It looks something like this now (see attached).
http://scicompanion.com
Some of the icons are a little rough-looking. Do you think over all that the blocky 8-bit icons look ok though? Maybe the icons should be modern hi-res ones, but the text should stay blocky? Or vice-versa?
For the slider bar images, I choose 3 screenshots each from combinations of VGA/EGA and Sierra/fanmade games (for a total of 12). Can anyone suggest better screenshots? Ideally I was looking for iconic scenes and, perhaps more importantly, scenes of predominantly one hue, as 3 adjacent scenes of mixed hues looks bad. I certainly failed in some cases.
Can anyone suggest title/subtitles for the sliderbar images that appear on top? I can't think of anything non-cheesy so I just put placeholder stuff in. But I was going for "create" copy for the fanmade screenshots and "nostalgia" copy for the sierra screenshots.
I hate wordpress.
[edit:] of course, IE is scaling the icons for some reason, ruining the blocky look. :-p
Okay... Critique time. See if you can get rid of the grey "Meta Area", the thing that has the "Log in", "Entries RSS", "Comments RSS" and "WordPress.org" links, because I feel that it ruins the feel a little, plus it's taking up unneeded and unnecessary space; The only real needed link is "Log In" and I think that could go onto the currently black footer (I'll explain shortly). Now with the black footer, if possible, make it white, and the text / social logos black... Then this is where the "Log In" Link fits in to the black footer, at the bottom of this post, I've wrote two sets of code if it allows you to edit HTML Code in it (One using JavaScript, the other pure HTML), else if not, just put "SCI Companion | Log In". Now the Spotlight Area at the top, the images are great, the text is great, but I feel the second image doesn't fit with the Sierra Style, that's the only problems I have with that. Finally, if possible... With the site as a whole, try and see if there's a way in HTML or the control panel that you can make the banner and the navigations fit into 100% width and 100% height of the browser window using CSS or some other trick, because I feel it'd look a lot more better if I didn't have to scroll down to actually see what the buttons do, and it'd make it much neater... Although text below is fine. Also maybe the footer should be sticky, so it stays at the bottom of the page when scrolling, so it's always seen. I hope you appreciate the time I've took to critique your site, and hopefully improve it.
Plain HTML:(This version requires you to update it every year)
<a href="http://scicompanion.com/">SCI Companion</a>, © 2007 - 2015; <a href="http://www.icefallgames.com/">Phil Fortier (Troflip)</a> | <a href="http://scicompanion.com/wp-login.php">Log In</a>
JavaScript:(This version updates itself every year)
<script>function GetCopyright() { var StartYear = 2007; var MaxYear = 2050; var CurrentYear = new Date().getFullYear(); var CRSymbol = '© '; var SSText = '; '; var Spacer = ' | '; var TSText = ' – '; var SciC = '<a href="http://scicompanion.com/">SCI Companion</a>'; var IceF = '<a href="http://www.icefallgames.com/">Phil Fortier (Troflip)</a>'; var LogI = '<a href="http://scicompanion.com/wp-login.php">Log In</a>'; if (StartYear == CurrentYear) { document.write(SciC + CRSmybol + StartYear + SSText + IceF + Spacer + LogI);} else if (StartYear !== CurrentYear && CurrentYear > StartYear && CurrentYear < MaxYear) { document.write(SciC + CRSmybol + StartYear + TSText + CurrentYear + SSText + IceF + Spacer + LogI); } GetCopyright(); }</script>