Design:
I love it. The effects are all nice, as well as the navigation.
The colours are pleasing to they eye, however, I would opt for a colour like #BAF100 on the top header bg. (Its a yellow green)
Also, I would make the logo come down a tad. Its at the corner of my screen.
Likes:
The overall design is pretty nice, clean, and doesn't try to do too much at once.
The site structure is logical, makes sense and easy to navigate.
Improvements:
I can't read your logo, the contrast is really poor for the white text and lime bar.
I would keep your logo and search bar in the center as well, on my widescreen it expands so far out that it looks awkward.
The roll overs for your menu make the item harder to read when you roll over.
The forum login seems a little out of place on all of the pages.
When you are looking at a subdirectory of the site, it would be nice to have something to help visually remind you where you are, some kind of Section Title or image.
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Design:
I love it. The effects are all nice, as well as the navigation.
The colours are pleasing to they eye, however, I would opt for a colour like #BAF100 on the top header bg. (Its a yellow green)
Also, I would make the logo come down a tad. Its at the corner of my screen.
My favorite color is green
Actually i was considering to change color of the header, probably in something like #BAF100... Thaks for that "color code"
Maybe make the navigation an accordian, saving load time.
Yea I know but to be honest i don't understand why is that so important? Sites like soft32 or softpedia and many others, have a lot more errors...
Thanks for review
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Originally Posted by jeremywilken
Likes:
The overall design is pretty nice, clean, and doesn't try to do too much at once.
The site structure is logical, makes sense and easy to navigate.
Improvements:
I can't read your logo, the contrast is really poor for the white text and lime bar.
I would keep your logo and search bar in the center as well, on my widescreen it expands so far out that it looks awkward.
The roll overs for your menu make the item harder to read when you roll over.
The forum login seems a little out of place on all of the pages.
I will fix that...
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Originally Posted by jeremywilken
When you are looking at a subdirectory of the site, it would be nice to have something to help visually remind you where you are, some kind of Section Title or image.
Great idea I will add something like that, or maybe change colors...
Good:
Web design is beautiful, seriously, very nice. (Everything on the site works fine) and the graphics look great.
Stuff stands out that you want to see, and it's all structured nicely in correct order. (Apart from the top-right navigation)
Dislike:
The menu at the top right is very small, maybe make it stand out or bigger. If people can't find the site navigation, then your site just won't work.
VALIDATE VALIDATE VALIDATE! Fix your validation errors!
Design:
+ Nice soft design, coherent color scheme, graphics fit the site
+ I love the glow/reflection effect on the rollovers of Windows, Mac, and Linux
+ Great page structure
- Perhaps the text size could be a bit bigger?
Technical:
- At the bottom the Privacy Policy, Contact, etc aren't linked.
- Doesn't validate
- Tables for layout a bit (bad coding practice)
- On the contact form there is no validation; it allows you to send a blank, empty email
- I pressed the search button without putting anything in the search box and it gave me:
Quote:
Showing page 1 of 0 pages
It was actually not showing any pages.
Nice looking site, a great one for your first!
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Yea I know but to be honest i don't understand why is that so important? Sites like soft32 or softpedia and many others, have a lot more errors...
A site can, and obviously many do, work without valid code. But having code that complies to standards helps all browsers understand it better (with the possible exception of IE ). It could increase the loading speeds just because the browser will be able to instantly understand it, instead of having to figure out how to cope with the error.
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Under the green at the top, and above the box of content, there is an invisible link to the Mobile section of the website. Kinda wierd
(Sorry for finding errors in your site, it's better PHP that I could have done)
I'm aware of that MySQL errors... I it's happening when empty mysql_query record is passed to another mysql_query but i will fix that
On the pages with subcategories navigation is wierd because of height of div (when is empty) i will fix that too
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Originally Posted by Millenia
Third Edit:
Under the green at the top, and above the box of content, there is an invisible link to the Mobile section of the website. Kinda wierd
Ouh thats a problem... You probally have 1024x768 resolution.... I just found out that mobile link is move down on that res...
Thank you very much for feedback
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Originally Posted by binaryWeapon
Design:
+ Nice soft design, coherent color scheme, graphics fit the site
+ I love the glow/reflection effect on the rollovers of Windows, Mac, and Linux
+ Great page structure
- Perhaps the text size could be a bit bigger?
Technical:
- At the bottom the Privacy Policy, Contact, etc aren't linked.
- Doesn't validate
- Tables for layout a bit (bad coding practice)
- On the contact form there is no validation; it allows you to send a blank, empty email
- I pressed the search button without putting anything in the search box and it gave me: It was actually not showing any pages.
Nice looking site, a great one for your first!
Thanks for reply...
Yes i know about footer... I need to write terms of use, privacy police and other but I don't know english so well for that
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Originally Posted by binaryWeapon
A site can, and obviously many do, work without valid code. But having code that complies to standards helps all browsers understand it better (with the possible exception of IE ). It could increase the loading speeds just because the browser will be able to instantly understand it, instead of having to figure out how to cope with the error.
Thank you... Finally some real answer for that question... until now everybody was saying:"Thats standard you must do like that, but why I don't have idea"
Yes i know about footer... I need to write terms of use, privacy police and other but I don't know english so well for that
This sounds a bit cheating, but maybe you could go onto any website, copy their privacy policy and copyright stuff and modify it? To save you from writing your own.
This sounds a bit cheating, but maybe you could go onto any website, copy their privacy policy and copyright stuff and modify it? To save you from writing your own.
This sounds a bit cheating, but maybe you could go onto any website, copy their privacy policy and copyright stuff and modify it? To save you from writing your own.
Legal language doesn't change much as long as you find a site with a similar purpose. The problem is they may have paid a lawyer for that text...
Since you are providing software which is going to change a users computer, it is best to make sure to be very clear that you provide this without any warranty, no guarantees, etc. I wonder if you shouldn't even have some terms of use box that people have to check before they download software?
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It strikes me as very overwhelming. I can't really understand where my eyes should go first, because your heads don't stand out very well and are completely tossed out by their colored subheads. This lack of structure is...confusing.
Although I like the design, there are a few things which look a bit off. The section links on your head look like they were supposed to be centered over the middle part of the gradient and the logo is hard to read.
Also your text is unforgivably small. Try making it more readable or change it to a more legible font at small sizes (I've played about with it and Verdana at 11 pixels with a 1.5 leading looks clean and lovely.)
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but to be honest i don't understand why is that so important? Sites like soft32 or softpedia and many others, have a lot more errors...
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