twistedportal.com

**Josh** · 01-27-2004, 09:32 PM

Hello,

My site has been up for about three years now and lately, I've been trying super hard to get it really big. So far, I've been quite successful. I've been posted on the biggest sites of my kind quite a few times which has brought in a lot of extra hits for me.

I'd like to expand my website drastically though. I was hoping maybe you guys can give me some suggestions?

http://www.twistedportal.com

Weather it's adding more downloads, or adding more sections, let me know! I am in the process of adding more downloads though.

Thanks,
Josh Bennett

**Montero** · 01-29-2004, 05:17 PM

I dont like the headers (content). text looks much wider than header, making it look unproportional.
rest of design is good.

**Josh** · 02-15-2004, 02:18 AM

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Originally posted by Montero
I dont like the headers (content). text looks much wider than header, making it look unproportional.
rest of design is good.

Thanks for your input, I appreciate it greatly.

**wicko3** · 02-15-2004, 04:05 PM

This is a really well-thought out and well-made site.

Constructive criticism:
* I see the point about the headers, but I think they're fine
* On your main logo, the letters TP would stand out better if the arcs behind them were paler or a bit blurred, maybe. My first impression was that its not immediately obvious what the letters are.
* One of my pet annoyances is when sites don't quite fit horizontally onto my 800*600 screen. Yours is a few pixels too wide i'm afraid.
* After looking now at your site for a few minutes, I am finding all the white hyperlinks a bit bright and dazzling. They do contrast a lot from the normal text. Perhaps if you just took off the underlining, then they wouldn't be so white (if you know what I mean!)

Wicko

**Josh** · 02-15-2004, 06:50 PM

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Originally posted by wicko3
* On your main logo, the letters TP would stand out better if the arcs behind them were paler or a bit blurred, maybe. My first impression was that its not immediately obvious what the letters are.

Can't say I agree with that one.

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Originally posted by wicko3
* One of my pet annoyances is when sites don't quite fit horizontally onto my 800*600 screen. Yours is a few pixels too wide i'm afraid.

I'm afraid I won't be fixing that anytime soon, if it's only offer by a few pixels it's not that much of a big deal.

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Originally posted by wicko3
* After looking now at your site for a few minutes, I am finding all the white hyperlinks a bit bright and dazzling. They do contrast a lot from the normal text. Perhaps if you just took off the underlining, then they wouldn't be so white (if you know what I mean!)

They don't look bright for me, but I'll think about it. I'll let you know if I do decide to remove them.

Thanks for the comments!

**RIFT** · 02-16-2004, 01:43 AM

i think the site looks good overall, seems like the left side is kind've getting crushed against the middle section, which sould maybe be fixed and allow a bit less margin room. hope that helps

**Josh** · 02-16-2004, 11:32 AM

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Originally posted by RIFT
i think the site looks good overall, seems like the left side is kind've getting crushed against the middle section, which sould maybe be fixed and allow a bit less margin room. hope that helps

How about that, I just noticed that too but it wouldn't look like that if I move the newsposters avatars over.

**8Ball** · 02-16-2004, 02:34 PM

I like this site. However, the email box is a bit short to enter an email address into. The navigation is clean and the colors are nice. This is a personal preference, but I do not care for drop shadows in design much....nice work though.

**Josh** · 02-16-2004, 11:43 PM

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Originally posted by 8Ball
I like this site. However, the email box is a bit short to enter an email address into. The navigation is clean and the colors are nice. This is a personal preference, but I do not care for drop shadows in design much....nice work though.

It was meant to be like that. I'm working on a couple things to add. I'm going to be putting Google Ads above the news and the user login will be in a table right below that. That table will also include a Picture of the Day (POTD) and maybe something else. Hopefully it'll look nice.

Thanks for your thoughts.

**cbryson** · 02-20-2004, 09:44 PM

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Originally posted by RIFT
i think the site looks good overall, seems like the left side is kind've getting crushed against the middle section, which sould maybe be fixed and allow a bit less margin room. hope that helps

As said before, that is the only thing that i would change..

everything else seems fine!