pauljohns

Since this was posted I took a lot of feedback and changed things around a bit. I would appreciate any feedback on it’s current state. Thank you very much!

@ Scarecrow:

Thanks for your kind words!
yes, it’s supposed to be disjointed. It was kind of a last minute idea that I decided to keep in. I’ll probably redesign the footer eventually. I have a few ideas for changing the site around a bit graphically. I’ll probably be making it wider as well.

Thanks again for saying nice things about my design.

Thank you, Chrisber and Evita. I agree with the calendar, I just wanted something that was future-proof in the sense that as time goes by, the sidebar wouldn’t get longer and longer with a list of Years and months of posts. I guess I’ve already staved that off by having an ‘Archives’ link, but I also think the calendar table offsets the list after list after list look of the sidebar. I agree with making the main content section a little wider though. Good call.

Thank you, I think it’s simple looking also, and I like to think it’s clean looking, but some of my homies think it looks cluttered or too complicated. I don’t agree, so that’s why I thought I would get some feedback.

I fixed the XHTML also, thanks for noticing that. I’m surprised I didn’t notice it. =)

Hi Ali,

Thank you very, very much for the positive feedback, it really means alot to me just to get any feedback, but it really feels great to know that people, such as yourself like my design.

As far as your design goes, I’m going to be blunt and honest, only because I’m sleepy right now. 😉

Pros: I love the layout, and the features and content that are offered on your site. The Ajax on the site prefs moves very fluidly in firefox, at least. Basically as far as content and ease of navigation and layout are concerned, I think it’s awesome.

Cons: I’m not crazy about the color scheme. The font colors are fine, cant go wrong with black and white, but the orange and purple dont do it for me. If these colors must be used, like if they are the theaters official colors or something, consider using them sparingly on a more neutral background, like black or white. Orange and purple are very strong colors, and they can overwhelm your design if used too often. I’m also not crazy about the logo graphic, I think more time should be spend making it look smoother in photoshop or gimp. It and the text looks pixelated around the edges. The header graphic is very important to get just right.

So basically tweak the color scheme and those graphics, and you’ve got a very lovely site. Excellent work, I know it must have taken a long time to make because there is alot of content there, and you did an excellent job of laying all of that content out.

This is all just my opinion, I am not a professional, so take what I say with grain of salt. Get more people’s opinion, and see if anyone has anything else to add.

Good job, good luck.