[fuBar]

pretty unique than any other web 2.0 website.

buufdesigns.com

what do you think?

[kwills]

not a great design, i take it you designed it yourself then?

[Mitch]

Wrong section.

Put it in the showcase.

I concur, this aint great.

[colorlab]

It's setup is not bad, but it is too plain. All I am seeing is grey. How about a pretty header or something?

It looks more like an experimental website for certain web techniques than an actual showcase of your work. This is just what I'm experiencing of course.

[Paul]

very gray indeed.

weird prob in IE6 when you hover over the Mattahan's links in the 1st paragraph

[djeglin]

Ok, so not only is this in the wrong section, but clearly you have no idea.

Its not "web 2.0". No arguments, its just not. There's not enough user interaction, its not got enough of a social bent to the site, the site is not all about user generated content, or about users linking together to form opinions or links to other information in order to benefit others. Learn your terminology before you use it.

Your code, while not table based, is still pretty horrible. Inline "ifIE" statements that include content to "fix" problems which you can get around in other ways, inline javascript for your ads, which again can be included in other ways? Ugh.

Your navigation is... Horrible. Those icons which you so proudly tout as "flowing like the milky way" are clunky, slow, and disparate. They are too separated from the actual navigation menu - Users will try and click them because they are there, and not see the purpose of them (Mainly because there is none).

The design bores me - Sorry but it does. Its grey. All of it. No real highlights, no real effort to guide the users eye around the page... No attention to HCI at all. Look at a contrast map of your page sometime. How are people with visual impairments going to deal with that? They arent. Well done. For that matter, how does your site read to screen readers? "I Fix IE" twice in a row? Wow... people are going to love that!

And now, for the part that makes me really sad...

Not only this attractive design looks good in the outside, but the inside gets even better. With the modern coding of XHTML, CSS, and AJAX, BuufDesigns loads quickly and flawlessly on most internet browsers.

We are unable to support Internet Explorer 6/7 for various reasons. For example, IE6's lack of CSS support and IE7's odd rendering with the website's CSS.

This is a simple principle. Dont release your site until its ready. If it doesnt work on THE MARKET LEADING BROWSER then its not ready. And don't use browser quirks as an excuse. IE6 does support CSS... How do you think we all get it to play nice with our sites? Small fixes, thats all it needed. I mean, really, how can you tout your site as loading flawlessly on most internet browsers when it wont work properly on the browsers that literally control the market?! Jees.

Now... Make it work, and post it in the Showcase, not in here, and we'll see if I have anything better to say about it.

Disappointed.

[fuBar]

Talk about good critism, I have been asking people for improvements for ages. Indeed I did go to the right place in a wrong section of the forum.

I did not design and code this website, I just maintain it volunarily. Which this website was a voluntary project to begin with.

I know it was a mistake to release it without fixing the IE bug. But I don't really care nonetheless.

Thanks again, I will try to make some improvements and implement some feedback that was said on this thread.

[Larixk]

site's not so great. Buuf's icons are though. I've been using them for some months now.
Great initiative to put all these resources together. But the site still spitts out some nasty MySQL errors and such.

[wufather]

broken design

[TandemAdam]

I agree. definitely not a so called "web2.0 site".