Critque my James Bond website

[bond]

http://www.007unleashed.com/

The site looks better for firefox users because I have noticed that viewing the website with Internet Explorer renders the site terribly distorted. Also, reply with the load time.

Thanks.

[Builder]

I only looked at your site with Firefox. Overall, a nice effort. A few minor quibbles:

1) The color scheme is ... bland? I don't know if that quite describes it for me. Blue on blue on blue with shades of grey denote serious business sites for me. You are obviously(?) a Bond enthusiast. Maybe punching up the color would express that enthusiasm a little more. Take that for what it's worth -- coming from a guy who can't even tell his customers what color may look good where. I just know what looks good to me after the fact. :)

2) Along with #1, the column headings in your forum (Forum, Topics, Posts, Last Post) disappear into the background color on my screen. A little more contrast would help them.

3) I liked the Q Branch section since I am a gadget freak. But initially, it just looked like lists of the gadgets and vehicles used in the Bond movies. Lo and behold, mouse over the lists and there are links to descriptions and photos of those gadgets/vehicles. A minor case of Mystery Meat Navigation -- see http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/mysterymeatnavigation.html
Somehow distinguishing those as links will help your visitors.

4) In your Q Branch gadgets section, detonator is misspelled as dentonator.

5) Your main site is centered in the window, your forum is to the left. (See? I told you they were minor quibbles.:D)

Good luck,
Kevin

[IanS]

Hopefully you're the copyright owner of the pictures included :) as I didn't see any notice about the copyright of the pictures or acknowledgement of the original copyright holders.

[bond]

Hopefully you're the copyright owner of the pictures included :) as I didn't see any notice about the copyright of the pictures or acknowledgement of the original copyright holders.
No, sadly, I'm not the copyrights owner. At my old Bond site I used to have...

"The Webmaster is not associated whatsoever with Danjaq L.L.C., EON Productions and/or MGM/UA. All copyright belongs to them."

Maybe I should bring that back. Thanks for the suggestion.

[bond]

I only looked at your site with Firefox. Overall, a nice effort. A few minor quibbles:

1) The color scheme is ... bland? I don't know if that quite describes it for me. Blue on blue on blue with shades of grey denote serious business sites for me. You are obviously(?) a Bond enthusiast. Maybe punching up the color would express that enthusiasm a little more. Take that for what it's worth -- coming from a guy who can't even tell his customers what color may look good where. I just know what looks good to me after the fact. :) Yeah, it does look a little bland, but if I changed the color scheme I'd have to implement the changes to every html page (well over 100) and I don't have the patience for that. So I guess I'm stuck with it.

3) I liked the Q Branch section since I am a gadget freak. But initially, it just looked like lists of the gadgets and vehicles used in the Bond movies. Lo and behold, mouse over the lists and there are links to descriptions and photos of those gadgets/vehicles. A minor case of Mystery Meat Navigation -- see http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/mysterymeatnavigation.html
Somehow distinguishing those as links will help your visitors. I never thought about that. I sure as hell wouldn't want to be featured in Web Pages That Suck! Instead of having a page for each gadget, maybe I should put all the gadgets on one page according to film? I think I'll do that.



4) In your Q Branch gadgets section, detonator is misspelled as dentonator.
Changed it. Knowing how to spell a word correctly is my weakness.

Good luck,
Kevin
Thanks, man.

[IanS]

To prevent a return to the discussions that have taken place in the past the thread has been closed. :(