Hey guys! I would like to know what are your thoughts on 3DS Pedia! It is a gaming community based primarily on Nintendo consoles and games. Any sort of feedback/suggestions are more than welcome! any criticism given will be taken into consideration! Much appreciated! :great:
3DS Pedia - Your opinions?
- Thread starter Mikaya
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3dspedia.com Review
You didn't specify what exactly you wanted me to review so i reviewed allittle of everything. Sorry if this seems incorrect or not a good responce. I'm not exactly a writer or a professional reviewer 😛 But here it goes!
The forum
For starters I like the theme and the colors. The theme isn't really hard on my eyes but its pretty light (I like light colored forums. They just look clean) The images and features are decently spaced out with few exceptions. The favicon is great. The images are great and the activity on the website is really good. I saw that you had a privacy policy. Great job! I know its really a pain to write but i think every website that involves interaction with users should have one. Actually Firefox itself recommends all websites to have a privacy policy. (They posted it on twitter a bunch of times last fall)Its really obvious how to sign up because it says in a couple places but it doesn't seem like its shoving it in peoples faces too much like i see in some other forums. But there should be allittle more links to the login page in my opinion. Maybe just put the link saying "Already a member? Login Now!" at the bottom or top of the register page as well. There are a couple of other easy fixes you can do to your site. The page loading speed could be slightly improved. The background is slightly slow to load. Try to minorly compress it. Another thing i dont like is that the red recent posts really sticks out in between all that blue and white and get kind of annoying. It also looks like it has a strange-ish shadow too it. I noticed that the search needs to be moved up slightly or that whole column should be moved down. If you know how to code that should be easy to fix. Another quick fix issue i found was the image with Mario jumping and those ships should fix the little rounded box its in. Sorry i cant take a screenshot because my Windows Vista wont let me. (I have prt sc button but i cant paste on paint because i have a really old version) Other than that its really good.
7/10
The home page and main content
I actually like this alot. There isnt really much i can say about it other that the search bar is kinda slow. The http://3dspedia.com/upcoming-nintendo-3ds-game-list/ page could have allittle more content. And the http://3dspedia.com/best-3ds-games/
could have a few more games and maybe you could add a game dictonary with old and new games. But with information about each or almost each game unlike the library. On http://3dspedia.com/3ds-xl-review/ maybe slightly more high quality reviews but other than that. The website is really good. I would actually recommend this website for DS information. Just maybe buy a couple doamins and redirect them to your site. I know 3dspedia.com is short and nice but maybe you want to buy the3dspedia.com or threedspedia.com and have them redirect to 3dspedia.com. Because i found it allittle bit hard to remember that it was 3 not three.
9.5/10
Whole Website Total: 8.25/10
😀 Hope you have a chance to review my website! Hope you liked my review! Thanks have a great day!
I make reviews when i feel like it. If you want me to make one for you i require 55$FP. Sorry. (And i may just give you your money back and not do it.) I am not staff and no one can make me do anything 😀
You didn't specify what exactly you wanted me to review so i reviewed allittle of everything. Sorry if this seems incorrect or not a good responce. I'm not exactly a writer or a professional reviewer 😛 But here it goes!
The forum
For starters I like the theme and the colors. The theme isn't really hard on my eyes but its pretty light (I like light colored forums. They just look clean) The images and features are decently spaced out with few exceptions. The favicon is great. The images are great and the activity on the website is really good. I saw that you had a privacy policy. Great job! I know its really a pain to write but i think every website that involves interaction with users should have one. Actually Firefox itself recommends all websites to have a privacy policy. (They posted it on twitter a bunch of times last fall)Its really obvious how to sign up because it says in a couple places but it doesn't seem like its shoving it in peoples faces too much like i see in some other forums. But there should be allittle more links to the login page in my opinion. Maybe just put the link saying "Already a member? Login Now!" at the bottom or top of the register page as well. There are a couple of other easy fixes you can do to your site. The page loading speed could be slightly improved. The background is slightly slow to load. Try to minorly compress it. Another thing i dont like is that the red recent posts really sticks out in between all that blue and white and get kind of annoying. It also looks like it has a strange-ish shadow too it. I noticed that the search needs to be moved up slightly or that whole column should be moved down. If you know how to code that should be easy to fix. Another quick fix issue i found was the image with Mario jumping and those ships should fix the little rounded box its in. Sorry i cant take a screenshot because my Windows Vista wont let me. (I have prt sc button but i cant paste on paint because i have a really old version) Other than that its really good.
7/10
The home page and main content
I actually like this alot. There isnt really much i can say about it other that the search bar is kinda slow. The http://3dspedia.com/upcoming-nintendo-3ds-game-list/ page could have allittle more content. And the http://3dspedia.com/best-3ds-games/
could have a few more games and maybe you could add a game dictonary with old and new games. But with information about each or almost each game unlike the library. On http://3dspedia.com/3ds-xl-review/ maybe slightly more high quality reviews but other than that. The website is really good. I would actually recommend this website for DS information. Just maybe buy a couple doamins and redirect them to your site. I know 3dspedia.com is short and nice but maybe you want to buy the3dspedia.com or threedspedia.com and have them redirect to 3dspedia.com. Because i found it allittle bit hard to remember that it was 3 not three.
9.5/10
Whole Website Total: 8.25/10
😀 Hope you have a chance to review my website! Hope you liked my review! Thanks have a great day!
I make reviews when i feel like it. If you want me to make one for you i require 55$FP. Sorry. (And i may just give you your money back and not do it.) I am not staff and no one can make me do anything 😀
Thanks a lot! I will take these points into consideration! :great:
thanks also for your time to write that up. 😉
the domain is fine as is. Making a change to the name will just confuse things. =P
besides I'm pretty sure everyone is familiar with the 3DS, no need for 'three' or 'the'
thanks also for your time to write that up. 😉
the domain is fine as is. Making a change to the name will just confuse things. =P
besides I'm pretty sure everyone is familiar with the 3DS, no need for 'three' or 'the'
EXTRA: Also if you get really bored try using jpg instead of png. They load faster.
Example: On http://3dspedia.com/turtle-tale-review/ it took the images a second or two to load. (It may not for you because of Cache) But if you used jpg or if you used http://www.imageoptimizer.net/Pages/Home.aspx it would load faster. (I've recently used it on my site because my home page background took 10 seconds to load 😛
10 seconds may not seem like alot but there was a study that many users leave by 2 - 3 seconds and around 5-10 the majority leave. (Or something like that XD)
Your website doesn't really have this major issue but like i said. If your bored XD
Example: On http://3dspedia.com/turtle-tale-review/ it took the images a second or two to load. (It may not for you because of Cache) But if you used jpg or if you used http://www.imageoptimizer.net/Pages/Home.aspx it would load faster. (I've recently used it on my site because my home page background took 10 seconds to load 😛
10 seconds may not seem like alot but there was a study that many users leave by 2 - 3 seconds and around 5-10 the majority leave. (Or something like that XD)
Your website doesn't really have this major issue but like i said. If your bored XD
DudeThatsErin
Paragon
The Recent Posts should not be any different of a color from "Search Forums". The red clashes REALLY BAD with the blue.
Why is the sidebar higher than your content area? That looks weird.
Do you have the option to have several different themes with Xenforo, like IPB? If so, make several different ones. You could have the themes for like Mario, Anime, Nintendo, and even do characters from several different games. You could go really deep with the themes. It would be really cool. 🙂
It seems like you are using the default navigation at the top of the page. You should at least change the colors. 🙂
The logo is pretty cool. 🙂
I give your site an 8/10 for what it is currently and a 10/10 for what it could be.
Why is the sidebar higher than your content area? That looks weird.
Do you have the option to have several different themes with Xenforo, like IPB? If so, make several different ones. You could have the themes for like Mario, Anime, Nintendo, and even do characters from several different games. You could go really deep with the themes. It would be really cool. 🙂
It seems like you are using the default navigation at the top of the page. You should at least change the colors. 🙂
The logo is pretty cool. 🙂
I give your site an 8/10 for what it is currently and a 10/10 for what it could be.
DudeThatsErin said:
I agree about the new posts part. It doesn't really blend in with the rest. 😛
the sidebar being higher than the content? I don't see how this is an issue. There a lot of them, and it wouldn't be possible to lower them. You only have to scroll down a little to view the forums.
thanks for the theme ideas. Hopefully we'll get at least one more new theme in the future. 🙂
thanks for taking to time to give feedback! :great:
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