respect me site

[jimbo]

yo check out me website tell us what youse think
tell us any bugs
any feed back is good
sledging is welcome.

http://www.2minnoodle.net

Im also designing this website at the moment for my mate
we need some quality feedback, Its not finished but its getting there.
Paddymelon.net
:chinese: :bandit:

[smoseley]

Wow... that's got to be the oddest site layout I've ever seen. Very interesting though !!! It definitely doesn't follow any conventional school of design. Here are my thoughts:

• The splash page is interesting enough, but it looks like the splash page of every popup flash site I've ever seen (see 2advanced.com). Besides that, it's still a splash page, which means it's functionless. Also, it doesn't follow the theme of the rest of your site.
• The main page is divided into framesets? And it looks like you have an iFrame in there too? If you're using an iFrame, there's no need for you to have the external frameset. You should find a way to slice up the images you're using and put them into a table.
• The grid should be created as a background image. It will look better and take less bandwidth. Right now it doesn't line up because it's spanning frames.
• The content window (iframe) should be bigger.
• The text in your content window should be bigger and higher contrast (try a white background).
• Where did the color blue come from? You have a consistently warm color scheme, then you introduce this baby blue into the mix. I don't get it. Why not use the beige from your splash page? Then you'd have a tie between the splash and main pages, too.
• Navigation buttons are impossible to read.. make them bigger.
• You have floating icons in the main content area that don't fit the rest of the graphic theme. Everything else is photographic or semi-realistic illustration. Stick with that for consistency.
• The "features" and "2 cents" pages have a totally different layout... I think you should stick to one of them... It looks like 3 different websites to me.

There are more little ones, but those are most of the major points... work on them and come back. Then we'll fine tune it.

[splufdaddy]

Cool artwork on the splash page but: splash pages are unneccesary, and the image tiles (repeats) on large resolutions.

Also, I'm not sure what resolution the main page was designed for, but it looks pretty spread out on 1280x1024. I think I can see what you are trying to accomplish, but things just aren't lining up. When I brought my resolution down to 800x600, I was unable to scroll down the page. This is on WinXP, IE6.

As far as paddymelon goes, it looks better, but it also doesn't look like it scales up to a higher resolution well. The bar above the news section doesn't go all the way across. Also, the left aligned banner looks odd, try centering it.

[jimbo]

wow **** yeah i might do some of those changes thanks for the advice, ok so whats a iframe and the only reason that the images arnt set as backgrounds is that it stuffs up ,when you change the resolution
and im having trouble setting up the resolution for 800x600, i tried getting rid of the frames and tried tables, but i was going for the not lining up of the images ,i was trying to get that effect.
yeah i know the 2cents bit is different to the rest hey, yeah its a problem , hmm what to do
ill try and make it look like the rest of the site
but i kind of like the features section
SO splash pages aint a good idea huh?
damn i might have to do somethin to that.
he he i feel so depressed now he he
oh well thanks anyway, i didnt really notice some of those problems

[jaron]

heheh yeah, you gotta follow the basic rules of CRAP(from some book i cant remember)
Contrast (Make sure the colours work well together, but also stand out from each other a bit)
Repetition (all pages should have the same theme)
Alignment (if one page has left justified text, all pages should have left justified text)
Proximity (Keep the related stuff together)

of course, i am a total non-designer, so take everything i say with a grain of salt...

[TheGAME1264]

'Ey mon, I be checkin' jah website styles an' dey be lookin' pretty jammin' when I light de ganja flame, mon!

(I truly am The Ontario Cracker That Just Keeps Gettin' Blacker.)

I have to say I like the CRAP philosophy. It's how I tend to look at design (although not quite with that acronym).

As far as your site is concerned, I like it overall, but I also find the splash page totally useless (and bizarre). I would also make either make the IFrame about 3 times as large both ways, since it's the part that displays your primary content, or get rid of it entirely and replace it with a table. There's no point putting large volumes of text in a space that barely fits 5% of it.

[iphong]

It took me while to find the way in your site. Nice artwork!
But i cant see the word in the navigation bar,its too small.

[jimbo]

yeah i know navigation is a reucurring problem
so you cant see the buttons at all
?
maybe its in the -->view menu
--> text size and make it smaller
i dont know
he he
thanks for the comments by the way
yeah ill see what i can do

[jimbo]

Thanks for all the hits
i made google
hell yeah
google this: 2minnoodle
So stoked hey.

:cheeky:

[splufdaddy]

You come up first (and alone) on Yahoo, but for some reason Google didn't return your site for me, I just did a search.