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elfin8er
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My New and Improved Website - Looking For Feedback

EDIT:
Ok, so I'm working on a slight redesign. I want to keep the same kind of look, but using wordpress instead of doing it all myself. Hopefully it'll be a bit easier to maintain. Let me know what you think by going HERE.

So I've been working on quite a few projects lately, especially Minecraft Bukkit plugins. A lot of them are just small but helpful plugins that I don't think Bukkit will except, so I'll be putting them on My Website. I'm just looking for some feedback on it. Let me know what you think. What can be improved, added or changed. Any feedback is great!

One thing I did notice, is the first time you go onto each webpage, the CSS takes a second to load. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to fix this?

Here's a quick screenshot.

Last edited by elfin8er (May 24, 2013 05:27:05)

luiysia
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My New and Improved Website - Looking For Feedback

*have been gaming
*I've recently been
*including bukkit and minecraft mods

generally the design seems pretty good but there are things that can be improved - the home page seems generally too far to the top - it feels awkward somehow? also, the pages are very inconsistent; none of the pages really have the same design. also, the email me button seems a bit out of place.
elfin8er
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My New and Improved Website - Looking For Feedback

luiysia wrote:

*have been gaming

generally the design seems pretty good but there are things that can be improved - the home page seems generally too far to the top - it feels awkward somehow? also, the pages are very inconsistent; none of the pages really have the same design. also, the email me button seems a bit out of place.
Isn't “I've” the contraction of I and have? That would be saying “I have have been gaming”. Also, I can't find a good design that fits the entire site. I'd love to improve it, but It'll take me a while to find a design that works well everywhere.
luiysia
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My New and Improved Website - Looking For Feedback

it says “and have gaming all my life”
SilverDomination
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My New and Improved Website - Looking For Feedback

Well, certainly improved from the last version of it . I assume that this is work in progress, am I correct?
pugluv4ever
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My New and Improved Website - Looking For Feedback

Cool! Maybe a less white color scheme?
elfin8er
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My New and Improved Website - Looking For Feedback

SilverDomination wrote:

Well, certainly improved from the last version of it . I assume that this is work in progress, am I correct?
Yup, still a work in progress. I think I may change the styling though.
trinary
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My New and Improved Website - Looking For Feedback

I like your relatively minimal use of bootstrap and the clean look of the site.
The CSS loading slowly is probably because of the large file sizes/multiple linked stylesheets and scripts, although I'm not completely certain.
mythbusteranimator
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My New and Improved Website - Looking For Feedback

I like how it looks simple and clean

Sorta high-tech
elfin8er
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My New and Improved Website - Looking For Feedback

trinary wrote:

I like your relatively minimal use of bootstrap and the clean look of the site.
The CSS loading slowly is probably because of the large file sizes/multiple linked stylesheets and scripts, although I'm not completely certain.

mythbusteranimator wrote:

I like how it looks simple and clean

Sorta high-tech
Thanks guys. That's exactly what I was going for.
scratchisthebest
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My New and Improved Website - Looking For Feedback

I honestly think there's too little on each page. There's so much blank space at the bottom, why bother breaking it into so many pages? Don't be afraid of the scrollbar; with some transitions it can look really nice. check out microcake's website for a nice example.

Okay, just clicked on “custom explosions” even though I don't even have minecraft
A scrollbar is on the right hand side, and the text is cut off. however the scrollbar doesn't work for some reason.

And on said page the header font is smaller than everywhere else, which is odd.

overall very fancy though.
elfin8er
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My New and Improved Website - Looking For Feedback

Thanks for the feedback so far guys! In my personal opinion, it has potential, but it just needs to be improved. I am just not a very good web developer xD I will try to take in as much advise as I can, and try to improve.
elfin8er
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My New and Improved Website - Looking For Feedback

Ok, so I'm thinking of putting a blog on the homepage. Any body have any suggestions for how I should go about doing so? I don't want to flood the homepage with tons of blog posts, but I also don't want to spend a whole lot of time on this.

Edit: What I'm trying to do, is make a wordpress blog, and just embedding the first few posts on the homepage. So far, no luck.

Last edited by elfin8er (May 19, 2013 03:38:58)

dantefrizzoli
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My New and Improved Website - Looking For Feedback

Good to use Twitter's Bootstrap framework, it's smart and easy to use. I would avoid using gray as it is a bland color. Perhaps add some more blue to the logo and make the header bar blue and the logo white.
elfin8er
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My New and Improved Website - Looking For Feedback

Ok, does it look better with wordpress and bootstrap? Oh, and my domain expired. I'm getting a .com domain name, but you can check it out HERE for now.

Last edited by elfin8er (May 24, 2013 05:26:50)

Unithlees3
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My New and Improved Website - Looking For Feedback

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