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http://www.houseoftara.com/

2825AD92 - www.greenmousetech.com

info@greenmousetech.com

http://www.cyberclickstudios.com/ is not professionally done either.

veightar: Ha, am i the only one who is confused here? In web design business, whether a CEO of a big web design company or a freelancer with small job, review is review.

@graphicplus did a perfect review not criticism. I am shock why anybody will see that as a criticism.

From my ten years in the business, I think review is not about giving only applause, but also getting the best out of your existing project through flaw indications; which in this case @graphicplus showed a perfect example of that.

I'll advice @GreenMouse do these postings at market places and not for review, since he's only interested in advertising and not workarounds.

I admire his review. Keep it up. Some of us pay for such review.

Thank him instead of rebuking him.

Finally webmasters section is busy, everybody can talk even my students, weldone.

just want to air your view on this issue :

Is ASP.net better than PHP ?

is close source better than open source ?

@dhtml,this will surely be the end of my review post. I only post for marketing not for any review from @graphicplus.

I take reviews from @yewatide bc she knows how to put words together.


@graphicplus divert your time to looking for client that criticing everyone here.
#nofeelings.

Thanks @dual core , its well

[quote author=yawa-ti-de]Why is GraphicsPlus ALWAYS the first person to respond to Greenmouse's website review posts? [/quote]the guy no like me, even I don talk tire, he dey do like say we dey fight.

Let me make this clear on this forum, am a CEO(I mostly go for meetings, presentations, demos etc),
I only do big website jobs, all the jobs I post here are done by each of my seven staff.

So @graphicplus, your critic goes to them not me.

You seem to have too much time and energy to stay and critic any of my review post.

I will keep the review post coming, keep the critic coming, it only makes my boys(team) stronger.

#Nohardfeelings.

this just a quick one: http://www.collin.greenmousetech.com/

only home page is ready

any comment will be appreciated

Fhemmmy: When you are done, lemme know, i could have a job for you . . . . Or send me a mail

thanks,

inbox me your email via info@greenmousetech.com

miracle4: you are now beginning to sound like one red-capped fat bellied igbo chief ..... kudos to all your exploits bro

hmmh, lolz

am working on this one www.ascoht.edu.ng

call me on 08063786241 lets talk.

call me on 08063786241

yorme: Greenmouse!, Greenmouse! It seems u didn't take time to read my post properly. I never said my websites are much better than yours. What i am only saying is that WE NEED TO GROW.... I'm learning too, anyways... and i'm improving.

Ok no wahala

thanks my people, am just starting it out, alot will come soon

GraphicsPlus: Again, wordpress theme does not automatically translate to responsive site. Not all wordpress themes are responsive, although most are.

I dont think you should have settled for this theme. You can get a better one at themeforest.net for between 10 USD and 50 USD.

Text-shadow is not properly used here.

The content is not centered in other pages, unless it's deliberate. Who says content must always be margin: 0 auto?

The drop-down menu looks weird to me especially the long one. Why not make the drop down a mega menu?

You really will need to customize the theme more as you said you are still working on it.

The dark background is good since this is a fashion and beauty website.

I don't wish to buy themes, I need to work with inbuilt wordpress themes, am still working on the site. Wanted it to look similar to what it is formally.

[quote author=yawa-ti-de]Maybe dem don take d money wey dem for use employ better people to do d site, carry am pay compensation to d crash victims

On a serious note, the site is terrible. It won't even pullup on FF and on IE8, all I see is images with blue borders around them. It definitely isn't a site I would trust my account details to.

It would be interesting to know what the web traffic to the site is and how many people actually use this site to reserve and pay for reservations.[/quote]Thats why i posted it for una opinion, atleast am not the only one seeing it that way.

As i posted before, am beginning to convert my websites to wordpress in order to become responsive and easy for my clients to manage from their own end.

http://www.almondsignatures.com/ (wordpress powered

the old link doen on HTML/CSS is www.almonds.greenmousetech.com

comments required.

still adjusting few things on the wordpress own.

who designed this website and what do you ahve to say about this website.

http://www.flydanaair.com/

is this the so talked about redesign... if so, the website is not yet responsive as you promised.

It doesnt look you really learnt from the website you show case the other day.

the colors no match and are really looking dull.

a whole lot need to be done as pointed out by @yewatide.

AFOLSNETWORKS: I am ok with the work. I believe the student has not spent more than a month and has come up with this. He can sure do better in times to come.

@Graphicplus, I dont agree that was a template. if any parameter was deactivated, it does not automatically make the work an edited template. If you check well most of the deactivated parameters are borders which when active help you see your layout better.

@greenmouse, I think its time we begin to design responsive websites. I have taken the pain to learn it on my own starting with my next website. www.novemberwebconsult.com

is this part of your responsive websites : http://www.mahatpetrogas.com/underconstruction2/

I don't like any of the three websites, they are not looking good enough to me oh.

yorme: For your information, i am currently working on a redesign of my website which will be launched asap. I am not saying your works are not good enough, but all i am advocating for are designs that are not "Nigerian" in their looks. We (i inclusive) need to grow.

You are the one that need to grow, check my portfolio, we are not in the same cartegory :

example: http://www.vlptours.com/
http://www.staytuneonline.com/
http://hybrid-hse.com/

etc.

I cant see any of your website that can match up with this sites, so learn before you teach or advocate for others.

guru01: I presumed the dude is just starting out, may be less that 1 year experience.
But, the correction above should be noted by the mentor/teacher so he can improve.
We all make error.

thanks man

[quote author=yawa-ti-de]Layout is good and design is good. He does need to work on his code. In addition to what GraphicsPlus has laid out above, add these to the list:

1)     - take advantage of css margins and/or paddings
2) Multiple BRs inside P tags - unnecessary. Put all content inside of P tags. Again, control with margins/paddings
3) If code is commented out, chances are that it's not wanted. Get rid of them to reduce page weight
4) &bull - use ULs and LIs instead
5) Make your paths absolute and not relative
6) I assume includes are used to group global items (header, footer, etc)[/quote]Thanks alot, the student is taking note right away.

to me this is the best bank website i have seen so far :

http://www.standardchartered.com/

yorme: @GraphicPlus... Nice review over there. I think this (http://www.mixd.co.uk) will teach lots of Nigerian Web-developers to upgrade. Enough of all these "Nigerian Looks".

@yorme, are sure you learnt from this website (http://www.mixd.co.uk). Bc your work doesnt look matured enough.

GraphicsPlus: I'm not impressed (I will tell you why).

@Greenmouse, it's either this student of yours has been doing all your websites or you did this one and claimed your student did it or you have transferred your un-semantic way of html markup to your students. There are lots of things that are wrong with your html. And considering the fact that this is 2013, every web developer should know these basics.

Let me outline them to you:

1. Abuse of div.
You did this:
<div class="hone">
<div class="logo"><img src="images2/logo.png" /></div>
<div class="name"><h1>Starcity International Academy</h1></div>
</div>


What stops you from doing it like this:
<div class="hone">
<img class="logo" src="images2/logo.png" />
<h1 class="name">Starcity International Academy</h1></div>
</div>


2. Abuse of hierarchy.
You did this in your nav menu:
<a href="index.html"><div class="navone"><ul><li><img src="images2/home.png" /></li></ul></div></a>


It's wrong. Why will you not mark it up like this:
<ul>
<li class="nav"><a href="index.html"><img src="images2/home.png"/></a></li>
</ul>

How can you use div and ul into 5 times? As long as your main navigation is concerned, you need only one ul and no div. Just give the ul a class.

3. Predefined height.
I know there are cases you may have to define a height of an element, but giving a predefined height to certain elements is considered to be wrong.

But you did this:
#container{margin:auto; width:900px; height:780px; dbackground-color:#fff; dpadding:0px 10px 0px 10px;;}

You gave a whole main container a fixed height? This is wrong. Main container that will container all the information should not be giving a fixed height. Its height will be determined by its content. You can only give it a padding.

Even your div classes of one, two and three that are carrying the "Creche, Nursery and Primary" should not have been given a height. You gave them height of 200px. Since they contain texts which can re-position and reshuffle itself when browser is re-sized, the containers should not have a fixed height. Just zoom the webpage out and see that the text will be forced to outgrow their container because the container is fixed with a predefined height.

Do you know why I said am not impressed? The website is a pure free web template.
How do I know? See: body{margin:0 auto; dbackground-color:#F38620; background:url(images2/bg2.jpg) repeat-x;}. There are lots of css properties you prefixed with d, which means disabled. Instead of going through a hell of editing a template and adding d d d here and there, why not teach these young boys how to do these things. The website is even simple and so the boy can learn to code it on his own if you can teach him properly.

Now get it right, am not against people using free template to design their works. But I will be among the last web developers that will bend down editing another man's template when I can do a custom one that will look better. I will never teach my students how to edit free web templates. I will teach them how to code wordpress themes from scratch. I will teach them how to use their leisure time to code about three web templates and make them available for people to download and edit and use free of charge. I will teach them the best practices in this industry.

Friends, this industry is growing with an alarming speed. Lots of things are coming up and we must take our stand never to be abandoned. This month makes it two years responsive web design was started. Lots of webdesign companies have made it a general standard in their companies to be offering responsive web design to every client as a standard and not as an extra charge. Companies like: http://www.mixd.co.uk

Let us sit up and become the best we can be and then teach these young fellows how to design and code awesome stuff from scratch.

@graphic plus why do you always doubt people, if i did, i will say review my project.

I have given it a thought to engage students by giving them small websites to do and improve their skills.

One of my students came up with this website http://starcityacademy.com/ and am really impressed.

My people what do you think of this project ?

Create your professional website as low as N30,000. call 08063786241 or visit: www.greenmousetech.com

Create your professional website as low as N30,000. call 08063786241 or visit: www.greenmousetech.com