Ahh Just finished! [Please review!]

[H-O-V]

Hi, I have jsut completed my forum, it's a pretty standard phpBB forum, I have added a few mods and changed the style, can you all please tell me what needs doing to give it the "finishing touch". :imho: it's lacking something, in the logo or design.

www.footbawl.co.uk

Thanks,

P.S. - Take alook at the bar along the top, the links are in black, is there any way of changing there style so that they don't conform with the rest of the phpbb style?

- Mutasim

 

[Phat-Cat]

"Is there any way of changing there style so that they don't conform with the rest of the phpbb style?"

yes there is :p I'm working on a review right now.

class="forumline"

<table class="forumline" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" width="100%">

I found it. It is located in overall_header.tpl if you are using the phpbb board

/* This is the outline round the main forum tables */
.forumline { background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 2px #006699 solid; }

If you add color this color: rgb(255,255,25) into the brackets it should change the font to another color.

It should look like this

/* This is the outline round the main forum tables */
.forumline { background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 2px #006699 solid; color: rgb(255,255,25)}

now I don't know what color you want to use...so...

http://www.psyclops.com/tools/rgb/ you can this site or you can google rgb color converter to figure out which colors you want to use.

but if you change anything in the .forumline class, everything else using that to define how the text is dispalyed on the page will change also as i'm sure you know.

if it makes you feel better, I have never like soccer until i viewed your site yep if you want to believe that go ahead.




The text at the top of the page

Footbawl.co.uk is a forum where you can come and talk to fellow supporters

Could you jazz up the text a little bit your using arial fon't I believe, and it just doesn't do all the white space you have up there justice. and when you add "with in reason" from my own personal view really does affect the excitement you have for the use of the Forums. It's like having an all you can eat buffet, but you are told you can only have 3 items on your plate at a time.

Did you make the theme yourself or did you get someone to do it for you? It looks nice.

I like the splash page.

Honestly the site is preety well bolted down. I haven't really have any problem with any of the design, or layout. The whitespace at the top is my really only beef with the site. If you coudl fix that it would would be a high mark in my book.

 

[H-O-V]

Take alook at the bar along the top, the links are in black, is there any way of changing there style so that they don't conform with the rest of the phpbb style?

- Mutasim

I was refering to the text.

- Thanks

Mutasim

 

[Barrucadu]

The site looks good - but it scrolls horizontally on a 1024x768 moniter - imagine the poor 800x600 people! lol. You might want to fix that

 

[andysyme]

The site looks good - but it scrolls horizontally on a 1024x768 moniter - imagine the poor 800x600 people! lol. You might want to fix that

Agreed, and with the white space thing. Loving the logo though - is that your own work?

Andy

 

[franchise]

is there any reason why you have to go to page with the logo first to enter the site? There may be a reason that I'm not aware of pertaining to forums, etc...If not I would say just allow the user to go right to the main site. I'm not sure if members with cookies would bypass that or not.

First impression was good however. Looks clean and I like the colors and overall layout. Nice job.

 

[Keral_Patel]

Humm.... If you want to have an advice from SEO point of view then please put some content on the first page.

It is looking very empty.

Plus try phpbb site iteself there are many tempaltes over there which are for free.

Thanks.

 

[H-O-V]

Agreed, and with the white space thing. Loving the logo though - is that your own work?

Andy

Yes the logo is my own.

The reason for the splash page is so that I can put some content up when I get time.

The text at the top right may soon be replaced by a banner ad.

I am not sure how to get the forum table to shorten vertically.

Thanks,

Mutasim

 

[Phat-Cat]

Mutaism----so you mean you want the text style to be different?

 

[H-O-V]

Mutaism----so you mean you want the text style to be different?

yes, so that I can make it appear white <font> doesn't appear to work

and does any one know of a way to change the administrator text at the bottom and admin names to a different color? (phpbb)

Thanks,

- Mutasim

 

[PoorDoggie]

err... I have mixed emotions on this, lol.

Its a nice logo - and the color scheme is ok, I suppose.

Now - for a start you are just using the phpbb subSilver template with a few color changes. It can't really be hard to do, and its not something that should be put up for review.

Also I hate the "splash" page. It is really annoying, especially for registered users who just want to come back to the forum page every time.

Another annoying point is that the page "loads" every time. I don't like the loading bar, and for anyone without javascript, its not a very useful gaget.

In conclusion, I don't really like the design, but hey... COME ON IPSWICH!!! woo... lol :D

 

[uber]

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[ablaye]

I don't like the colors you chose for your forum. Your logo needs some work.
Also, it is not a good idea to have that big image and expect people to click on it to enter the website. It is not also a good idea for search engines. They won't find any content on your first page.

 

[PoorDoggie]

It is not also a good idea for search engines. They won't find any content on your first page.

Do a google search for "robot" -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=robot&btnG=Google+Search

The third result has no text whatsoever... it is all based on backlinks, so it is a problem that can be overcome, but then again... you need a seriouslly large db of backlinks lol! :D Good luck with that! :D hehe

Another problem is that Search engines will see there is only one way out of that page, with no content, and only one link, and will know it is a splash page. Now search engines want to send their users to the best sites for the particular query. Now, footbawl is not a good result, because obviouslly it dosen't have any content - and it isn't linked to by any sites. To a search engine, it looks like a completely pointless page (which it is) and you will go down in the rankings.

 

[jacobbannier]

A great addon would be a "predict the score" part of the site where users type in the score they predict for the upcoming weeks games and then compare to users and get results the next week.

 

[pdcom]

I don't like the color scheme either. The green is fine, but the light blue/gray just seems to clash with the green. If you keep the green, try something in a brown/tan shade instead of the blue/gray.

I like the logo, but it seems a bit too large. The "bawl" definition is a bit hard to read. Perhaps you could change the font on the definition to make it clearer to read, keeping the font size close to what it is now. Then make the FOOTBAWL logo a bit smaller, perhaps 1/3 smaller. It just seems to need more balance.

 

[PoorDoggie]

err... just noticed - isn't this in the wrong forum? wouldn't it be better in the web design reviews one?

 

[Phat-Cat]

I like what you've done with it now, but I think the logo at the top of that page is a little to large now (vertically). Uhh as I said before I like the lay out a lot. Have you figured out how to change that text you wanted yet at the top of the page? I know how but I'm pressed for time at the moment to explain it to you. It involves the method I used above just with a different definitions.

Personally I have no problem using the sub silver template and just editing the colors I think it works fine.

 

[PoorDoggie]

Personally I have no problem using the sub silver template and just editing the colors I think it works fine.

however... it is not a design. I designed roadbusters.com from the subsilver template (I mean, why reinvent the wheel) and it works perfectly. However... all mutasim has done is change a few of the images in some image editing program, and uploaded them. That said... it does look extremely edited now... although, where have I seen that before?... in fact... your site looks like almost a mirror image of mine (for those of you who don't understand, he copied my html... that I put a load of hard work into)! I suppose there is no greater flattery than imitation... although there is also no greater copyright theft than imitation! lol

 

[H-O-V]

however... it is not a design. I designed roadbusters.com from the subsilver template (I mean, why reinvent the wheel) and it works perfectly. However... all mutasim has done is change a few of the images in some image editing program, and uploaded them. That said... it does look extremely edited now... although, where have I seen that before?... in fact... your site looks like almost a mirror image of mine (for those of you who don't understand, he copied my html... that I put a load of hard work into)! I suppose there is no greater flattery than imitation... although there is also no greater copyright theft than imitation! lol

I appriciate that you may love yourself... but please! You've spoke to me about this before, I haven't stolen your design. And you yourself have admitted to copying my log-in page.

- Mutasim :hehe: