Website design review

[icarus]

Quick question:

I've heard back from some people that they have trouble reading my website.

Do you?

If so -

1) is the print too small (11 pt in windows, 10 pt in navigation)?
2) is the blue and black theme too dark?
3) are there broken links?
4) do you want me to list fics by pairing?
5) ...other problems?

Thank you. The website's there for you, so however stylish it is -- if it's not readable, then I need to fix it.

ETA: So far it's pretty universal that -
a) the strikethrough needs to be removed
b) the links need to be a different, brighter colour
c) there needs to be a larger margin on the individual story pages
d) list fics by pairing instead of by rating
e) do not use heading < h 1 > style as it does not work in some browsers
f) bump point size up one notch (11 pt & 12 pt)
g) ... I'm not sure how to fix the navigation/pix overlap found in some browsers. Hmm.

ETA2: I've updated some of my pages with larger fonts, yellow instead of the cross-out mouse over, removed the < h 1 > tag in places. Haven't fixed the margin, and a new issue has arisen: some find the frame in the middle of the page difficult and too-small. Correcting that... would involve a none-too-pretty (in terms of the work involved) change to the picture framing it.

Please keep the critiques coming, again, this came from a few private, hand-over-the-mouth mumbles from friends.

Comments

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

It's a very pretty webpage. I prefer very basic things for myself, but you have the best of both worlds: the funky main page, and the very easy to read story pages. I especially like that on your main story pages the background seems to be a solid block of colour. The SSFQF, for example, has a little repeating background thing that makes me see stars after a while.

Your link text (the dark blue) is a little hard on the eyes, but it seems pretty fine to me.

The graphics are very funky. Nice work. :)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't design it. There were two people who wanted to do the Percy fest, so I asked the one who came along 2nd to do my site. I gave her carte blanche since this was a gift and I had little time at that point to make any design decisions. I only designed the fic-pages.

icarus

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

Ahh, all good. It's still cool, wherever you got it. :)