Review My Redesigned Website (Looking for Approval)

[garrensilverwing]

I am in the middle of redesigning my website. My very first design (which has already been critiqued) can be found here: http://brianwallchess.x10hosting.com/. The overall design of the website was haphazardly done because I did not know much anything :dunno:.

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Since, I have looked at some popular sites on the web and thought to incorporate some of the things from those sites into my own and totally redesign my site. Before I went ahead and redid the whole site I wanted to get some opinions on the new changes (right now the text has not bee formatted but I was intending to keep it very dark, almost black). I have fixed several bugs that were plaguing the original design (such as the drop down menu) and incorporated some much appriciated feedback from my previous post. Some things I want to point out in my design, I added a drop shadow to the masthead and main body which I created myself. I added a checkerboard background which I also created myself. Made the index page much bigger and gave it some breathing room and also filled in some dead space. Also, with the help of a tutorial site, I got a much better drop down menu.

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Here is my new design (None of the links will work and there is no content yet added to this design):

http://brianwallchess.x10hosting.com/Design2/index2.htm

If I get mostly positive feedback then I will continue with this design and give the entire site a make over. If not I will try again :biggrin: Thanks for all the criticism in advance!

 

[diabolo]

i would say average, not to be mean but it looks like a very home made kind of site not like a professional one. 1) the font-family is one thing i personally never like serif fonts on the web, unless it fits the purpose 2) the content right now looks scattered all over the place, I had trouble finding what it all ment 3) the logo "Brian Wall.." doesn't really stand out

 

[garrensilverwing]

thanks for feed back . it is homemade so its no biggy its my second attempt at a design. 1) i havent decided what I am going to use for my font formats so I havent formatted them at all, thats just the default for my computer. 2)havent added any content yet, but the big white spaces inside the 3 bordered divs will have the news emails and games content respectively 3) i suck at graphic art haha i will work on it though, any suggestions?

 

[sunils]

Lot of improvement can be found in your design. But if you can use some more colors instead of white that would look good. This is just my opinion.