My friend wanted me to make a construction website for him. I made the image below. What do you guys think?

some rivits, and what we call checker plate, i think you strange folk over there call it something else, is it road constructin, that's what the site is saying to me

What splodge said. Also lighten up the text. It's really hard on the eyes to read dark text on a dark background.

Some thoughts that popped up

1. Colors.
Can you make it a bit darker so I certainly can not read what's in there . Meaning: i'm on a crt monitor and I can hardly read the black text on the darkgrey background. I imagine some people will not even see them if their monitor is set a bit dark, not to mention the people using a lcd display.

Peronally I'm not to fond of the almost neon like color use too but that's taste.

2. Navigation
I don't see a dedicated spot where navigation through the site. I don't know offcourse what the site will be but I assume there will be some kind of navigation menu nescessary

3. I'm not fond too of placing boxes with links to other things before you actually get to the content of the page. It detracts the user of your message (most people tend to read top to bottom). And, unless you do some nifty css layer techniques it's not very SEO friendly too

4. As this is a business site, I would lose the dark colors. It's not very inviting. Would be good for game sites or stuff like that but not if you're running a business where you want to attract potential clients lighter colors might be a better option.


note: typo in constRuction

I appreciate all of the comments. Especially the part about the navigation bar. I completely forgot about navigation. lol I'll work on some lighter colors too. The text, I agree should probably be lighter.

The boxes at the top actually aren't linking to external sites, but articles and other pages on the site. As far as the boxes titles, I just made stuff up. I titled it before I decided to use latin filler text.

Again thanks for your comments. They were a big help.

Construction is mis spelled in the header.

Oops, sorry, someone else already pointed it out

lol

Wow. I didn't notice that either.

Well, I only spent about 15 minutes on it. Thanks both of you for pointing it out.

To be honest... it sucks.

ya, this sucks, maybe spend some time on it and put your own style into it instead of using a default template on something like dreamweaver.

It's not a default template... If it was, it would probably have a navigation bar and more visible text.

But thanks for the support.