Website Design Critique

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by THX2, May 9, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hi guys, I've been working on a fansite for Spore - it's not quite ready yet, considering there is some content missing, the forum isn't done and I have a bunch of spelling mistakes to fix. Nevertheless, I was hoping to get some feedback on the look and feel of the website. I think I like it, but given that I'm fickle, every few days I tell myself that I need to change it. Regardless, what do you guys think? A keeper or should I trash it?

    http://www.sporenormous.com

    Thanks a lot!
     
    THX2, May 9, 2008 IP
  2. apmsolutions

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    #2
    I like it. Very firefoxy! :)
     
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  3. THX2

    THX2 Peon

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    #3
    Thanks fellow resident of Ottawa ;)
     
    THX2, May 10, 2008 IP
  4. mspider

    mspider Guest

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    #4
    I like the theme...:) Maybe design needs a little more ufo/space images ;)
     
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    sydneyaus Active Member

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    #5
    Cool looking site, nice!
     
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    smallfishbigmoney Active Member

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    It's very clean, I'm not a big fan of the font for the titles (i.e. "Creature Editor To Be Released")...It just doesn't seem to blend in with everything else, perhaps a bold arial or verdana will do the trick?

    Looking good apart from that, I like it :)
     
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  7. THX2

    THX2 Peon

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    Thanks for the feedback guys.

    As for the title, I have had some difficulty figuring out how to present my front page. It still needs some work. I think if I can modify my front page, the font will eventually work because it looks pretty decent on the other pages. But you are right, for now the front page title is off by a bit.
     
    THX2, May 10, 2008 IP
  8. Masterful

    Masterful Well-Known Member

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    #8
    A decent, clean site. Well done!
     
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  9. zuccs

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    Very clean, and love the header mate.

    Can't work out what the white patch behind the planet is there for though?
     
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  10. THX2

    THX2 Peon

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    Thanks! I added the white semi circle behind the planet because I thought the graphic looked far too uniform without it.
     
    THX2, May 11, 2008 IP
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    joelmr Banned

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    #11
    Beautiful! But a little too bright. That's OK, though.
     
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    Very Nice mate im liking the clean orientated site :), Looks like very fast loading source code aswell :) Thumbs Up.
     
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  13. THX2

    THX2 Peon

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    Thanks for the feedback guys, I appreciate it very much!
     
    THX2, May 11, 2008 IP
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    #14
    Nice Joomla design! Just needs some content and tender love!
     
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    #15
    i like minimalism
     
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  16. THX2

    THX2 Peon

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    #16
    Hi guys, I added a ad banner (adsense), I was wondering if it looked out of place where it is? It changes the look of the site a bit and I'm even thinking of just having ads in the forum and leave the content ad-free until the site becomes popular. What do you think?
     
    THX2, May 12, 2008 IP
  17. THX2

    THX2 Peon

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    Okay, I had some problems with my site, I just could not customize it well enough. Some of this was because of my own patch work knowledge of CSS positioning and also because Joomla is fairly complex to work with. So I switched to Wordpress, which happens to be so much easier to customize, though I had to forsake some of Joomla's content/category features (doesn't really matter much).

    As you may have noticed from my first post, I had some doubts about the template. I thought it was pretty nice but deep down I knew it lacked something - the current version is far better and for once I'm really please with it. It's not done yet, I still have to work in the suckerfish menus, but you can get a pretty good idea of how it's going to be. It also gives me a bit more flexibility because the content width allows me to use landscape banners instead of the the 460 ads.

    If you want to take a look at it again, you can check it out here:
    http://www.sporenormous.com/

    But I feel pretty confident now that it will be up to snuff once it's done. Thanks for all the feedback, I really appreciate it and it helped me a lot.
     
    THX2, May 12, 2008 IP
  18. SEOpaw

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    #18
    needs more content and we will see
     
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    #19
    The content part is too boring, as said by SEOpaw. The rest of the parts are great. Fresh and modern.
     
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  20. THX2

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    #20
    Okay, I'm adding more content to it and after your feedback, you are right: the content area is pretty boring. I don't really know what to do layout wise, as I don't want it to be to busy. So I'm trying to add more (well placed) images to give the content area a bit more oomph. The only example I have right now is this page: http://www.sporenormous.com/encyclopedia-galactica/
     
    THX2, May 13, 2008 IP