Please review my site: mintywhite.com

[mintywhite]

Hi there, I am trying to improve my website and would love some advice.

Please let me know what you think of my forum, tech tips, and daily photo pages.

Any advice is good advice to me. Please be straight with me

Rich

[ryanhellyer]

Wow, quite an eclectic bunch of pages there.

The Windows Vista forum has a very nice theme, it certainly looks very Vista'ish. Which forum software are using? At a guess I'd say phpBB2 but it's hard to tell.

Your photos and tech tips pages look very much like the default WordPress Kubrick theme with some modifications.

I would recommend keeping some consistency between the forum and the rest of the site, or moving to separate domains. And I think the blog pages need to be themed a little more different from the Kubrick theme. There's nothing wrong with the Kubrick theme, it's just that there are becoming a lot of sites around which use the theme or variants of and it is becoming a little over used IMO.

Your mintywhite branding is very nice and I think a 100% custom design would go very well with the existing logo and colour scheme.

[mintywhite]

Thanks. I'm trying to see what is most successful and then I will work on that. I am also working on a theme for my website (blog parts) and I haven't come to a decision yet. It's only been up for ten days, but I don't want to go too long and then change it. I really appreciate the feedback though.

[mintywhite]

I've taken the advice given here and in other forums. Please let me know what you think of my new design... Windows Guides | Mintywhite.com

[BigAlReturns]

Spotted a problem - once I've clicked on "Photo", all the menu links become relative to /photo, so clicking elsewhere after photo leaves the wrong header image, and it's impossible to get back to the homepage!

[mintywhite]

I'm glad you found that. It means I need to work on the links. The problem is, I am running two separate wordpress installations. So to get back to the true home page, you need to click windows. I think I'll change the "Home" link on the photo page to the true website home page.

[kiranganta]

I have reviewed ur forum. Its cool with decent graphics. Post some technical data. In forums data is imp.

[Paradroid]

Sorry if these appear a little pedantic!

Website : WINDOWS guides.

Why then is there ....
a) a photo section that has no relevance to guides for windows.
b) an apple mac style navigation option

Contact page
a) message box LHS is not alligned correctly
b) if all fields are required why bother with indicating them with a *. Just write 'All fields required)
c) Why is there a "Check out my StumbleUpon page" link here? What has this to do with contacting you about the intyshite website.

About Page

a) "Take a tour of Mintywhite.com(Firefox only)" FF only ?? yet is appears to work perfectly in Opera. PLEASE do not alienate visitors in this way.
b) Don't personally like the working of the section that starts "Windows Guides is designed to help you customize Windows"<snip>
c) "Welcome to mintywhite.com!" . . . "Take a tour of Mintywhite.com(Firefox only)"
Why diferent capitalisation?

Forums
a) You appear to be using phpBB without their copyright notice intact. (assuming the phpBB EULA states that this much be shown)

[ryanhellyer]

Originally Posted by Paradroid

You appear to be using phpBB without their copyright notice intact. (assuming the phpBB EULA states that this much be shown)

You don't need to display a copyright notice if you are using phpBB. You will need to credit it somewhere in the source code, but that is all. It is released under a GPL license and accordingly you can do pretty much whatever you want to it (including selling it).

SMF is a different kettle of fish. Although it is also free, it is not released under a GPL license and is 100% copyrighted. Part of their license agreement requires users not to release their copyright notice. I assume this also applies to vBulletin and many other commercial products.


An interesting aside ... Coppermine Photo Gallery says that you MUST NOT under any circumstances remove the copyright notice from their software and there is even a comment somewhere on their site saying "don't ask stupid questions, like how to remove the copyright notice. You aren't allowed, so don't ask", or something similar to that effect. This is in fact incorrect as Coppermine is released under the same GPL license that phpBB, WordPress and many other open source projects are released under. It is 100% legit to remove the copyright notice if you feel like it.

In fact, if you really wanted to, you could change all the branding of Coppermine, name it after yourself and start trying to sell it for mega bucks. Of course it would require a very stupid person to fork over anything for a free piece of software, but my point here is that you could if you wanted to.

[Sumit]

Hello
Good design,color combination is good