[feedback] new bravekidgames website

[jankoM]

Hi...

I am making a new website, I have the basic layout of front page figured now and would like to ask for your opinion or any thoughts on it... please tell me anything that crosses your mind.. what do you think about layout, navigatability, usability, visuals, feeling... how it compares to old page..

old page: http://www.bravekidgames.com/

new FRONT page: http://www.bravekidgames.com/v3test/ (you can only look and not click - I only tested page on firefox so far.. I will make it IE degraded at the end)

best regards,
Janko

//BTW: www.TimeEaters.com webpage also started kicking a little

[soniCron]

Center it and make the little guy look a bit less creepy. Otherwise, great improvement! :)

[jankoM]

I will try how it looks centered. I had it at first but dismissed it because I am tired of centered page... like old one is... but it might be better in general.

How do you mean creepy?? Please tell me why he looks creepy so I can change it (I can't see creepy there).

[rmedtx]

That's a really cool new website design. It looks much nicer.

How do you mean creepy?? Please tell me why he looks creepy so I can change it (I can't see creepy there).

I don't know exactly what soniCron means by that, but I'm assuming is the eyes of the character. Maybe if you change them a little bit it will look better. I don't think the character looks creepy but I'm assuming that's what he means.

Here is an example:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/rmedtx/eyes.jpg
Character's eyes right now vs small changes to them.

I hope this helps.

Congrats! on your new site design.

[oNyx]

It's clearly a step forward. Good work. :)

Bad from a technological standpoint:
#1 The chosen width doesn't make much sense. Lots of unused space in 1024x768 and a horizontal scrollbar in 800x600. With some CSS voodoo you could make it work nicely in 800x600 without having to redo the graphics (would require a header graphic with an even width tho).

#2 Lots of inline styles. Causes bloat and is a pain to tweak. Don't do that... use classes instead.

#3 Not valid. With non valid markup you aren't doing yourself a favor. Getting that to display as intended across browsers is usually a lot more work (or even completely impossible).

#4 I would use some image replacement technique for the headlines. Well, there are some issues with screenreaders, but that wouldn't be much of an issue here. However, it's clearly better then images w/o alt attributes since you're giving the search engines something to index.

Btw clicking on any of the games just displays some error messages right now.