One point, never use Piczo.
I have seen many sites made using Piczo and never seen a well designed one.
I'm sure the site could be brilliant, but things like the top banners on some pages being stupidly long and the pages being wider than the computer screen meaning you have to scroll right to see everything.
If you want to make a fairly well designed site, but not pay for it, try
www.webs.com
I have made a few sites with Webs (was Freewebs when I used it) and though they didn't look brilliant, they looked better than your site. Here are some examples of my sites made a few years ago:
http://www.freewebs.com/banjokazooieland/index.htm (this one seems to have changed slightly since the change to webs.com. It never used to have that blue banner under the menu links)
http://www.freewebs.com/hopeandfaith06/ (This site is a bit of a mess as I used to have the premium account and it allowed me more links, pages etc, but I stopped paying for it so those extra links stopped working. But I am just using it as an example of design.)
Notice both sites are in the centre of the screen, you don't have to scroll left and right to see everything, etc.
I recommend you have a go using webs.com. If you decide you don't like it, you haven't lost anything.
Thanks for the link, tried using webs, lots of errors and it loads very slow on internet explorer and image options don't work on google chrome, I think I will keep with piczo, the main content on skyident pages is never on a part of the page you cant see, the computer screen is 16:9 so it is hard to judge where to stop the banner. I don't really think it's a major problem if the banner is a bit over. I know lots of people have been commenting about the look of the pages, the first version was very basic, I am quiet pleased with the overall look of the site now, channel pages and channel era menus are currently being revamped to set in with the rest of the site. Thanks for your help.
Ok then.
I haven't used it since it became webs.com. I just guessed it would be basically the same.
If you can though, I would still recommend changing the size of the banner quite a lot. Its little things like that, that really let sites down. For many, the look of the site is as important as the content. If the site looks unprofessional, cheap etc people won't even bother to look at any other pages.
If you can change it, please do.
Also, one other little change, with your screencaps, have little gaps between each pic, and also have all pics the same size. I noticed some images are slightly smaller/bigger and it looks bad when they are right next to each other.
This is my current website:
http://www.itvgallery.co.uk/
I'm not saying my website is very professional etc, but I do think it looks ok when people first see it.
I have now disabled horizontal scroll by adding <body style="overflow-x:hidden"></body> the on the
http://www.skyidents.piczo.com/?cr=7 page I will add this to other pages soon.
Last edited by tv3ireland on 29th January 2010 5:54pm
