RuimteLink, my new website

Discussion in 'Websites' started by SedNaX, Jul 10, 2006.

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    it's a dutch community about astronomy, astrology, space travel and science. soon to be on a new domain, but for now on my old one (i need to wait untill my host got my payment :))

    www.sednax.ws (please also check the menu on the upper left ;) )
     
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  2. jaymcc

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    Hi,

    I think you have tool much below the fold on the home page. The image of the moon is a great image, however over bearing for the site home page.

    Your main nav (top of page) is virtually hidden as a consequence of the moon image. Without looking hard I wouldn't even know you had a forum.

    I'm not a big fan of high contrast sites, so the black and white is not something I would build, but that's just personal preference.

    I like the drop down menus, perhaps make it so they appear when you mouse-over the icon/image as well as the text?

    Your links are a bit screwy, but I guess this is a draft right now. The only thing I would make sure you do is set up your navigation so that you can get to every page without having to use the drop down menus, search engine spiders will not navigate the drop downs.

    Hope this helps!

    J
     
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    Yep, I didn't even realize there was more content at the bottom till I saw your reply!
     
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  4. SedNaX

    SedNaX Active Member

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    thanks for the feedback jaymcc :)

    i removed the moon image so the content is more clear now. i have to say you are right here :) you can see the navbar now, and i increased opacity otherwise it was unable to read the menu thru the text.

    I know 99,999% is not fan of contrast sites, but if you made a space related site, i bet you would make a space related background too (thanks for noticing though ;) )

    The drop down menu is a different story. i can't just make the hover over the images work also, because the menu is one object made with some dhtml menu maker (opencube visual infinite menus), and the images are just in another tr of a table.

    i'm going to make a header now with a logo above the navigation and add some colors (it's a bit too black & white now).

    By the way: I think, but i'm not sure, that SE's do spider these links, because it's just plain html that's used (div, li and ul), i asked at their forums.

     
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    okay i've made a header and better navigation. The links also work now. what do you think?? :)

    jaymcc: the search engines WILL follow the hovered links. they're just made of div's li's and ul's.
     
    SedNaX, Jul 12, 2006 IP