venister.org — Sun, 14 Apr 2002 15:15:09 +0000

Perhaps a much darker color would do for the main text on the front page. It seems a bit faint and hard to read. Otherwise great site.

Abhishek Reddy — Sun, 14 Apr 2002 11:08:35 +0000

Ehh, bg3.jpg takes ages to load up on my 56k.

Other than what's been said, I'm not too keen on the thick borders.

The Webmistress — Sun, 14 Apr 2002 10:19:45 +0000

I see that you have changed the background again. On my screen at 1152x864 it tiles so that I get everything starting again on the right and it looks odd. I also don't particularly like the way the logo stays put as part of the background. I would also agree that the text gets kinda hard to read and the orange doesn't work well on the light grey and the first page is way, way too long IMO

Blue — Sun, 14 Apr 2002 04:38:27 +0000

The logo is good. I would make the background of the text lighter and please please please make the text darker, ie black, so it is readable. I have my monitor on low brightness as probably a lot of people do and I hate not being able to read what is written. When it is so hard to read that I have to highlight the text to get a better contrast something has to be done. It may or may not be cool but the best reading colour for text is still black on a white background. At least use black on a light colour or grey background.

I think the black background can work well with the grey and blue but fix the test and put a bit of colour in the site.

That's a weird effect how the logo stays put when you scroll but interesting. Make sure it doesn't clash with what scrolls over it.

FinalMjolnir666 — Fri, 05 Apr 2002 21:10:30 +0000

Okay, I'm only here for a second so I'll just quickly address some stuffo.

I wanted to use a wallpaper image for the background and set it to fixed but I realized too late that my menu images couldn't be transparent (when .gif they look far too pixilized), so I'm thinking about remaking a different set of menu images that'll work better with a background image.

As for gaming sites being dark... eh, I kinda like them dark, not saying theres anything wrong with lighter colors, I just like the darker colors (easier on the eyes).

With the .css include, I used the PHP include function and everything is working fine, do I need the text/css html thing or not?

openmind — Fri, 05 Apr 2002 20:58:34 +0000

Sideways scroll at 800x600 even in full screen mode which makes reading text a little tricky.

The background behind your text is not so good as it makes the page look lopsided IMO. If you want a background graphic, spread it across the page but don't place too much emphasis on it. One trick that might work for you is to fix the background graphic so it doesn't scroll. Just define it in the body tage like so:
<body background="yourgraphic.gif" bgproperties="fixed">'

For the text under the menu headers it loks a little disjointed and lonely The header graphics are cool but maybe extende the borders for the tables to encapsulate the text as well.

Love the logo Very cool indeed! But why have it lumped over on the right? Maybe centralize it or left-justify and try and make that background effect you got going fade away into the background which will make it look less cropped.

Loads real fast and overall an improvement on the old site! Keep it up!!

taff — Fri, 05 Apr 2002 20:19:53 +0000

Why do gaming sites insist on being so dark? I game quite a bit. For the most part, computer games are bright and colourful.

/rant off

I really dislike the background texture behind the text. It just makes things harder to read than they aleady are, given the colour scheme.

The logo has potential - too bad it is so marginalized.

Give your elements room to breathe. As it is now, the screen is just jam packed at every resolution. Use your whitespace (blackspace in your case, ) it is a legitimate and important design tool

disaster-master — Fri, 05 Apr 2002 16:40:34 +0000

The banner on the new one is a huge improvement. I don't think the background that you have in the body part matches the feel of the site though. That background is so 90's looking to me and makes the text harder to read. Especially the italic text. Speaking of italic, why don't you use the

tag instead of italic for that quote you have? I believe that would be the proper way to do that and make it easier to read.

You have many spelling errors.

In your code:
You need to add the style type to your style tag;

There is a little bit of a horizontal scroll at 800X600.

I am not crazy about the green on black colors that you are using but that is a personnal preferrence.

Brooke — Fri, 05 Apr 2002 16:33:22 +0000

Just a few things that I noticed on your site.

1. it is too dark in my opinion. Maybe use white or light gray where the text is

2. I think that backgrounds do not look good. Maybe get rid of that background behind the text and use one of the colors that I mentioned above

3. I think that the headers are too big. Try making them smaller

That is it for now. You are doing a good job!

Brooke