I'm not too close to being finished, but I'd still like a review on how the looks are going with this website. I will be adding more content and more features to make the website more unique, so don't worry about those pieces. I'm just looking for aesthetics right now. What do you guys think? I tried to use the uni's colors a bit. Lots of orange and a bit of purple.
If no one answer, I will do first, seems you need faster hosting second - change colors of link - it's not connected with orange it's details, but what I see - you have no comments. So you goal is to involve people to your site, make topics, interesting for students, create open and close communities, and develop your project. It has good future I think. About content - I think you need to add more information about your university. Regards, ~Alex
Thanks Intoex. I have not released the website yet, so I'm not worried about content just yet. I'm adding that piece by piece until I am ready to launch it. About the links, if you are talking about in the sidebar, Clemson's colors are orange and purple... yeah... I know. Not a good combo. Perhaps a little less purple? Either way I need to have SOME purple on there.
decrease saturation of purple color. I think will be better. You have content - so you can invite visitors - and be sure, they will be happy to see, how the project is growing Good start! ~Alex
Site loads very slow in my country. And i tihnk your site layout looks nice and i like your relevant colors. Goog luck with your site. Regards
Yeah, I've noticed that lately my host has been a bit slow. I'll see what I can do about that. As far as the colors go, I changed up the purple a bit. I also added a small google ad as the header. I may not keep it there, monetization is not a major part of what I plan on doing right now.
i'd put the forums in the upper right personally. On the community site I have, people want to be able to get to the forums as fast as possible. Think the orange is fine, maybe make it a bit darker. Nice site
It looks real nice, need faster hoster though. It took way over 10 seconds to load and I ended up just quitting.
Site looks like every other blog out there. Take a more unique approach & increase load times. Other then that, good show!
Thanks guys. I'm working on a few unique ideas that will help, but I'd rather not discuss them here. Also, an email to my hosting has been sent. Normally they are pretty fast about responding.
All Wordpress. That's pretty much all I will use. It can do pretty much everything that I need it to, even for static websites. The design I have on it now is a theme that was already out there, but I modified it quite a bit.