coopenhagen — Sun, 03 Feb 2002 16:04:19 +0000

Good site, interesting content. I have to admit though, the banner is annoying. There are other places which don't place banners over your site, take a look. Also, try and spell check the site a bit.

The Webmistress — Sun, 03 Feb 2002 13:46:51 +0000

Better but your rounded corners are still very jaggedy and are making it look ameteurish. The lolo part I think needs to be rethought. The actual part that says Movie Guru needs to be bigger and in a unique font. I;d start by getting a nice font for that then the tag line and then make it & the photos fill a narrower but longer section there. Also change the main font for the text to veranda as it's easier to read on screen.
Keep going

movieguru — Sun, 03 Feb 2002 03:25:57 +0000

ok here look at this and tell me which one is better
http://movieguru.9f.com/test.html
thanks
also if anyone wants I would appreciate an editor for my reviews since we all know I spell like crap.

Busy — Sat, 02 Feb 2002 23:05:29 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Megan
... not to mention spelling and gramamar.

Thats one I'm going to have to put in my big book of words I cant spell

Megan — Sat, 02 Feb 2002 16:14:21 +0000

Well, I see by your profile that you aren't much older than 12 (but then, I guess when you're that age 3 years makes a big difference ... ) Really, what you should do is target your site to teens. You can provide opinions that are applicable to them - maybe not to adults but certainly for teens. Try to go for a more colourful or edgy sort of design.

I do think that the importance of good copy tends to be underestimated on the web. "Content is King" after all, and if your content is text then it is important to provide the right tone and attitude in your writing, not to mention spelling and gramamar.

movieguru — Sat, 02 Feb 2002 06:37:06 +0000

o i forgot to add let that banner on top is made by the hosting company so not much i can do and speaking of hosting company does anyone got any good free ones?

movieguru — Sat, 02 Feb 2002 06:35:47 +0000

you know what i think i will take your advice and make a much more easier kind of layout becouse of the fact of how many problems there are with this one also:

detox about when i said "The role of Ripley, at least in this film, is a once in a lifetime part and she gave it everything she had..... Cameron seems to really understand how to create well-rounded, strong female characters. " i ment that she knows how to act in that way not that she wrote that

Megan point taken i should make it sound alot better and more grown up

Busy my spelling is the worst out of my family i would be surprised if i could even go a pargraph without miss spelling the words and that whole said part of it is that i spell checked all of my work so..............not much eles i can do.
but thanks everyone for helping me out and if anyone has any good designing ideas post it becouse i think i am out lol....

Busy — Fri, 01 Feb 2002 21:27:41 +0000

just an added note on spelling and grammer, I think i'd have to be the worst speller and grammer writer in the world, read some of my previous posts lol, some people like Megan and MMI are talented or comes natural to them but people like me use things like word, good ole microsoft word as my proof reader, if its just spelling then there is always email (outlook express), these are 100% as words like there, their, where, wear etc that the pc isnt intelligent enough to work out which to use, my added disadvantage is my version of word is the American version so afterwards I have to go and correct all the US version words that we dont use, like color - colour, tire - tyre

mairving — Fri, 01 Feb 2002 16:39:27 +0000

Yes, I agree with what has already been said except I like blue. Here is a list of what most every website should have:

Logo - very important to have a nice logo to 'brand' your site.
Navbar - some way for people to navigate your site, usually at the top or on the side.
Consistent use of fonts throughout your site.
Nice anti-aliased graphics.
Consistent look among all the pages.

Some you did. Some you didn't. Some like your logo are a bit obscured. The first thing that you notice when you go to your site is the top ad banner. It looks like that is what your site is about. You have to drop down a bit a see that you are about movie review. So you need to do some rearrainging. I would also lose the drop-shadowed section titles like . Replace it with something that looks a little better. I would also add some cellpadding to your tables to keep it from 'hugging the rail'. I would also stongly advise against using Iframes as they are not too good cross-browser. The code is also quite dated with font tags, centers, etc. Also there are some common coding errors like:
. With TD, it should be align=center. With valign, it should be valign=middle. There are also several instances of tags like being left open. Consider using stylesheets (CSS) to kill all the font tags and give a better look to your site.

Overall it is not too bad for a newbie to web design. Just needs some reworking.

Megan — Fri, 01 Feb 2002 15:38:06 +0000

I am feeling like there's something wrong with the way my browser is displaying this.... will have to fire up IE... it looks the same though. The first problem is the arrangement of your white space (and in this case I mean the part that is what, note blue as oppsed to the other meaning of "white space"). It's just a really weird shape with the curved area and the round cornered rectangles hanging off of it.

Overall the layout needs a lot of little changes. Switch to a sans-serif font, avoid centering paragraphs of text as you have on the aforementioned left side rectangles. You need something that looks like a logo - that collage of movie clips is okay, but it does little to identify your site. The logo should also appear closer to the top of the screen - there's too much empty space under that banner ad there. Do something with the movie sidebar you have on the reviews page - it looks too different from the rest of the layout and complicates that part of the design a little too much. I would move it to the right side of the screen and simplify the colouring a little bit. Also make sure that your headers are sized consistently.

You need to do a lot of work on your spelling and grammar. Take the explanation of your rating systems - all done in title case. These are not titles, they are sentences and should be written in sentence case.

This is Title Case
This is sentence case.

All of your writing seems very stilted and awkward. You don't have to try to use a formal writing style on the web. In fact, it's probably better to use a bit more of a casual style without getting too informal.

Quote: Before your head to the movies or go and rent and movie this weekend,be sure to consult The Movie Guru for the lowdown on what is playing. whether it's a comedy,drama, horror or action-adventure film the movie guru can provide detail reviews as to why the movie kicked *** (Patron My French) or whether you will waste $8.50 on the movie.

Should be more like:

"Before you head to the theatre this weekend, check out the Movie Guru for all the latest reviews. Whether it's a comedy, drama, horror or action-adventure film, The Movie Guru can provied a detailed guide to the new, and not-so-new movies available both in theatres and at your local video store."

Refrain from using slang ("kicked ***") and specific prices (Movie prices are up over $10 here depending on where you go. And what if someone from, say, the UK was reading this?)

Overall your writing sounds very unprofessional and I would not have any respect for your opinions given the fact that you write like a 12 year old. Now, what you could do is kind of polish up the writing a bit and target your site towards a younger audience. I think that there can be a lot of differences in opinion depending on demographics.