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EVALUATE MY WEBSITE? - Revan - 03-17-2010
Hi, Revan here (aka Zach) I was wondering if any of you wanted to evaluate my website? The design is nearing completion, and I should be open for -REAL- business soon!
www.roguestudios.zoompros.com
Feedback? =)
EVALUATE MY WEBSITE? - SolCommand - 03-17-2010
Looks GREAT man ! If there's one thing I'd like changed is the completely white background, something more grey-ish or such would look better I believe.
EVALUATE MY WEBSITE? - ivr56 - 03-17-2010
Looking Good
EVALUATE MY WEBSITE? - mwerte - 03-17-2010
This is all using Chrome and XP. This is all my opinion. Take it or leave it.
First problem, the main picture took fooorrrreeevvvverrrr to load. It made me feel like I was on a Dial-Up line. Not sure why, it's not an exceedingly large file, but it did. First impressions are important.
Second, the sides look very empty and lonely. I like the centered design, but if you're going to use a top and bottom banner like that, it'd be better to shorten them, and add a very slight line down the sides, to give it a box and a 'frame' to your page. Have the background inside that box be a different color from the one that is outside the box.
Third, your RSS, <strike>Twitter</strike> Flikr, and Facebook buttons, they don't link anywhere. Adding a mouseover text saying "RSS, Flicker, Facebook" to each button respectively can't hurt either.
Fourth, and this I think is the big one. Your main image provides a nice left and right boarder. Justify your top and bottom boarder text (Partner sites/CSS2 and XHTML) to that, and it will look much neater.
Fifth. "Welcome Guest, Today is 3/17/2010" utterly useless information. I know I'm a guest, there's no place to log in so that I won't be a guest, and if I don't know the date (I'm sitting at my computer) I'm not going to go to your site to find out the date. Replace that with something more relevant. Maybe a tip of the day?
Sixth. Your main image. It does absolutely nothing for your 'company image' except establish that you can find stock photos of bridges. If that spiked radiation thing is your logo, 1) It's repeated too much in that photo and not enough places elsewhere, 2) It's a fairly bad logo, it does not convey professionalism, nor does it help establish what the company is about. #2 goes for the main image in general.
Seventh. Your three "departments" beneath the main picture. The spacing makes my eyes hurt.
1) Put each department inside its own little box. Align all the text within that box either properly centered or left justified.
2) Repeat for each box.
3) Space the boxes so that the left boarder of the left box is on the same horizontal line as the left boarder of the main picture. Do the same for the right side of the rightmost box and the right side of the picture.
4) put the third box evenly in the middle of the other two boxes.
5) Link all of the text within the boxes to the pages you want them to go to.
6) Get rid of the "More Info" link.
Eighth.
![[Image: zw.PNG]](http://roguestudios.zoompros.com/zw.PNG)
It should be Logo Design. What the heck is CO.PROMO ??
Ninth. Remember that boarder/frame we made in point 4? Apply that to your other pages. They look very scattered. And not the cool, fun, scattered, the sloppy, disorganized scattered.
Tenth. Proofread proofread proofread. You have a fair amount of grammar errors in your text. I'd be happy to proofread for you. (for a small fee. ;))
Eleventh. I just loaded up your site in IE7 (Yes, I use it, so does a very very large percent of the world's internet users). There is a scrollbar up in the top frame. I had to use it to scroll down to see the partner sites dropdown and the fact that I was a guest.
Twelfth. Your terms and conditions button on Services.html is...odd. The mouseover image is fuzzy and makes it hard to read. I'd suggest having a simple inverted image like the rest of your button mouseovers. In addition to that, have the link to the .pdf open up in a new window. In addition to that, have your terms and conditions been vetted by a real lawyer? If they haven't, and you get on the bad side of a corporation with real lawyers, you could be in for a very serious amount of trouble.
(I keep meaning to stop but then I see something else)
Thirteenth.
Business
Business deals are email based, all media made by Rogue Studios is theirs until a final contract is made.
Payment
Payment is routed mainly through PayPal, some local exceptions can be made.
Justify this text and align the left boarder of said justified text with the left boarder of your Terms and Conditions button. Structure, especially unobtrusive, unseen structure, is very pleasing to the eye.
roguestudios@ymail.com *sigh* you have your own domain. Use it. Split up your emails. LogoDesigns@zoompros.com, PromoGraphics@zoompros.com, WebDesign@zoompros.com, ContactMe@zoompros.com, ZackWynacos@zoompros.com. And then you can have them all auto-redirect to one main email. Helps keep you organized, and if you ever expand, it'll make that restructuring a tad easier. Oh, an admin@zoompros.com is always a good one to have, I got some weird emails to my admin email accounts.
Fourteenth. Structure Structure Structure. Build a template (point 4) and then apply it to each page. I cannot stress that enough.
Fifteenth. Add your "Partner Pages" dropdown to each of your pages.
That's all for now, I need some sleep. Good luck. It needs a lot of polish, but it's a fairly good start.
Edit: Holy wall of text Batman!
Sixteenth. Zoompros.com I hope you own it. Since whatever was there shut down so so long ago, I'd suggest auto-redirecting it back to your RS website. If you can't or don't want to do that, make it sound much more neutral, right now it reads as a game site of some sort that was shut down. If I was a corporation, and looking at hiring you, and I came across that, it's a very serious strike against you for unprofessionalism. You may be -just- a kid doing this on the side, but you absolutely do not want to look that way.
Seventeenth. I just loaded your page up at work. It took a good 5 seconds for the picture to load, and that's on a corporate T3 line.
EVALUATE MY WEBSITE? - Prysin - 03-17-2010
i agree with mwerte
key things to note:
- resizing
- marking (text to add on buttons)
- the coding in general (you made some slipups, thats why its so slow i guess. Remove the uneeded parts)
EVALUATE MY WEBSITE? - Ironfoot - 03-17-2010
What does -
"Rogue Studios specializes many media design, for company promotion, as well as design. These are just a few things that we can do for you. LOGO DESIGN IS NOW, THE REST ARE FOR THE FUTURE.",
actually mean?
And yes the speed of that site is crazy and is a well known fact of web design that turns people off.
"Rogue Studios specializes many media design, for company promotion, as well as design. These are just a few things that we can do for you. LOGO DESIGN IS NOW, THE REST ARE FOR THE FUTURE.",
actually mean?
And yes the speed of that site is crazy and is a well known fact of web design that turns people off.
EVALUATE MY WEBSITE? - Revan - 03-18-2010
ALL: - Thanks for your criticism.
EVALUATE MY WEBSITE? - Revan - 03-18-2010
First problem, the main picture took fooorrrreeevvvverrrr to load. It made me feel like I was on a Dial-Up line. Not sure why, it's not an exceedingly large file, but it did. First impressions are important.
- I am going to definitely fix this, I more put it there till I had the time to make one myself...
Second, the sides look very empty and lonely. I like the centered design, but if you're going to use a top and bottom banner like that, it'd be better to shorten them, and add a very slight line down the sides, to give it a box and a 'frame' to your page. Have the background inside that box be a different color from the one that is outside the box.
The coding is very screwed up... I would appreciate any help in adding sides to it.
Third, your RSS, <strike>Twitter</strike> Flikr, and Facebook buttons, they don't link anywhere. Adding a mouseover text saying "RSS, Flicker, Facebook" to each button respectively can't hurt either.
Yes i had forgotten about those... I haven't created the right pages yet =/
Fourth, and this I think is the big one. Your main image provides a nice left and right boarder. Justify your top and bottom boarder text (Partner sites/CSS2 and XHTML) to that, and it will look much neater.
Ug, i design not code.. Help?
Fifth. "Welcome Guest, Today is 3/17/2010" utterly useless information. I know I'm a guest, there's no place to log in so that I won't be a guest, and if I don't know the date (I'm sitting at my computer) I'm not going to go to your site to find out the date. Replace that with something more relevant. Maybe a tip of the day?
I planned on putting an actual login, and i still do, however i don't own the domain currently, so i cannot set it up.
Sixth. Your main image. It does absolutely nothing for your 'company image' except establish that you can find stock photos of bridges. If that spiked radiation thing is your logo, 1) It's repeated too much in that photo and not enough places elsewhere, 2) It's a fairly bad logo, it does not convey professionalism, nor does it help establish what the company is about. #2 goes for the main image in general.
Again, something cool till i actually make something relevant =D
Seventh. Your three "departments" beneath the main picture. The spacing makes my eyes hurt.
1) Put each department inside its own little box. Align all the text within that box either properly centered or left justified.
2) Repeat for each box.
3) Space the boxes so that the left boarder of the left box is on the same horizontal line as the left boarder of the main picture. Do the same for the right side of the rightmost box and the right side of the picture.
4) put the third box evenly in the middle of the other two boxes.
5) Link all of the text within the boxes to the pages you want them to go to.
6) Get rid of the "More Info" link.
Very good idea, I will do this.
Eighth.
It should be Logo Design. What the heck is CO.PROMO ??
Company promotion, and yea i totally see the slip up. Again i don't realize it when i know what it means. Basically i will do cards pamphlets etc too...
Ninth. Remember that boarder/frame we made in point 4? Apply that to your other pages. They look very scattered. And not the cool, fun, scattered, the sloppy, disorganized scattered.
Noted.
Tenth. Proofread proofread proofread. You have a fair amount of grammar errors in your text. I'd be happy to proofread for you. (for a small fee. ;))
Yea i will look over it all -
Eleventh. I just loaded up your site in IE7 (Yes, I use it, so does a very very large percent of the world's internet users). There is a scrollbar up in the top frame. I had to use it to scroll down to see the partner sites dropdown and the fact that I was a guest.
Crap.. I might have to have to remake it...
Twelfth. Your terms and conditions button on Services.html is...odd. The mouseover image is fuzzy and makes it hard to read. I'd suggest having a simple inverted image like the rest of your button mouseovers. In addition to that, have the link to the .pdf open up in a new window. In addition to that, have your terms and conditions been vetted by a real lawyer? If they haven't, and you get on the bad side of a corporation with real lawyers, you could be in for a very serious amount of trouble.
The conditions was a hybrid of a real pros =D legal? it's more of guidelines given my position - and although it's cool a negative is better - fixing-
(I keep meaning to stop but then I see something else) It's ok its kinda a mess-
Thirteenth.
Business
Business deals are email based, all media made by Rogue Studios is theirs until a final contract is made.
Payment
Payment is routed mainly through PayPal, some local exceptions can be made.
Justify this text and align the left boarder of said justified text with the left boarder of your Terms and Conditions button. Structure, especially unobtrusive, unseen structure, is very pleasing to the eye.
I see what you mean -
roguestudios@ymail.com *sigh* you have your own domain. Use it. Split up your emails. LogoDesigns@zoompros.com, PromoGraphics@zoompros.com, WebDesign@zoompros.com, ContactMe@zoompros.com, ZackWynacos@zoompros.com. And then you can have them all auto-redirect to one main email. Helps keep you organized, and if you ever expand, it'll make that restructuring a tad easier. Oh, an admin@zoompros.com is always a good one to have, I got some weird emails to my admin email accounts.
Sadly i am using my friends domain to edit off of so i cannot do any of these things... yet.
Fourteenth. Structure Structure Structure. Build a template (point 4) and then apply it to each page. I cannot stress that enough.
Yes I should. They all are a bit different.
Fifteenth. Add your "Partner Pages" dropdown to each of your pages.
Tried that. had issues, templates would probably fix that.
That's all for now, I need some sleep. Good luck. It needs a lot of polish, but it's a fairly good start.
Edit: Holy wall of text Batman!
Sixteenth. Zoompros.com I hope you own it. Since whatever was there shut down so so long ago, I'd suggest auto-redirecting it back to your RS website. If you can't or don't want to do that, make it sound much more neutral, right now it reads as a game site of some sort that was shut down. If I was a corporation, and looking at hiring you, and I came across that, it's a very serious strike against you for unprofessionalism. You may be -just- a kid doing this on the side, but you absolutely do not want to look that way.
Yea - not my domain and i totally understand, I simply am using it for editing - "Beta"
Seventeenth. I just loaded your page up at work. It took a good 5 seconds for the picture to load, and that's on a corporate T3 line.
Again, hopefully i can clear this up although if anyone could help me that would be awesome.
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Quote:SolCommand Posted Yesterday, 09:54 PM
Looks GREAT man ! If there's one thing I'd like changed is the completely white background, something more grey-ish or such would look better I believe.
Going back to what I said, if i can build the borders i will do this.
EDITI am sorry for showing my pathetic site to everyone, lol I might just scrap it and just make a facebook group or something. Atleast i know lol I am not a web designer. idk it's just a huge mess- it's probably better to do something else.
EVALUATE MY WEBSITE? - mwerte - 03-18-2010
' Wrote:Eleventh. I just loaded up your site in IE7 (Yes, I use it, so does a very very large percent of the world's internet users). There is a scrollbar up in the top frame. I had to use it to scroll down to see the partner sites dropdown and the fact that I was a guest.Looking at it some more, it appears that the scrollbar appears when the window is not wide enough.
Crap.. I might have to have to remake it...
I wouldn't say that you need to give up, but you defiantly need to polish your coding skills before you offer them as a service, or put this website up for public consumption. For the love of all that is in graphically good and right, do NOT just open up 'as a facebook page' make you look like you're a fly by night operation, and won't be around to finish the job. Better to not open up at all.
EVALUATE MY WEBSITE? - Revan - 03-19-2010
' Wrote:Looking at it some more, it appears that the scrollbar appears when the window is not wide enough.
I wouldn't say that you need to give up, but you defiantly need to polish your coding skills before you offer them as a service, or put this website up for public consumption. For the love of all that is in graphically good and right, do NOT just open up 'as a facebook page' make you look like you're a fly by night operation, and won't be around to finish the job. Better to not open up at all.
Well i made a few changes.. And seems to be a bit better... yes lol - my coding is very basic... I am more graphically more intune lol.