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[cisites]

I just did a major overhaul of my old site and wanted a review on the new version. Thanks. http://midhost.com/

[Edited by cisites on 12-15-2000 at 11:12 AM]

[Paul_Szymanski]

Cisites,

Make sure when you type in a URL that you do not have a period at the end. His site is at:

http://www.cisites.com/index.shtml

[akashik]

Actually I like the 'old' one better. That error you like with the circles at the end of the titles just looks like an error to me.

Just a quick idea. Maybe get the logo, move it up to the top left, add the search area after it to the right, then format the rest of the page under that.

Umm, maybe under the logo place the navigation menu and use the left area for sublinks. I'm imagining more than one person will make a site for a particular game? If so linking to all of them might get a little cumbersome unless you split it up a bit (just thinking ahead)

I'm not too keen on that blue/green either. Something about it makes my skin crawl Check out the competition and see what others are doing. I notice a lot of gaming sites use grey and/or black. I suppose gaming sites shouldn't look too clean and corporate.

Greg Moore

[cisites]

I'll get to work on it again soon. Funny thing is that the background used to be grey until someone suggested a lite blue/green.

[akashik]

*lol* that is funny. I suppose in the end it's always best to just ignore all of use self opininated types and go with what you feel is the best for your site. Advice is always nice, but at the end of the day it should be your call.

I still say check out other sites though. You should try for something professional that stands above the competition, but remember that people expect certain things from certain sites. If you go too far away from the 'norm' you may find yourself losing visitors. Designing a site is always a tough call, no matter what anyone says.

Greg Moore

[cisites]

Fixed alot of stuff. I changed the background back to grey, re-added the table borders, shunk down the banner and made the logo the dominant feature. And the best part, Netscape even seems to like the design. I also got rid of the rounded corners that no one, but me, likeed. Since the banner is smaller, I don't know if I'll add the search box back, although I do need something small in the upper right hand corner. Thanks for the reviews, keep them coming.

[etLux]

Minor point, but you might wanna yank this...

body { etc ; margin: 0px;}

It looks a little odd to me, rammed against the top border. Since it's not a liquid design that'll fully fill the page space, you might wish to give it a little room to breathe.

[cisites]

Anyone else, I made a few more changes.

[cisites]

Anyone else?

[cisites]

Beeen getting rated a 'terrible' way to much on the poll. What else can I do to change it? I though it look pretty good.