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- timmyblog
I don't have much of my stuff up on it yet besides a few of the t-shirts and bands that we decided to sponsor. Still looking for some feedback on it. It's a bit jquery heavy and I've made it as browser compatible as possible (back to ie 6 I believe) but would like any constructive input.
- detritus0
Your homepage is at least 660kb in size.
Should I even moan about shit like this any more?
- bigtrick0
i love it. totally brash and loud, but that is intentional, i take it? the bright green with the blue in the background is a bit weird of a color combination, but that's just my opinion. the only criticism i have is that everything on the splash page is about the same weight of bold black font on white/bold white font on black, so it's initially difficult to see what is content, and what is navigation, and what is news, etc. maybe a bit more differentiation in terms of weight or color on the typography would help here.
cheers. well done!
- timmyblog0
660kb and there's no gzip compression nor minify
I can dive in and put those on there, but I kind of assuming the people checking it out will have a more modern browser, and a decent connection.
- I should add that I did crush the pngs and alot of them are 24bits to get the decent level of transparencytimmyblog
- baseline_shift0
i like the look. its appropriate for the target.
Everything feels a bit 'big'. There needs to be more hierarchy. Im not sure where to look first, and wound up not really being able to focus or get through any of the content.
- detritus0
Main shout on the homepage is pretty shitty, and not really in keeping with the rest of the design, though everything else seems to fit your intended market.
Your main concern, imo, is the fact that you're running at least different slightly-similar looking sites, so if I flip between that page, your shop and your blog, I get a bit confused (especially with the blog - it's part of your main nav, see?). But then, I am old, so not up to the frenetic pace the exciting young things you're after are able to muster.
Not sure why you've gone with a completely different font for your nav either. That's seems a little odd to me.
- Oh yeah - and link your main logo to your homepage, please :)detritus
- fresnobob0
your style is totally wack, sorry.
- Ravdyk0
I got scared when I opened it. Closed it right away think that says enough...
- identity0
I know you're going for a rawkus look/feel - but this is a bit too heavy handed... Lighten this up a lot...
- < heavy handed is a good way to put this. If everything is loud, than nothing is.baseline_shift
- That makes sense.timmyblog
- timmyblog0
thanks for the feedback everybody!
- utopian0
How many fonts did you use, I think I lost count....
- doesnotexist0
I think the inconsistencies between pages is the most glaring thing about the site. other than that, I do think the banner/header thing is a bit big, and bordering being obnoxious- the logo gets lost.
- timmyblog0
Fonts used:
Arial Black, Georgia, then my logo font and I believe maybe plain arial text for the really small stuff.
- OSFA0
wtf? who are all these people???
- timmyblog0
What people?