Do You Read The RetroGaming Blog?

Post by **racketboy** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:52 pm

So how 'bout you?

Post by **4ppleseed** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:17 am

I didn't for ages but not out of choice.

*puts on design consultant hat*

http://www.racketboy.com/ leads to your home page.

Now you have a nice image here with yourself on the left and a RETRO GAMING logo .... now if i look up at the menu the option 'retro gaming' makes me feel like its gonna come back to this page if I click it but actually it leads to the blog.

Having the title logo for your blog here doesn't make good design sense.

You can either:
a) change the logo to just a RacketBoy logo, that way 'retro gaming' feels like a genuine menu option and you can keep all the articles down the side.

or
b) have http://www.racketboy.com/ go straight to the blog. This would probably raise readers to the blog but lessen other areas of the site.

A is probably your best bet. Have a main Racketboy logo on your homepage and lead people off to the blog, shop, forum in a slightly less subtle way.

Post by **racketboy** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:31 am

I appreciate your concern -- I'm well aware of the design flaws of the front page and I hope to address them one I brush up on my PHP.
I eventually plan on making a very dynamic front page the acts as a bit of a dashboard for all the content from the blogs, forums, and such.

I will definately not be changing the blog to the root directory as I actually get most of my traffic from search engines and moving the pages would totally throw that all away.

Post by **4ppleseed** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:36 am

Coolio. A bit of a brush up on the front page would be great.