Redesign Review - feedback Please!

minga · #1 08-18-2006, 10:59 AM

I've been working on a re-design. Please tell me what you think. Are the nav buttons too busy?

The links don't go anywhere yet - I'm just looking for feedback on the visuals.

Thanks!

Michele

http://umichiganpoker.com/redesign/index.html

old design
http://umichiganpoker.com

Arnoldpalmer · #2 08-18-2006, 11:30 AM

I can see what you were trying to do with buttons but afriad it hasn't worked! they're pretty ugly to my eye! I'd go for something a little simpler and cleaner design on them.

Arn

losercore · #3 08-18-2006, 12:24 PM

The images on the menues took for ever to load. very slow for me.

They look a little stretched out. I think you could find a cleaner look for the buttons like Arnloldpalmer was stating.

Otherwisae I like the top logo. Looks good. The rest of the colors look fine. I just don't like the buttins for some reason.

Jeremy · #4 08-23-2006, 11:34 AM

The suggestion I would make is that you should not try to do your own tables and html.

If you're using frontpage or whatever, buy a simple template and work off of that. Trust me, it will look a million times better and make your life much easier.

Your site doesn't look terrible, but at the same time it doesn't have that WOW factor your probably looking to entice your Michigan visitors with.

Georgia Poker · #5 08-23-2006, 04:11 PM

I agree with Jeremy, get a good template and work from that in FP or DW. I like www.oswd.org for good clean templates that are free

offyourface · #6 08-23-2006, 06:49 PM

I had an old template that I am not using anymore. I just copied and pasted some of your content into it. If you like it I can send you the files via email if I can figure out how. Here is the site, take out the xx

xxhttp://michtemp.freespaces.com/

Its free hosting so it loads a little longer than it will on with your current host. This should save you some time and if you want to use it just send me a pm with what email address you want the files to go to and I will try to figure out how to do that. Good luck.

losercore · #7 08-23-2006, 07:31 PM

That template looks good. Did you create that offyourface?

offyourface · #8 08-24-2006, 10:39 AM

No Loser, that was just a template I bought from one of those template sites. Im not good enough to build one from scratch, but I am getting pretty sporty at working with an existing template. As the others here said, I defitinitely recommend buying a simple template and working off that. If your a novice designer, then your site will look 20 times better just by spending a mere $50. For me the design work is the most fun, and I play around with it just about everyday just to break up the monatony.

minga · #9 09-05-2006, 08:21 PM

Thanks losercore, jeremy and everyone else who helped me with the last design. I found a template I really like, had my logo professionally designed, and put a new test page together (none of the links actually work yet, but the look and feel is there)

Please let me know what you think:

http://UMichiganPoker.com/redesign/

Thanks for all your input and priceless advice!

Michele