Hey everyone, check out http://www.smallfishbigmoney.com/themedesign/ and give me some feedback, tell me what you like what you do not like what exactly? what do you think about the site design site layout site color scheme overall appeal background etc... Thanks a bunch, looking forward to your comments FabZ (Fabien) Small Fish Big Money Dot Com
If you consider the Text Size you have used. It would have been good, had you been making an Accessibility Site, Otherwise I don't see the need of such a large Font. Secondly Colour Schemes Goes well. I cannot actually comment on the layout as yet as I donot know what the site will be about. Appeal - OK. Fish don't appeal to me much anyways Background seems fine, Just I'll recommend that you leave some space between the Fish Tails. Looks too awkard to see them so close. The Blue Text Background is appealing.
The site is just an update from the current: www.smallfishbigmoney.com A site largely to do with blog design, blog monetization, blog promotion and traffic creation etc... Which browser are you using atm? The font is not overly large, about 13px, Thanks for your comments!
Internet Explorer 7 In my Opnion its quite plain like Digital points. Though I do appreciate the Loading Times, but still guess I am just used to creativity then. Your Site is good, just get a Better Header. And You are Welcome
I am a fan of large fonts. This was nice. I think your site is large-- obviously you have a lot of documents and bloggitty-blog-blog-blog-sort websites are usually large for this reason, but you've got 995kB! That's mighty huge... it took maybe 10-15 seconds for me to load (ADSL) but I guess it depends on who you want reading this. If you want anyone from middle America or Canada to be reading this, it's a pretty slow loader. You've also got a lot of images... I wonder if the most of them are the ads? They seem pretty small and it doesn't seem to me like too many ads. Nicely placed, they don't get in the way of the content yet are very visible when someone first starts reading the begining of the bloggitty blog-blog. I agree with Xavier about the header image... it's not the fish that are the problem. Fish are fine. I think it's the 70's style with the jean-denim-like texture. The rest of the site is sharp and defined, so maybe that's why it seems the header image is dull and fuzzy. I'd use some sharp, colour-rich image maybe from NOAAH (or whatever it's called... oceanic research people-- gov't photos are always FREE) with enough black around the edges to hold text. I'd also strongly suggest sticking an <h1> behind that image as there's nothing there when images and css are off (the name SMALLFISH... should be the first or second thing the viewer sees). What's this? <ul> <li class="page_item page-item-66"><a href="http://smallfishbigmoney.com/about/" title="About">About</a></li> <li class="page_item page-item-78"><a href="http://smallfishbigmoney.com/contact-us/" title="Contact Us">Contact Us</a></li> <li class="page_item page-item-15"><a href="http://smallfishbigmoney.com/invest-money/" title="Invest Money">Invest Money</a></li> <li class="page_item page-item-12"><a href="http://smallfishbigmoney.com/make-money/" title="Make Money">Make Money</a></li> <li class="page_item page-item-13"><a href="http://smallfishbigmoney.com/save-money/" title="Save Money">Save Money</a></li> <li class="page_item page-item-161"><a href="http://smallfishbigmoney.com/small-fish-advertising/" title="Small Fish Advertising">Small Fish Advertising</a></li> </ul> Code (markup): It's good that you have this in a ul. However, the links, because they're part of your page (internal) you should remove the http://smallfishbigmoney.com part. Those links are in the same folder so you can get away with (and is better to use) a href="save-money/" instead. Also, what are those classes for? CSS styling or something else? Cause they look the same on FireFox (they look the same as each other I mean). Now that I've said you've got a lot of images, : ) I could also suggesst that you could replace the >> in front of some links with a little fish Wingding image. Since it's one image loaded repeatedly and is small and would be a gif, it wouldn't be too bad and would look cute. Ooh, another document was added... now 1025KB. You've got to look why are your documents so large?? Another thing to try is to make all that Javascript (you've got lots of it) all external files, with an event handler in the head to get them loaded and going. If I were you and this was my bloggitty blog-blog, I'd hire/ask/get someone with excellent HTML and CSS skills to go through your code (which isn't bad) and optimise it. I would NOT use one of those optimising scripts, but a human. The design and layout of your site is good enough, and your next step should really be to make all that as small and lean as possible while keeping your current content. Esp as the bloggitty blogs grow, your site could become unmanagable in size very quickly.
I think you should use a sharper picture for your header. It looks grainy. And probably do a good logo.
We are reviewing 2 different sites now, the one I wanted some critique about was the updated one... at this location http://www.smallfishbigmoney.com/themedesign This new design has XHTML/CSS validation and loads a bit quicker, so check it out please FabZ Small Fish Big Money
Oh, now I know what Xavier meant by the fish tails. I definitely like the new one, and the sharper header image. Is that Small Fish Royale a drop-down menu being dropped down? For turdpress it's not bad at all... but if you still want some code criticism, here it is: <a href="http://smallfishbigmoney.com/2007/11/10/make-money-online-pay-per-click/" should be <a href="2007/11/10/make-money-online-pay-per-click">...</a> (or better yet, shorten that name down to make-money-click or something. All your links which are internal, remove the main part http://... com. Second, you've got divs around divs and if your site had been really graphics-intensive I'd understand but it's not, so I'm pretty sure you're not using those divs to hold images or anything. You can probably remove either the outermost ones around each group, or the innermost ones. Third, organise your site with some headers. <h1>, <h2>, etc. Good for SEO too. Lastly, I'd still stick to my original statement with the older site-- stick that big fish logo over an <h1> with the name of the site on it. Title and alt help, sure, but actual text is better. Trick: http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/revised-image-replacement/ pick one of the last two. Sucess, pOes.
No the Royal is not a menu being dropped down, I am getting rid of that anyway, going to put more text instead, better for SEO, and not to lag to load time, I am fixing the links as we speak, but I will not complete all work on it until about Jan 15th 2008, then I will release it. I have to fix the bottom div's cus they are in desperate need of help and I will be putting all CSS into the external style sheet because I have a few bits and pieces of it lying around the code and it is not the best for search engines, fish tails will be done soon as well and I have some headers in place already, h2 in the right sidebar and h1 for the main post titles. I will be perfecting it as I go along, thanks for your help, tips, comments and advice and I look forward to any future commentaries you have. much appreciated and many thanks FabZ Small Fish Big Money