Small Fish New Website Design Launch! In January 2008, Reviews

Hey Everyone,

I am just about to launch this new theme,
available for looking at: http://smallfishbigmoney.com/themedesign/

Would appreciate some Constructive Criticisms,

Please comment about,

--> Appeal to you
--> Overall Appearance
--> Background
--> SEO Successful?
--> Text, Links, Navigation
--> Cleanliness
--> Would You Come Back?

NOT 100% COMPLETE JUST YET, NEED TO FIX THE TOP STUFF! Thanks

Thank You,

Looking forward to ALL COMMENTS, good and bad!

FabZ (Fabien)
Small Fish Big Money Teen Blogger

 

Constructive...buy better stock photos. Do something with the boring sidebar.

 

Thanks for your comments, I put the sidebar like that because I do not having lots of junk with it, it is clear and easy to read, highly straightforward...

Any suggestions on how you think I can spruce it up?

FabZ

 

check this in IE 6...

 

And in IE7 Pic

 

I have been doing some adjustments so maybe that hapenned whilst I was testing some stuff out, works fine in IE7, FF, OPERA, SAFARI over here, will have to check out IE6

Thanks,

I am welcoming more comments....

 

Ok, so it works in IE6,IE7,FF,SAFARI,NETSCAPE and OPERA. If anyone uses other web browsers and sees some problems please inform me, preferably before my launch

Thanks for all of your help

 

--> Appeal to you
the first thing that really jumps out at me is how the RSS buttons aren't centered... The second thing that jumps out to me is the bar that is below the header. Is that supposed to be a nav, or a title, or what? I think it is supposed to be a title, maybe you want to make each of those contents below the header a different color. (see the screen shot for an idea of what I mean)

--> Overall Appearance
-I'm not crazy about the color scheme, but that might be just me, also, I think that that right menu should continue all the way down. Oh, and also, I think it would look better if you got ride of the border on the side of the right menu.

--> Background
- Good.

--> Text, Links, Navigation
-Great!

--> Cleanliness
- that 1px bar on the right side of the header is ticking me off, but I'm sure you will fix that.

--> Would You Come Back?
- No, but only because I'm not interested on the content you offer

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You ask for criticism, thats what you get
I know that this is probably kinda hard to understand, so that is why I took your site into photoshop for a few minutes, and changed around some things. I did this quickly, so I didn't really spend much time on colors or stuff like that, it's just to give you a general idea of what I would change.

 

Thank you very much, I really don't take offence to comments so its all good, you bet i'm fixing the 1px thing, it just stuffed up in photoshop one day,

As for the color scheme alteration I will most probably do it - THANKS for the tip,
I am not a big fan of faux CSS columns but I will see what I can do,

RSS box is being changed and the buttons are going, they will not look as out of place
when the new style is put in,

border on the Right column, perhaps, probably, I will see, I just think it keeps it neat but
I may change it too,

Thanks a lot for your feedback, very helpful indeed,


FabZ

 

ya, looking at your code, it wont be hard at all the change the color of those top boxes, just have to change the names of some of the <div>'s and add a couple of extra lines of style, nothing much.

I would do the same thing at the bottom of the page if it is managable

haha, are any of us?
I usually just fake it with a background image...
maybe if you just use a nice gradient there... how would that look?

 

Can you help me out with faking a background image? I am not 100% about what code I need to use.

Thanks a lot

FabZ

 

This is what I would do:

add:
background-image: url('placeholderbg.jpg');
background-repeat: repeat-y ;
background-position : center ;

to the #placeholder style (it is the second group in your stylesheet)
and then put this in your directory as 'placeholderbg.jpg'
<- this image
^^^^^
| | | | |
this image

Pretty much all it does is tile a 1px high background image down the entire placeholder div, and this background image makes the appearance of there being more column. If you do this however, you will see that there are some things ont he page you will have to rethink (the ads at the bottom, the footer, the 1px bar at the bottom of the right side menu... ) but I don't think it will take too much time to edit those things.

tell me if it works!

EDIT//
you wanna hear the best part too?
I just tested it in IE, and it works!! haha

 

Thanks, seems pretty straightforward,
still testing out some colours for the top boxes,
can't seem to get good ones,

Thanks a lot for your help,

I will be editing and fixing etc...
until I release, which I want to
do today or in the next couple of
days,

cyaz 4 now

 

Seeking more constructive comments! About to launch!

 

Looks OK in FireFox But not in IE-7 Pic

 

This I believe has been fixed, you probably caught me whilst I was mucking around with the theme,

Launching Latest 5th Jan

 

ya, the only thing different int IE and Firefox is that margin at the top of the page

 

and it is a very stubborn margin indeed I will try and do something about it

 

Will

I tried the BG placeholder thing and it is not working,
If you tried and works then it must be a coding error
or something of the sort,

I'll stay with the old until I can comprehend what's gone wrong,

thanks again
FabZ

 

You must still be mucking around with it because, now the form is in the same place it was in the first pic I posted..
Unless I have a buggy IE-7!

Cheers
James