Redesigned Arcade site, please review.

[eli03]

please review my site regarding the design, color and loading of page. here's the site: http://www.gameseeker.org .


Thanks,
eli ^________^

 

[Linkage Oracle]

I like it, it loads quite slow though. Good job. Only thing is the sub headers such as "Latest Games" the last bit of the name is quite faint. I think having google search written on the button instead of the logo ontop version.
"You have 9999 credits left before you must register
(Instant Activation)." isn't that too much credits?

Well apart from that, good job.

 

[nmallare]

I'll list off some thoughts about it:

[1] I see that you've added text OVER the headers that Linkage Oracle was referring to. It should be simple enough to change the color from white to perhaps a gray or blue.
[2] The load time is INCREDIBLY slow. For the whole site to load [with cable internet] it took 8-10 seconds. I don't know what the of your index.php page looks like, but you may want to try and optimize it. UPDATE: The more I click through the site, the more I realize that it's probably the template setup that's causing the delay. However, including the 6 first top for EVERY category of games on the index page is overkill. Try perhaps Top 3 or the Top 10 site-wide.
[3] Very nice design. I love the header .. is it unique? Also, make sure you're giving credit to Nintendo for the user of Mario, Bowser and the Princess. The colors are a good choice. The sub-headers [referenced above] aren't doing it for me. Just a simple gradient would look better, perhaps. Good Adsense color, as well.
[4] Finally, the use of the Video's to "draw people to stay" was a good choice.

Overall, you've got a good site. Fix that load time and it will be great site.

Nick

 

[eli03]

I like it, it loads quite slow though. Good job. Only thing is the sub headers such as "Latest Games" the last bit of the name is quite faint. I think having google search written on the button instead of the logo ontop version.
"You have 9999 credits left before you must register
(Instant Activation)." isn't that too much credits?

Well apart from that, good job.

I'll list off some thoughts about it:

[1] I see that you've added text OVER the headers that Linkage Oracle was referring to. It should be simple enough to change the color from white to perhaps a gray or blue.
[2] The load time is INCREDIBLY slow. For the whole site to load [with cable internet] it took 8-10 seconds. I don't know what the of your index.php page looks like, but you may want to try and optimize it. UPDATE: The more I click through the site, the more I realize that it's probably the template setup that's causing the delay. However, including the 6 first top for EVERY category of games on the index page is overkill. Try perhaps Top 3 or the Top 10 site-wide.
[3] Very nice design. I love the header .. is it unique? Also, make sure you're giving credit to Nintendo for the user of Mario, Bowser and the Princess. The colors are a good choice. The sub-headers [referenced above] aren't doing it for me. Just a simple gradient would look better, perhaps. Good Adsense color, as well.
[4] Finally, the use of the Video's to "draw people to stay" was a good choice.

Overall, you've got a good site. Fix that load time and it will be great site.

Nick

Thanks for the review, i also notice that the site take time to fully load. Maybe because i have six games in each category that are coming from the database. Will try to reduce upto 3 per category or upto 5 top player, rated game to reduce the mysql query time.

About the sub header, actually the original idea is using a gradient bg but since the subheader bg take time to load i choose 32 colors instead of 128, you can also notice the effect on the header area.

About the uniqueness of the design of the header probably yes ? Im not sure since i used the wallpaper of mario, maybe some arcade site used it too but i never found one as of now.

How do i credit nintendo for using their image ?

Thanks ^______^

 

[ajkendall]

how come it takes so long to load?!

i almost closed the page because i thought it had froze, even after the page took about 15 seconds to load the header takes even longer

however, i like the overall concept of the site and the design works well, it is clean looking and the header is cool

if i was designing it i think i'd look at changing the horizontal nav though so it stands out a bit more from the rest of the page

 

[nmallare]

Also, I don't how how you're hosting [dedicated or shared] or if your domain webpirate.net is on the same server or not, but the slow resolve time could be the server.

Where are you hosted?

Nick

 

[eli03]

hmm it load fast on my side now. both site are hosted with rapidvps 2 account

 

[nmallare]

A better load time, but could still be improved.

Nick