One otehr thing I just noticed. It seems like you've got everything on your main page. Take all of that off and just leave the top box. Otherwise why would people go to the other parts of the site?
Adam Oberdorfer posted this at 06:45 — 13th March 2001.
a) The light purple bars do not span the kaki table all the way.
b) Defiantly increase the size of the logo. Maybe place it on the center of page rather then tucked away on the navigation bar.
c) The logo runs over into the white on the download and privacy page.
d) There is a green square, which runs into the white at the very bottom of the front-page.
e) The Install, Help, Privacy, and Contact pages are not aligned to the left so the kaki and white table run into the right hand green bar.
f) The navigation and "Quotes-Station" text run into the white on the contact page.
Most of the problems listed above (C through F anyway) may look alright on a smaller resolution. I tested with IE on Windows 2000 at 1280 X 1024 on a 19" monitor.
If you don't want to hear some brutal honesty, better stop reading now.
First off, it looks to me that you didn't really put a lot of time and effort into this design. It's not a design really, it's just a bunch of information on a page.
1. Is that graph thing in the corner supposed to be your logo? It doesn't look like a logo to me. What you should do is make more of a banner shaped logo, with that graph thing on the left fading out and then your site name to the right of it in some sort of a unique font.
2. Colour scheme. Pick one and use it strictly. Dark green and mauve don't exactly match. The tan and dark green would look nice together, but something taken from your logo might be better (that bright green and blue might look nice on a white base).
3. Pages are too long - separate them into more different sections. I think that people find it confusing when you link to a spot that's just further down the page.
4. Navigation - Left side nav menus look pretty silly when you don't have too many options. I would go with a horizontal or tabbed style menu for this site. You also really need something to define the top edge of the page and that would do it (with the banner shaped logo I suggested). Privacy and Contact would go at the bottom, then, with a copyright statement.
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Denmark 3 posted this at 00:04 — 13th March 2001.
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Looks good. There is only one thing. You should make your logo a little bigger and stand out more.
Also maybe make the text links on the left to a image instead because the whole left side looks very empty.
Otherwise I like what you've done.
Denmark 3 posted this at 00:05 — 13th March 2001.
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One otehr thing I just noticed. It seems like you've got everything on your main page. Take all of that off and just leave the top box. Otherwise why would people go to the other parts of the site?
Adam Oberdorfer posted this at 06:45 — 13th March 2001.
They have: 383 posts
Joined: Sep 2000
a) The light purple bars do not span the kaki table all the way.
b) Defiantly increase the size of the logo. Maybe place it on the center of page rather then tucked away on the navigation bar.
c) The logo runs over into the white on the download and privacy page.
d) There is a green square, which runs into the white at the very bottom of the front-page.
e) The Install, Help, Privacy, and Contact pages are not aligned to the left so the kaki and white table run into the right hand green bar.
f) The navigation and "Quotes-Station" text run into the white on the contact page.
Most of the problems listed above (C through F anyway) may look alright on a smaller resolution. I tested with IE on Windows 2000 at 1280 X 1024 on a 19" monitor.
Good luck with your site and program!
Megan posted this at 14:46 — 13th March 2001.
She has: 11,421 posts
Joined: Jun 1999
If you don't want to hear some brutal honesty, better stop reading now.
First off, it looks to me that you didn't really put a lot of time and effort into this design. It's not a design really, it's just a bunch of information on a page.
1. Is that graph thing in the corner supposed to be your logo? It doesn't look like a logo to me. What you should do is make more of a banner shaped logo, with that graph thing on the left fading out and then your site name to the right of it in some sort of a unique font.
2. Colour scheme. Pick one and use it strictly. Dark green and mauve don't exactly match. The tan and dark green would look nice together, but something taken from your logo might be better (that bright green and blue might look nice on a white base).
3. Pages are too long - separate them into more different sections. I think that people find it confusing when you link to a spot that's just further down the page.
4. Navigation - Left side nav menus look pretty silly when you don't have too many options. I would go with a horizontal or tabbed style menu for this site. You also really need something to define the top edge of the page and that would do it (with the banner shaped logo I suggested). Privacy and Contact would go at the bottom, then, with a copyright statement.
Okay, so that wasn't too brutal
Megan
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