Crichton Lovers Utopia [2 reviews]

[Mara]

A forum dedicated to everything Michael Crichton -- books, movies, etc.


Crichton Lovers Utopia



Been working on this place in hopes of resurrecting it. Reorganizing and fitting things in better with the v5 upgrade and things like that.
Any comments/critiques are welcome. Would especially appreciate thoughts on content and whether I should add some more things, or if it's organized clearly enough.


Thanks.

[Mara]

Bumps.

[Star's Legacy]

Good things,

• It looks like you have your boards and ideas nicely organized and laid out.
• You have made good use of the sidebars.

Not so good things,

• The banner image is plain and it looks unprofessional seeing that it repeats towards the right side. You could in corporate some images that you have from your background in the banner.
• The color scheme isn't bad, but I feel it would be more appealing if you switch the color themes of the background and the boards. That way it would be a light on dark rather than dark on light.
• I would suggest removing the news fader and replace it with a table or the v4 news fader plugin. Right now it is small and possibly unnoticeable.

[Mara]

Thanks for your comments.


I don't notice a repeating on the banner. However, I do agree that it needs an update; possibly even a bigger one, so I don't have to shrink the width of the forum so much, haha.

[Smangii]

I'm kind of digging this color scheme, except one thing: It's pretty hard to read the pink on the dark purple. At first its fine, but as I try to focus on the words they get very blurry. Maybe lighten up the pink, or add a hover affect to the links so that they lighten on a mouse over?

Also might be preference, but I can't stand patterned backgrounds that scroll Patterns work best when they are fixed, so I would suggest making your background-attachment to fixed.

That's all I can really think of for now (besides the repeating banner mentioned). Happy foruming!

[Mara]

Hmm... there is no pink and purple. It's actually a dark navy blue with red (and some yellow). Maybe it's your monitor resolution or something, lol.


But I'll look into fixing the background image.


Thanks for the comments.

[Mara]

Bumps.


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