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Re: New S.P.A.M. Robotics Website and Forum complete!

I like where it's heading... here's a few suggestions that may or may not help ya out:
* The links on the side change location on every page... making you have to search if you thought "After I go to such and such page... I'll go to such and such" and have to look again. I'd suggest doing those sublinks as their own seperate page in the middle or something, and keeping that left bar the same or close to the same (maybe split it into categories and you can fit all links into the sidebar?)
* On the forums, try to match up the color scheme with the rest of the site. It looks nice, but matching it to the rest of the site would look better. Also add links to the Forum, although there is the "Go Back to Spamrobotics.com" link at the top, it would be nice if you can incorporate the side and top linkbar there too
* Main page: You have a bunch of blank space under the s.p.a.m. robotics title on the right side of the body... maybe put a picture of something underneath it in the blank area... maybe a random image changer so each time you come to the page a different image is shown
* Keep that sidebar background running down the page, or end it when the links stop, one or the two... it looks weird going past where the links are but not to the bottom.
* Center the SPAM logo inside the links sidebar, it looks strange right aligned
* Maybe also try seing if you can align the links themselves with each other, because when you are scanning... it's easier to go back to one point on the left, but because of different variations in word length and the right alignment, it's a little harder to follow.
* In the footer, you have 2 instances of thanking the Sevaa.com hosting. I'd suggest getting rid of either the link or the image... and just keeping one. You wanna try to keep the footer as condensed as possible, and currently it's kind've big so in a small page you might scroll down if there's a big footer but nothing important really being there.
* I like the double-spacing... but if you can, it would probably look better without as much space in between the lines of text, because then you can fit more text into a smaller area and it'll be easier for you to work with.
* The links in the top bar are perfect sized. You should try to keep the link size on the links in the left bar the same or smaller than those top bar ones though, because those top ones are the main links around the site while the left bar ones are the sub ones, and since they are the sub-links, being smaller allows the user to recognize the top ones as main links more easily.

The site is being put together very nicely. I like the way your color scheme sticks to 4 main colors... black, blue, red, and white. You might want to encompass more reds and yellows since those make up your logo. The blues and black represent your team shirt colors, so you could possibly incorporate that in a seperate way, for example... blues and blacks could be the text, while you work with reds and yellows to form your backdrops and image borders and such. Currently you mix blues in the sidebar backdrop and the main links, I'd suggest using all same color links (makes it easier to recognize). Maybe using a red in the backdrop for the links could somehow work with that top header (because red and blue are very contrasting colors, and it goes straight from that top border of maroonish to the blue to white sidebar color... maybe just try to stick to reds and whites there or something... and use blue elsewhere).

Like I said, the site looks great... and maybe some of those ideas can help you out (then again maybe not... all depends on your style). Good luck, and keep up the great job!
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