Sander, it was a pleasure reviewing your site. I’m very glad that you found my comments worthy of implementing and working on. Big improvement with the buttons before the sections titles on the right sidebar. I do have to agree with Alan though, that shiny silver effect with drop shadows make them look too “web 2.0-ish”. Why don’t you keep them simple like the rest of your site, and leave out the button background? Also, make the arrow red too. I really like how you’ve used the red asterisk in your new RSS icon – well done!

Alan, you bring a good point about the challenges of a bilingual site. I think to simplify things for everyone, it’s best to title links in a corresponding language, so there will be no wrong expectations. So a link in Dutch would take me to the page in Dutch, and the one in English will be written in English.

I just have a few comments.

In the footer there are links which are not highlighted as links at all. You have to move over the text to figure out where they are.

I have no idea how to deal with this, but sometimes you click on a link in English and find yourself reading a page in Dutch. (For example clicking ‘contact me’ in the footer). I’ve never had to create a bilingual site before so haven’t really thought how to deal with this kind of issue, but it is probably worth thinking about. I’d be interested in reading any thoughts people have.

The new icons on the right are a great improvement, but the silver button effect seems slightly out of keeping with the clean style of the rest of the site. Maybe it would be best with out this extra detail of the button, leaving just the red parts of the icons.

I’ve created some small changes on the top navigation menu, but I’m not yet satisfied. The text hover for Dutch and English is a good suggestion and I agree on the header image, the text is too small and blurry, will change this in the near future.

When I started designing the date and bracket I tried to create a visual funnel from left (basic information) to right (main content). I believe it worked but I realize it looks too close to iLT, this is next up in the agenda to change.

Spot-on for the list items, a red-astrix instead of the grey blocks will improve the balance in the theme. Good suggestion.

Totally agree on the orange buttons, I changed it to red (designed my own RSS button wasn’t so difficult after all) and also changed the other head icons.

I agree with you on the feedcount, it seems a bit misplaced. The suggestion for a email subscription link is much better. I also believe the black text is to hard opposite to the blue text links.

For the text links, I must admit I’m a bit colorblind which makes it sometimes difficult to choose the right colors. I might change it to pink.

Will take another look at the hover for text links and the numbers at the comments. More to come..

Thank you again Vivien for this great review, much appreciated!! I take every point into the next steps of my website.

@Tracey Grey, funny I visited your website yesterday thinking great design. Thank you for very much your comment and I’ve changed the photo :)

Speaking of which, kudos to Sander for being involved. I like the site a lot. My first impression was based on seeing the big red right bracket which (like you, Vivien) made me think of iLT straight away.

There’s not much that I would say in addition to your comments. The photo on the “Over SEGD” page looks a bit washed out, maybe because of the strong light source(s) behind Sander. On the front page I like the Thank You section. Did you notice that when you hover over each link in the Thank You section, the title is a lovely description of each person that Sander has thanked. Nice!