Tried to open you site with IE6 win XP sp2 but it crashed the browser three times in a row. I know its Microsoft but this should not happen.
Reopened in FF....
The site is pretty bland I'm afraid and really does nothing for me in terms of colour nor layout. The logo is also pretty weak.
The side nav is very samll and quite hard to read with that mixture of colours. Clicking on the side links takes me to loads of different tables about the squad but the information needs to be laid out and explained better. Your tables also have no padding so all the text is hard up against the side making readability poor.
Try not to use Times New Roman if you can help it as it does give an unprofessional look to the site IMHO. Use Verdana or Tahome instead...
Promising start but does need some work doing.
Oh btw I'm not a football fan so I'm not predjudiced against Leeds!
I just visited the site, and here are the things that stood out to me, and the first impression, this is a hoby site, not professional, so that is the way I critiqued it.
Some things that stood out:
1. Check your spelling. (ie, right on home page: "...all the information you could every need..."
2. At first I thought the logo at the top of the home page needed cleaned up, but then the fact that it fit across my screen at 1280 wide made me check soemthing, and I was right. You don't have a set size for your image, and you have it grow as the screen size grows, makes it look bad at higher resolutions.
3. Link for "Squad" in the top menu came up as the "Fixtures" page form the home page. From other pages it came up as a 404 error. Acutally, make sure of ALL of your links. From some pages the link to "Forum" takes you to history.htm, which isn't there.
4. I didn't check what they were, but in IE6 for win XP pro SP2, i was informed there were javascript errors.
5. You need to keep the layout consistant, on some pages you have Site Sponsors all the way on the right side of the screen, but on others, you have the overall width of the site fixed, so (to me at 1280) site sponcers is just to the right of the center of screen.
6. As I mentioned, I reveied this as a hoby site, but if at all possible, move to a hosting place where I don't have to see yahoo geocities banner pop up on every page, especially when it is in a place to cover up your logo and content.
Hope these tips help!
-Greg
excyclist posted this at 23:52 — 9th November 2004.
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openmind posted this at 17:35 — 9th November 2004.
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Tried to open you site with IE6 win XP sp2 but it crashed the browser three times in a row. I know its Microsoft but this should not happen.
Reopened in FF....
The site is pretty bland I'm afraid and really does nothing for me in terms of colour nor layout. The logo is also pretty weak.
The side nav is very samll and quite hard to read with that mixture of colours. Clicking on the side links takes me to loads of different tables about the squad but the information needs to be laid out and explained better. Your tables also have no padding so all the text is hard up against the side making readability poor.
Try not to use Times New Roman if you can help it as it does give an unprofessional look to the site IMHO. Use Verdana or Tahome instead...
Promising start but does need some work doing.
Oh btw I'm not a football fan so I'm not predjudiced against Leeds!
Greg K posted this at 17:37 — 9th November 2004.
He has: 2,145 posts
Joined: Nov 2003
I just visited the site, and here are the things that stood out to me, and the first impression, this is a hoby site, not professional, so that is the way I critiqued it.
Some things that stood out:
1. Check your spelling. (ie, right on home page: "...all the information you could every need..."
2. At first I thought the logo at the top of the home page needed cleaned up, but then the fact that it fit across my screen at 1280 wide made me check soemthing, and I was right. You don't have a set size for your image, and you have it grow as the screen size grows, makes it look bad at higher resolutions.
3. Link for "Squad" in the top menu came up as the "Fixtures" page form the home page. From other pages it came up as a 404 error. Acutally, make sure of ALL of your links. From some pages the link to "Forum" takes you to history.htm, which isn't there.
4. I didn't check what they were, but in IE6 for win XP pro SP2, i was informed there were javascript errors.
5. You need to keep the layout consistant, on some pages you have Site Sponsors all the way on the right side of the screen, but on others, you have the overall width of the site fixed, so (to me at 1280) site sponcers is just to the right of the center of screen.
6. As I mentioned, I reveied this as a hoby site, but if at all possible, move to a hosting place where I don't have to see yahoo geocities banner pop up on every page, especially when it is in a place to cover up your logo and content.
Hope these tips help!
-Greg
excyclist posted this at 23:52 — 9th November 2004.
They have: 5 posts
Joined: Nov 2004
Quick review:
1. You have a spelling error in the Welcome message " information you could every need to do with the club". Every should be ever.
2. The top horizontal nav links are a little small.
3. Colors are not bad, but changing the gray to a lighter shade may help readability.
Good luck
smegazlufc posted this at 11:14 — 11th November 2004.
They have: 29 posts
Joined: Feb 2004
thanks for all the reviews, all point noted
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