review my site about Chicago

[ArthurKay]

Hey everyone. I was hoping to get a few people to review my site and offer some constructive feedback.

My site: www.whyilovechicago.com
This site is intended to be a resource for both tourists and residents of Chicago. The primary focus is to allow registered users to post their favorites things in Chicago ; secondary focus is to provide Restaurant Reviews and links to attractions in the city.

Off the bat (so don't rub it in):
- most of the pages are W3C valid
Exceptions:
- anything in /forum/
(Snitz's forum code doesn't validate, and I haven't had time to fix it)
- anything in /calendar/
(again, vCalendar's code)
- I need more content on the interior pages

What I'm hoping to hear about:
I'm looking to see what people think about the concept and my site delivers on its intent. Also, I'm looking for feedback on the continuity between pages and basic layout.

Thanks!

[huckle]

Nice concept, but I find your colour scheme and general layout a weensie bit mediocre - it's just another website giving me random info. Not entirely sure what would be best to make it stand out from the crowd a bit more, but I'm thinking more colour! It's all very white and bland. Bringing some of that green in your logo further down the page should help.

Just a grammar thing, your page title hasn't got a capital letter on "Attractions".

It is a good idea, though.

[agent_x91]

I don't share your passionate about Chicago, but I do like the site - the layout is neat, the colour scheme is light and simple, and the navigation is neat and presentable, as well as being repeated in a simpler form at the bottom of the page, which means you can see some form of navigation from most of the page despite its height.

The one thing which I feel could be improved is the placement of the logo at the top: it shifts the entire content down by a fair bit, which means that only a small amount of actual content is initially visible.

All in all, I like the site. Congrats :)

[ArthurKay]

Thanks for the great feedback!

I have thought about moving the logo down, or incorporating it into another part of the page. I may even do something else with the space next to it (maybe have an RSS news ticker or something)

Thanks!!!

[agent_x91]

No problem.

Agh, you can tell which posts I've sent at 2am or so - I meant "passion", not "passionate" :p