ChristianAvenue.org - Full CSS Design

[dkr]

Hi,

I've just gotten my home page design finished, along with a matching forums skin: http://christianavenue.org/forums.

Please review both . Please also give me a x/10 rating.

Thank You,
Donny

 

[antman]

Website Design Review
Site: Chrstian Avenue
Domain: http://www.christianavenue.org + Forum

All Ratings are out of 10...

Website Domain - 6
Appearance and Design - 7
Navigation and Accessibility - 8
Activity, Popularity and Marketing - 5
Originality - 7
Loading Times - 7
Quality of Content - N/A [Incomplete]
Features and Interactivity - 5
Visitor Rating - 6

Overall Rating - 6

Detailed Analysis

It's wonderful to see you have started a religion based website. If it gets successful and popular, you will find it very rewarding to have helped many people. As the site is very new, there isn't much I can review on based on your content, so this review will be based around your main page and your forum.

You have a straight-forward design with the menu on the top, and the side menus for navigation. I feel that your font for the content is a bit small, however, it is really your choice. I assume that you will get a new banner/logo for the header to portray more of what your site is about. Maybe Christianity symbols or pictures would suit well. Remember that you will probably be using it for the forum as well.

Your Google Advertisement colour choice is suitable, but I would choose the blue colour for the border to blend in. Because it is red, it sticks out and you don't want your visitors to pay too much attention to them. Also, reword the 'We are Powered by Donations' to something like 'Your donation is appreciated - Click to Donate' or something similar.

Something inspiring like a 'Quote of the Day' or 'Bible Reading' will go well on the front page. Your 'Live Support' seems a bit too similiar to something you would find on a web hosting page about 'Live Help'. You should consider renaming it, however, it isn't a big problem at all. Your news box is excellent.

With your forum, I recommend you look around other similar forums to see what they have on offer. Try and keep off-topic talk to a minimum and expand on the Christian related topics. Most importantly, you want to have something unique to attract members. You should also look around for a more personalised look in your skin and markers. Remember to stick to the same colour code with your main website, and remember to link to it on the forum.

You have a strong start to your website and forum. I look forward to seeing the completed site and active forum.

Good luck.

Review by Anthony Lieu. Your site was accessed on a ADSL T1 connection, on Mozilla Firefox with a screen resolution of 1280x1024. Thank you for allowing me to review your website design - I hope it was useful.