Iain wrote:
The blue boxes aren't too bad I guess, just need a slighter bigger font and more space around the edges etc.
A top navigation is definitely needed, I like the idea of the one here:
http://www.irishtimes.com/Nothing too fancy (I don't like the dropdown bits when you click the arrows) and I like when you scroll down the page, it shrinks to a small bar and stays at the top. That's very handy (saves having to scroll all the way to the top to get to the nav again) and doesn't take up too much real estate of the screen.
A nav of something like:
Home - Features - Reviews - Scans - ZzapBible - Forum
Although I'm still unsure how to handy scans vs html versions of pages.
I do like that top navigation.
Home - Features - Reviews - Scans - ZzapBible - Forum - Store <-- I think that would be better.
With regards to your last point, I'm not completely sure if HTML versions are needed. I mean no offense to the people who must've spent surely hours on it, but Internet is fast enough at my place in Texas to load scans relatively quick, and the Internet at my place isn't known for its speed or reliability, of which both are questionable.
I suppose it comes down to you. Perhaps the Scans page would take you to a selection page, split into two sections, similar to the Zzuperstore just with two sections, not three in a row, with HTML on one side and SCAN on the other side, an image as an example for each, followed by a short description, like...
Quote:
HTML:
HTML, internet-ized versions of each issue of Zzap!64. All the text and photos of the normal magazine without the loading times for large images.
Quote:
SCANS:
Handy scans of the actual magazine, complete with Julian Rignall's ridiculous hair!
...to illustrate my meaning.