Blind Nerd Launched
 

I have recently launched my nerd forum called blindnerd would like your feedback on this. Thanks guys.

NeoToxic,

You've got a cool skin with a good color scheme working, and very nice graphics. However I find my eyes strained while viewing your site. In my opinion, you are working with too many light colors, and in such a small area this is not good, especially for long-term viewing.

Things I would change:

• Category text. White is hard to read.
• Switch forum link colors. Make the forum links darker orange, and the time/last post areas lighter orange. You want to direct the viewer's eye to the more important stuff.
• Same on forumdisplay - topic links should be darker, last post info should be lighter.
• Advertising graphics section above forumdisplay (see attachment). "Advertising" is spelled wrong, and with the absense of a banner, the bottom graphic is messed up. Sticking a blank banner would fix that problem easily.

These are my personal opinions, however I suggest that these be changed for the benefit of all viewers.

It is a cool skin, though! I like it a lot. Cool color scheme :)

Thanks for the great advice mate i will certainly look into this. I have fixed the advertising graphic and the typo.

Nice skin, I like it. Very original.

There is a gap between the thread tools and the post itself when viewing in Opera (latest version). There is also an alignment issue in IE, as attached.

Looks fine in the latest Opera for Mac OS X

I am not seeing the issues TMXS posted about on my work PC. It is running IE6.

The logo, and most of the site, has a very "Cutie" feel to it. For a tech forum it feels almost too kiddish. It is a very good looking and well done skin, however I am not sure if it is suited to the intended audience.

Some of the colors make it hard for me to read some items. My main example is the image that links to the register.php file, the white on light blue is hard on my current monitor.

Speaking of this area, it almost seems a waste of the space. The image tells nothing about the site, and contains no keywords or other search engine friendly stuff. Ether put more info in the area and add an alt= tag or drop the image and replace it with a text blurb.

The forum icons keep with the "cute" feel, and go well with the theme of the site.


Edit - I just ran into the posted alignment issue, not on the forum home though.

http://www.blindnerd.com/forumdisplay.php?f=14


You have a good amount of forums for your traffic, but I would not consider adding any more for a while. Build up your content with what you have first.

So far it is a great looking forum, great job :)

Thanks for the comments. The gap is supposed to be there. I will try and fix the other problems asap. Why cant everyone use on browser lol.

love the skin ... great work! :up:

the google ads at the bottom blends well with the style :up: