Review #4: Final Stop
Site: Final Stop
Date Completed: December 21, 2007
First Impressions
I’ve never been to your site before, and have to say - the first impression was a pretty good one! I liked your layout (finally, something interesting!).
Enter Page
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Layout/Design
I love your layout, and it gave me a really good impression of you designing skills! That, is, until I saw it was a premade layout. Not to worry, I don’t take points off for this, as I’m using a premade (but customized) layout at the moment until I can figure out WordPress. I still have faith in your design skills though - you did a great job customizing it! I love the colors.
I do think it’s a little cluttered though - there’s a lot of information in the main box, sidebar, and footer. Not necessarily a bad thing, but I think that you could divide your information into subpages to avoid looking messy. I’d get rid of the “Content” section of your sidebar, and move it to the main navigation tabs. While quickly browsing through your site, I couldn’t find the content for a while! If I were you, I’d definitely move it where visitors can see it. I’d call the tab “Visitor” or “Goodies.” Scratch the top five downloads. You don’t need them on your sidebar. They’re okay to have there, but they’re better off off the sidebar. Now, move the link button (to your site) to the bottom of the sidebar. See the footer? I’d just put copyright and meta data on the footer. I’d move the recent posts and comments to the side bar.
Now that your sidebar’s all cleared up, lets look at the footer. Yikes! Those statistics and meta data look messy! Do you really need a link to login on your footer? Aren’t you (and occasionally) Karen going to be the only people who login? Get rid of that, and that big blue Saturn-like button that links to your statistics page. If you want people to be able to see all your statistics, put a text link in place of this button. It looks a lot neater.