need an outside opinion

[advancedgamerz]

just started this web site advancedgamerz and i would like to get an outside opinion.

a few questions that i need answers too.

- is the website user friendly

- is the web site visualy appealing

- is it clear what the web site is for

- what would you change or like to see.

home page- http://www.advancedgamerz.net/forum/content.php

forum- http://www.advancedgamerz.net/forum/forum.php

[Gio~Logist]

You need more of a personal brand. From the logo to the advertisement filler, nothing is really branded or personalized on the website. Aside from that, i would definitely get on a fixed width, a lot of your content just floats in the center for me as it is with a lot of dead space.

I also imagine gaming websites to be much more image heavy. Not graphically anymore, but more photos of games and users blogging / writing about them.

[advancedgamerz]

yea im working on some of that. i guess ive just been trying to do too many things at once. lol.
thanks for your review.

[Gio~Logist]

Originally Posted by advancedgamerz

yea im working on some of that. i guess ive just been trying to do too many things at once. lol.
thanks for your review.

No worries, everyone has been there. You're at a great place to find a lot of help and resources as well Good luck :up::up:

[MrPitBull]

Your site is painfully slow to load. At GTmetrix your page load time was 12.10 seconds. You have way to many requests and your page size is way to large. Go to GTmetrix.com to analyze the solutions. Best wishes.

[RSNF]

I think you are on the right track with your site. I think you should get your members opinions first and foremost as they ultimately are the ones who you are catering to. Not that you can help it but I would do a bit more research on the mods you have installed as there are a lot of similar mods out there which do not require you to have the copyright text down on your footer. To me it just looks cluttered with all that extra text down at the bottom basically advertising a lite version of modifications you applied to your site. Like I said though I think you are on the right track. Best of luck to you and your site!!

[advancedgamerz]

i think the page loading time has alot to do with the host im using right now, we have made some changes though so i hope that helped. it would also help if my veiwers had an opinion, i seem to be the only one on there who has anything to say. right now i feel like its been hit and miss. i think the web site has the look that it needs, now i just need the disscusion.

[advancedgamerz]

ive been doing some work on making the web site more colorful and have more images. also, we have switched to bluehost so the site should be running faster now. most of my users say they have noticed a big difference.

i do have a minor problem with my banner. i was trying to make it where it takes up all that space in the header. how do i make the banner the same size on everybodies screen because when it looks right on my screen a smaller reselution screen shows it protruding off to the side. any thoughts on that?

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Originally Posted by MrPitBull

Your site is painfully slow to load. At GTmetrix your page load time was 12.10 seconds. You have way to many requests and your page size is way to large. Go to GTmetrix.com to analyze the solutions. Best wishes.

switched host and took your advice. page load time is now 7.69 sec.
page speed grade was a b. not bad

[Budabing]

Unfortunately I cant help with fixing the banner, but I just wanted to put my 2c in and say, that the dark blue text against the dark grey back ground is almost un-readable.

I had to literally get up close and personal with my monitor to read it.

[advancedgamerz]

where did you see text that was dark blue. the only dark blue there should be is admin names.