Hi,

I've just re-designed my site, I would appreciate any feedback - positive or negative, the site is at:

TalkWrestlingOnline.co.uk (http://www.TalkWrestlingOnline.co.uk)

Thanks

I dunno about this one. It doesn't particularly strike a chord with me, yet I don't hate it either. Which irritates me sometimes, since I'm usually rather opinionated :D

In all seriousness, however, I do have some pointers.

1. I do like the font very much you use for some of the general text as well as buttons and pointers to other areas of the site. However, it would help if you use rollovers for links so that they actually stand out. In usability terms, it's nearly impossible from first glance to work out which are links and which aren't. Rollovers will help.

2. Further along the lines of the font, I usually have a maxim : "If you can do it in text, do it in text first and foremost." In this case I can easily see why you've chosen to use GIFs instead of normal text, so that's fine, but I suggest that in order to further remove the confusion about which are links and which aren't, that you re-consider using the font for the 'general text' e.g. 'For the latest news, check out the message board', 'Welcome to the NEW LOOK blah blah'....

3. Which brings me to yet another point : 'For the lastest news'?

4. I suggest you think about adding a light-coloured border to the entire site to give it a bit of contrast and make it look a bit cleaner. It's not imperative, but would be a good idea.

5. To let the site 'breathe' and look cleaner, I suggest you add some CELLPADDING to the main page between the centre and right columns so that the poll doesn't appear to stick to the centre text and look messy.

Content wise, it's not bad at all, and glad to see you're canvassing visitor's opinions for content.

All in all, not bad at all.

I got all confused when I visted your site!! There is way tooo much content on the very first page!! it confuses me! Leave some blank spaces in between things.

Let the site and the visitor breathe :)

On second thought, when I enlarged IE to view the site, I think it is neat! ;) ;)

The content is well laid out, dint read it though! I dun like the yellow, its just a personal dislike, nothing esle :)

General tip:
try to avoid too high contrast such as this deep blue with clear yellow...
My guess is that a blue-gray or yellow-orange would fits better.

[Edited by Félix C.Courtemanche on 09-19-2000 at 11:14 AM]

Thanks for all the nice comments and tips,

The reason I used gifs was before the re-design - I had updates/buttons in different shapes, so I just left them in there.

I did try to use normal text-boxes. but that font looked much worse using them, for some reason.

I did try to do rollovers for the buttons, but I dont know any html, but I'm sure I can find a way. I used NetObjects Fusion to make the site.

I'll make a few changes from all the feedback,

Thanks again