Review my Student Fitness blog

[mbolton2181]

Check out my latest venture;
Student Fitness

I have it up in the marketing section but thats kind of for a different crowd, I want to see what the "professional reviewers" think.

All constructive advice and comments are kindly appreciated

[cutebeast]

1. Navigation is bad, link on both left and right. Should go with Left or Left-Top.
2. I really don't know what else to search or take a look at.
3. Your nutritional fact, should open up on a new window. Why bring user away from your page?

Please fix your navigation before get another review. Really Horrible and not well planned.

[mbolton2181]

I completely disagree with you about the navigation. Have you never seen blogs with 3 columns?

Don't know what your search complaint is...

Having the nutritional facts open in a new window is simple and I'll do that right now. Thanks for the tip, somehow when I switched domain names earlier today I messed up that.

*just made the links popup new window

[cutebeast]

I am letting you know because your navigation compose on both left and right side. From how I look at your site, it should be a site that provide information and article that is useful for teen that love fitness. That is your main goal isn't it? When the navigation is on both left and right side most likely the right side of the information will be leave out. If you look into eye movement while checking on a website, plain wording without any graphic or color differences will be view in a "glance" thus leaving them out. having link on the right side will leave your user check and searching. That will slow down the whole searching process for more information because left - left - left or left - left - top navigation is the easiest to access and fastest. When you plan out your website you need to draft out the whole thing including the navigation and "speed". If you can't capture your user attention within those few second, user will quit. You can take this as an advise or you can ignore it.

[mbolton2181]

your right, i looked at my site again... hadn't noticed how i had left right and no top

searching for a good theme, with correct nav

[mbolton2181]

new theme up, I know I need to do something about the header. Anything else though?

[cutebeast]

Are you targeting user from Arabic country where the word are generally from right to left or English speaking country where the word are from left to right? This is one of the main reason why you don't see so many big website out there that is doing the navigational bar on the right side because it is generally easier and faster for user to search on the left side but if you are coming from middle eastern where word are commonly from right to left I would agreed that your navigation have improved. To me your navigation is still hard to navigate. Web design is not just about purely presenting your information, it is also about presenting them in the right way easily accessible by the user based on the demographic location. Also go check on some of the link provided by on the nutri fact because the last time I check some of those link don't provide any at all. It will be better if you did a little more work and place those information on your website first to conserved those traffic and keep user focus on your website instead of any new page or pop out. Overall this is a good start but you still got a long way to go.

[mbolton2181]

are you serious man? I feel like it's improved nav having it on top and side, rather than one side and other side. Anyone else care to comment? Is he right that it's *wrong* to put nav bars on the right?