone:
Looked like my website really needed a new look to the logo.So I modified the color scheme.Please do check that out and let me know.I made it so that it matches and contrasts with the back ground cool. Please rate and comment.

Thanks all.

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_torero_

hi there,

I would give a 3 out of 5. The design looks ok but I do get the feeling that is missing personality. The images on the menus I find very standard and in general I think it needs more development image wise.

take a look at the following:

www.toxinworks.com
www.windsor-idiomas.com (only spanish)
www.tangent.es

What Im trying to say I suppose is first you need to identify your target audience, know what they are looking for, and then do the design.

The logo is also very quick made with some strange lookin motif behind... perhaps try to develop more the logo and then go for the web.

The information contained I also find a bit vague.

For the Flash version I give 1 out of 5. sorry.

I hope you dont mind the criticism and I hope the explanations can make up for the critics

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The basic design is relatively clean and straight forward. I am not keen on the colour theme though (more of a personal thing than a critisism), I thought there were too many colours on the page. Not too many graphics which keeps the load time down. I did however feel the home page to be a little too long, you could consider fragmenting this.Not a bad job a 3/5 pushing a 4/5.

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extremewebdesigns

Hi,
I updated my website and it has kinda new look.Also I changed the logo entirely to give it a 3D look.Please take a look at it and let me know.Thank you.

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jdegerstrom

Hi, again, Extreme,

The point made about the phrase "I think..." was not missed and didn't affect my reply. You are certainly entitled to characterize your work with a positive spin even if it's tongue in cheek, and I still say you have the potential to make a living doing website designs full time.

I can't help much with the Yahoo hosting problems. If your client gives you access to the control panel, you should be able to resolve it quickly. If not, the only advice is the help files and then calling or emailing them for support.

I still say the large photos your client places on that other site should be your responsibility. When a client expects to edit your work after designing their website, you still have an obligation to provide proper training. Your defense is weak just blaming the client because it's your reputation and your portfolio link that people follow, so defects fall on you if there's no disclaimer.

Your new prospective web design clients will not have the luxury of a detailed explanation as presented in this forum, so the negative can't be explained if no one asks. It's your site design with your name in the credits. In this situation I suggest you revise the credit hyperlink to "Original Design by...", and if the client's editing is really bad return and ask that the credit line be removed entirely.

You are not accountable for what the client does. You are accountable for protecting your credibility as a designer. The value of the backlinks become worthless if you lose new clients over something that you cannot control.

You are definitely on the right track. Good luck.

Jim

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jumpenjuhosaphat

You probably should heed what jdegerstrom advises, as far as professionals are concerned, he offers the best advice available on any forum.

From your tone, it sounds almost as if you were offended...You shouldn't be, he probably spent an hour, if not more, finding possible improvements that can be made to your site. An hour of his time is probably worth more than your site could produce in 5 times the amount of time, so you should seriously consider what he offers.

My problem with your responce is this: If you don't want an honest opinion, don't ask for one. Because here, we are going to be honest. Gently for the most part, but still we will give you our honest opinion. If jdegerstrom happens to honor you with his time and opinion, you should really appreciate it, because not everyone is so lucky.

I looked at your site a while ago, and I wouldn't respond to this request. Why? because I personally don't think that your designs are very good. I looked at your portfolio, and still, I'm not very impressed. But, like I said before, if jdegerstrom gives you any props, then maybe you should consider thanking him for taking his time, instead of giving him hassel for a post that obviously took him quite some time to compile. Just a thought.

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Hi,
Thanks to Mr.jdegerstrom and Mr.jumpenjuhosaphat for your posts.I do really appreciate your time and concern for my posts.
Especially about the client,I recently had a talk with him and he gave me compliments for my service to him.Why? Here's why:
I built all his website and did SEO for his website.His website is now in the top 20 list in Google.The following are the recent ranking statistics of my clients website:
Google: #20;Yahoo: #30;MSN: #7;Altavista: #22;AllTheWeb: #22
My client website: www.vossranchsales.com
Since my client deals in ranches in South texas, search in the engines for the word "south texas ranches for sale" and you will see the website in those above rankings mentioned.Maybe the ranking might have fluctuated a little bit here and there but you will find it if you are willing to look around and want to confirm things for yourself.

Also my client claims to have done a major sale off his website. I even redid all his images because he had some problem with on his system.The images were showing up perfectly fine in my system and other systems that I check but he reported some problems.So we fixed one day for the corrections and I did all the corrections in about 30 minutes.Explained to him about the differences between .bmp,.jpg,.png,their transparency issues and their file size and quality issues and asked him to make a wise decision whenever he wanted to make any changes to them. How much did I charge? Free! Yep! My client was decent enough to ask me how much I would charge for that but because I like working with him,I didn't charge anything.Of course,I didn't really have to considering the deal for which I made the website and upon the initial agreement,I wasn't really obligated to.Meaning,for clients who has respect for my work and are ready to work with me,Iam always ready to work with them and at the same time,give them the best deal. And as a result of this, he planning to treat me lunch next week.
And by means of communication with Yahoo,I happened to fix the problem of the unavailable portfolio link and it is working fine for now.Some issues were arising which had to be cleared out.
Regarding the part of leaving my link in my client's website,that's just one way of showing my work.Some people may like it,other's may not.But it's just individual choice and selection.Many of us like Google search,does not mean all of us have to.That's the same way my work feels like.
Also as Mr.jumpenjuhosaphat feels that I gave Mr.Jim a hassle,my whole point was not to type up a message about 3 times the length that Mr.Jim has posted and spend about 2-3 hours typing the message.My messages might look sharp and to the point,just because I am ready to talk about my work,good or bad and I support it.As I said,I explained to my client for about more than 30 minutes about the different image processing schemes and took about an hours time to finish working with all the images just to support him and my work,all at the same time. I give my clients all the various options,be it the size of the image or it's quality and depending on their choice , I go with it.So if a client asks me to do some work some way and they are specific about it,then for the client's satisfaction,I do it,but after making sure that they understand the impact of such a decision.
I hope this sounds better than the previous one as this is more explanatory.

Once again,no offense to anyone and I support my clients and my work.Thank you.

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sri_gan

I gave 4/5 very clean and professional.

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Thank you sri_gan. I appreciate your efforts and time.

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