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coop1979 -> Nerdville needs critique (7/19/2006 15:17:59)

Hi everybody,

I am in the process of finishing my site Nerdville.net which is a social network and ecommerce comunity for nerds like me. I am almost scared to show it to you guys after reading some of the critiques, but here goes.

Just try not to smash me totally I want to hold on to the little self esteem I still have left [:D]. I should be finished with the final touches this evening and would love to get some feedback.






swoosh -> RE: Nerdville needs critique (7/19/2006 15:26:22)

Hey coop, welcome to Outfront

Site looks very good in my opinion, very clean and crisp and easy to understand and navigate. The only thing that I see and this is opinion only is that your logo for the site is kinda hard to make out.......seems to be too much of a shadow at the bottom of it

Other than that I think you have done an excellent job



jaybee -> RE: Nerdville needs critique (7/20/2006 8:44:17)

I agree with Swoosh (that's a first!) [:D]

Clean, easy to navigate and no nasty flashing thingies.



Nicole -> RE: Nerdville needs critique (7/20/2006 11:38:44)

Well I don't happen to agree with both of you!

I don't like the way you've made your black navigation bar at the top of the page overhang the rest of the content to the right.

It looks untidy and I really wonder why you've coded your site to do that?

Nicole



womble -> RE: Nerdville needs critique (7/20/2006 11:58:06)

I coluldn't see the overhanging nav thing Nicole, that was until I increased the text size, at which point that nav bar shot out to the right. With all those links on that horizontal nav, that is going to be a problem for anyone who's got their default font size set at anything other than a small to medium font size. At a width of around 800px you should be aware as well that for a small minority of visitors they're going to get horizontal scrollbars (though I'd guess that most nerds would have monitors of a higher res than 600x800 [;)])

As Swoosh pointed out, that logo just doesn't do it. Especially with all those headings with black backgrounds, it just somehow gets lost, and doesn't create an identity for the site. At the moment I feel as though that right column really isn't being utilised. You have an awful lot of white space there that just isn't being used, and the user login box takes up an awful lot of room 'above the fold' where IMHO you could put that space to much better use for site news or something else that you feel is important to get over quickly.

As Swoosh and Jaybee said though, it's nice and clear and uncluttered, and the lack of flashing things is definitely a big plus.

Welcome to OF btw! [:)]



anderskorte -> RE: Nerdville needs critique (7/20/2006 15:10:53)

I don't like the logo either. It seems unnecessary, it doesn't strengthen the site's appearance or image. I think you would be better off if you just made it regular HTML text. You can keep the Impact font if you like.

Of course I don't mean you can't have a logo, it just doesn't communicate the way it should.



Nicole -> RE: Nerdville needs critique (7/20/2006 20:42:34)

Coop,

Welcome to Outfront, I didn't mean to sound so abrupt in my other post, but that navbar is certainly overhanging to the right on my monitor, 1280x1024, Firefox latest version with text-size set to normal.

It isn't overhanging in IE, but many, many people on all forums say things like "IE is showing it properly" when that actually isn't true, so I thought I'd say it the reverse way around for a change and put the blame back on the designer, their coding and not the browser.

I guess it looked a bit abrupt, so I'm sorry.

Nicole



coop1979 -> RE: Nerdville needs critique (7/21/2006 2:58:39)

Thanks guys for your imput. and all critisism will be taken seriously. I understand the thing about the logo and I'm still playing with ideas, right now that's as good as it gets.

Thanks again, everyone. By the way anderskorte, how what do you means it doesn't communicate the qway it should?

Care to elaborate a little? let me know what I can do to make it better?

Nicole I have no clue what you are taking about . I'm using firefox as well could you point it out to me using a little more detail?



Nicole -> RE: Nerdville needs critique (7/21/2006 3:25:01)

Here 'tis



caz -> RE: Nerdville needs critique (7/21/2006 7:42:37)

Same resolution as Nicole and the menu is overhanging for me too - in Firefox. OK in IE, which means that there could be a box model problem, so you would have to either play around with the widths, or constrain that table within it's outer box. Your style sheets are so complex that I haven't time to bug hunt. [:)]
Errors shown by HTML Tidy:-
line 355 column 100 - Error: <br....> is not recognized!
Relates to this, which also has a spelling mistake
nerdville news comming [coming]

There are loads of other warnings in the code which could affect the rendering and explain the nav breakout mentioned by Nicole.

Otherwise, good looking but run the spell checker now and then [;)]

tired of haging out at a website [hanging]

we're just obesessed! [obsessed]




Donkey -> RE: Nerdville needs critique (7/21/2006 7:48:02)

quote:

we're just obesessed! [obsessed]
He could have meant that they are nerds who are compulsive about being overweight.



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