Review my site please...

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Hi all!

I just created my site last month and was wondering if there is any need to improve it.(http://www.hubyub.com)

Thanks!

Brooke's picture

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I just have a moment to look at your site. Overall it looks pretty good...I just have a few comments:

Make all of the boxes the same width for uniformity.

The blue text on the orange really vibrates and hurts my eyes - I would consider using a different color.

That same text you have as comic sans - I would find a more professional looking font to use.

Make the text on your privacy policy page the same font as the rest of the site.

That's all for now!

Brooke

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Nice, looks clean. Yes, the orange and blue look okay together, just not blue ON orange or vice versa. Use black or something. The multi colored fun is blinding, and hard to read, make it the same color as the rest of the title or choose one other 'fun' color that doesn't clash. And yes, the comic sans-type font is unprofessional. It's oklay in the banner, but use the same font as the rest for that. You can bold it or underline if you want it to stick out. The box for the banner is good, it makes it more professional looking and doesn't make the banner the main point of focus on the page. It would be cool if you could do something like it on the shopping pages, or somehow add a lil more of that blue.

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In my browser everything is on top of each other & not confined to the boxes Sad

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Webmistress - you must have Netscape, yeah? This site looks to be done in layers.

Webmaster man, you'll need to create the site in tables if you want people in Netscape to view the site as it is seen in IE, otherwise it'll look weird.

Jo

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Nope, I have IE5!!!

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I just had a look in IE5 and had no problems. Confused

But the Netscape thing will still be a problem for this site.

They have: 7 posts

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Hey!

Thanks for all your reviews. I did change the text to veranda on all the table headings, and made the middle tables the same size. The middle tables are still bigger than the two side ones, but will have to do.
About the IE problem, I don't know how that can happen, I have IE 5.1 and there doesn't seem to be a problem. Browsers are weird aren't they! I guess it's good that no one noticed the gateway page. If anyone has Netscape Navigator they will be redirected to a page for Netscape Navigator 4.0+. You can see the changes at(http://www.hubyub.com). Don't forget to hit the refresh button if you don't see any changes.

Thanks again,

Webrmaster

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The tables are much better all lined up. I don't think they all have to be the same size - but having them lined up really corrects the problem.

The text in the table headings is better. That font works - but I would still think about changing the blue color. It doesn't look good "on" the orange. To sharpen those up, you may want to consider making graphics out of them. You could also make a little icon associated with each of them. That might add some pizzaz!

The headers on your other pages...consider not having them in boxes and making some nice text graphics.

The only think that I personally am not a fan of is navigation on the bottom. I have to scroll to go find it and it's kind of a pain. Maybe you can make tabs that are below the blue bar and those are your main nav. Just an idea.

That's it for now. I think it's really looking better!

Brooke

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I want to try to stay away from graphics as much as I can on the home page, due to slow load times. I will consider using text graphics on the headers of the other pages, thanks for the idea.
About the navigation on the bottom, those links lead to informational pages about HubYub.com. I don't really think those pages will receive high traffic unless people are actually looking for information on different things. Also on most sites those kind of links are at the bottom, so when people are looking for that information they tend to look at the bottom first.

And one last thing, I am working with different colors for the headers on the tables. I want to try to keep it consistent with the rest of my site so I used the same color as the nav bar and banner box at the top, but the orange makes it look a lot brighter. So I'm trying to make it look like the top bars, but not really the same color.

Thanks for the ideas.

Webrmaster
(http://www.hubyub.com)

They have: 7 posts

Joined: Apr 2001

Ok, I think I got the color. http://www.hubyub.com/test.html
or http://www.hubyub.com. The test one is the new color, tell me if I should make it darker or lighter.

Thanks,
Webrmaster

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