Review this site

[knupNET]

Looking for some reviews on one of my sites. It's called Sports-EVO and can be found at http://www.sports-evo.com

There is a blog, pickem and forum area. Any thoughts?

[Ducani]

Hi KnupNET,
I really like the site the graphics chosen and colors are great.

A few things:
It would be cool if..
a. one could browse the forum without having to register first though.
b. the content on the homepage went to 100% below the poll mark.
c. some of the text wasnt hidden behind the mlb.thumbnail.jpg image.

All in all nice site, I like.

[ryanhellyer]

Wow, that's a really nice WordPress theme you've got there. The graphics are great!

I'd definitely make the forums viewable without registering first. I've never registered just to view a forum and probably never will - too much hassle.

The download size for your home page is over 300 kB, that's too big, I'd be aiming for 150 kB or lower. Try compressing some of your images to reduce your load size.

[knupNET]

Thanks for the comments guys... I'll work on fixing a few of those issues for sure!

[kanny]

Hi hi hi (*_*)
Wonderful, wonderful and wonderful. All in one I hope that the success will come with you.

[devid]

Hi all,
Logo, menu is nice but layout of site is no logic.

[ryanhellyer]

devid, what in particular about layout of the site is not logical?

[Paradroid]

I personally have a dislike of sites that use black backgrounds as i feel it is hard to read the text when running at a high (ish) resoloution (1600x1200) but anyway. . .

Initial impressions. The main thing that stands out on this site is the google ads due to the white box.

The logo at the top. the 'next' and 'in' don't stand out enough (imho).

Continuity of backgroung colours: Some pages use solid black and some a graduated image. Also the content areas change from black to white with no apparent reason this to me makes it look like some parts of the site aren't as integrated as others.

The PSD's page. What is it with the boxes/outlines all over the page. It's distracting and seems to serve no purpose.

About page: FAQ 3 the answer is indented unlike the other 2.

I have a big issue with the way you write (sorry!). For example on the main page you say

I want to welcome you all to Sports-evo.com we are still going through the new stage because myself and another admin here have took over SE and we are really looking forward to get SE up and running.

The english is poor ( "looking forward to get[GETTING] SE up", "here have took [TAKEN] over SE") and i don't actually understand what the site is about from this posting.

The smilie in this post has a border around it which breaks up the flow of the post. If you had a couple of smilies in the middle of the text it would really make it hard to read the text.


Your use of the word/phrase "Sports-evo" changes on diferent pages, should this not be standardised. You use all of the following:
Sports-evo
Sports-EVO
Sports-EVO.com
Sports-evo.com

"Sport-EVO.com is better known as the “Next Generation in Sports”." Nice tagline but what does it actually mean?