Please critique my web-site design

[Mucman]

Thanks for the feedback... I've made the background gray, and made the menu links darker.

I must say that this has been an interesting project for me 🙂

 

[jonmullen]

If you want to stay with blue you might try getting some ideas from here. I personally really like the color scheme that it uses, but thats just me.

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: Mucman
Thanks for the feedback... I've made the background gray, and made the menu links darker.

I must say that this has been an interesting project for me 🙂

That looks a lot better. Nice work! 😀

 

[jonmullen]

Originally posted by: Mucman
Thanks for the feedback... I've made the background gray, and made the menu links darker.

I must say that this has been an interesting project for me 🙂

I like the menu's detatched much better, and the color is better. It is really comming a long. I remember when you got your first script for the radio working. I must say you follow through on your projects better than I do 😉.

 

[fatbaby]

it reminds me of 1994!

Add some nice graphics or something. Your site is kind of dull.

 

[Mucman]

Originally posted by: fatbaby
it reminds me of 1994!

Add some nice graphics or something. Your site is kind of dull.

web graphics suck IMHO 🙂, my favorite sites are all text based.

Thanks for the kind words jonmullen! I enjoy re-inventing the wheel so I didn't look at a lot of predesigned templates. I did
find lots of good info at alistpart.com.

My overall plan is to have the main site be a selection of RSS feeds. There's so much web-content out there, that there really
is no use for me publishing my own blog. I will have a menu selection for misc junk written by me though. I also need to work
on my HTML because it is not HTML STRICT anymore.

Also, once the playlist is DB driven, I will have better control over it... right now it's all in an include, and is hard to manipulate.

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: fatbaby
it reminds me of 1994!

Add some nice graphics or something. Your site is kind of dull.

The site doesn't really need any graphics, I think.

Mucman: I suggested this before, but you may want to space the playlist entries out a little bit or possibly put a divider between each entry like you have in the menus. I personally think it would make it a little easier to read, but it's your call.

 

[jonmullen]

Originally posted by: Mucman

Originally posted by: fatbaby
it reminds me of 1994!

Add some nice graphics or something. Your site is kind of dull.

web graphics suck IMHO 🙂, my favorite sites are all text based.

Thanks for the kind words jonmullen! I enjoy re-inventing the wheel so I didn't look at a lot of predesigned templates. I did
find lots of good info at alistpart.com.

My overall plan is to have the main site be a selection of RSS feeds. There's so much web-content out there, that there really
is no use for me publishing my own blog. I will have a menu selection for misc junk written by me though. I also need to work
on my HTML because it is not HTML STRICT anymore.

Also, once the playlist is DB driven, I will have better control over it... right now it's all in an include, and is hard to manipulate.

Oh I was not suggestiong useing that site. Infact I dont really like that design since it is table based and has the widths absolute, but I like the colors thats what I wanted you to see, but I still like the new design so I 'ld just stick with that.

 

[BennyD]

thats alot better mucman, nice and simple, still lacking something but i'm not sure what.

maybe alternating table backgrounds for the list, like between white and off white.

that'd make it easier to read but i'm not sure how you'd do it

 

[Mucman]

Yes yes yes... I know the playlist sux 🙂. That will be fixed once everything is database driven and scriptable 🙂

I think my index pages will be done using a series of includes :

session.php
header.php
left.php
body.php
right.php
footer.php

I still have to polish off my db schema before I do that though. The radio portion of the site will have a playlist selection
area, and I want to incorporatethis page into it. You will be able to
select 50 songs from that list, and schedule a date for when that list will be played (nifty eh?).

 

[jonmullen]

Originally posted by: Mucman
Yes yes yes... I know the playlist sux 🙂. That will be fixed once everything is database driven and scriptable 🙂

I think my index pages will be done using a series of includes :

session.php
header.php
left.php
body.php
right.php
footer.php

I still have to polish off my db schema before I do that though. The radio portion of the site will have a playlist selection
area, and I want to incorporatethis page into it. You will be able to
select 50 songs from that list, and schedule a date for when that list will be played (nifty eh?).

Its good, but I think you should pass anchor tag when you minimize a list so you dont have to start from the top again. Just my idea.

 

[Mucman]

I've updated the website now... the stats and E-mail login is now incorporated with my templates and I've added some stuff to the radio link.

I'm now working on the look'n'feel of the playlist listing, and the band listing (since listing 330 bands is too long).

 

[Derango]

Looks better now. That color text on that shade of blue though isn't very good 🙂

 

[Mucman]

Originally posted by: Derango
Looks better now. That color text on that shade of blue though isn't very good 🙂

Oh right! I forgot about that... you mean the ugly baby blue in the menu titles, right? I'll get right on that.

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: Mucman
I've updated the website now... the stats and E-mail login is now incorporated with my templates and I've added some stuff to the radio link.

I'm now working on the look'n'feel of the playlist listing, and the band listing (since listing 330 bands is too long).

Looking good. 😀 You may want to change the color of the bottom two links on the left-hand side so that they match the other links. They're hard to see at the moment.

 

[mrCide]

um.. i dunno if anyone mentioned it but shade every other row a different shade of gray for the list

 

[Mucman]

Thanks Encryptic... not sure what you mean by the links though... Are you using IE? Right now I have only browsed the site with Galeon. I think the CSS for
A:visited isn't taking effect for some reason... none of the links should change colour.

mtCide, don't worry, that will be done once the playlists are db driven... right now I am just using a plaintext file as an include... it's generated on my
local machine when I create these playlists.

I'm also pondering on making the right menu float instead of being absolute... the right hand menu is just an auxillary menu that will be added whenever
the function of that portion of the site requires it... you can see that the stats and main page don't even need a menu.