SITE REVIEW: Counter-Strike Clan Website

Hello everyone. I've recently created a website for my Counter-Strike Clan. (Counter-Strike is an Online Shooting Game). I'm mainly looking for design reviews, but anything else is just fine. Any comments, critism, suggestions, etc is welcome.

The website is not fully finished, for the only thing there is the design. Once I get a few good reviews, I may add some content and pages.

Note: Since I my website is just in a folder of my other website; it may be moved to a real domain name if needed/wanted.
Thanks in Advance!

The Link:
http://www.skizzers.org/maroon/Scorp/

I quite like the basic layout, simple to navigate and easy to find what you want... and a large "main body" area is great too.

Suggestions:

> When making your links, make the table cells change colour when you hover.
> Get rid of that much white on the page, and bring in more of the maroon.
> Add images to your table cell backgrounds so it doesn't all look so square.

One thing I always try and make sure of is that enlarging the font size doesn't screw up the layout of the page, and yours doesn't.. so I'm guessing that is well written coding on your part!

You don't seem to have any topics missing from your links bar, but there is quite a few so make sure your content pages are filled out before going live, otherwise it may look a bit spaced and empty.

Lastly, try and liven up your header image, it looks a bit bland at the moment. Pop over to a CS forum and ask for an image to be made, normally a lot of people would jump at the chance to show of their PSP skills!

It's looking good Fuzz, update this thread when you have some more content on the site so I can have another peek! Have fun editing!

Nice layout. Great for a clan site.

I also think the banenr is bland. There is an awful lot of gray and white there. If you were to make a pattern background it may look better. Also on the top left corner of the content area is a black line. I don't know if its just me, but it seems out of place.

I checked out your site. The initial layout looks nice and clean so it should navigate well. I agree with the other posts that the header is quite dark - and is even a bit hard to see because there is not enough contrast. The logo is a tad fuzzy as well.

I really like the maroon color you pulled in for the separator strip. Perhaps you could pull in that color in some of the body areas for impact?

I'll check back in the future once your links and content are up.

Meg

I agree with the other posts to the banner is to dar you can barely see the the picture of the counter-terrorists. If thats wat they are lol. Uhmm and where it says Events you should make that white a shade of gray. Maybe like the one under "Admin Login". Other than that it looks really Good.

I am a fan of counter strike! I like your site. Maybe you can try php language or convert the site to asp code. This will save a lot of time because the website will be automated.

Additional, you may add " copyright 2005. then your domain name, all right reserved" at the bottom of your site.

Good luck.

Actaully, my website is PHP.

Thank you everyone so much for your tips, suggestions, comments and constructive critism. It's helped a heap!


Yes I'll be doing that.


Great Idea! Thanks!


I noticed this when I got the picture of the Counter-Terrorists, because their uniform is black and the background is black. I'll try make it lighter.
Thanks very much everyone! I'll update this thread when I've got a bit of content and I've done what you've all said.
Thanks again!

lol... wish I could do PHP, something I really need to learn.

Suggestions


I would add a larger margin of about 12px to the links in the left navigation. and perhaps the main body of the website!!

I have to agree with the other posts, that the banner could be improved!

Good luck

I think that you should make the top banner more intresting. Right now it is very bland. All it is is text and a image. Maybe you should blend some images together so it looks more interesting.

Yeah the top banner is pretty lame and I know you could come up with something pretty creative.. Remember this is CS not HL... If you need any help you can always just post here or IM me and I can help you in real time...

I'm not a fan of the layout at all, but I can see how you could like it... Ever mess with flash any? you can download the free trial and do some tuts for buttons Or just anything to spice it up...

Looks pretty good. I'd make more use of the space thats around the outside, at least give it maybe a pattern background that repeats.

Navigation is easy, and so is content display. All the clan websites I see are hard to navigate through which makes it extremely tough since all the buttons are usually such small text I have to turn down my resolution to read it.

I also hope you plan on using php than basic html. It'll help in the long run.

7/10

Yes, but Counter-Strike is related to Half-Life, and they are also by the same creaters. It also uses the same things (Graphics, Physics Engine, etc).
Yea. I will when I get further into the website.
I actually have, though I'm not a genius with it. I can't do Actionscripting, so that's a rather disadvantage of Flash. I find it really hard to insert images from places into a flash file - and also be able to embed that picture with the rest of it. Otherwise, things will disappear behind it... Actually, it's two images, and I lightened the Counter-Terrorists a bit, so you should be able to see them a lot easier now.
I don't really understand what you mean...

He means put soem space besides the side of the screen and the text on the navigation. It's too close to the side.

The site is OK and the banner is also OK but you can make it more good. As said above I also agree with all the points.

Yup, that's the definition of a mod alright A+ for you... And a high five... Beh reguardless it's not needed... It in no way shows signs of anywhere near "hardkore" yeah with a K because that's the group of kids you chill with right? Sadly enough I do too... Anyway drop Gordon it looks terrible, there I said it... enough beating around the bush...

Hmm this isn't really and issue like you think it is... Very simple and actionscript isn't like coding at all really... It's very simple, you'll notice the more you mess with flash you'll see that "ok I need this stop() here so it won't repeat" and then it will build... It's really easy actually here is what you should do. Think of an idea or theme for a website... Hell use what you've got so far... Now make this into a flash site.. When you don't know what actionscript you need to do whatever it is you want done try google... If that fails post here or post on another site that is very actionscript helpful.. There are tons of people out there that can't wait to help you with your project.. You have to remember some poeple like helping people

Sad thing is I can't tell a difference from last night.. Reguardless it needs fixed and the specifics don't make you look cool so please don't try to correct me...

Also a very good point was brought up to get the menu off the side... Very annoying... Here's my clan site http://www.area51gaming.com/ take some tips from there...