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Check out the site :-) - 4/16/2006 0:37:35
Hi,
Please critique my site. Whenever I visit the homepage, or any page, it seems as if the top images start spread apart, and I see them apart, then all of a sudden they come together. Could somebody please help me on this?
http://www.thejump101.com
Thanks.
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RE: Check out the site :-) - 4/16/2006 4:21:17
nice looking site - i like it! how about taking a better blue for the links say from somewhere in the gradient in the banner e.g. #307EC8 or #276BAA
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RE: Check out the site :-) - 4/16/2006 15:12:14
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Looks nice. My first thought though was, "what's it about?" Maybe I'm being a bit dense this morning, but it took me a while of clicking around to figure out what it was about. Ideally it should be obvious when you first enter a site what it's about and what you can expect to find/do there. Visitors make their mind up about whether a site's worth investigating further in seconds.
I totally agree with you. I'm still thinking of a better slogan.
Thanks for the comments.
I'm still trying to improve it, graphically. It looks to plain now. I'm thinking of adding some more graphics behind the text itself.
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RE: Check out the site :-) - 4/16/2006 15:16:38
I like the gradient effect in the banner with the wide strip across it - smart looking.
I'd switch the font-type to a sans-serif font like Verdana or Arial as they are much easier to read plus they would add to the clean modern look of the site.
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RE: Check out the site :-) - 4/16/2006 20:24:13
Nice site.
However, you don't have a DOCTYPE, so you get slotted with pond scum.
Just the way it is.
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RE: Check out the site :-) - 4/16/2006 20:59:45
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Nice site.
However, you don't have a DOCTYPE, so you get slotted with pond scum.
Just the way it is.
What do you mean 'pond scum'?
At first I had a DOCTPYE, and I expiremented with different ones, although they all messed up the layout of my website.
I also added some images on the homepage for "New videos", etc. - what do you guys think of them?
I am now going to work on globally changing the font to Arial, and seeing how it works out.
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RE: Check out the site :-) - 4/16/2006 23:32:11
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What do you mean 'pond scum'?
It's a basic given that if you don't have a DOCTYPE you are lower than earthworms in the big picture. If your site shows OK across browsers without one you are a loser. If you put one in and it gets all juiced up and nobody can read your site, no biggie. YOU ARE VALID. End of story!
Now do the right thing and get that DOCTYPE back in there. NOW!
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RE: Check out the site :-) - 4/17/2006 4:55:51
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ORIGINAL: jump
What do you mean 'pond scum'?
It's a basic given that if you don't have a DOCTYPE you are lower than earthworms in the big picture. If your site shows OK across browsers without one you are a loser. If you put one in and it gets all juiced up and nobody can read your site, no biggie. YOU ARE VALID. End of story!
Now do the right thing and get that DOCTYPE back in there. NOW!
Minix - you're not being helpful you're being rude and argumentative.
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RE: Check out the site :-) - 4/17/2006 7:02:27
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Minix - you're not being helpful you're being rude and argumentative.
+1 The guy/gal has posted here for some help and to have the site critiqued.
Agrees with womble
Try doing with the doctype again see what you can do then if you need more help ask the guys here some .... somone is bound to HELP you if if you need it.
Nice looking site BTW
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RE: Check out the site :-) - 4/21/2006 13:17:19
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Looks nice. My first thought though was, "what's it about?" Maybe I'm being a bit dense this morning, but it took me a while of clicking around to figure out what it was about...
I totally agree with you. I'm still thinking of a better slogan...
This is the #1 problem you need to address now. When a new user comes to the site, he doesn't only know what the site is about, he doesn't even know where to go next. All you have is some updates and a poll, then “reviews”, “media” etc. You don't even have an “About” link anywhere.
Include a short introduction as the very first thing on the home page, or the “About” link I mentioned..
Other than that, good job.
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At the start, I added a doctype and all, even made the page 100% validated, but certain pages were messed and some weren't, so it confused the hell out of me and I gave up with them. 