Website for college, tell me what you think

TheReverend

Hello boardski's, I am currently working on a website for my college assignment and was just looking for some comments and of course criticism, so if you could take a look and tell me what you think I would appreciate it.
Thanks

http://irishgamingsociety.org/

p

As a college project, and presumably a first website it's not too bad.

Some things to consider when doign web design generally:

- Keep the things simple. Use only 1 or 2 fonts, one for main text and one for headings.
- A sans-serif font like Arial or Verdana is better for test you have to read a lot of and looks better on screen.
- Avoid cliches, using shamrocks and green is a little boring.
- Similarly, all gamer sites are black and look like this. Play around a bit more with styles before you choose one. The obvious style is not always the best.
- Get rid of the gaps in the tables. Use the CSS border-collapse property for that.


Here's some links:
http://www.petefreitag.com/item/681.cfm
http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2009/07/07/design-tips-for-developers.aspx

Nulty

Blue links on black background does not work.

Well done if its your first.

TheReverend

Nulty wrote: »

Blue links on black background does not work.

Well done if its your first.

The link was added to other day as I just needed to get it on the site, havent messed around with styles properly yet

Matt Holck

forum needs a clear link back to the home page

maybe carry the menu bar across the top of the forum
in matching design to the menu column on the other pages

TheReverend

Matt Holck wrote: »

forum needs a clear link back to the home page

maybe carry the menu bar across the top of the forum
in matching design to the menu column on the other pages

I have that planned, just needed SMF :P