New site! Criticism please.

Your code looks OK apart from the fact that you've reused IDs (need to change box to a class instead).
I like the way the header only shows halfway in the green area but I think it could do with being a fraction higher so it's easier to make out the letters.
But I'm afraid I don't like at all the light green text and I've never been a fan of whole blocks of text that change colour when you hover over them.
And your layout looks substantially different between FF, IE6 and Opera (your box:hover won't work in IE without some javascript).

It is very, very hard to read. More contrast is in order. Much more.

thnx Tyssen and Triumph for your input. Ill definetely put more contrast. realized a bright olive green is not always the best choice when designing a page. Ill probably change the "id"'s to classes as suggested by Tyssen. Gracias guys.

If you post something in the wrong section, PM a mod, we can move it to the right one

Firefox 1.5 the logo doesn't work, the text is too far down.

The green is too "neony".

Hi Sandbox.

I'd agree with what has been said above. The h2 re.siol.us needs to be a little more visible. As it is it is illegible.

The colour scheme definitely needs to be rethought. There is not enough contrast to make that text easily readable on a good CRT monitor. It would be next to invisible on the cheaper LCD screens that ship with a lot of home computers today. If you want to use a bright coulour for text then you should place it on a darker background. I find this tool extremely useful when trying to work out a useable colour scheme.

Another small thing I would maybe consider is upping the line-height to around 120% or more. It makes large amounts of text much, much easier to read.

Personally, I love a bit of graphical intervention in a design, but as a pure minimalist approach it works well.

From the code side of things there are a number of errors that can be quickly ratified. If you validate the code you will see that the majority of error are just typos. I always include character encoding in my pages also, utf-8 is pretty much the accepted standard so adding a meta tag like this would be fine:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
A wee bit long winded I know :roll: .

hth.

I'd agree with what has been said above. The h2 re.siol.us needs to be a little more visible. As it is it is illegible.

The colour scheme definitely needs to be rethought. There is not enough contrast to make that text easily readable on a good CRT monitor. It would be next to invisible on the cheaper LCD screens that ship with a lot of home computers today. If you want to use a bright coulour for text then you should place it on a darker background. I find this tool extremely useful when trying to work out a useable colour scheme.

Another small thing I would maybe consider is upping the line-height to around 120% or more. It makes large amounts of text much, much easier to read.

Personally, I love a bit of graphical intervention in a design, but as a pure minimalist approach it works well.

From the code side of things there are a number of errors that can be quickly ratified. If you validate the code you will see that the majority of error are just typos. I always include character encoding in my pages also, utf-8 is pretty much the accepted standard so adding a meta tag like this would be fine:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
A wee bit long winded I know :roll: .

hth.

Thanx again for your comment and thankyou for the suggestions. I've taken your advice with the meta tag and line height. I'm also going to check out that color scheme web page you suggested.

Also, I need some opinions on the navigation. does work well with the over-all minimalistic design?

Here are the few questions i have about it:

1) Browsers - Is it compatible with other browsers? (tested in i.e. 7b so far)

Hi
I am not a guru, nor even an expert, but I visited your site in IE6 and FF1.5. These are the things I noticed:

Your columns do not line up, I get 3 columns, the right is the longest, the left and middle ones content is waay down(except for first paras). The columns line up OK in FF.
The logo has lgt blue background color in IE, but not in FF.
The menu lists properly in IE, but has space between items in FF.

Thanks

Hello. In your "nav", I noticed that if you increase the text size, some menu choices become hidden. Also, I'd recommend more left padding or margin inside the items because the first letters of some of them are partially hidden-- specifically "Apache", "Misc." and "Contact...".

Additionally, when I've gone off to view, say "Javascript", I can't find my way back to the first page.

Just a few thoughts. Cheers.

Its not working anymore?