Review new raw food lifestyle site

[lianabanana]

www.rawboards.com.

Post pros and cons. Thank you.

EDIT: I just changed everything, using the tips you guys gave me...
Post what you think of this new design! :)

[Ness_du_Frat]

Héhé, I like it a lot ! Really professional looking, white and pure, with really beautiful images of food... No, really, that's a good website, according to me. I didn't check the code or anything, I just based my impression on the graphics, and my impression is very good ^^
Good job, Liana !

[lianabanana]

Thank you :) I like your signature :)

[lianabanana]

and your site is really pretty... except I don't understad a thing in that language

[Ness_du_Frat]

LOL.
My website is ugly as hell, I'm redesigning it, still not sure about the new design, though. Will be like the splash page, for sure, but I'm still in the process of doing mockups in photoshop.
I like your thousands times better !
(the website is about my book. I'm a writer, and I'm publishing this book for free on the net, just because I felt like it, lol)

[lianabanana]

I don't why you think it's ugly, me like! but thank you for the nice words!

[ray326]

I like the design. The images at the bottom of the recipes page could use some margin, maybe 1em's worth.

[KDLA]

Wow - nice work!

One thing -- you've got quite a bit of text on the front page. Maybe you could list the headers, and link to the information, placed on separate pages. Usually, when a person sees lots of text like that, they get overwhelmed and don't read it at all.

I'd also put the people photos (near the forum) inside the site. They don't seem to fit in with the classy food photos you've used -- especially the dude fixing drinks without a shirt on. ;)

KDLA

[ray326]

the dude fixing drinks without a shirt on.That's cause that isn't the FIRST drink he's fixed.

[thewebman]

LOL!! I would have to agree with KDLA, the pics of people at the bottom just don't fit.

[helena]

Nice and clean. Don't let the text run that long though! Difficult to read.

[LJK]

Hi -
I'm sort of sorry that you ended-up using a template;
but it does look pretty good! The text in the banner is an
image, and for me it covered-up some of the top border image
on the header. Several photos seemed truncated; stopping well before
their black outline, as well.

Agree that it is much too long. Consider again the suggestion
to break it down into more, specific pages - then you can have
a really bright, welcoming intro. page that just has links [maybe add
a sidebar at left for the additional ones] and some basic info.

Good luck,
El

[lianabanana]

Thank you all soooo much!
I just changed everything, using the tips you guys gave me...
Post what you think of this new design! And check out the forums too and tell me what you think. Thank you!

[KDLA]

I liked the previous design better. This one seems a mixture of ideas -- the banner looks like one for a Tex-Mex restaurant. The clean white design you had previously seemed to reflect more of a "healthful" atmosphere.

The personal photos on the homepage and the category "Wow!" (with an unrelated photo under that category) make the site look unprofessional; more like a personal website.

I suggest you move the personal stuff to another site, and keep this one strictly about raw foods.

Good Luck -
KDLA

[lianabanana]

Thanks
How about now?

[the tree]

I love this design, the colours are just right (don't you dare change them) and the layout is original as well as practical.

I would add a horizontal line of important-navigation on top of the content, as the complete navigation is a bit out of sight.

[KDLA]

MUCH BETTER :D

(the tree -- are you commenting about the orange one from the first redesign, or the green one? my first post was about the orange one with the cactus banner. it's now green = MUCH BETTER!)

[the tree]

About the green, I think it's an excellent combination and it's pulled off well.

[lianabanana]

Yay! Awesome! :)