Please review: http://www.onlinewebdirectory.com Check placements, design and color combination. Suggestions, criticism and comments would be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Design is nice. Colors work together, everything is correctly placed. Have some problems with usability though. Not 100% sure, maybe i think it is from information overload. You have a navigation bar at the top of the header. Followed by directory links by location. You have menu items next to your logo. Links under this. Then categories under this. This is like 5 levels of navigation bars! Not sure where to start or how to use the site. Also categories are relisted again on the left hand side. Also opening the categories, the page appears to be the same everytime. The sponsors logo are right in your face, and it is difficult to see either the sub categories or the listings in that category.
The colorscheme looks great. For the header area, there are two buttons.. I would move those to the left menu. Also, add a darker background color to your left menu (not too dark though..) so you can clearly differentiate between the menu contents and content area.
I would make the top navigation bar stand out more (City, State, etc.). It almost looks like ad text since it is hidden at the top.
Great site. Your site immediatly gives the impression of being professional, and gives the impression of LOADS of content. Neatly done! Some people may have some problems with navigation in beginning, I must first look better too, but its a quite efficient navigation once you get how it works. Very expanded possibilities. No negative comment to give on this in fact Only make a capital letter of your first letter of the page title. Makes it less "dirty", but further absolutely well done! Keep it up