I would like some feedback, please

[darnoldy]

Originally Posted by Tony G

why do you have links on top of the banner of the site? That doesn't look very good.

Yeh, I don't like those either... they are links back to the owner organizations' main web sites, and I can't get rid of them. The whole header and color pallete are also client requirements--I've cleaned those up as much as I can get away with.

The blue category text on the red isn't a great look...

Are you talking about the bars that say "Forums" and "What's Going On"? On all the machines I've viewed this on, those bars look brown--they look red to you?

Originally Posted by Kran

The home page is way to busy, at first I thought it was a portal

Originally Posted by Tony G

I agree with Kran, your home page lacks any co-ordination and organisation, needs to be more 'neat'.

Okay, this I need to explore with you some more.

To some extent, that first page is the portal--there is no larger site of which the forum is a part that has a home page, so the forum home has to serve that function. Somehow this is not working for you. Since I arranged that page, it seems organized to me--What elements are not grouped together properly? Is it the mere presence of the text block on the right side that bothers you?

How would your assesment change if I told you that a large portion of the intended audience for this have never used forums before--and don't know what one is "s'posed to" look like?

Did you look at any of the subsidiary pages--what do you think of the postbit?

--don