Hi people, Been working on a new site, have thrown a few pages up now so I can see how it looks and works online, Damn Dreamweaver for not letting you preview a site with flash elements. Anyway the site has a few working pages: Boards...(Firewire(completed), Al Merrick & MtWoodgee pages work) wetsuits(just the template no content yet) Blog (linked to my existing surf blog), Forum (any surfers feel free to join, it is a baby still) The site is all surf related, basically trying to compile all the info I tend to search for and have to look all over the place to find, in one place. The site is also not full screen, I hate scrolling to see everything so made a nice slim site with that in mind. Sample Site (Your Local Surf) Let me know your thoughts and yes this site is using adsense, I would like to see some revenue for my efforts someday...haha like that is likely! Cheers
I do not like the theme, I think you should get a more professional theme, and the text on the page would look better if it was center aligned.
I would prefer the whole site to be centered in my browser. I also like with navigation to have a sperator between the links something like Link | Link | Link but that is just my opinion. Site looks pretty good simple and clean but I dont know if black says surfing to me I think of sunset colours and blues of the ocean but maybe I am a bit sentimental. Good Luck
The site's simple but I think you'll need to work more on your design. Make it sleek in design. Also if you can center align your main site body would be great
I like the design. It's good. - The banner image is nice, fits well the domain.The blog title could be bigger I think. It's just a bit bigger than the menu. The texture and style of the title are very good, the contrast is a bit low because of the light background, but the dropping shadow tends to fix this problem. - Good integration of google ads under the main menu, but there may be a few things to improve here. Maybe a suggestion is to do the main menu as wide as the ads. - The body text is not easy readable because it has serifs. They make the blocks of thext hard to read and they are used more for titles than for body text. Maybe test a few combinations of sans-serif fonts. Changing them will also bring a bit contrast to the big picture, because now the fonts are mainly the same style.
I don't like the theme, and the page is too empty try to fill it The banner is nicely made the font doesn't fit the site i think
Firstly Thanks and reps to you all for the great feedback! I have taken some of your advice onboard and gone ahead with a redesign. Let me know what you think now. Cheers again TCC
The theme color and the header image is good. Make the nav bar color different than black and justify the main content text. Also remove the table borders. I hope it helps.