Feedback on my fansite

[Psiphon]

I have a fansite that's been up since last week. It's not completely done, but I'd like to get some feedback on what I should improve on. Nothing so drastic as a total revamp; that'll happen in a couple of months. I've been working on some small ornamental images to give it a less bland look, but do I really need to? I'm sure I'll have some image headings to put up on each page though. Well, let me know: http://bp.psiphon.net

[kojiro]

VERY NICE


:) :D :cool: ;)

It looks great! But the font is a little too small though.

Your menu bar is excellent.

[hime-chan]

I can only agree! The menu bar is excellent, but I tapered around the splashpage a bit until I noticed I had to click on the image (that may just be my dumbness, though).

Apart from that, you may want to use a more slender black frame for the scrollbars, and I'm at personal odds with the color grey because it looks depressed, dirty and unspiky when applied in masses. But you probably know all that ... >.> Everything else: excellent, excellent, excellent!

+ hime-chan

[[~eVoL-ST~]]

Awsome job. I'd also agree that the nav bar just kicks --- and I think the rest of the site does to. Good work.

[Psiphon]

Thank you so much for the glowing feedback! :)

rshinji: Really? I personally like the small font size (my desktop is in 1024x768 res, btw). It seems like a normal font size since a couple of websites I visit have text that small. Besides, making the text larger will make my navigation menu look too small...still, I'll change the font size if I get a bunch of complaints.

hime-chan: Okay, I will be adding some text letting viewers know to click on the image to enter. It just seemed obvious from my view that's why I didn't have any pointers/hints, but then again I'm the one who made it. So, it's not dumbness in your part.

I don't exactly know what you mean about using a "more slender black frame for the scrollbars" part. You mean the black border of the scrollbar itself, right? If that's so, I don't really have control on the thickness of it.

As for the color scheme. Man, that was the hardest part of creating that fansite. I tried varying colors and such. Even pestered my friends for some advice. I didn't want a background color that would be too contrasting to the content (I tried a number of hues of blue), so I eventually ended up with a neutral color. I was aiming for silver, but it is actually a light grey, huh? Does it really make it look that somber? Maybe I can offset it with a simple (repeated?) background image or something of the sort.

Again, thanks for your input! I'm trying to get as many people satisfied with the design (of course, I can't please everyone), so give me some pointers :)

[Psiphon]

I changed the background color to a greyish-blue (or something of that sort). Maybe it's a little better now?

[bigperm]

The site is very good, esp. the nav bar... kudos on that. BUT, and this is a matter of personal prefrence... I do not like the crosshairs on the links. Other than that... good job.

[hime-chan]

Sorry it took me so long to reply!

If you control the scrollbar via the stylesheets, there's a whole bunch of values you can control. If I get the right impressions, on your scrollbar an overall of five values are set to a dark color and the rest is light.

One of those five values are of course the arrows, just leave them. But if you switch two of the other four to white (and I don't know which ones they are, sorry ... I think scrollbar-light and scrollbar-shadow or something like that ... T_T I don't ever type them from hand, I just copy and paste them from one of my central stylesheets to the next ... >.>) the border will look thinner - like, more adjusted to the dark lines around your menu.

Of course, switching the track color to your sites background-color and leaving the rest as is could make for a nice effect, too ... I don't know, since I haven't ever had a layout like yours (I'm a 'small' fetishist)... you may just want to try. Since the page is so overally-good, it doesn't really matter if this one detail looks better or not. ;)

~ Hime-chan

PS: I just remembered - didn't Bonnie Pink do some Rurouni Kenshin songs? If wrong, whap me on the head or something like that ... but ... >.> "It's gonna rain", right? That song is cool! =^^=

[Psiphon]

Heh, I've been a little tied up this past week. :(

I see what you mean, hime-chan. Yes, I do control the scrollbar via CSS, so I'm going to play around with the 3D (i.e. the highlight/shadow) part of the scrollbar some more to make the border look thinner. Thanks for the advice!

Hehe, I do the same thing when it comes to styles; I copy and paste from one main stylesheet (usually from previous websites I've done). Not worth memorizing them you know.

You're right, Bonnie Pink's "It's gonna rain!" became one of Rurouni Kenshin's ending theme songs. And yes, it's cool! :) That's the song that got me into her in the first place.