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Hello. I'm finishing up the design of my site and about to begin working on content. Can anyone visit my site and give me any suggestions on my site's layout, colors, and design in general before i move on?

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Thanks, I appreciate the help.
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Looks good, but if you want your site to catch on you should purchase a real domain. It is a mouthful to say, "Check out my website, www.upsidecentral.x10hosting.com" Word of mouth is great, make it simple.
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My personal favorite is to set the theme width to 100%.
This so people with 800*600 resolution van view your site correctly. (it is now set to 1000 (pixels)).

Maybe set a different Body Background color instead of white.

It looks nice though!!
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Nice site, long name, too wide, not enough colors.
That about says it all, I think.

Although many sites set their width fixed, I prefer an adaptive width. That way it will show everything without scrolling left and right.

I can understand that you chose to use a free host, but in your case getting your own domain name could have great impact on your traffic. And there are places where you can register a domain for about $ 9 a year, so not that expensive. Edit: upsidecentral.net is still available...

Your site is set up for teens and young adults. In my opinion using a brownish color doesn't fit. I'm of an older generation and brown would be a color I would use for a site for retired people....
I think that using more vivid, fresh colors like red, blue, green etc. would be more appealing to the younger generation.
And don't use just 1 color. Create a palette of matching colors and use them wisely.

Just my opinion though....
Edited by MrSimple on 21-06-2008 00:27,
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Thanks, everyone. I'm still working on colors. My old site was pretty bright with red and orange, but I tried that on the new site and it didn't work so well. There is no brown, by the way, just a darker red. I'll experiment with the width, too.

Any more suggestions?
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Must be my old eyes... looks brown to me, but you say it's dark-red, so that it is..:|

One more suggestion: use some more images. Have a look at the themes sites for icons in the nav-menu, etc.
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Here ya go: upsidecenteral.com only 6.99 and here are the feature: http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/Inst...__lf=Order
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i like the theme, looks familiar, altho not sure where ive seen one like it, but yea site looks good just need a domain :)
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Ummmm...looks like just another Facebook wannabe!
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It's not bad at all.
Only thing is, i'm not that big of a fan of red, but that's just my personal opinion. Good Work. :)
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Lol, thanks all. I'll work on the domain name later, I'll be out of town for six weeks starting in a couple of days. Not Facebook, but another community site. I plan on being better than facebook, ha (yeah right :P).
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