[sealey]

I am currently developing a mac site aimed at mac users in the UK providing news, opinion, rumours, tutorials, downloads etc. it is still in the early stages of development but i would welcome you all to give me feedback and sugesstions of what would make a great mac site. The Forum section of my site is now fully up and running and I have started compiling a directory of other Mac sites. Still have a lot of work to do on the content but i would appreciate some constructive criticism.

The URL is

http://www.macland.co.uk/

The Forum is

http://www.macland.co.uk/Forum/


Regards,

Richard Seale

[bluedog]

Make your logo the iMac form withOUT the flag behind it. You'll be able to enlarge the iMac share which is nearly unrecognizable sitting in front of the larger flag. You're doubling the flag image without adding anything really.

The buttons on the left are fine, and when you complete the sections looks like a nice variety of features. You should customize the automated screens when submitting to the buy/sell classifieds section to look like your site (as it is, its simply black text on a white screen).

The main news on the front page isn't the best in how its presented, articles should be more easily separated from one another (either visually or with extra space). Having them all in a table reduces the ease of discerning what the article headlines are.

Good start though, and I wish you luck. What back-end software you using to build the site?

[sealey]

Thankyou for your comments bluedog. Still got quite a bit of visual tweeks to do on the site yet and still playing around with css. All pages will have the same look and feel by the end of the week.

Regarding your question about the back end software. The site is hand coded in PHP interfacing with a mySQL database.

[m a d r a]

just what the world needs! - another mac site filled with press releases and re-hashed comment from other mac sites [which in their turn consist of press releases and re-hashed comments from other mac sites, which in their turn..... etc. etc]

sorry for the lack of enthusiasm, but the world needs another mac site as much as versiontracker needs another 'text editing app', 'notepad replacement' or 'thing which goes in the dock or menubar and tells you something about your computer you already knew'.


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