REVIEW REQUEST: Simplicity

Gentle huh

There is a big horziontal scroll bar at 800x600 caused by your banner
the blue links are hard to see and the page is slow loading causing these links not to be seen until the whole thing finishes as its the same color as the outside border.
I like your alien

the forum links top center and left side are different and top one doesnt work.
The phpbb links at the bottom of the forum arent seen (black on black) and should be visible as per usage agreement.
there is no way back from the forums to your index.
whats the site about? or is it just a blog

Sorry, It just took too long to load (about 40 seconds) and still didn't come up with anything.

Slow loading, logo looks really busy for being a called "Simplicity" =P

Nope still not loading for me :S

Renegade, wait a little longer, it will appear - even thou it says not loading it still is.

It won't load for me either right now but it worked last night. I found it ironic that a site called "Simplicity" had such a complicated layout. Really, I think it would be more appropriate to streamline the layout. In general, this is your typical gaming site - black background, three column boxy layout, dark colours in general. Blah.

That's about all I remember. Oh, and don't center paragraphs of text - it makes things hard to read.

Edit: oh, here it is now! That took forever - could be server difficulties right now because it wasn't soo bad when I checked last night.

Put your page title in - my tab has nothing in it, which makes it really tiny, which is hard to click on.

Really, if this didn't look like a gaming site I would have no clue as to what it's about. But wait, it's not a gaming site! Really, there doesn't seem to be much on the navbar to help me there either. I'm confused - and the font is so small that it's hard to read the text to get an idea of what's going on here either

I do like the font you've chosen for the logo, and that little alien guy is kind of neat - he really brightens up the whole site.

the page finally loaded

Anyway, umm, i get a horizontal scroll on 800*600 caused by the title image

The text I find is quite hard to read, because it's a bit on the small side on a dark background.

I have to highlight the titles like "Art Attack!!!" and "Modules" just to read them maybe if you changed to a different colour.

Over all I think the site is too dark with the exception of the title try more lighter colours

I am fixing some of the errors, changing the colors and the banner so no more scroll bar soon as i can. Please check it sometime tonite to see if u like the new colors.

http://speeding.to/simplicity

well, your website loaded quickly for me...i like your choice of colors and i find it easy to read. it looks like you already fixed your banner because i'm not getting a horizontal scroll. the whole layout looks clean and easy to navigate, but i agree with megan....it's not clear what your site is about! you look like your geared up for a lot of traffic!

Woa! Looks WAY better than the old one, it's a great improvement.

The text though is still a bit too small to read, try using 10pt not 8pt text.

But other than that, it looks great

I don't think that the top logo/header really fits with the other graphics on the site, like the news & graphics ones which really need to be redone as they are jaggedy and hard to read. I get quite a big scrollbar at 800*600 and I think that the header width should match that of the body of the site, which should all fit into 800*600.

IMO the first page should be for telling visitors what the site is about with maybe links to important topics on the forum and not a list of events which really mean nothing if you haven't been to the site before.

Good start

I am doing the site in my spare time which is like 20 mins a day in my Networking class when i get a break. I am 17 and got school and wrestling so dont have lots of time. I appreciate all of your input!

BTW: The images are being re-done today, they were made for the last site i made and dont fit. The banner i made in 5 secs just to have something to that color scheme and will be changed.

I agree that this looks much better. I would still try to remove the boxiness - that header would stand out a lot more if the rest of the page wasn't so complicated. I also think that removing some of those nested tables would help on load times. The blue in the bottom half is also distracting from the logo. It might be better to keep to a greyscale scheme with a few touches of colour here and there (and take that hint of red from the logo instead of using blue)

This is still *really* slow - 7 minutes and counting here and the page still isn't fully loaded ... 8 minutes.... Might want to switch to a faster service, and try so simplify your code - there's a lot of nested tables in there that are probably unnecessary.

Otherwise this is a huge improvement over the old one. I like this banner a lot more - it's much more sophisticated looking. I think that you should try to build the site around that banner and try to make it the focus of the site.

Sorry, HD crashed today, totally lost my local files for the site. I gotta d/l the whole site back onto my PC...and i have 56k....

About the site tho, i cant help the load time because if its the server then its all i can afford...0$ but i will try to fix it as much as possible thx for all the feedback. keep it coming.

Slow loading, couldn't review

A great site, top graphics and although its obviously rammed with info and links, i like it, the color scheme is great if not a little monotone, and maybe u'll want to brighten it up a bit and seem a little more inviting, top effort though a 9/10 in my eyes.