Ditch the flash site. It's not professional. If you want flash, then use it as the logo and make sure it doesn't repeat itself indefinitely.

All those animated GIFs on the forums scream armature. If you insist on using animations, set it to play once.

That scrolling text at the top of the forums, annoying.

Why are you keeping the forums at a fixed width? Not that it's unprofessional either way, but with today's computers most peoples resolutions are far beyond the width of that forum, set it to a dynamic width perhaps?

Navigation. Keep is consistent through out the site. Some pages have the navigation at the very top of the page, some do not (the forums)

Just a few things I noticed right off.

All good points.

Especially about screaming armature.

Dude, he called you a cracker yo.

I've been called worse. Much, much worse.

Amateur.

Seems Firefox's built in spellchecker had a mind of it's own when I misspelled it. lol

I laughed because it's a car site, so I thought armature was a cool related slip.

It's okay Skills, it was an amateur mistake.

The forums and the main site are a front and back stage. They do not have to be congruent in navigation. The forums aren't for general community interaction but enthusiast. Now that doesn't make sense right, I mean it's car forums right? Nope, it's a media company and the racers are the characters, the main pages are for telling their story to the rest of the public in our market.

The site isn't flash, it's just a scroller within the first page. The file is a precursor to the tube player that is based off that template and will replace it.

The marquee can get annoying but it is a hit with the racers and it's only on one page.

The animations are just easy to spot, eye candy for the regular user. Again, it's a hit with the racers and the forums aren't for the general public. Anyone is welcome but the average user could careless. The regs all seem to like it and I would disagree with your use of amateur. You aren't fond of the styling but the graphics themselves are polished. There may be one or stock stock graphics left that aren't, like seeing white borders on .gif icons but they are minimal at best.

The fixed width for the forums are based on my users. I have a 24 inch monitor but that is not the standard for my market and I believe it keeps a certain uniformity looking at the site from various browsers and rigs. It's just personal taste.


People are lazy. The only part of the site the average user looks for is news, pics and soon video. I have had to pause on the site for a few days because of a distraction, but I should be ready by the 22nd for what I need. An I'll take amateur status, it's fine with me since it's home to Amateur League Racing,so it fits the theme.

Under "The Strips" tab it says "the six tracks located..." but after you tab over there are 8 tracks listed.

Well I guess you have it all figured out.