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Originally Posted by rolandogomez
David,
Thanks for your feedback, I'll try and answer the best I can.
1. On the site being cluttered, not sure if you're referring to the forum, or the entire site, as with your explanation, we didn't remove any tuturiols, the entire site, is still here, the menu system is different, but self-explanatory. The new menu on the top of every page breaks it down into six topics.
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I can tell you how I feel the site is cluttered.
Double navigation bars: There are the quick links, plus the traditional navigation links giving us effectively two redundant navigation bars at the top of the page. Why? It's too much and navigation is't something people want a choice for. Make us use one or the other so we quit training ourselves to ignore the one we don't normally use.
Horizontal rules and boxes: I remember reading in a web design book that you should use horizontal rules sparingly if at all. Granted this was several years ago but I think it still holds true today. You have so many horizontal rules on this site it's making me flash back to the Mosiac days. Ok that was a weak attempt at humor. But there are also so many boxes that they act like horizontal rules. You have stuff like "Notification Type" below that's nested in 3 boxes. This breaks up the flow of the page. Also unused boxes should go away, like the AIM handle box.
Too much information: I don't need to see your IP, current mood, location, number of posts, yadda, yadda, yadda, for each and every post. It's more stuff I have to teach myself to ignore. I don't come hear to read that, I come hear to read the posts.
Also look around at your competition. I *think* part of what you want to do is attract more female models though you haven't outright stated this. Your color scheme however is more similar to say dpreview.com where few females post. More women post on ModelMayhem or the censored site. They are light and airy not dark and monochromatic.
Finally on a different albeit easy to implement note, can you wrap an href around the "Glamour1" logo that takes use back to the main page?
As always, I'm not trying to put you or the site down. I've gone to one of your workshops and shared some drinks afterwards. I gunuinely get along with you in person and want to see you succeed. I know all this takes time and I am being patient.