Hi fellow babblers!

Just uploaded my new site and its in its early stages.
I would love some feedback (good or bad) on color or anything else that I need to change or enhance.

80s Horror Movies

Thanks

Missme

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It's a great design,as it is very easy to navigate with,But i think you need to add some more color and pictures,But other then that I like it,It has a good feel to it and with a bit more time,it will look great.

So good luck mate,keep it up.

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I am going to add some images whenever I can find something that looks good with the site and fits into the subject. I may have to make my own graphics.
Thanks for the comment.

missme

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Some good work already. There should be lots of interest.

For the topic, the black and white color is perfect. Looks good.

There are some small technical details that I would work on.

First, I would tighten up the header. It actually looks good overall. I like it. But a couple of things would help. For one thing I would put the two lower teasers on one line and shorten up the height of the header. Then there needs to be a little padding on the outside of those teasers so they are not pushed right against the edge. Actually this is a problem with your use of ie for your working browser. It works in ie but not in firefox or other browsers. Unfortunately ie does not follow standards for margins and padding so creates an issue very often. If you need help with this you can ask a separate question or google.

Another thing I would do is to remove the underline on your links in both the navigation links and in the header title. On the lists you could put in an effect with hover, a highlight of some kind perhaps.

Even in ie there needs to be a little more padding separating the text in the center column from the sides, at least on page one. The amount of spacing on other pages varies. There should be a consistency in this.

I am not commenting on your content since I would have no idea about its value. Someone else can help there. However, I do not think I would use the centering of lines for the content text.

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It is good, nice job buddy, keep it up.

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Thanks for the replies James and cash4trends.

I think I removed the padding for the body -- I'll fix that asap.
I am planning to redo the header when I get a chance and a lot of the descriptions are just general descriptions from online. I will try to rewrite the descriptions after I watch the movies again or for the first time.
To remove underline links I have to do it one by one so that will take a while.

Thanks for the input guys!

Missme

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One of the great advantages of the css style sheet is that you do not have to do them one by one.

You can change every anchor (link) tag on your site to no underline with:

a {
text-decoration: none;
}

or every anchor inside a <div> with:

<div> a {
text-decoration: none;
}

etc. added to your style sheet.

You are unlikely to have very many links on your site that you want to underline so I would personally suggest that you use the first css example to remove them all and then insert a line for the original default with a "text-decoration: underline;" assigned to a class or id if I needed it for any particular links.

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1. The Navy blue background, just doesn't do it for me, but I love the dark black with red text...it fits in the the horror film scene! I think it would be cool to use a horror image as the body background...perhaps a vampire or something in a dark background.

2. Couple of notes on the header...I think you could find a better font for the main title..Perhaps a font dripping blood or similar...Plenty of free ghastly fonts out on the web! The search text and search button text are muted...I think it would look better if as red as the other text. I would make the moon bigger and perhaps move the small sub-titles at the left and right around the moon or move to the center and make the font larger...You have plenty of room to play with.

3. The blue text links don't jive with the rest of the text...Black would look like your regular text and red would like like header text...Perhaps an Orange or some other color?

4. On your Midnight and other link pages, I would Justify your text, making it more neater than the Centering style you have.

5. Clicking on your movie navigation such as 1981, you come to a page with just links...Since You have so many, why not add a small thumbnail of each movie?

I see some more you could do, but don't have time now...

God luck! Looks like something I could visit.

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Thanks James and sgtmac66 for the suggestions. I am using Xsitepro2 to build this site and I have to admit that I haven't read any of the tutorials and documentation, so I don't know how to change too much right now. I am going to read up on changing the .css file because XSP2 keeps rewriting any changes I make to the file. I was going to use a crazy horror type font, but I figured most people wouldn't have it installed on their PC and probably wouldn't want to download it. I just stuck to the web safe fonts. The background was suppose to be slate gray. I don't know why it looks navy blue? I was going to implement the thumbnail image idea, but I just didn't have time yet. Thanks! I like the comments and new ideas that I get on WB!

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With just a little work you can learn to do most of these things pretty easily. Fixing the link underline as recommended should not prove difficult for instance.

But as for sgtmac66's recommendation for the header font, you are right about people having the font but the way to do it for a single instance as in the header is just to make an image using the text you want and then place the image in that location. It looks the same in the end but is done in a way that will work on any browser.

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cool job

Thanks for the advice on the font situation James. I don't know why I didn't think of that. I just made a header image for the site. Its not the best, but what I could throw together in a short amount of time.

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Wow! I wish I could throw together something quick with that kind of results. Your header looks great now. A huge improvement.

You have fixed the major concerns I saw very well.

There are a few places where the padding could still use some attention (ex.: Christine page could use a little more space between image and text) but those details are small. You have the site looking pretty good.

I would try for a little more interesting type font for the lists of names. I would choose one that at least most people might have. Using css you can assign several choices so that one will be used if people have it, then an alternate and then the basic font type so you can have something that will work no matter what.

Good work.

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Thanks James. I took your advice and finally figured out how to change the font problem. I made the header with a free tool the makers of XSitePro 2 made called XHeader. It makes making headers pretty easy.
Thanks for your help!
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There are a number of things that you have to consider. Some of them are:

1. Add buttons in lieu of text links
2. Add a nice header in stead of that lousy one.
3. Make the paragraph left align
4. Try different concept

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