Review Home Page Please!

[theuedimaster]

Just review this home page please! http://sigmaseven.net

I am going for a simple, good looking design. Thanks.

[theuedimaster]

???

[brickwallfish]

Keep your shorts on, in some countries it's the middle of the night ya know... Like 4 in the morning where I live :D

The menu on the left looks pretty clean and simple to me. It's just the rest on the right, that's confusing. It's hard to make out any links, half the time one can't see whether it is a link or not. At the least, make sure that the cursor changes whenever it's over a link, and not just an image somewhere else.

That's just the first impression I got. Someone else will prob giva your site a thorough examination and give you way better (helpfull) crits than me.

Cheers Marius.

[dr john]

The grey colour used makes the page look a bit dull and uninspiring - try something little bit lighter. Orange text on any colour of background is hard to read. The block colouring of the first letter of several words,such as Gaming Desktops, Enthusiast Desktops and so on looks bad, drop that idea. (The coloured block infront of teh words is okay, just don't colour the first letter.) The site needs a browser window width of 850px to display properly, reduce the width so it is about 770px and then users on lower screen resolutions will not need to use the much hated and annoying horizontal scrolling. Remember you are designing it for the users to use, not to fit nicely on your own screen, so allow for those with low screen resolutions.

[theuedimaster]

Yeah, I got to change the size......I will make it so that hovering over the links will make it change color, haven't got to desigining the hover buttons though'. I will. Yeah, thought the block thing made it a little weird...but i wanted to be creative. I'll change it. Thanks. Others?

[Ben Rogers]

Get into the habit of <title>ing your pages. Most important SE element.
I like the colours, and the design. Very original.
Why are the links in the site terms block done with <img />s? Much more sensible as plain text.
All of those <img />s should be placed as background-images.
The news should be a styled list. Why is it an <img />?!?
You should clean up your code (http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//sigmaseven.net/), and be going for HTML 4.01 Strict.
Your CSS (http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3A//sigmaseven.net/) needs a wipedown, too.
"target="mainFrame"" What's up with that? New windows piss me off, greatly.

A lot could be done to clean up your code, but the design is good. Just could be a bit more professionally coded.

[theuedimaster]

Thanks, I'll try to get this stuff done on the weekend...when i actually have some time! Thanks for the analysis Ben!

Hey, I have a question Ben. Here: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3A//sigmaseven.net/

what does valid css information and the stuff underneath it mean? Did it just correct my css?

[pawky]

Originally posted by theuedimaster
what does valid css information and the stuff underneath it mean? Did it just correct my css?

that is the part of your css that IS correct. The first part tells you what is wrong and then it lets you know what you did right :)

Also, I agree with pretty much all of what Ben R. said. I realize you are still getting everything up and working, so i think if you fix what Ben mentioned and get all the links and stuff working you'll be doing good :) Once all that is done ask again and we can help you polish it up :) tc gl

[theuedimaster]

Okay, just looking at design now, not code of homepage.

Ignore the links under "ready for you new pc", i will get to them later.

Also, ignore the links way at the bottom...privacy policy etc.

Thanks!

[Ben Rogers]

You're still using too many images, and wrongly. Why have an image that's just text in a common font? Also, <img /> is for content, not design.

[Promptracer]

"something" desk tops

something meaning

perhaps "Business"

perhaps "Ready made"

perhaps "your design"

interesting site and concept!

similar concept to what i have in mind for voodooworlds.com