Website Review and Suggestions

**laskos** · 04-06-2004, 06:15 PM

Hi guys/gals

finished revamping http://www.dvdforum.co.uk

comments & suggestions & members welcome

Laskos

**jammin411** · 04-06-2004, 07:02 PM

There is one large change that is needed. Your quick login is on the bottom of the page, and you cannot see the text box that you are supposed to enter your username and password in. It just shows as black.

The only other thing I had a question about is why is there a picture of mars at the top of the page. To me it has nothing to do with DVD's. Just a question, it looks good, just a little confused.

9 out of 10

**laskos** · 04-06-2004, 07:06 PM

thanks for comments, i know what you mean about mars

i will be adding a big pic of a dvd there but i cant find a good enough pic yet but as soon as i do it will be a dvd disk

Laskos

**jammin411** · 04-06-2004, 10:15 PM

Good luck finding a DVD picture. I tried to find one a few months back and there are very few choices out there. Thanks for the clarification on that.

**ATLien** · 04-06-2004, 11:56 PM

it is pretty nice, but nothing special. It is just a template on a phpbb, I think once you do the DVD it will look better. Good choice on template, I love solaris.

**jammin411** · 04-07-2004, 12:49 AM

I just got to thinking about your site, and came up with what I think is a good idea. If it is a PHPBB site, then the individual user is able to choose what template they use. You should make up several templates for several different DVD's and then allow the user to choose which one they use. I know a few websites do this now, but it is not used very often. Might be worth a shot at least. The only key to this is making sure people know they can do that.

**mark-uk** · 04-07-2004, 04:58 PM

Nice template - just needs some SEO and promotion to get the members rolling in

**laskos** · 04-09-2004, 02:10 PM

hi all.

added a menu at the top of the site now

what do you think, and please if you have the time please sign up and post a few as i need members

cheers guys/gals.

Laskos

**Skybin** · 04-09-2004, 04:20 PM

I like it. I really do. I agree with the colors and the whitespace. The top nav menu bar is something I really dont' agree with though. The purple-ly color doesn't blend in with the rest of the site. Maybe make the borders a nice orange color? And a crucial thing: it took me a long while to load it, even with broadband cable.

8.5/10

**laskos** · 04-09-2004, 04:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skybin

I like it. I really do. I agree with the colors and the whitespace. The top nav menu bar is something I really dont' agree with though. The purple-ly color doesn't blend in with the rest of the site. Maybe make the borders a nice orange color? And a crucial thing: it took me a long while to load it, even with broadband cable.

8.5/10

what do you mean took a long time to load??? what did, the forum or the menu at the top. Anyone else having loading problems ????

Thanks

Paul

**Skybin** · 04-09-2004, 04:28 PM

Just was a blank page with: Connecting to DVD...etc. for about 40 seconds. It's quite a bit faster now but I don't know if it is because of caching or what.

**laskos** · 04-09-2004, 04:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skybin

Just was a blank page with: Connecting to DVD...etc. for about 40 seconds. It's quite a bit faster now but I don't know if it is because of caching or what.

cheers, i will have to keep an eye on it..thanks m8

Paul

**Skybin** · 04-09-2004, 04:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by laskos

cheers, i will have to keep an eye on it..thanks m8

Paul

Anytime.

**Arfan** · 04-09-2004, 04:41 PM

i think ur website it really good all u need now is sum users

**laskos** · 04-09-2004, 04:42 PM

cheers, tell me about it

has anyone here signed up yet

Paul

**Arfan** · 04-09-2004, 04:46 PM

**Arfan** · 04-09-2004, 04:47 PM

have u tried to promote ur website to any major search engines

**laskos** · 04-09-2004, 06:04 PM

Win a FREE DVD or your choice

and yes i am going to promote it in all the major search engines this weekkend.

Paul

**Dolphins39** · 04-10-2004, 12:35 AM

Nice layout, but the login does need to be at the top. You also need to show how to register more. Also the different templates would be a good idea. I just skipped right over the registering part without noticing it and didn't even see the nav bar on the top right until i read some of the posts. Some things need to stand out more.

**laskos** · 04-10-2004, 12:58 PM

Hi.

ok i have changed it a little as too many people said solaris was too dark

so i hope the new template still fits the forum.

thanks

Laskos