My new website

[20series]

Spud

Looks very good mate :goodjob: :shakeshout:

don't worry about a few spelling mistakes :lol: we know you're from Norfolk and can't help it :flag5:

Alan

ps I made a small donation

[Dougan]

Good stuff Spud :goodjob:

Peronally I'd prefer not to see fox shooting in the intro to some of your vids - but I ignore it, as I really like your reloading vids - they explain advanced stuff in a simple way ...even if a few of them are a bit long...I think the 'annealing' one actually hypnotised me :P

Btw: I can't spell for toffee...so didn't notice any errors :)

[rox]

Any way have a lookand leave a comment in this thread if you have any ideas.

A good start.

I think the most significant initial improvement you could make is to condense the banners and navigation. If you view the site on a 'small laptop' there's only a tiny area of the screen left visible below the main banner, the 3 rows of donate/social icons, second banner, and navigation. Even on a large laptop there’s much less than 50% of usable screen area left for content, and only on a fairly large monitor do you actually get a reasonable amount of space. This initially-visible content area - what’s called ‘above the fold’, from newspaper days (i.e. the content area that is visible without scrolling) - is the most important real estate on your site, and the key area for your headlines and to get the message across, introduce the site, or whatever the goal of the particular page is. Below is a screenshot of the worst case, and a basic mockup of an improvement. I would go further and shrink the top banner a little more. You'd need to fit the donate/social media icons in somewhere else, e.g. on the right hand side between Latest News and popular (somewhere that eyes will scan when in 'reading mode').

A second suggestion is to condense the big block of text. Web readers are extremely fickle, and big chunks of text are a big turn-off. They need a diet of bite-sized summaries, bulleted headlines with short explanations etc, with links to read more if they're interested. Information that is digestible at a glance. It also looks like the font is italic, which makes it a little harder to read and slightly more 'pixelated' since all the verticals are at an angle.

Current View:

Condensed View:

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[spud]

thanks rox ill have a play later on , my first complete disigned website as i usually set up forums etc

[Robin128]

Rox...good post!

[spud]

any better?


and thanks for the head up rox

[Robin128]

Spud...uppercase the i's...I's...Production front page.

[spud]

dam It

[spud]

thanks Robin i really need to start using a spollchikcer

[spud]

More spamming.