Review my site computingarena

Hello there!

First off, I like your whole logo/header image except for the actual part that says 'computingarena.com'. There's so much blank space above that it looks as if it is lacking something. Perhaps you could fancy that up and make the text a bit larger.

Your headings such as 'Categories' and 'Links' would probably be better off as plain text instead of images. Since the font is not anything fancy, you might as well use something simply such as Tahoma or Verdana.

I'm a bit confused as to what these categories mean. On the side you have those four categories and then in the main content box on the front page you have four different category-type things. Then, below that you have the four original categories again.

Okay, now visiting the actual 'categories', I can see that you have broken them up into subcategories. Perhaps in the beginning while you don't have a whole lot of categories it might be better to get rid of the subcategories. If you break your articles up in to a bunch of different groups, it makes it look like you don't have as many as you really do.

Now, going back to the main page, those four categories in the middle of the page go to a page not found message. Hmm...now I really don't know what they are. I guess you aren't finished.

It looks like you have a great start to your website. Good luck!

I agree with the comment above - the header image needs some work, the text is too small for the box.

Down the bottom of the front page, where it shows the latest articles, the descriptions are being cut off in the middle of words. On most sites that have short descriptions, it's possible to add '...' at the end to make it more obvious that the sentence continues in the article. Without the '...' the cutoff sentences look unusual. Also if you can change the length of the short descriptions, it may be better for them to be a bit longer - there's not much to read there.

Overall, the site looks very good.

arena wrote: computingarena.com

Checked your site out, from a dial-up connection and using FireFox 1.0.7:

Load time wasn't too bad - I don't know how much control over image sizes you have with a package like ArticleMS. Anything you can do to increase load time always benefits us poor dial-up users, but your load speed isn't so bad as to demand attention.

I like the overall layout and appearance of the site. Its purpose was immediately communicated, and the navigation points were obvious. I was a bit put off by the "most useful and informative website" declaration - you may wish to re-phrase that a bit so you don't sound quite so pompous. As to the title bar, I'm not particularly bothered by all the whitespace (greenspace) above your site title, but I have to agree that it would look a bit better with a slightly larger font size.

Is there any way you can give a title, such as "Featured Links", to the links presented in the center of your page? Their central presentation, along with the graphics, makes them seem very much like a focus point for the page.

Also, I followed each of the Read more links in that center block, and all four gave me a custom Page not found message.

Overall, I'd say you've made a great start. Keep up the good work, fix those broken links, and pack in some more articles. I'll be back - I need to read up on networking...

-R/L

Its really slow I checked my internet speed at the time and it was 3,167,360 bps which is pretty quick.
I don't know what it is but I could see the graphics been draw and it took to long to go to the other categories

layout looks okay though.

You kept the design clean, so thats a good thing. But I have to say that I'm really not feelin' the logo, or the image at the top right of the page (in the header). The color scheme works well (it'd be nice to have the google ads match it though). It's minimal and I like that, but there still my be something missing, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Could be that simply adding more nav to the footer could help, pretty nice job overall.

The stuff for See Me Create is all original, but it's over a year old now. My personal blog is newer nad also has mainly original scripting. I did incorporate JSTween ( http://jstween.blogspot.com/ ) you can see it in action here: http://www.nicora.net/