Hi All, My bidding directory, EnglishFair.com, has just undergone a face lift Please kindly review the design of my directory. Cheers for all your feedbacks and comments
You can consider about color changes in your logo.. Site look good. But logo didn't match with it.. Its my thought only...
@ Fear - Hey man... long time no see Thanks for the praise - I made it myself @ dilzaran - Thanks for the input - you mean, the 'shield' logo or the shield + English Fair text? I'll very much consider your feedback Cheers for the review!
@ ceweqsakti - I buy the site a while ago Dropped Domain? Perhaps - but it's a strong PR5 domain - PR5 for 2 updates, and it's going to be PR6 anytime soon, hopefully in the next Google PR update. Cheers!
Hi, The design looks good, I think it is more suitable for blog directories... I have the following feedback. Logo: Avoid gradient within gradient (ie. the text 'English Fair' can be in a single color instead of yellow/white gradient) Buttons: The 'more details' button is too curvy. Make it more like a rounded rectangle - like the 'Search' button Top navbar: The black strip needs to be increased by 2-3 pixels and smaller but bold font selected for the navlinks. Also individual links need to be separated by a little more space Rest all look good... Good luck, Ajith
Looks good. You know the two logos at top with the shadow... are they supposed to completely mesh with the red bar across the top, or are they supposed to be completely blended and not hang over the red bar. It looks kind of neat the way it is, but didn't know if you meant to blend or not blend... on my pc it hangs over.
Katherinez, Ouch - you right... I messed up with my CSS - different font, different result - gotta work on it soon. Thanks for pointing it out
Appearance: Layout broken in Opera and IE - possibly my using large fonts/120dpi. Absurdly undersized content font in a grey on white scheme - makes the text borderline illegible until I zoom in 50% or more... The Blog section is REALLY bad on that needing me to double the text size or MORE to approach legible. The layout isn't bad but it does suffer from the 'crappy little stripe' fixed width syndrome rather badly. Seems a little file-heavy thanks to those little icons - I'd put some effort towards using an image-recombination CSS sliding background technique on those to speed pageloads and reduce handshaking. 'submit a link' text at the bottom is almost invisible thanks to color choice... apart from that it's a simple layout and from a navigation standpoint there's little wrong with it. Code: 178 Validation errors, so basically it's not even HTML. Single column table is a miserable /FAIL/ as is the nonsensical use of heading tags and all those annoying target attributes. You've got 17 tables on a layout that even AS a table based one should only need ONE, MAYBE two - you're throwing around the 'clear' keyword like it was going out of style which given all the tables shouldn't even be necessary, etc, etc... Bottom line on the code, your home page is 57k of markup for a measly 3k of markup. There's no reason for that site to break the 15k mark, and I'd be suprised to see it need more than 10k of HTML to function while retaining the same appearance. I've seen worse... but there's a LOT of room for improvement, most of it under the hood from a semantics, maintennance and SEO standpoint, but also in terms of accessability.
@ Anathema - I made it myself - a newbie in theme design Thanks! @ Deathshadow - yours are, by far, the most useful review - I really appreciate it and would like to seek help on coding, then - Any help you can recommend?
@bpopark - well, it's not really accurate - i use PR prediction tool at iwebtool dot com - it's only for reference on how well I SEO my site.
Very nice design.. And When I surf to it...it resolve very quick..with thousands of backlinks...I think it will be good site for advertising