[Please] Critique my Toplist Design

[Arson]

I just finished a new design for my top list: http://www.besttextgames.com and am hoping to get some constructive criticism :)

I am pretty new to site designs and this is the first one I've done on my own for a live site. Its relatively basic, but any input is appreciated.

Also, I only tested it on IE7 and Firefox 6.0.1. Anyone running other browsers like opera or whatever, please let me know if you find anything funky.

Thanks!

[Ecko]

v good work !

[Mystical]

I think it looks very nice. Nice work! I only see one thing that I would change. Websites annoy me when you have to use the scroll bar to see the whole page. Not up and down but right to left. Other than that it is really nice and easy to navigate website.

[Arson]

Thanks!

@Mystical, just curious, what's your screen resolution?

The sites at 1076px wide, I was hoping to find a happy median lol

[Kieran-R]

It looks good. However I dont like the layout of the actual content. You defintelly need to work on that. A good layout is nothing without a good layout of the content.

[Mystical]

Thanks!

@Mystical, just curious, what's your screen resolution?

The sites at 1076px wide, I was hoping to find a happy median lol

1024 by 768

[Arson]

Ah, 52 pixels off!

I'll see what I can do for you 1024ers out there lol

[Arson]

It looks good. However I dont like the layout of the actual content. You defintelly need to work on that. A good layout is nothing without a good layout of the content.

Yeah, I forgot to mention that I do have a bit of tweaking to do yet.

After about 6 hours working on creating and implementing the design I remembered how much bert stressed the importance of a good captcha, so I decided to implement that "real quick" haha..ever have those times when you have one little problem with a script and you just can't figure out what the heck is wrong...then a couple hours later after trying every possible fix you can come up with you find it...yeah so I went to bed when I finished at 7:30 in the morning...

But as far as the design goes,

I want to put some boxes with backgrounds to separate the games in the category lists a little better, kind of like how each of your site's games listings are in separate boxes instead of all the same background. I think that will help set the mood a lot better.

The game profiles are going to get an overhaul to suit the new design as well ;)

Thanks for making me strive for perfection Kieran :)

[Arson]

Ok I changed up the game profile pages and the index is spruced up a bit.

Haven't gotten to individualizing the lists.

Also need to pagify them yet.

Edited September 5, 2011 by Arson

[Arson]

Alright I changed the lists a bit and the front page. I think it looks much nicer now, what do ya'll think?

[modernmafia]

very poor look and feel

[Arson]

very poor look and feel

Really that's all you have to say? That's more along the lines of douchebaggery than constructive criticism.

[Danny696]

Might just be me, but the site look a long time to load.

You need a better footer. */me thinks its strange I care about footers*

Maybe you should do some .HTACCESS for the URLS.

Strange thinks I know, but my opinion.

[Arson]

Might just be me, but the site look a long time to load.

You need a better footer. */me thinks its strange I care about footers*

Maybe you should do some .HTACCESS for the URLS.

Strange thinks I know, but my opinion.

Yeah I don't know what I'm gonna do about the speed yet, I'm not sure if it's just my hosting or if the code needs re-written or what..

I agree, the footer could use some improvement, I just haven't gotten around to it yet lol.

HTACCESS, like mod rewrites?

[Danny696]

Yeh, mod rewrites.

[Arson]

so.....

say I want:

hxxp://www.besttextgames.com/GAMENAME

to work in place of:

hxxp://www.besttextgames.com/gameprofile.php?gameid=DYNAMIC

How would I go about doing that?

[Danny696]

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(.*)?$ gameprofile.php?gameid=$1 [L]

I use something like that, not sure if it will work for exacally what you mean.