Review my site design

review your site design? ok ??

the tiled flag thing is horrible.
Even if you left that up the red in the flag(s) doesnt match any other of the red tones on the site.

Other than that, not a lot to say.

well oby one what would you put there, and you always have more to say than that com’on ??

watch the video.

you asked for a site design critique ?? I dont care to watch the video thanks, as that has nothing to do with the design and honestly I’m guessing your content isnt something that would interest me.

Your site is “tripodish” with the tiled flag and boring, other than that: There’s no color, no life, nothing really that tells me anything about you, or what you think.

Even if I thought I might agree with you, you wouldnt get my traffic based on the the “lack of personality” I see there.

Hows that for more? ??

Now that sounds more like the whooami we all know.

Thanks for your input.

youre welcome, I guess.

Here is some food for thought.. I heard godaddy currently has some 5,000,000 domains hosted. Even if you take off 10% for spam sites that just redirect elsewhere, and unused sites, thats still 4.5 million sites that you are competing with, on just that host.

Sites that dont have a real niche, really need to make an impact when they come up, or they’re apt to fall by the way side.

I criticize with the best of intentions, in other words.

Someone besides whooami have any suggestions on my site.
I change the background whooami.

1. Try and make the recent post stand out a bit more, I’m guessing that’s what you are after with a change of colour.

2. Your menu is clashing with the recent post (same colour and underneath it, should be to the side of it) – that needs addressing asap.

3. Do you have to have those adverts in the right hand column? Could you make them more subtle with just text links and maybe direct your readers to them by other means?

4. Get rid of the background, a nice pale plain colour will do, whooami is right, it’s tripod stuff from the 90’s.

Steve

Thanks Steve for your comments.

Okay, I’ll bite.

1. Contact page is redundant. I shouldn’t have to click twice to contact you, especially when there are no shortage of great WP plugins that serve as contact forms that you can drop right into the page.

2. Pictures Page. Be kind to people who aren’t on broadband. If you really want them to come to your site and stay, you’ll LINK to the honking photos and bandwidth eating videos. Also nice, especially if they are large, to put the size in parentheses, e.g.: Photo of Fubar (2.4MB JPEG).

3. What, no social bookmarking? Don’t you want to be noticed? Again, plugins!

4. The site looks good in FF and Opera9. It looks “okay” in IE6/7, but it’s flush to the left of the viewport. If you substitute text-align: center; in the BODY element in the stylesheet, that should take care of it. Just be sure you put text-align: left; where it needs to be so the proper text aligns left.

5. You’ve apparently gotten rid of the clashing design elements and that’s good. It’s always nice to resist the temptation on a political blog to go all out with the red, white and blue.

6. Favicon? It doesn’t make sense to me.

HTH.

Maybe it’s just me… but why do I feel that this Please review my site plea is just a ruse to expose more people to the obvious political content contained there?

That’s it. I’ve officially become a conspiracy theorist. Now where did I put my tinfoil hat?

And the phone company killed Kennedy too. ugh.

Heh, I design web sites for a living and I belong to several critiqueing groups. It’s not about the content with me; I can ignore that until the cows come home. Every once in awhile, tho, I review a site that I absolutely love and it ends up on my blogroll.

I’ll leave you all to guess whether that was the case here. My criticisms still stand tho.

Well the geisha of the lazy, I did not no that it was so obvious, and I hope you have loaded your gun and are about to hunt down the phone company to protect us all from more killings.

And thank you for your comments.

jonimueller, the contact page is work in progress and if you are not on broadband you need to get it because my content requires it, not that I wish it was not the case but that is the way it is. Social bookmarking, not interested at the moment have reasons. Favicon is personal you would not understand it until the moment that I use it on my new web page, that is in the works.

But thanks for you comment it helps me to refine my page, thanks much.

Please don’t be so narrow minded, slate62. I have broadband, but the critique was not about me. The fact of the matter is that not everyone has broadband. You should design so that your site reaches as many people as possible. (Isn’t that your site’s goal?) There are solutions to serving up high resolution images, one of which is a direct link; the other is thumbnails.

You asked for advice, critique, I gave it. What you do with it is your business, obviously.

I do not know what direct link is and I do not know how to do thumbnails will try to figure out.

thanks.