This has been the biggest and probably most professionally developed project I've done to date...
It might not seem like much, but I feel its a big step forward for where I want to go - If you look through my Notes history you'll see some stuff about an awkward client, that's also connected to this project.
Although its not best practice to work directly on a live site, there isn't much traffic yet, so its live with bugs - I'm aware of a few faults which I'm working on fixing...
Please let me know what you think, the overall design of the site, the intuitiveness of the navigation and design and highlight any CSS/XHTML bugs you can see, at the moment I'm aware of:
and I think apart from those any other bugs I'll be unaware of...
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Scrivs
Written Oct. 12, 2007 / Report /
For some reason I feel this would work better with an all-white background as opposed to the grey one you have there. The grey kind of dulls things down and I don't think that is the effect you would be aiming for with your audience. Also the focus should be on the boards so I would think it would be more appropriate to only have headers for news items that link to another section of the site without the scroll bar.
The navigation feels disjointed from the rest of the site and the header that it belongs to makes the site feel like you combined two different styles. I think they could be integrated onto the page better, but I'm not filled with ideas at the moment.
Mallmus
Written Oct. 12, 2007 / Report /
Thanks for your comments man! Working solo I can sometimes not notice some of the obvious things!
What do you mean?Scrivs
Written Oct. 12, 2007 / Report /
Instead of showing the entire article, why not just show the title and make it a list that doesn't have a scrollbar in the middle of the site?
karmatosed
Written Oct. 14, 2007 / Report /
I like the green and mutes but really don't digg the scroll box for the content. I do have a personal issue with scroll boxes like that though so could be biased. I do agree with Scrivs that you need to do a bit of content tidy and organisation - it seems not so thought out as the rest of the site.
Johnny
Written Mar. 2, 2008 / Report /
I think this site would look better if it were 3 columns as opposed to a scroll bar box and 1 column. The blog could be on a different page on the site with a 'latest blog entry' headline on the main page with a short description to follow so that will link to the latest article.
The graphics look 'clicky' and I was expecting a link when I hovered over them. Maybe you could make these graphics into links, it's a fast way for your users to find out about a product.
Also, have you thought about using microformats on your site? You can find more about these little gems here Microformats.org
Good luck!