Review Request : www.SheerBoredom.net

Thank you for reviewing some of the others sites

I get a horizontal scrollbar at 800*600 (because you header is 802px wide!) & you appear to have extra closing body & html tags at the top! Have you validated your code? Also it would be better to put your css into an external stylesheet and don't use font tags!!

The site itself is a bit boring to me, the header is ok but the grey is just boring & dull. IMO you definitely need less text on the first page and more to grab my attention or I'm off within seconds.

i kinda like the feel of this site for some reason, prob the colour is very easy on the eye even thought i know some may find it a bit boring.

Yup the screen res is def a bit wider than it should, prob need to redo a banner with something a bit more zazz into it, the navigation prob will benefit more if you use the same sort of buttons and colour as u did with the top navigation, i notice that the grey on both side really kinda makes the layout feel very "undefine", so i would suggest either use table boxes with small outline and slight darker grey/blue fill colour.
the extra line space above "turn off block" is a bit much, prob will feel better if you reduce this.

HTH

Thanks for the comments. I am working on fixing the width issue. Should have this fixed soon.

It's a little slow in loading, make sure you use the width and height in ALL image tags as it's very jumpy on a dialup.

I quite like the banner, but think you should bring it's style or even content into the design some more
those animated banners are really annoying after a while. Can that top banner be moved down the bottom or somewhere?
Having a banner above the layout crys out "I need money, click me", also takes away from your banner and that big one bottom left just makes me want to get out of there. and it's on everypage.

Yeah, I don't like the flashing banner either. I applied at google so I could place google adsesne their instead of really annoying flashing banners. And I would move that top banner to the bottom of the page to the bottom of the website, except the ad agency says nothing below the scroll on 468*60 banners.

And as far as the slow loading, its because of all the large graphics, like the header. I hope to compress the header and make all the image files smaller so they load quicker.

Might be done on purpsose but for a site aimed at amusing people it has a very serious/professional feel to it. Wouldn't look out of place if you where trying to sell office furniture. I really like the design though so don't take that as an insult!! Agree with the comment about google adsense, those ads look much better than flashing banners and have much better CTR (Click through ratio).

definately like the site but that banner has to go, move it or something, please.

Sorry, but it's just another automatic Nuke site. You changed some colors and made a header (make it 777px) but you need to do something to make it look any different from 10,000 other look alike sites. I see Avante Go and Download links before I see the tiny text that tells me what your site even is.

So since Nuke is a content manager, maybe what you need is a bold, eye candy intro page? Something that immediately tells you what this is (like those bored images of people leaning on their hands) with just a few key lines. Then some small links below into the rest of the site content.

What I find odd is that 88 guests are on your site right now. If that's acurate then good for you! You must be doing something right in the marketing department.

I think the navigation could be better split up into sections... it confuses me otherwise, but I like the design, you can't go wrong with blue

I completly agree about the site being another nuke site. I havent had much time to customize it yet. I have been working on getting some content. I hope to slowly customize it enough that so you could hardly tell its another php nuke site. Another issue is the theme. The theme is too slow loading and am working on makin my own custom one. The current one is just a modified them from Lorkan Themes,

Thanks for all the comments, and about the counter. It is correct, other sites link to my individual content then I get certain pages that get tons of page views. On average I only have about 25 peoople on at any one time.

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