Hey, can I get some feedback? I'm over at my friend J's and I'm PRETTY sure I've got an almost set header image and background color for my webpage.

Can I get anyone to dash over there and give me some feedback? I'm pretty sure the header image is what I want, but I don't know if the background color with it makes it too girly.

It's eringriggs.com; we're gonna take a little break for about 20 mins and hopefully gather a little feedback from eyes who haven't been looking at it too long!!

Thanks!!!

I do that thing where whenever I have to go downstairs/upstairs for something, I take something that belongs there with me, and vice versa. So I never just go get more tea -- I'll grab Sara's sandals and bring them upstairs, too. Just constantly, during the day.

I am kind of a clutter freak, though. I can put off cleaning forever, but there's generally not stuff lying around because it makes me anxious.

Erin, I just took a look. I like everything a lot except I'm not crazy about the pink and the red. I think overall the page is very "girly" as you put it. Completely my own opinion.

Also, in my experience, anything underlined on a website usually means it's a link. So the underlining of a phrase that isn't a link might be confusing.

But I think changing the backgorund color to not pink or red would be a good change.

Do you want only design feedback, erin? I think it looks lovely. The color scheme is a bit girly. It could be a tad more neutral, maybe a greyer purple?

If you want other stuff, I wouldn't put the testimonial scroll on the sidebar of every page. I find it really distracting, and since there's limited content there, and peoples' reading speeds vary so much, it seems odd as a choice to auto-switch. For me to keep glancing over at it while I'm trying to read the rest of your content, but only to find it's something I already read, is not conducive to a good web experience.

It could be a tad more neutral, maybe a greyer purple?

I agree. Something less saturated.

I agree about the colors. Also, the testimonials are scrolling pretty fast.

Also, the testimonials are scrolling pretty fast.

They're set for meara-speed!!

LOL, and I thought I'd slowed the testimonial speed down tons!! I will tweak that WAYYY down. Good call; the kind of info I need.

And yep, I'm looking for basically design stuff right now. I agree; I LIKE the background color, personally, but am thinking the background color needs to be toned down.

I like the design, and the purple for the testimonial widgets is what I'm working around, and that color can't be set (or not without coding, which NO.) I don't mind feminine, since I am a woman, but I don't want it to scream GIRLY RAINBOWS WOO.

WOW, I'm totally in awe of people who type with a baby on their lap, now!! This took me like 5 minutes to write!

I grew up in an absolute pigsty of a home - one where I could never bring anyone home because they'd be horrified. The good friends I did bring over, I made them close their eyes to walk to my bedroom.

Hm. Interesting point. My childhood home was always clean and clutter-free, because my mom was absolutely frantic about keeping her parents happy. We lived with them after my parents divorced, and my mom never stopped feeling guilty about it. I remember following her around, picking up and carrying stuff for her, as she tried to clean the house without making a bit of bothersome noise. She would be short with me and of course I couldn't do anything right. I would get so mad. And once I got my own room, it was always messy, or as messy as I could get away with. Maybe I'm messy now because I'm rebelling against my mother's insistence that we must be clean and neat to keep other people happy. (Other people who were, in fact, never going to be entirely happy with us.)

One of my grandmother's best compliments of me, to her social circle, was that I was so quiet she didn't even know I was there. I'm not sure, in retrospect, that "keep quiet" = "don't bother anyone" = "good" was a particularly healthy lesson to learn.

Zen, that sounds like all the makings of the opposite of my "condition". Man, kids just soak up everything, don't they (we)?