Topic: Long time eh?

Here is the link:
http://justice.dfpunk.com/

yes there is a splash, and I know what you would have said.

I was hoping to get your thoughts on the entire site. the board thing works but no point in going there, eh?

Anything is fine, Infact i would like to hear Michael give his two cents, always did enjoy his insults.



Cell 650

[This message has been edited by Patrick (edited 09-01-2002).]

OK, there's not much there so far, but here are my comments on what's there.

You've obviously decided to use a splash page, and that's your choice, so I won't comment on that (yeah, I did take a brief look at it--I was curious).

The first thing that hit me was the size and positioning of the site. My screen resolution is set at 1024x768, and the site takes up a quarter of my screen. I'm assuming that it will get longer as more content is added, so height is not a problem, but width-wise it still only covers half of my screen. This in itself is not necessarily a bad thing, but you might think about centering everything. It looks a bit weird stuck on the left there like that.

I was also a bit confused by the text on the "home" page. It looks like an intro, but it falls under the heading of "Today's News." Are you planning to put the daily news in that spot in the future? That wouldn't be a bad idea, I think.

If I may, I would also like to comment on the text itself. I'm assuming that the copy is temporary, but still... let's face it, it's atrocious. At the very least, it doesn't make a very good first impression.

At the beginning of the menu you have "Navigation." That strikes me as pretty self-evident and therefore unnecessary, unless it's some sort of design choice on your part. The fact that it doesn't lead anywhere is another strike against it, considering it is the first thing people will see in the menu. I would just start with "home."

I'm also a bit confused about the second green bar on the home page (the one that says "News for you"). On all the other pages, it tells you what page you are currently on--why the departure here?

Not much else to say at this point. Those are just some general ideas on what you've got up there so far. I'm afraid my comments are a bit short on insults (unless you count the "atrocious copy" comment as an insult... maybe I should have beefed that up a little), so I guess you'll have to wait for Michael to stop by.




Cell 270

Patrick: I didn't see a splash screen Pos. a good thing though.

Some quick thoughts:

1. Your site's width seems contsrained by the dimensions of your banner graphic. Try doing something like making that background into a tiled one for the rest of the top of the screen.

2. Those rollovers cause the menu to jump (at least in IE/Win - I suspect other browsers might cope with that) and it needs to be addressed (I presume its not intentional

3. I think my real problem is the colours:

a) Black on white is too harsh a contrast - esp. when done with white text on a black background - try mixing in some off black and white.

b) That flourescent lime green could be one of my least favourite colours ever (it clashes with my eyes ) - the solution might be a more drastic makeover. I like that streaked, light green background to the logo you could try a couple of things:

(i) User the colour picker to grab a few of those colours and see if a light green background works (I'm not sure).

(ii) Try using a horizontally striped background on the page and then put your content in (pos. slightly opaque) boxes over this (with CSS you can tile horizontally and set it to repeat).

Both ideas are the kind that you'd need to try to see if they worked - but I would look into using a light background colour or pattern.

Hmmm not a lot else there. So basically I like your logo (and that background texture) and I think you should look into incorporating more of it into your site design - if the background doesn't work try using it for your bars instead of that green.

Interesting start with plenty of potential and I'm interested to see where you take it.

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Emps: go up to the root directory if you want to see the splash. It's pretty much the same thing that's on the home page, though.

Yeah, menu jumping, I was going to mention that...

Suho1004: Thanks (I was clearly having a stupid day ).

PatrickL I don't see any point in it so I would get rid - your front page is your best piece of real estate for proving relevance to search engines and putting a big graphic in there spoils that (as well as all the other problems with splash pages - its just that is the one that hurts you directly rather than your visitors).

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

ok. well i went in and redid the stie, some what, now what do you think. No sign of micheal yet.


Cell 650

Well, just in terms of my comments above, I see only cosmetic changes so far. It does look better, though, with the red, and I think the menus look better too (and you did fix the menu-jumping bug that Emps mentioned). Two things that are still the same are the atrocious copy and the size and positioning of the site, which I considered to be biggies. Now that you've got the "JFO" graphic on the upper right, the left alignment looks even weirder. Just my opinions, though--maybe that's the effect you're going for. If I had to say improvement or not, I would say improvement.