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Old September 3rd, 2004, 11:41 PM
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Arrow NintendoSpin.com

Link: http://www.nintendospin.com/
Forums: http://www.nintendospin.com/boards/

My website concentrates on video game news and review - specifically for Nintendo related platforms.

I've posted this new design on a few websites and I've gotten some nice constructive feedback. I've made some changes based on people's comments and I still plan on changing it a little more. One thing I have changed already was the feature images at the top of the site (before they were just three small images and now there is one large image and two smaller ones). The background is another thing I’ve changed a few times, as well as the main font size (which was a little smaller before).

I’ve received some criticism about the site being too red and I’ll be definitely taking this into consideration for my next redesign.

The forums display best in the latest version of Mozilla. The layout was made in Macromedia Fireworks and is running on Ncaster 1.7.2 (a gaming CMS).

Please give a general review of my site. Maybe concentrate more on the layout and design as it is relativity new. But please feel free to post your comments on anything so we can improve the site and make it the best we can. Thanks.

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Old September 4th, 2004, 08:17 AM
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Now that's a good-looking site. I have to say I like the colour scheme and the skiny gel nav panels. Under the bonnet it's a bit of a mess though. I counted three <html> tags for starters so not sure what you're up to there!? Nice work on the surface though. Takes a lot of work and thought to get something looking that good. Home page is on the heavy side at 110KB. You're paying the price for the good looks with the 39 images weighing in at 82KB.
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Old September 4th, 2004, 12:08 PM
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Now that's a good-looking site. I have to say I like the colour scheme and the skiny gel nav panels. Under the bonnet it's a bit of a mess though. I counted three <html> tags for starters so not sure what you're up to there!? Nice work on the surface though. Takes a lot of work and thought to get something looking that good. Home page is on the heavy side at 110KB. You're paying the price for the good looks with the 39 images weighing in at 82KB.

Yeah, I think my CMS may be making the extra html tags. I'll check it out.

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although i don't know what skinny gel nav panels are, i agree with sky

your cms needs a good firm kick up the bottom

one more point: tables are not for layouts, http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-11.1

nice design, but your code needs work.

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although i don't know what skinny gel nav panels are, i agree with sky


doh - I meant SHINY...need more caffeine

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