designcut - iCraig's new site.

iCraig · 27 Jun 2006 at 09:51

http://test.metrix.co.uk/

I said a few weeks ago that my site would be coming under critique from you guys soon. That time is now here.

Basically, I'd love your opinions, suggestions and ****takes.

Generally the site is probably about 80% complete. It mainly needs more content in the archive, and for that to be a little more organised. It also needs some content on the homepage.

If anybody has any suggestions on what my homepage should have, tell me.

I'd like to put something different on there, not the usual "Welcome to my site, have a look around etc" or a little latest news column filled with pointless updates.

Also, if you like the site and find it interesting, feel free to subscribe to the RSS feed on the blog page.

Anyway, fire away.

iCraig · 27 Jun 2006 at 13:43

D4VE said:
The first page scrolls a little for some reason?
Must be margin or something.

Horizontal?

Which browser?

iCraig · 27 Jun 2006 at 14:33

D4VE said:
Vertical, in IE 6.0.

I don't think vertical scrolling will be too much of an issue, 80% of sites on the net require you to scroll vertically to read the content.

Plus the homepage has zero content in it at the moment, so even if it scrolls slightly with no content it will certainly scroll with some in.

iCraig · 27 Jun 2006 at 14:34

Mattus said:
As for the front page... perhaps some 'excerpts' from the other pages? The first paragraph of your latest blog entry, a few of your favourite sites this week

I like that idea, cheers.

iCraig · 27 Jun 2006 at 17:51

Yeah, I really want to inject the site with a lot more content before switching it from test to live.

Like I said in my first post I'm planning on adding more content to the archive and then organising it better, probably a set of nested lists or something.

Is there any content on there apart from that you think needs to be organised better?

iCraig · 28 Jun 2006 at 11:27

m00ch0 said:
also if u have flash experience get it so that when you click the menu the text slides down I'm not a fan of click then it content flashes up usually but that depends if you want flash on your site.

I wouldn't want to have my navigation items made out of Flash, it's unaccessible and search engines hate it.