Please crit my site

First impression - it's too narrow. I have a 17inch CRT at 1152 and there's about 5 inches of . . . nothingness on either side. Wasted space, imho.

I like the style, very clean.

The dark green text could do with being a little darker, to make it easier to read. And increase the font size slightly - but only of the green content text - if you resize the pinky text it would ruin it.

And did you know Ormtec's background image repeats? Notch up your resolution. It's horribly noticeable

hmmm, :-k I'll see what I can do about that. It was wider and had a sidebar but because there is such a small amount of content and no need for a sidebar I cut it out and made it slimmer. I'll take your point onboard though.

The dark green text could do with being a little darker, to make it easier to read. And increase the font size slightly - but only of the green content text - if you resize the pinky text it would ruin it.
Do you mean the dark green text of the body or the nav? I think I'll make the nav slightly darker and notch up the darkness on the body text.

oh that has nothing to do with me I'm designing a different website for one of their products. Maybe once thats done I'll suggest a redesign of their main site heh.

[edit] thats the color slightly darkened in the body text and nav buttons. Also the text size has been increased to 1.1em (11px). I think I'll add in an option for the user to change the text size.

thepineapplehead what's another way to do the background image without repeating? Is there a certain image size you use? Thanks for the help.

You'd need to do this:

background: url(images/my_bg_img.jpg) no-repeat;

Ryan,

Does that work if your background picture is say 10 pixels wide? Otherwise, how would you get the same affect at a repeating background?

Andrew

I like with styles off... well thought out and good use of <hr>'s to seperate all the content.

maybe to narrow as previously mentioned? You could try a few variations of width.

The graphics used in "News" beg to be clickable links. I don't know if this is a professionally sound idea or not but my first inclination was to click on the image to go visit the listed sites.

true eh?? that could be something to look at... having links and non-links the same colour is a bit of a confusion.

Gotta agree - in each news section, the title and image shoudl be links as well.

Much better with the color and font size though

XTHML eh?

Good catch.

Nothing to do with your design (which I like just fine) but one thing you might want to consider about your content is that you've used all the current 'catchphrases' to describe what you do, your skills etc., but for the most part, these only mean anything to other designers/people in the business.
I've just finished doing my own portfolio/business site and it was something I thought about when I was writing my content and I added some extra information about XHTML/CSS and what it is and why it is a good thing for those people who know nothing about how websites are created.

This is a good point. Anyone that knows what you are talking about probably does it for themselves.

also content related...
you have a skills assement of yourself w/ various programs/mark-ups.

I'm not so sure this is a good idea.

Your clients don't need to know that you aren't that proficient in Quark, just that you're familiar w/ it. You certainly want to emphasize what you know well, but not advertise your ignorance.

I'm not so sure this is a good idea.

Your clients don't need to know that you aren't that proficient in Quark, just that you're familiar w/ it. You certainly want to emphasize what you know well, but not advertise your ignorance.It is a nice use of the list item background image though.