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Hey All I just did this volunteer job for my church`s singing group. Appointed by God.  I am looking for general feedback on the site. Is the site easy to use? What features would you like to see if you were the site`s target audience? (Christian men and women ages 25- 50 that like music)

Also graphic and web designers: are there any technical things that i should do differently on the next project or for this current one?


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Please post a link to the site.

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M Hall
Website Critique Community
International Society of Curmudgeons

oops how silly of me. I honestly thought i did that.

The site is:

www.appointebygod.org

you could also get there by using the redirect url:

gotshelter.info


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I think that design wise, you need to spice it up. It doesn`t have a color scheme or layout that grabs a visitors attention in a way to make them actually want to look through the site, or to make the site or its subject memorable. I don`t mean that you should go overboard with graphics and useless add-ons .... but keep the users attention.

Try a different type of layout; this is "left heavy" to me. Take a blank piece of paper and literally make an outline with sections for your content, that looks balanced, even and uncluttered. Make it a template and keep your pages consistent by building them from this template. Use a darker font than the grey: make it stand out. And add textual content; give the user information so that they can learn about and understand and want what you are showing them.

Your "News" link isn`t working. Double check the meta link to your css file; it doesn`t appear to be a valid file the way it is written. Create a max/min width for your pages so they don`t widen or narrow too much.


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M Hall
Website Critique Community
International Society of Curmudgeons

Good start :)

A couple more things... In Mozilla, the Church of God text (link) at the bottom of the page is overlapping your footer (...visit our myspace profile).

The other thing is about putting your news link in the middle of the word "God". (Good news that God is real? Hmmmm). For me it`s more hiccup than "catchy way to say something else". Just my impression :/

Like webline was saying...after seeing your myspace space, your website reminds me of the word "vanilla" (as in plain or unadorned). It`s easy to go overboard with this, but I was thinking that if you were to supply a background image (maybe even the one in your myspace page) for the whole change and a adjust the color of your text to keep it readable, it would look a lot better.

Just my 2 cents :)

Peter

awesome thank you for that input. I`m going to make these corrections this weekend, and Upload the site again. Thanks for your advice thus far. 

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