Critique my Directory Please

The look definitely needs to be more interesting and up-to-date. You really need to work on a proper logo and colour scheme. There is no "look and feel" here at all. There are a lot of different ways you could go with this - you could use more colour or less, you could make it look "web 2.0" or more traditional. I think the "web 2.0" look might be a good way to go with this. Then you could think of ways to allow more visitor particiaption, such as allowing them to vote links up or down for example.

Here are some links that might help if you decide to go that route:

http://webdesignfromscratch.com/web-2.0-design-style-guide.cfm
http://webdesignfromscratch.com/current-style.cfm

The way you have things right now the site seems very old fashioned and traditional. Human edited rather than audience contributed. Trustworthy, and not interactive. You could also go in that direction and cater to more of an anti-web 2.0 crowd. This is the sort of look you could go with something like what this site has done:

http://search.lii.org/index.jsp

That site is clean, but still has character. It has a conservative colour scheme but adds life with the rays around the logo. It looks and feels trustworthy.

To be honest, I have a seen *a lot* of human edited directories show up here for critique over the years. There is a lot of competition in this area so in order to succeed you need to have something unique to offer both webmasters and visitors.

Hope that helps,

Not bad, just give it a little more color vitality like Megan said. The font and link colors are good choices. Something similar to my link color.

As Megan has already said - needs a bit more colour to give it some 'spark' but on the whole - very easy to navigate and easy to read

Right now the only suggestion I would give you is to add some colour. It looks extremely bland and not welcoming. I couldn't be there for more than 5 minutes.

Wow, thank you! Those are some great tips!

Not bad

My first thought was, I thought I had click on one of those fake sites. Can you expand on the directory listings and maybe have the resources on another page?

The Add URL link did not work in my computer. I use IE 7 internet explorer.

I don't know if you were working on your site at that moment, but I think is very important when we are talking about a Web Directory.

Rgds,

Manuel Toubes
Artesania Galpicos

While your design is clean and simple (a good thing), it's also a bit bland (a bad thing). I think that introducing another color or two will go a long way, as will updating the logo. All things that others have mentioned, of course.