My Website - Thoughts?

I've been asked by a couple of clients to set up a website, so I'm resurrecting my old webdesign skills and making a site to portfolio my Accounts stuff and Illustration work.
HOWEVER, I need HELP!
Would you tell me what you think of it? :001_tt2:
I need to know what percentage of you don't see it very well (I've done some technical jiggery-pokery with the layout which may not result in all browsers, especially old Internet Explorer versions).
Is it too slow to load? That kinda stuff
http://chris.planetwebsiteservices.com
HOWEVER, I need HELP!

Would you tell me what you think of it? :001_tt2:
I need to know what percentage of you don't see it very well (I've done some technical jiggery-pokery with the layout which may not result in all browsers, especially old Internet Explorer versions).
Is it too slow to load? That kinda stuff

http://chris.planetwebsiteservices.com
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I tried it at the AAT but all I can see is a blue screen.
Hope that helps
Nicky
I take it it's just a front page at the moment, no content?
Gets the thumbs up from me on design, but then I like things different.
My goodness, I'm even complimenting a blue accountants website (check them out - they are 90% blue, I kid you not, and I can't stand them, haha)
Nice work :thumbup1::thumbup1::thumbup1:
hey - what happened to my reply?! Damn these disappearing messages!!!
Hi Chris,
very snazzy.....! Worked fine for me, assuming it's a front-page only at the moment.
Cheers
Re your signature quote - that'd be one heck of a pee! :001_tt2:
lol......can't claim to have been clever enough to have understood it.......just thought 'oooh...I wonder what that means' so I pasted it into google translate....one heck of a cheat!!! :tongue_smilie:
BTW - in case it helps to know, as some can't see it and some can, I'm running Vista and IE7.
I was hoping Microsoft had managed to get more people using IE7 by now
Can you not change the format to allow IE6 and lower to access your site?
Best of luck
Adam Reece
The problem is that IE has always been far behind the times - for instance, the reason it's not displaying my site is because I'm using alpha-channelled PNG files. These work on every browser on earth... except IE6 or lower:thumbdown:
And because MS changed the layout to that nasty new design, no one wants to upgrade, it seems!
Nothing's ever simple when Microsoft are involved:001_tongue:
BTW if you didn't know there is a way you can run multiple versions of IE on a single computer – really useful for testing. It's not hugely complicated to set up but a little involved, drop me a PM if you're interested.
And getting on my high horse, mixing up layout with content in HTML such as using tables is a big no-no in my book both as a point of principle and for practical reasons too. You can and should do it all with CSS.
Nice design and snazzy Illustrator work all the same though.
I checked it out in i.e 7 and in firefox3 and was working and visable in both.
Slightly longer to load in i.e than firefox id say.
Do the words in the centre of the page have links or anything linked to them? If they do then does not work in either..
Good start for sure, keep going!