Hit or Miss Movies

[gchandler]

I have been helping my girlfriend build and maintain a movie review site at www.hitormissmovies.com and would like to get some feedback from your guys.

Basically I want to know if the interface is intuitive and If you are able to find reviews easily.

Thanks in advance.

[gchandler]

So is it good, bad, any comments or suggestions are welcome.

[Matt]

Fix the alignment on the ad that is placed on the left side of the screen.
Reviews, hit, miss on the right nav area should be bold, or in a separate box than the rest of the links.
The USC stuff is kinda confusing why it is there, and not at least a bit more separate from the movie stuff.
I think it's funny that you have the same background as suicidegirls.com.

Overall it looks great, a little bit more custom graphics and it would help it look less like a template. It's certainly functional, and save a few confusing links, and some links not being as big as they should be it's very intuitive.

If I'm being at all harsh it's because I do this stuff for a living and nitpick everything. But you definitely did well.

Also, It took me a second to realize your girlfriend lives in LA, I read the first few lines and I didn't understand the tie in.

-Matt

[gchandler]

Nice catch on the background, I have that as a temp while I try to get one of my artist buddies to whip something up for me.

Don't worry about picking it apart, that is what I need if I want to make the site better. I posted here because I value to opinions of many of you who frequent this board.

I am doing this site 100% in my spare time with a 50hr work week as a full time MBA student so my progress is slow, but fortunatly I have someone (my girlfriend) providing new content constantly and because I am using mysql and php (wordpress) I can use a little CSS and PHP to completly change the look of the site.

[Matt]

Ha ha, I'm not a porn hound, I swear. I just saw their show and had to check out the site :)

CSS will help a lot, for a lot of things, as it seems you all ready know. I wish I could make it consistently work for layout, but I have so many problems getting all browsers to handle it right. As I said, just fix up the navigation a bit, and do some graphics and you'll have a killer site.

If you want I'll give you a hand with the graphic stuff. I've been having to do more documentation, and sales lately while I'm outsourcing more and more design and I don't want to get soft at my design skills.

Again, good job. Getting all that stuff to work right is leaps and bounds beyond what most people manage, and you executed it very well.

-Matt