Feedback wanted - Preliminary look at Version 3 of website

Heres the IE screenie

OK, that's a WHOLE new level of special!

It seems to have decided not to bother centering the centered content on the page and appears to be having kittens with the PNGs that I use for images.

Dare I ask what version of Exploder that is?

Not bad so far Bart. Some suggestions and points I have:

*The green is not a great shade at all. I myself would not even use it in such abundance. Perhaps for borders if the need was for the Irish colour connections, but not for background. With black as the primary background colour of the window, what about blues & greys? Oranges or reds would just be clichéd.

*I'm not a fan of the light blue headings with dark blue outline, not enough contrast IMO. I can picture more of a silver/grey coloured font with a black or navy outline, on such a white page.

*An idea for the heading bullet (instead of the 3 green stars as in Orions head) - use an Orange or gold star? and then put that same coloured star as the point of here M42 would be in the Orion logo?

Just the musings of mine, but overall, I like the new layout-to-be so far. Its looking more structured than the previous version. Good work!

Seanie.

Dare I ask what version of Exploder that is?

As I got the same as Dave I'm on IE Ver.6.0.2900.xpsp._sp2_gdr.050301-1519

Coming along nicely though

Dare I ask what version of Exploder that is?

6.0.2800.1106 SP1 with all the updates.
BTW I use firefox as my main browser, much nicer:)

Bart,

There is far too many colours on that webpage.
At most you should have 3 colours in any UI/Web page, go beyond that you seriously need to look at your colours.

Also, I would consider cutting down the amount of elements in the page, because when your frame is cast around the forums page, there will be far too many elements vieing for your attention.

My 2 cents on it.

Darragh

Hi Bart

I think the new site so far is looking good, It appears crisp and clean. I have one concern and that is re the logo and "star trek" font..Are we keeping them or are we taking this opportunity to look for a new ones...