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You have a nice format but make the welcome sign on the home page smaller because it look no offence really dorky being so large.  Make all the other main headings on all the other pages smaller too the forum page was the only one that looked ok.

Overall I saw no major design problems with your web site, and you did a nice job on it.  The only thing is fix the sizes of those heads i told you about and maybe mess around with formating your text a little more to.  Otherwise i like it.
Nice Job

If I think of something else later all post back here

Thanks for the feedback guys. I was going for the old Apple.com look (kinda) with having large writing (Apple Garamond, although I'm using Arial) and a little line underneath it. Unless I was imagining it though.

yeah, i guess I should make the text smaller...shouldn't be too hard. But if you'll see, some pages have an image on top (made in photoshop) and some just have text when i was too lazy to make one. So, do you think say this site looks better than this one? Notice, the latter is an image as compared to the former which is just text (size 7).

Please let me know! Thanks for the feedback.

Once again both sites look good but the headers are still way to big.  You are giving to much importance to the web headings.  This is a site still in the works but check out my site and how i use headings.

http://www.roomatewanted.com/mfp

Now obviously your design is different then mine so you need a different heading theme.  What i would suggest is to make the images a little less than one inch high and center them on the site kind of like what they do on this site http://www.myfishtank.net.  You need to click on a section in the left navigation like "product reviews"  so you can get th eidea.  You will see a heading that says product reviews toward the top sometimes you can miss it because you just dont see it.  I think your headings should have bigger text but dont make it obnoxious.

Once again good luck with this, and make sure you post back here its good that you review you site because it gives you a good idea of what people like.  I just reviewed my site on here even though its not done yet and got lots of good tips and suggestions from the wonderful mac community.

Please update me i will be interested to see how cool your sites going to look when you fix this issue.

If you put the H1 tag in a web site without editing its styles you could make that slightly bigger for your headings but you generally dont want to go any bigger than that.

I want you to see what I mean.  You are using a small text size on your site.  Look at that text then at the headings.  Then look between them at all the white space.   

It would look a lot better with smaller headings.  You have developed a very profestional design in your web site

Once again both sites look good but the headers are still way to big.  You are giving to much importance to the web headings. 

Again, thank you for the additional feedback. I understand what you mean with the headers being too big. Acutually, I was going to redo the headers anyways, since there was some inconsistency with the point size. But how big is too big? From what you said, it made it sound like even the site with the text on top (not an image) was too big. Hmm.... which size will be the best fit? I want to keep the design with the locations of the headers, but as for the size.... I've stuck an image below, which has 4 different 'Welcome' text on it. Which size do you think would fit the best? They range from point 24-72. All done in photoshop. I think the one I have on my beta (actually, i called it alpha) page is #5, point 72.



Thanks again for your feedback. Just let me know which one you think looks best. Thanks!

If you want the background color to be white you should specify the background color of the page. The default background color is white in exploder, but in Netscape, Mozilla, et al its gray.

Also, whatever size text you use for the header, if you're going to use an image for the text you should adjust the metrics of the type to make it more attractive (alt attributes would be a good idea too).

It reminds me very much of VersionTracker.

Again, thanks for the feedback. Three it is. Hopefully it will look awesome after fixing it up.

As for looking like VersionTracker, I did get the inspriration for the search box (on the right side) and the color scheme from VersionTracker.com. I credit to Apple.com and VersionTracker.com for the inspiration in the About page. (click About tab).

Again, thanks for the feedback guys! Hopefully, I'm looking at a month or so (no promises though )