Website Review and Suggestions

**memorygreetings** · 08-29-2007, 01:31 PM

Dear friends

Its brand new look to my site
http://www.124diary.com
few of you guyz might have gone through it already.
Please give it a look and tell me what do you think about it.
Does it serves the purpose for being diary.
Thank
regards
Joey

**topboy** · 08-29-2007, 04:00 PM

I love the design for that type of area, i have a few friends who would be interested in this site i know they were looking for something like this, good work

**JamieLewis** · 08-29-2007, 04:04 PM

The design is slow loading and boy those ads are everywhere. It is a decent concept for a design but you should consider your users and make those ads a little less prominent.

Jamie

**flann** · 08-29-2007, 04:06 PM

I too like the look of the type area. The links on the right hand side i'm not really sure about.

**tomythius** · 08-29-2007, 07:40 PM

1) Maybe replace the top ad spot with a header or some sort of title.
2) You could consider making repeating images (e.g. obj_body_13.gif) smaller. If they repeat uniformly (obj_body_13.gif doesn't, but it could) you can make them just 1px wide in the direction of repetition. This would help loading times a bit.
3) The pencil buttons I feel are letting down an otherwise promising design. They should probably be neatened, or scrapped. How about if they were made to look like the tabs of folder separators? Or post-it notes?
I love the idea though. Keep it up!

**HighVoltage123** · 08-30-2007, 05:21 AM

I think the background color is strange... If I were you, I would probably change it to something lighter with darker motives circles, flowers, some kind of texture... (or a gradient effect with darker color)... I don't know... I just think it needs some kind of change

Everything else looks good

**Arjun** · 08-30-2007, 07:07 AM

I cant open it. Got the following Error
Connection to server www.124diary.com failed (The server is not responding.)

**memorygreetings** · 08-30-2007, 02:35 PM

I was uploading files, may be just about that time u tried to access it and your got the following error.
Its working just about fine

**happy_2b_kot** · 08-30-2007, 03:02 PM

lot of ads and please - re-draw pencils = )

**inventorboy84** · 08-30-2007, 08:30 PM

the idea is good....it looks like you are targeting right to left readers because of the links...overall it is good

**jamest** · 08-30-2007, 09:37 PM

The Basic Idea works well for your purpose but It needs a header and the ads are a little overpowering.

**Jenni** · 08-31-2007, 10:01 AM

Too many ads, I think, and besides the combination of black and orange colors looks too aggressive. Nevertheless the idea is quite nice and interesting.

**memorygreetings** · 01:00 PM

Friends i changed a bit,place a header on along with little funky logo.
What do you think now ??

**tomythius** · 08-31-2007, 04:30 PM

Yes you've added a header, and yes it is funky, but it's completely overpowered by the ads that we already suggested you remove.
Plus those hideous pencil buttons are still there, but hey.

**joder** · 08-31-2007, 04:50 PM

I the content of the site is a great idea. I don't care for the background color and the pencils should be smaller. Mabye you could cut the Google ads down to one set instead of two?

**CSS4Life** · 08-31-2007, 05:05 PM

Too many useless unrelated link exchanges

Design isn't ba, but possibly scale back on the Adsense a little

**dudesweetlol123** · 08-31-2007, 07:24 PM

it Loads a little slow

**pirates** · 09-01-2007, 02:05 AM

yea it loads very slow for me

**ashish** · 09-01-2007, 02:37 AM

love the idea and use of colors... good effort..

**isculpt** · 09-02-2007, 09:41 PM

I am not a designer but entering the site I found myself just slightly confused. I guess I am used to having navigation at the top or left, not on the right that made me stop for a moment. I would have liked the ads not to be so apparent as well. Hope this helps.