Roo — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:03:04 +0000

I agree about the rollovers, otherwise, this design rocks! Hey maybe for rollover effect have a piece of tape underneath the text onmouseover? Or how about the tape over the whole word (s) but with opacity reduced enough so that you get the effect, but can still read the words?

KarenArt — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 00:05:26 +0000

I understand.
Good luck with your girl! Be nice to her... women can hurt you you know.

Let us know if you're wanting feedback on anything in particular.

DaveyBoy — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:59:47 +0000

all of it, sorry if my reply sounded moody, was mid-row with my bird lol.

Everyone's made valid points, it's pretty much finished though, nice to know what people think.

Thanks again

KarenArt — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:42:12 +0000

Ahhh... well as I said, I like the way you have the design going.

btw: What is it you are wanting feedback on?

DaveyBoy — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:29:18 +0000

ah yeah and the forum thing, its a networked forum, because its easier to get people onto it that way and there is only so much customising you can do with it. Also, we like the idea of having it open in a new window, so you can view the site content and the forum at the same time.

DaveyBoy — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:27:36 +0000

cheers for the reply, the image mapped links are easy enough to see where they are and where they are gonna go to, you'd have to be pretty silly to not know really

The X's are staying too, asked the frontman of the band about em and he wants them, so ya know...

Thanks.

KarenArt — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:18:04 +0000

Well the design seem to suit a band site. It's not unexpected but there's enough originality there to make it interesting.

I have to agree with with Megan... the X on the mouseover links doesn't really do anything for them.

It is also quite a bit annoying for me to have to scroll my mouse over a picture (image map) to find where the links are. You don't try to hide them like so many sites do, but it is really easy to make links in an image map have a mouseover state so they're more obvious.

The only other comment is it would be nice for you to work the forum into the main site. You could "frame" it in the same page design as the rest of the site and make it seem part of the same site.

Good job on this so far! I think there's still room for improvement though.

DaveyBoy — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:58:07 +0000

Cheers Megan

I dont really think 11 pixel verdana is small exactly, and its sexier looking than 12 px too

I like the mouseovers, even though they might be impractical haha.

Megan — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:47:24 +0000

Really nice looking site, Davey. Really great concpet and well co-ordinated design. The graphics are excellent. I really like the scribbley things around the borders.

What I don't like are the mouseovers on the navbar. Putting an "x" over the text just obscures it so you can't read it anymore! Try just changing the colour to the yellow/tan instead.

As I navigate the site, I'm finding more interesting things to see. I like the way you've set up the "band" page with the scattered graphic links. It makes it more of an exploratory experience.

Normally I would complain about small text here but I think your target audience would prefer it this way.

I always like to listen to the music when band sites come up. That's the best way of knowing if the design is suitalbe or not. Good job in describing the band in a visual way.

DaveyBoy — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:20:40 +0000

yeah, we tested it on 56k and it was acceptable to me anyway.

no-one's complained about the links being confusing, as the links are where you'd expect them to be, for example 'click here to' etc or they are bold too.

Cheers for feedback.