I run a website, DevImg.net, that's for amateur game developers to upload screenshots of their work, or desktop captures, or anything like that. It sports a unique design and I've done a lot of revisions of it... what do you think of it? The site is fully functional (except the FAQ, it's unwritten) and has existed for about 9 months so there's plenty of content already.
Anyway I'm very interested in hearing criticism/suggestions/praise of the design.
You certainly won't find praise in this post but don't let it discourage you...
I'll do this in points
The grey looks groos
The image border looks unprofessional
The navigation could have been done better
To much info in one main area
make the thumbnails bigger
Stick to one color scheme
Changing link name over pictures in light grey box is annoying
Try to keep everything uniform
The bottom most text, is useless
Make distinguished areas between text and your background, keep in mind the color scheme
Your logo doesn't match everything else
use gif more then jpg because it has the transparency option. For high res images use png for the transparency
The icons are pukey, try somethihng more cutting edge. No Try something very retro... That would kick. http://www.acidfonts.com has an awesome retro atari like font
Again color scheme
Lighting up the links text in your menu is annoying, in fact the entire menu is annoying. Try something a little less annoying. perhaps maybe standard text or even a flash drop down...
*crys out* COLOR SCHEME!!!
Red and Blue don't go together, Neither do grey and that shade o blue, neither does that yellow grey and blue with the red
Srry a bit harsh but that's how it is. Hope this helps. If you are stuck with color scheme I have a friend, he's a bit gay, but does some awesome color schemes for my simple sites. If you'd like to meet him I'm sure he'd be glad to help you out.
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Thanks for the replies. This reply is very late, but I made pretty major changes to the layout of the main page, and to the image posts themselves. I believe I addressed most of the issues you brought up... please visit again and tell me what you think.
You still have a problem with colours. They are raunchy. Overall though I am quite proud to see that you can change your site from gross to great. If you want help on colour schemes let me know. I can set you up.
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I'm open to suggestions, but I want to keep the overall color scheme gray-based as opposed to colored, since that way the screenshots are emphasized much more. Also since posts can change their color scheme (something no one took advantage of...) I felt a gray background would help ensure things always looked fine.
Oh, I should mention that only this post uses the new default colors for posts; the others use the old one because I haven't changed that part of the code yet. That's pretty important.
And if you don't like the menu... well, I really like the buttons though I know at least one or two visitors said they didn't much. But one suggested a better logo and I may use something like that instead.
Thanks, you two... that's very encouraging. Yeah, I consider the site as being programmed rather than designed, since I did much more of the former than the latter.
I won't say that anything on the site is 'raunchy', but I will say that against that gray bg you got, that beveled razor blade of blue cut through my eyes like nothing else (maybe the last 5 hours in photoshop cs did that, hmm?). Also, I'd make it a big less top-heavy as well. After the big gray bar (?) it feels like veeryting just drops off into clutter...much like the outside of my closet vs. the inside of it. I think that the retro idea is great. I look forward to seeing the progress!
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