MoeAlza — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 03:50:16 +0000

Very nice dude. looks very pro.

nONEq — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:15:08 +0000

That's a good design but the logo and the letters below it should be bigger and readable. I liked the colors.

very nice

cretedesigns — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:26:24 +0000

I agree with some of the others about the photo. I'm sure it is hard to get a good photo, but it seems off for some reason

markov — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:10:50 +0000

The site looks good in design. No complaints regarding color management as its said that's compulsary. I think only the gome page is working. No other link is working. Just have a look at it. The font size of the text also looks apt. Overall, the site has a professional look.

demonhale — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:26:09 +0000

Good Job... Although the colors are fixed, you worked on it and achieved a nice balance... This is a good example of how to make color combos work when the colors suck... like the challenge here Impossible Design Challenge.

Although the overall design feels a bit templatish, it works for this type of site, IMHO the glossy look and the glow feel on the reds makes the page looks a little bright... and the beta beta part could be reworked, it looks like a star wars Episode logo and looks like its being eaten by the bg... These are just my 2 cents. Good Work on the site!

tbends — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 05:55:28 +0000

miketaylor;209315 wrote: Hmmm the layout is nice. But I think maroon and green don't get along. Maybe you should use maroon and orange?

As stated. I used those colors because they are the official colors. Yes, they suck.

miketaylor — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:37:52 +0000

Hmmm the layout is nice. But I think maroon and green don't get along. Maybe you should use maroon and orange?

tbends — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:41:43 +0000

oh alright. thanks for the nice and lengthy suggestions. I know the navigation could be done w/ CSS, but I'm kinda lazy/busy so I don't think I'm going to change that.. atleast not yet (and i don't care about generating traffic for this site.. it's really just for people in BBB or people that might want to join). I agree that I should make the text an off white. I thought about taking down the quality of the picture a little to help reduce the file size, i know it's big and the picture is the largest kb. I also could slice up the top header more, which should make it load faster. I might try getting rid of the fade on the right side.. as for changing moving the different sections around, i'm not sure i have the time to try that out (atleast not anytime soon), probably a good idea though.

thanks again.

Busy — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:16:27 +0000

Load time is really bad on dialup, that photo alone is 108.88 kb

I think the layout is to mumbled (or maybe jumbled), the top section is all square with a dark rounded section (about this photo blurb), it kind of flows but is very dark. the bottom section is white, it looks like it's another section stuck on, especially when the left hand side has the striped curve and the right side has the rounded box which kind of goes with the top section but the bottom of it fades and there is no other fading on the page.

Maybe change the top bit to two section instead of three, put the current top right section under the navigation and the photo (a 1/4 the size) with the text on white background to the side - a 20/80 or 30/70 type split.

The navigation could be done with just CSS using text as the actual wording (more keywords for search engines too), this will also help keep the load time down. You can still have the white stripe on the buttons but would suggest just have it visibal on the actual page they are on.
If you are going to use white for link colour dont have white text, use an off white for one or the other or underline so as not to make people hunt or miss links.

I'm not going to comment about the div vs tables apart from saving do a search on this forum for css layouts etc, have been several debates, err discussions about it

tbends — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:25:51 +0000

what are the advantages of using divs over table? I did a google search and found this tutorial http://snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/getting_your_di/ but he/she says that it has trouble in some browsers. Also one of the comments says that it's better to not use a lot of divs!