Site check www.whatiseleven.com

[elspif]

Hey Guys just a quick request to check this site for me. To make it easier and faster i've included a poll. If you have any extra comments please do!

Thanx heaps guys.

Ths site in question is www.whatiseleven.com (http://www.whatiseleven.com)

[JHallam]

Iwould rate it, but your server SUCKS!

I've been trying to access your site for 10 mins now, all I get is Timed Out

So...no rating from me

[jimburton]

Very nice - all works well for me - has a very muted feel to it though, which is ok but is in contrast to the pics of the band and the (few seconds of) music I heard, so maybe consider doing something to make the site seem more dynamic, energetic, active, rather than restrained, ethereal etc - introduce some colour and change font, maybe to a sans, more modern looking one, but to something not anti-aliased at least...good work.

[BirdOnWire]

no much like a flash , no effects even the text scroll is bad , sorry I didn't like it at all

[elspif]

Sorry to hear you can't get connected Grafixfreak. I'll have a look into it why that's happening. Do you have flash 6 installed? I think I have an issue detecting if flash 5 is installed, it doesn't auto forward. Need to fix that still.

Thanx for the votes appreciate that.

Jimburton about the extra 'thing' I think you're right, that's why I have the little eleven's floating around in the middle, kinda a playfull element. About it being a bit dull and grey I think your right too I might have to increase the lightness a bit, I develeped it on a mac and the colors tend to be more clear and brighter for me. Let me know if that's the problem.

Birdonwire, sorry to hear you didn't like it, I guess there will always be differences in taste. Maybe the next site I make you will like.

[pinkaboo]

heh, after reading the other comments I wasn't sure what to expect and I was pleasantly surprised.

I thought that you have a really nice layout to the site, the division of the page is very attractive and navigation is obvious.

I really like the lo-fi aspect to the menu, but it doesn't really work with the rest of the elements on the site. I would probably suggest pushing that idea a lot further and drawing it into the other sections of the page.

Definitely shift away from the font you use for the content, I guess stick with the one you used on your menu, it's a lot clearer to read and too many different styles of typeface on one page is generally a bad idea unless it's for a particular stylistic effect.

The photos are great, maybe you could upgrade them to a more prominent position though? A gritty/dirty PhotoSchop collage using them and maybe other lo-fi elements scrolling at the top in place of that landscape could be quite eyecatching, you could then have them individually in a gallery too.

I would also have a think about the layout of your content box and maybe introduce a richer colour there to complement the greys. The red graphic for buy cd could be a way to go here if you could follow that type of style through to other sections.

Still, it depends on what image you want to be projecting, but I would take another look at what you have and just push it further and pay a little more attention to layout for the content.

Looks very promising, yay!

-pinK

[limpduck]

its nice i like the style of the site, many points i have to make have been pointed out. i would try to make each of the sections intergrate more, maybe get a pic of a hifi for the songs section. etc and def make all your fonts sans serif. looks nice though like it. keep it simple

[pom]

Very nice. Definitely serious but nice. Nice color scheme, nice background thinggy, nice pictures...
But I agree with Pink on the menu.

pom :)

[elspif]

Thx for all the reply's. Really appreciate your time.

I will look into what you say, just working on the admin section for the XML news/agenda. Whitespace is really giving me a headache (i thought MX had solved the XML whitespace parsing bug).

You know there are only 2 different font types used. Mostly everything is in Eurostile with just the bodytext in a serif (oh and the scrolling text) but I reckon a combo of sans and serif goes quite well. Must be just style differences.

I do agree about color, I'll try to include some more. Once again thanx for your feedback.