Site Critique: Twohundredpercent

[Ian]

I should probably stick my head above the parapets at this point and put myself forward for this.

I am a terrible perfectionist when it comes to this sort of thing, so here are a few "known issues":

1. I know that the slider doesn't scroll completely smoothly. I've tried to fix it but my coding skills are stronger elsewhere.

2. Some of the typography is imperfect. This seems to be down to the font - League Gothic, in case you were wondering - and it is terribly frustrating, since I am turning into a bit of a typography geek and there is no way of fixing this without ripping the whole theme to pieces and starting again.

3. Embedded videos and pictures within posts don't work on the mobile theme. There's nothing I can do about that (so far as I know), but I do now put up a link on every post that contains them so that people can switch to the "desktop" version of the site.

4. Those five images below the slider... they make it look a bit busy. Am starting to look at how to get rid of those.

5. The posts section and sidebar don't align perfectly at the bottom of the page. That's pretty minor and there's not much I can do about it.

That's all that I can think off of the top of my head. I have to say that this look is the first one that I have been close to being happy with (and I don't think I will ever be completely happy with it - there'll always be something wrong with it and it will never look as sumptuous as Run Of Play), but all suggestions are welcome.

www.twohundredpercent.net

[9men]

Just had a (very quick) look - could you solve point 5 by making your "main" div have a white background and doing the separators with 5px solid border instead of margin?

[9men]

Also wrt point 2 - is this just an imperfection of Cufon? Does it improve with other fonts? As good as these font-replacement technologies are, I've never found one that is perfect. We used sIFR at work for a bit but ditched it. Have you tried TypeKit?

[lanternerouge]

I'm mainly bothered about content and if I'd definitely consider the list of things you mention as minor from my point of view. I also won't waste time praising you apart from to underline that this is the first site I turn to every time these days: extraordinarily good all round. But you are looking for constructive comments so...

It's funny that you mention your perfectionist streak because one criticism I would have is the regularity of changes of design over the past 18 months - I think sticking to something for a period of perhaps a season is a good idea - I really like the current design which seems to have been in place for a good while now.

The mobile site has been a revelation to me and I have quickly gotten to prefer reading posts on it as opposed to when I'm sat at the computer - I'm not bothered at all about the lack of photos (but then, I approve of austerity).

I'd probably cut down on the amount of house room given to the Twitter, tumblr links etc. on the right hand side although Supporters Direct and this forum are fine writ as large.

Overall though, the lack of replies on here tell a story as to how well regarded your site is Ian.