http://www.freedivs.com/ It's just a simple site I made but i'm trying to make it better as I learn more. Too many advertisements? Take the search out? Comments on the color scheme? Think of a better way of navigation? Anything thats helpful really I'll take into account. Any creative critisism is welcome. Thanks, Nick
Design is ok, not too fond of the lime green. Google search is a bit out of place. On the main page maybe move the content down a bit and put an adsense block there instead. Like the ajax menus. Most importantly though, i think you definitely need some images on your main page. The point of your website is about design templates, but your main entrance page is extremely boring and all text based. Maybe add a random featured design to appear on the front page. Or most popular. Include some screenshots on the main page, so people can immediately know what the purpose/theme of your website is about. Hope this helps!
Thanks mgrohan. Was just going for green cause I thought i'd try a change (i've done blues and reds to death, thought i'd try the other one of RGB) Was thinking of just taking the search out, cause it's pretty pointless atm. I think I will put a random good design in on the main page. Thanks for the comments
Yeah same here: Lime green does not work. Apart from that, the site is awesome! Well done! Just needs a bit of tinkering in places..
Thanks rich kid. From what I see in statistics, hardly anyone uses the search, so that will be coming out of the site. I'll be updating a lot in the next week or so. Putting some images in on the pages which only have text. Taking the search out. Also doing a lot for SEO, making pages have meaningful names, meta tags, unique titles on the pages, titles on the links + images, more descriptive alt's on the images, that kind of thing, which I really should have considered before I made the site, that'll teach me. Won't be changing the colour till I make a new layout though. Thanks for the insight to both of you. It's much appreciated +rep to both of you.