Renegade — Fri, 20 Dec 2002 21:36:25 +0000

Looks to plain IMHO

taff — Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:10:02 +0000

I'm not sure that I agree on the virus thing. A site offering downloadable .exe files, presumably containing .scr files may be well advised to take the forefront in the virus awareness issue.

Re the site itself: I think pretty much all has been covered. Lose the clipart, find a new font, and change that background colour!

pmj7 — Thu, 19 Dec 2002 22:24:41 +0000

If you like Star Trek and want a screen saver, check out the link in my first post. It is exceptional.

Peter

your website review

donedeal — Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:46:23 +0000

not bad but heres some errors on my screen when the page loads up
Im using ie 5 with win98 first edition at work.

/home/virtual/site11/fst/var/www/html/screensavers/link/in.php on line 133

you may want to have a look at this

happy serving.....

tatsujin — Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:43:21 +0000

have to agree with the "horror" style others have mentioned, its not ideal.

do like the font for the main text apart from the logo though, thats nice. the black/white gradients look out of place too.

you might want to try putting a border around the screen shot images too, might give the page a little depth.

hope that helps,

pmj7 — Sun, 15 Dec 2002 02:31:48 +0000

Here's one for your list: http://www.mewho.com/system47/

A nice idea, and some fun for everyone. However, what are you giving us that can't be found at one of the sites you link to, such as http://www.screensaverheaven.com? They provide previews of the screen savers, at present your site just has links to .exes. Are you writing your own screen savers, or just listing those you've found on other sites? What is the goal of your site? To be a resource, or is it just a learning experience?

I agree about the virus list. And listing them 'Top 10' reminds me of the best videos, CDs, etc. Almost as bad as 'Most Popular'! If you MUST keep it, how about 'Troublesome Ten', 'Ten Least Wanted' or something like that?

You have direct links to .zip and .exe on other servers. This is generally frowned upon. Also, I have no idea who you are. What are the chances that I'm going to visit your site, download and run an .exe from it? Zip. Zero. None. Now, if the links were to pages that featured the downloads, I might just consider it. Unfortunately there are too many teens and pre-teens (and older people who haven't grown up) that think it's cool to try and damage someone's computer system.

'Free Screen Savers UK', navigation, etc. Why does everyone love micro-font? If you have absolutely tons of content and are going all out to fit everything 'above the fold' (ie: first screenfull), then MAYBE. And only for unimportant stuff. And only then if it will respond to the browser set font size controls. What about visitors over 30, or with vision problems? Are you that desperate to exclude them? Hard to read != cool.

'Click Here' Oh My God! This isn't a good idea. You should create a link that describes what will happen if I click on it. If you don't then forget it. The Web has trillions of pages, why should I go to one that I don't even know what will be there?

Peter

bigwads — Sun, 15 Dec 2002 01:30:01 +0000

All looks like a "horror" site, and I think that the links to the categories are a little bit too small, not sure if the virus info should really be there!

Megan — Tue, 05 Nov 2002 14:42:09 +0000

I feel that the "sexy" category is sexist and somewhat offensive - especially considering that there are only women pictured.

Other comments:
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I don't understand why you're using "Blood of Dracula" as your logo font. It is really not appropriate for anything other than a Hallowee'en site.

Same comment about the little icons along the top of the section categories - Hallowe'en is over

Colour scheme seems a little incoherent - the black and gold scheme for the content area is fine, but I don't understand how the teal background colour relates. Try changing that to grey or something more neutral.

Font is too small in category section - that font works okay for the navigation areas, but I think that the categories there should be set out in a regular font.

Layout of the front page seems a little off. That big space right smack in the middle of the page is a problem. Move things inwards so they relate to each other better.

Like the clip-art in the logo area; that could even be made bigger. I generally like the way the header area has been designed - it would be so much better if that teal background wasn't distracting me.

[*]On the actual screen savers page, there is too much space between and around entires. Instead of centering them in a long column down the page, you could use a table to create two columns, which would cause less scrolling.
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The Webmistress — Tue, 05 Nov 2002 12:43:24 +0000

I quite like the top part but don't like the font for the logo, too halloween-ish for a gereral screen saver site IMO. I'm also not keen on the black/white gradients as they just look out of place on the right hand side bit - is there anything else going in that section? In the categories list at the top, the font is quite hard to read and why have you got a mix of upper and lower case letters there? The only other thing I'm not sure of at the moment is the colour scheme, the background green seems to be wrong