Can I get some feedback on my site?

  • First I want to say thank you to all the people who helped me out while I was trying to get this going.

    My site is not open to the public yet; I still have my old index running but it’s almost done. I just need to add in the images and do a few other things but I think the theme itself is okay now.

    Does anyone have any constructive (and preferably polite) criticism? Here are my issues:

    1) I’m very sarcastic and I don’t take anything seriously so I tried to convey a relaxed, personal, and humorous look with the colors and font choices. But I’m worried that it might look a bit ‘young’ – I’m 27.

    2) How about the colors: are they garish, too monotonous, do they clash?

    3) Can you see the links clearly? I’m worried that they’re not distinctive enough from the rest of the text.

    4) Does anyone have a problem viewing this in their browser?

    5) I really hate the color of those buttons in the mini-navigational bar on the left, but I think they help people looking at the site with a small screen (eg 600px) and they are space efficient so I’m probably going to leave them.

    Any other thoughts, suggestions, or ideas are also welcome.
    Tell me what you think!

    https://www.veronicarose.com/index.php

    Don’t click my profile – that’s the old site for now.

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  • Your site looks good in FF. I do agree with you in the links colors not being distinct enough and when you mouseover them the color differnce is not enough either. Maybe hilight them like in your sidebars.

    Thread Starter VeronicaRose

    (@veronicarose)

    Okay, so other people agree about the links. The colors and fonts are the same from my old site but the size is smaller and the weight is lighter. This theme had a very small text size in my opinion and I already made it a bit bigger, but I’m wondering if anyone else has to strain to read it. You can always adjust it, though, because I used percentages. If nothing else, I will at least change the links.

    Thank you for the feedback.

    Even with my aging eyes, I could read it fine.

    I just noticed that your blog title looks different in IE and FF.

    Thread Starter VeronicaRose

    (@veronicarose)

    Okay, good. It’s probably just me because I actually have terrible eyesight.

    So text is fine, links are not…

    Thread Starter VeronicaRose

    (@veronicarose)

    Bad different, or something that doesn’t matter too much?

    I know web designers are supposed to download different browsers and test these things but I don’t have tons of resources and this isn’t my computer. I live in Delhi and we don’t even have electricity all day.

    Thats what I have. 8 different browsers. Its realy great when most people can view your site.

    Thread Starter VeronicaRose

    (@veronicarose)

    Wow! That’s great.

    With my old site it was always a mystery to me and even though I eventually discovered several problems when I used my friend’s computer, no one had ever said anything to me about them.

    As soon as I get some money I’m going to buy my own computer and then I’m going to download Firefox because so many people use it.

    I love the fact your site is an easy read – I spent a bit of time there.
    The colors are whimsical and I suppose you changed the links because they stand out nicely.
    All in all a very nice site. Good luck!

    Thread Starter VeronicaRose

    (@veronicarose)

    I’m not actually going to change anything for a few hours, and maybe not until tomorrow (it’s late at night where I live). I want to give people a chance to criticize the site and voice opposing views, sort of like what you just did. I’m thinking outloud right now but if I get opposition that makes sense I can change my mind very easily – I’m not too stubborn.

    Thank you so much for your compliments. I’m glad you liked it.

    I don’t know why you so worried, it is a beautiful website or blog.

    Easy to navigate and easy on the eyes.

    I’d put an underline on the links hover though, just to make sure.

    You could put bullets in the links, or maybe some little logo, a tiny flower or a star perhaps? Maybe not, just a thought really.

    I’m sure you’ll improve it as you go along.

    Thread Starter VeronicaRose

    (@veronicarose)

    Thanks for the suggestion. I’d also been thinking that an underline on the links in the body might be nice (the sidebars have the highlighting and I think they’re fine).

    Increasing the size didn’t actually make the links that much easier to see and increasing the font weight made things look garishly out of proportion. I think an underline when hovering would be a good solution. It wouldn’t really change the look at all but would help people see what’s what.

    And thank you also for the positive feedback. It’s very reassuring.

    Thread Starter VeronicaRose

    (@veronicarose)

    It seems that a lot of people are still coming to my site from this post so I want to say that, I just put the finishing touches on it a few minutes ago.

    1) I’ve changed the links in the body to underline when hovered over.

    2) I’ve sobered up the color scheme from a pinkish/purple background to a more burgandy colored one – which I think makes it look a bit less ‘young.’ I was afraid to do this before because I thought the colors would be too harsh, or jarring. But actually I like it a lot better.

    Rather than increase the font size, since most people thought it was okay, I’ve increased the line height by .1em (from 1.5 to 1.6 to be specific), which has helped legibility.

    I know some people really liked it the old way, and I did too actually. I just feel that this version is a bit more “Me” and more closely matches the feel of my old site. So I’ve addressed most of the major issues now, but I’m still open to critique, of course.

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