Please check my site's new layout

[neuboy]

I changed all pages of my site to static
please help me to test and give me some advice
thanks very much!

http://www.sharedpcgames.com

and please tell me the loading speed of the site
thanks in advance

 

[PoorDoggie]

you are nearly an "old"boy! 97 posts... well done

Anyway... I don't like the site at all. I must say that the loading times are quick, but thats about it. The site isn't imaginative at all.

Firstly the logo is too different, it is too cheesy and just dosen't fit in. I thought it was an advertising banner to start off with took me about 5 minutes to figure out it was acctually your logo. (PC should be capitals). The flashing text is awful and unprofessional. Yellow is an old colour and should be killed! :lol: Blue and yellow should never be mixed, with the one exception of dark "shiny" yellow and slate blue, but that is more complicated.

The orange is nice, especially in contrast with the absolute top blue "bar" (with the language translation links). The rest of the site varys too much. I see what you have tried to do with colour, but I think you have gone slightly OTT. The turquoise title headers are too light compared with the white text and are too contrasting with the other blues.

I think that the layout is very tired as well. It is a generic layout and has no imagination at all. You should use a program such as Photoshop or Macromedia Fireworks to design a more graphicly interesting site and then "slice" it. That will give you such a better "bed" to work on.

The things you need to focus on now:
1. get the logo sorted. It needs to fit in and become "part of the site". DON'T make it 468x60 because that is the standard size of advertising banners. Make it static and make it fit in with the orange background.
2. Take away the turquoise and keep the blue consistant throughtout the website.
3. Get more graphics on the site. Make the navigation more graphic, or at least make it stand out more.
4. Take away the monotonus (sp?) "box" layout of the website. Even exchanging them with rounded-cornered boxes would be better. It would give the website an interesting style.
5. Get it branded. Make your website different from so many others out there. If yours stands out of the others, people are going to come back to it.

Tom

 

[neuboy]

thanks, PoorDoggie
and I'm changing my logo and will reset some color
thanks again for your expert opinions

 

[Muneeb2Good]

PoorDoggie

Thanks alot for your advices ... i really appreciate wht you have adviced to neuboy.. actually i had the same problem as neuboy had but its solved now ...Thank you so much.

 

[Something Vague]

I saw this site a couple days ago. Maybe yesterday, I forget. But, I remember just seeing an orange bar. I still do. Where is the logo?

 

[nmr86]

i like the site.. its clear and i know where to go

 

[kindigo]

The layout is nice and neat but the banner(shared pc games) with the orange background does not fit together with the rest of the layout. I think that is the biggest problem.

 

[uqwebdesign]

I wouldn't have your hovers for your menu bar as bold, it messes up the layout, why not just use underlines or a different text colour to highlight rollovers?

The site just needs some personality, it looks too generic and boring, jazz it up and make it stand out from the crowd

 

[Indyan]

The content is good. The arrangement of content is also good. But the logo/header is too flashy.
Try to get another more subtle header that fits in with the rest of the website.
Also when I hover my pointer over the meny bar, the links become virtually unreadable.