mandyjb — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 03:26:27 +0000

Cheers for all your comments, thanks for all your help. I hope you continue to enjoy the site. Creature features will be changed weekly.

fancypants — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:39:15 +0000

hello,
i'd just like to agree with many of the other comments - your website is colourful, easy to navigate, fun and informative...
i'm a fan!

animal corner

mandyjb — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:01:59 +0000

I haven't change anything yet, I haven't had the time. But I am planning on some amendments shortly. I have got to do this weeks creature features aswell.

Thanks for all your great reviews, they have helped alot and I am glad you find the site interesting. It has took alot of research and work but like all us webmasters, we never seem happy with our finished products, there is always some new idea that pops up or is suggested.....so on we go!

blackhawkpowers — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:28:28 +0000

I was not here to see how your site started out but from what I've seen and gone threw today it is amazing. The layout is great, the graphics look good to me, it was easy to navigate. The only thing that I really don't particularly like is the green empty column on the right I think just a single line would be better because when I see something that is blocked off I personally look for specific information in there that was important enough to be seperated from the rest. I like the logo just how it is now (I don't know if you've changed it since the other comments or not though) Overall great site and I think I will use it to find information on animals....

yamakazy — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:29:36 +0000

Looks pretty f9 2 me, I just think u need 2 add more colour's other than green.

andy206uk — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:26:32 +0000

Yeah that's fine. The photos all have the names on them (Minni, Maxx, Rygel and Da'rgo)

mandyjb — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 22:53:56 +0000

Thanks for all your feedback everyone, all comments have been noted and work to amend a few things will begin shortly.

Andyk, I would love to put your hamster pics on in the hamster section, what are their names. I will credit them to you if thats ok.

andy206uk — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:17:06 +0000

The logo is kinda cool, but overcomplicated and much too large. Personally I would shrink it to at least half the height and move the logo text over to the right a bit so it maintains the text size. Remember, not everyone has a big monitor - for people with smaller screens, that logo is going to use up nearly three quarters of the available space!

Is all the information in plain HTML? If so, you should really consider a CMS in the future because updating the site is going to become a nightmare.

I love the masses of information your site has - it's great. I'm a big hamster fan and own four myself (two Syrians and two dwarves) If you want some extra pictures - feel free to use a couple of mine

JeevesBond — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:43:50 +0000

As Busy noticed, those images don't need to be that large, they could be compressed a bit. The navbar is full width, but the rest of the design isn't, that's a bit weird!

That logo might be a little too complicated, what's in the circle, looks like clouds? Strange! The images in that logo are drawn in several different styles, that's noticeable; the elephant and gorilla look more 'cartoony' than the the giraffe for instance.

There's some random clutter that could be removed, the date on the left side isn't needed (everyone has a calendar on their PC), I've never heard of SafeSurf either, looks a little out of place where it is. Also the lines: 'Animal Corner [...] For all your animal information!' look like clutter, not the strap-line for your site. I think they're both the wrong size and in the wrong place, somewhere beneath the logo, or at the start of the text area might be a better place.

Am not a massive fan of the background colour, but the whole colour scheme is appropriate to what you're doing. Otherwise I can see you've been working hard to standardise the design and it looks good! There's a lot of--really good--content on this site, so much that it must be hard to manage by writing all the pages out by hand. You might want to look at getting a CMS to do the hard work for you. I'd recommend Drupal, it's a bit of a learning curve but it lends itself very well to what you're trying to do; it works using taxonomy

Sorry if my review seems a little harsh in places, what you've done here is really good, and the amount of hard work you've put into it is amazing! This site will do well, because of all the great content, and it's solid design. I'd wish you luck, but you don't need it.

weshallgo — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 04:39:26 +0000

Nice logo, not to sure about all the different shades of green (front page). Move search from top right to the left. Appears cluttered at the bottom