So We Just Launched A New Homepage...

.... And by "we" I mean "me" because I'm the only person who runs this lark but you get my speech, word. Please refrain from my likely switching between the term "I" and "we", it's a habbit.
 
So, after 7 months and 261,761 unique readers, I've decided to have a facelift on the ol' PushSquare homepage. Why? Because I was more and more getting the feeling that the old blog layout meant newcomers coming into the site weren't getting our big stories (like our reviews, which actually doesn't lead on a good story at the moment because like, there have been no releases and Alone In The Dark is stuck in there for the sake of filling out the DB, but you get the idea, it's usually timely reviews) because the blog format allows content to be buried so easily.
 
I now have a totally different concern about news content being buried - but that's for another topic.
 
Anyway, basically I want feedback. I'd say what I've launched tonight is 80% complete. I still have a list of things to fix, but I'm also aware people have different browsers and different opinions. What do you think looks good/bad/terrible/horrible/butt-shit ugly/fucking unusable? How're things in your browser.
 
I appreciate you guys probably DON'T want to spend your evening giving me feedback. But I've got a small list building, and I intend to fix all the things on that first, then work with the feedback I receive. It's an ongoing thing.
 
So yeah. I'm really grateful to anyone who feeds back. Or anyone who just drops by and adds up that RSS feed. We're a pretty good Playstation site I think; we're now certainly one of the (if not the) biggest unofficial Playstation-only sites in Europe.
 
And for that I'm pretty proud. So rock it up. Hit me up. Tell me I suck. Whatever. Constructive criticism is a brilliant invention, and I'm not a tool who asks for it and can't take it.
 
Feed me cake. Thanks so much.
 
www.pushsquare.com

What makes this any different from every other gaming news/review website out there? At first glance, this is just generic upstart-video-game-website #51431.

Hey good stuff making your own website.. just get advertising and it could get famous!
So u made this by yourself? that's pretty awesome..
Pity i don't have any playstation..

Too much going on, I think. Each part of the main page isn't differentiated enough to really see what you want.

" .... And by "we" I mean "me" because I'm the only person who runs this lark but you get my speech, word. Please refrain from my likely switching between the term "I" and "we", it's a habbit.

Wordpress is overused, you should consider moving to SquareSpace, you can even import all your pages from Wordpress into it, so all your data would still be intact. And it would help set you aside from the rest of those plain looking blogs.

To many buttons to push. Kinda intimidating looking at so many articles at once personally I like having the recent articles as the main focus and then at the side have a box containing past articles.
 
The colours the site uses are nice, keeps it bright and easy to read.

" @pornstorestiffi: Can you even host your own version of SquareSpace? It's probably not something I'd look into - if indeed Wordpress is "overused" I'd argue because it's fabulous software but each to his own. Alas, feedback on why the sites pages are "plain" could come in really helpful for future tweaks so I'd really appreciate your response.  I'll probably be sleeping between this post and my next but know in advance I'm really grateful to your responses. Even if it is terribly nerve-wracking (sp?) opening yourself up for critique like this. It's always mega helpful. "

Its confusing, Its just like text with all these different fonts and there are like pictures and Im like, What?
 
What Im trying to say is that theres too much stuff going on in the front page, I would lose like the trailers section from the front page and put it on the top menu instead.
 
Also, the home page should tell you what the site is all about as well. There plenty of room for content on the rest of the site.

No one gives a shit about your dumb blog, stop advertising it here.

I like the clean-cut look of the site and the fact that it isn't overbearing in its presentation, but I think it has got a bit of a jumbled look about it, and I'm having a hard time finding a definite focal point. For example, the "What's Up Party People..." headline features larger text than any other story on the homepage and naturally draws the eye, but at the same time the larger image and blue box background behind the "Alone in the Dark Review" headline also attracts attention. Which story is meant to be the major draw on the page? 
 
My main advice to you would be to do more to differentiate between the headlines/links in the three different columns on the page so that there is a definite focal point that can be easily recognized as the most important item on the page. I'd recommend you play around with font sizes/styles, as well as colors, to either make the featured item more prominent or the secondary items more subtle. You do a good job of using color and borders in the bottom half of the page, but it could also use a bit of differentiation in font sizes/styles between the different sections. Hope that helps!

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