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From a design standpoint, non-standard fonts are used too much, namely in the content of the dropdowns, sidebar (polls), tags, etc.
The font also does not render well in lowercase. The letterspacing on the helvetica looks horrible. As the revered typographer Frederic Goudy once said: "a man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep".
The body text on the teasers in the search results is inconsistently typeset. You use letterspaced helvetica on the homepage (ugh) and the font replacement in the search results.
There seem to be some pixel artifacts on the fixed pos player (left side, on the bevel)
The favicon looks bad in firefox.
Fonts and borders are too chunky, but worse - inconsistent, especially on the contact page.
The player buttons do not fit in the design at all. Even the logo does not uses gradients - rather it uses solid colors.
Some of the controls are unbelievably and inexplicably large like the 'add all songs to playlist' button. Horsey.
From a conceptual design standpoint, neither the logomark or logotype seem to fit the thematic content of the site - basically prog and trance. It feels like an emo-indie-metal blog, with the heart and the black/white/red color scheme and the aggressive, KISS-like, angular logotype.
But overall, the site is just too fat.
I am a web developer/designer and using my work machine to view the site, and performance is terrible, because the site is so loaded down with all of these gizmos - font replacement, persistent player, slideshows, meebo share, AJAX content, etc.
Even though you're using AJAX to fetch content, the fetching is taking longer than a normal page load would last, so the effect is silly - this happens especially with events because you're loading in so much shit (calendar, scrollpanes, gmaps api, ajax event find form, etc)
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