Crit Request: Site Design

[Kieve]

I've reworked the site layout/design for a bit, and I was hoping to have some feedback on it.

Comments, critique, suggestions, and any constructive thoughts are welcome. The same goes for the comic, as I haven't gotten [any] useful feedback on it yet, but I'm primarily concerned with the website for this topic.
(Please use this thread, if you wish to give me comic-related feedback.)

[Nikara]

*thumbs up* good site design--very eye-catching. The main page is a bit of an overload on the eyes, but in any case it works well with your comic and it's perfectly fine when reading the earlier pages. I would suggest a graphic or two for the "about" page. This is my quick feedback

[Wadefade]

Not bad. The only problem I had was distinguishing where the menu at the top ended and your webcomic started. It might be more of a personal preference then a usability issue, but I like when the next/prev are at the top of a webcomic as well as the bottom. This "frames" the comic area as the dynamic portion of the website.

Doing this will allow you to move your menu from laying "on top" of your comic and actually portraying itself as being separate from the comic itself. That being said it wouldn't matter if the next/prev buttons "meshed" in with the webcomic cause, well.. it is part of the comic.

I'm sure your intent is to skin the rest of the site like your front page correct? If not, I would recommend doing so.

Hope I was helpful!

[Kieve]

Both helpful and appreciated. Thank you both for the feedback.

I actually [hadn't] planned on skinning the support pages, but it's definitely something I'll look into.
I need to make a correction to my dailytemplate as well, since the original code has the archive pointing into the "/d/" directory, and thus a 404. Stupid me. Nice thing about the current setup is, it's extremely modular, so skinning or editing pages and layout from here on should be a breeze.

(Any other thoughts still quite welcome).

[[geoduck]]

Random thoughts:

You might want to put up a more prominent title/author credit high up on the main page, instead of including them with the actual comic. Putting it after all the link buttons makes the title seem like an afterthought. (Although you'll still want to include a copyright note somewhere with each comic..)

On my screen at least, your "Notes" text overlaps with the bottom edge of the Notes title graphic, and the color threatens to blend into the background, which makes it a little hard to read.

I believe you're supposed to place the Comics Gen hosting statement at the bottom of every page, not the top.

[Kieve]

Thanks. I've been thinking of a title block for a while now, but haven't managed to create one I actually liked.

I've heard about some issues with the "Notes" section - changing font color is easy, but realigning the text will be a trick, since it appears fine on my screen. (I also keep forgetting to fix dailytemplate so it stops linking to /d/archive.html)

With regard to the CGen tagline, though, I've looked for about a half hour, and this is the best I can dig up:
Old Keenspace Requirements - where it says "somewhere" on the page (not necessarily at the bottom, although I realize that is customary)
All the more recent CGen TOS says, at least in my searching, is that "COMIC GENESIS ads must appear on COMIC AUTHOR's site." Very vague and unhelpful, and also speaking more about ***advertisement*** than about the tagline.