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Location: grand rapids, mi
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Overall I thought the look of the site was successful. The look is very dark and macabre and matches the subject matter well. However, most pages on the site did take a long time to load thanks to its graphic intense structure. There is also some inconsistencies in navigation as detailed below.
Home Page
I found the home page to load a little slowly. or, should I say I found the center image (albeit very well done) to load slowly (and I'm on a t1 connection). Upon further investigation (I downloaded the image and reopened it in Photoshop), I found that the image was whopping 800 pixels by 600 and yet it only appears on screen as about 300-400 pixels. Fixing this might make the site load faster. Also, the text immediately underneath that same image was a little small. The rest of the text was fine in my opinion.
Menu Column (right column)
Also, on the right column you have the "menu" title yet I’m not sure that that column is really a menu. The "menu" title does balance it out, but to me it’s really more of a links column than anything else. This designation will cause further confusion as detailed below.
Menu Column (left column)
Overall, fine. In reference to navigation, read below.
Divisions section
There is some navigational inconsistency with this section. When you visit a subpage of “Divisions”, the right column becomes a submenu of “Divisions” complete with each “DIE Clan” division.
However, when you visited a subpage of the “Menu” right under the “Left Column” the right column menu stayed the same (the ads and what not). This discrepancy may confuse visitors.
A possible solution may be to rename the “Right Column” (on the home page & on each subpage of the “Menu” in the “Left Column”) something like “Links” or something. Then you could leave it as is for each sub page of the “Divisions section.” This may teach the visitor that the Right Column is dynamic and will change with each section of the Left Column (except for each sub page of the Menu on the Right Column). A Color on each sub page of “Divisions” may help.
The "brazen claw" page under divisions did not link. Also, the pages under divisions took a real long time to load (the center images appear to actually be larger than they appear and this may account for the increased load time).
"Golden Shields" also did not link
Downloads section
None of the pages linked
Clans Section
Allies page loaded with some errors. I could only see a small flash animation and a menu of “DIE Clan divisions” at the very bottom. The center was empty
And that’s my two cents. Great looking site!
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