As this has been an ongoing project for quite a while, the design side of things are finally finished. I am working extremely hard to promote the site and create as much high quality content as possible. I would love to hear your feed back. Let me know what you like and what you don't like. Theblogconnection.com Thank you, Mike
Your blog style is very good, its change from rest of all blogs, but you can make it more attractive by using different colour schemes, like in header green and below light green, or header blue nad below light belue , some thing like this. any way i save the list of directories and also save your blog address in favourites.
Yes, this looks very nice. I'm not sure if menus on the bottom are be comfortable for readers (why not on the top?). But idea and color scheme is very good.
Thanks Grg. I have placed the menu there to compromise the theme. If they were at the top, it just wouldn't look as pretty
Your blog is unique design. But I feel that you should look into the color between background and text. I do find it a little tedious to read your text as it needs me to strain my eyes. For the menu at the bottom, maybe you want it to be 3 columns, meaning shifting the Recent Entries in the 3rd column.
I agree with everyone else with the fact that the text color and back image clash, fix that and it will be fine.
OK, I have done some changes to the blog. I have changed the primary background, added white boarders and spread the menus apart so they are more readable. Let me know what you think. Mike
I like the background pattern you used! For the header, I would make that whole area light grey instead of just placing the image there like that.
Your article - 25 Ways To Improve Your Sites Popularity and The Kick-Ass List of Directories! are white. It can't be read unless I put the mouseover to change it to blue. Your article text should increase a little. And your bottom menu is not aligned. The Categories has drop to the bottom of Menu & Recent Entries. Need to assign table in 20%, 30% and 50%.
All'd be great, but the site doesn't fit correctly on 1280x1024 (i don't check others), when there are folds in my firefox anyway, great and modern design, i'd change main background to more transparent, because it's blending with text GJ and GL in future
It works fine in my browser...it is set to 1280x1024.. Does anyone else have this issue? Thanks for the feed back on the site. How do you mean the text blends with the background? The background is grey and the font is white.. could you please explain further so I can resolve these issue. Thanks.
Exactly - text is white, and background is grey But i'd make it (back) little darker to make font more readable I hope You understood what i wanted to say... (because of my poor spelling )
Hi Mike, Your blog looks nice, but is so hard to read that I'd consider different template. I know it's so tempting to stand out of the crowd with original colours, looks etc. But all this nice stuff won't do you much good if your visitors will not be able to read your copy. Rule of thumb - dark text on light background. Yours is the opposite and on top of all that background is such a busy pattern that I would not even attempt reading it. Header font is too funky and makes it hard to scan (ALL CAPS contribute to the problem). If you want to keep the background, at least make text font larger and play with the colours. Looks like the blue of mouse-over effect is easier to read than white. cheers, astra