My first large site

[dogdude16]

Hey, i recently got in web development and i have recently finished my first big site. Its just html and css with a little javascript and php. It is for a condominium association in my town. The home pic is outdated now thats its summer. the pic was taken in the winter and its look like a grave stone but will be changed soon, lol. I wanted to know your thoughts of what you can see.

it is http://www.wildernessridgeneighborhood.net/index.html

[blue60007]

One suggestion: make the box for comments bigger. It'll be pretty hard to type a long message in such a small box.

[mainiac]

A nice site. The only thing I would reccomend changing is the coloring. I had a bit of trouble reading the site (but I am also color blind soo..) but in all it was pretty nice, and I agree with blue60007. In all though a nice site. p.s. Where is Wilderness Ridge anyways?

[Force Flow]

You may want to think about an alternative domain name...that one is murder trying to actually type it all out (you can have more than one domain point to the same IP).

[Kareeser]

Yes, the long domain name caught my eye as well. Not necessarily in a good way. Without a reference, I'd probably give up. It's a good site. Better than every other condo site I've seen :)

P.S. Don't forget the arching angle shot of the building from the ground floor. No site is complete without it ;)

[dogdude16]

thanks for the feedback, you guys are right, the name is long but i didn't pick it out and i probably can't change it. I am going to make the form boxes a little larger.
Kareeser, what do mean when you said "Don't forget the arching angle shot of the building from the ground floor. No site is complete without it"?

just to note this subdivision is in lower west Michigan.

[ZeratulsAvenger]

One of the things I like best for bigger sites is a very uniform and easy to browse interface. If you look at a site like cnn.com or apple.com, both use a menu at the top for easy browsing from one section to another(Business to World news or Apple iTunes to Support to the Apple Store).

That is probably something that I'd work on as you more fully develop the site, since it's easier to implement in the beginning if you know you are going to do it than if you decide to later and have to rework things. As it stands now the By Laws page abandons the menu, and then the Local Links has it, but the page setup seems like it is missing the top image or something, so it isn't quite the same.

Beyond that, all of the colors seem very "soft" and look a little hard to read. The little intro bit with black text and greyish background is much easier to read than the feedback boxes.

I like where it's headed so far.

[BlueKai]

The colors for the navigation links and the contact forms are a bit light. On a white background, I wouldn't use anything lighter than the green in the welcome header.

You definitely need a new logo. For this kind of site, a good picture of the actual place gives the user a sense of connection to the community.

What does being logged in change? What is the purpose of a login?

The golf course link should open in a new window or tab. As a general rule, I use a _blank target for any links that take the user off my domain. Firefox puts it in a new tab, IE opens a new window. (I haven't looked into how to get IE 7's tab to work the same way.)

I'm assuming the "date box" will be a server-side generated date? That's cool.

Having two contact forms seems redundant. You could have one form with a radio or drop down option to go to the webmaster or the association.

I'm assuming that you'll format the pages to be the same style with nav, header, and footer the same or very close to the same on every page?

Looks good...