New Website for PenUltimate Productions

I'm glad it works for you.

Yes, I definitely recommend Weebly. It has the most straightforward piece of buildware that I've seen.

I appreciate the feedback. It helps to know how other people react to the site. I organized it along my own thought patterns -- sometimes those are very popular, other times baffling to people who aren't me.

>>No really.<<

Yay! My design parameters included ....

>> It is well organized.<<

Fractal organization. The Weebly buildware allows you to create new pages in the "Pages" menu, then drag them where you want them. If you pull one a little to the right under another page, it becomes a sub-page.

>> The font is easy to read.<<

Arial is my favorite font. The non-serif style is a lot easier to read, especially against a background that is not a single flat color. It took me a little fooling around to figure out how to change the fonts, but it all worked out. The only thing I worried about was whether the black had enough contrast against that caramel background.

Legibility was a high priority for me in general. If I can read a website, most other people should be able to read it too -- and a majority of those who can't will probably be using adaptive equipment anyhow.

>> The colors are attractive.<<

Thank you! I liked the restful tones of the theme. The only color selection that I had to do was setting the link colors (basic, visited, and hover). Well, that and making sure the photo-illustrations didn't clash with the background. It's pretty much limited to warm palette.

>> You don't have to hunt further down for the gist of the site.<<

Ah, that's my journalist training showing. I tend to put a short summary at the top so people know what they're getting. On websites, where viewers tend to skim, that often translates into a title and a subheader blurb or an intro paragraph, above the main content. I think most of the pages are pyramid-written except Home, which is done like a front page with nothing but summaries.

>> It's a good site.<<

*happy wriggle*

Thanks for going into detail.

>>You've got some sort of formatting/display error when your site is viewed in Safari on a Mac. There is a white box next to the words "Welcome to PenUltimate Productions" on the main page. <<

Thanks for checking.

If you're seeing what I think, then I can tell you that it's not an accident. I don't know yet whether it's an issue or not. See, Weebly lets you put Google Adsense blocks on your site if you want them. GA doesn't activate instantly; it takes anywhere from a few minutes to several days for it to go live and start putting real ads where indicated. So it's possible that the ads will appear properly at some point. I put them at the top of certain pages, the bottom of others, and not at all on some. I may need to poke at them more to make them work. If I can't get them to work, I'll give up after a little while and take them out so they don't leave silly white boxes.

>> The layout and color scheme is nice, and the information is easy to find.<<

Yay!

>> I particularly liked your page detailing services and costs (I will admit to having been curious).<<

Yeah, I originally wrote that up for a different business site I had for a little while. There's a version of it on my Facebook too, in the PUP page Notes tab. With the main information already written out in a convenient place, I can tell people "look here and then ask if you have questions" when they ask about my writing/editing availability. That's much easier than trying to summarize it over and over again.