A few stylistic questions

[Marko Peric]

I've been running Dontmindme.com (http://www.dontmindme.com) for nearly four years now, and I've gone through a number of different site designs. I'm generally rather happy with the current one, which I do have to say was arrived at with some tips and assistance from people on this forum. Now I'm thinking of doing a few minor tweaks, but I thought I'd see what people thought in advance.

1: The main navigation links on the sidebar (Main Page down to Email the Editor) are white text on black buttons on a black sidebar that invert colours when mouseovered (no, I'm not sure if mouseovered is a real word of not). Perhaps they should not be black to start with, so they will be more obviously buttons?

2: Below that part of the sidebar I have some external links. These currently appear on almost every page on the side. Should they only appear on the index page instead?

3: Every page has my logo banner at the top center. I just noticed now that it doesn't have a link to the main page, which I think I will change. On the index page, because of the template design I am using, this results in a bit of white space between the logo and the text. Is that a terrible thing?

Okay, I think that's all for now, although I probably will have a few more questions once I have more time to sit and think about it. If anyone out there has additional suggestions/criticisms/angry scolding/etc, let me have it.

Marko

[DobsonCentral]

1. The navigation links look alright. The colors are a little bland, but that's alright. If you were to change the background color, you could try the same background color that the XML has when you mouse over that. Otherwise though, the colors match your theme.

2. It depends on the importance of those links throughout your site. From what I saw, it's added content on every page. Otherwise a person would have to keep going back or go back to the main page if they wanted to view a different link. It's convenient on every page.

3. You have "Main Page" at the top left of every page. If you're concerned, why not just hyperlink the graphic on every page to point to your domain? You're message board could use the same graphic as what's on all your other pages too.

Just my 2 cents. You can keep the change.

[Marko Peric]

Thanks for the advice. As far as the colours of the nav links go, that blue might be suitable. I'm wondering if I should then change the mouseover colour to the orange if I did that...

About the second point, it's not the internal links I'm concerned about, but the external ones further down the sidebar, from Book of Ratings down to Wigu.

And yes, thanks for pointing out the message board banner, I keep forgetting to change that.