New Motorsport Portal - feedback appreciated!
Hi folks!
I'm now relaunching my personal site - 10 Tenths Motorsport. The current site is at http://www.ten-tenths.com/ and the new beta site is at http://www.ten-tenths.com/new/
We intend relaunching at the start of the new motorsport season (mid March) so are going to be pushed to get everything up and running in time. Obviously we're looking to avoid wasting any time by going down blind alleys, so your thoughts and feedback would be very welcome!
Thanks in advance.
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Megan posted this at 20:53 — 17th February 2000.
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Wow - What an improvement!
I like your colours (used the same mauve on my own site), but they don't say "Motorsport" to me. I would go with something brighter and bolder.
The navigation looks really confusing to me. There are five or six different menus here!!! That should be streamlined somehow, although you've got a lot of content to organize here. The bottom Yahoo-like one should be closer to the top so people don't have to scroll to find your content. I'm also getting some weird pop-ups (an about.com window keeps coming up. weird and annoying)
There are a couple of little layout problems too - the bars beside the ads at the top and bottom look funny because they're a similar but different colour from the right side navigation menu. There's also a chunk of white space below your "pick of the week" - white space is good, but that's just a weird place for it.
Megan
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Justin S posted this at 22:31 — 18th February 2000.
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Yeah, much better!
1) I don't think you should have the color around the banner(s). Do you have it in a table and then have a cell bg color?
2) Way too many navigations. I counter like, uh, 10 or something. Too many!
3) The main page is pretty long, which is ok, but I would fill it up more.
Overall it looks really good!
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ukcraig posted this at 00:08 — 19th February 2000.
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Hi guys, thanks for your feedback!
Don't worry about the purple either side of the banners - those spaces will be taken with 120x60 mini banners as soon. As we have created them...
The cars.com/about.com pop-up will be going soon. (I hate it too...!)
Do you think it would really be a good idea to move the links tree to the top of the page ? The reason it's at the end of the page is that I decided to have the useful, often changing, content at the top of the page.
The white space below the pick of the week was an error - forgot the valign="top" thingy...
Fixed now 
Confusing navigation seems to be a recurring comment here. How would you suggest I improve things ?
Many thanks for your help - look forward to getting those problems ironed out before we 'go live'
Would also welcome your thoughts on these pages as well as the new style homepage:
http://www.ten-tenths.com/toons/ http://www.parcferme.com/
nathan posted this at 14:21 — 19th February 2000.
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Hey I post in your racing games forum sometimes.
I find your old/current site very messy looking. I really do not like the design.
The new design looks much cleaner. You should really tweak the colour of the forums too. They look very bland.
Good luck with it.
_Nathan.
ukcraig posted this at 16:03 — 19th February 2000.
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Joined: Nov 1998
Hi Nathan,
Thanks for that. You'll be pleased to know that the forums will be changing to the new site style too - something similar to the page at http://www.ten-tenths.com/downloads/multimedia/
Cheers!
ukcraig posted this at 05:25 — 24th February 2000.
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OK, we've fixed a definite launch date now of 12th March so, if anyone else has any constructive comments, please shout!
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