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Ideaz Unlimited

Started by mama_soap, Jun 09 2005 06:11 AM

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#1 mama_soap

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Posted 09 June 2005 - 06:11 AM

A few days ago, I posted a snapshot of the front page of my site, and luckily, no one hated it. Er... so far :D Finally, I have the whole site up and running, and I will be grateful for any suggestions/feedback. I've tried it on Mozilla, Opera, Firefox, and Konquerer and they seem to be rendering it OK, almost the way I want it (firefox is drawing borders around the buttons, I'll try and fix that asap). I'd really appreciate help here... if you could just look at it and tell what you thought of it, it would be wonderful. The "Entertaiment" section won't work, all the game applets I have are too big and I'm trying to push it into my current layout. Since I have other things to do, I'll get this done in a week or so.

Also, the problem of the month and article of the month (the main things, really) will not work because I have to make sure I'm not infringing any copyright laws. The articles will be mine, of course, so no problem there, but the problems will be borrowed from other sources, and I need to confirm that it's all right. Again, I'll probably need a few days to sort this out and put 'em up together.

I have a link to Trap17 in the About->Credits section. I'm not sure if this is enough. Ideaz? A banner/button, perhaps, that I should be using, instead of an obscure text link?

Finally, the forums. Again, this seems to be running all right on my comp,but I still need to make sure it's universally ok, lol. Again, if you can look at it, it'll be really nice. Nicer if you join, hehe :P

If you have any suggestions... I mean, feel free to rip my site apart and abuse it -- I've grown a thick skin lately. *big, stupid grin* For nobody's information, I built the site using a text editor and Opera. No phpNuke, no Dreamweaver. So it's probably looking thoroughly unprofessional, please let me know what you think if you have the time.

Cheers,
Neel

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Posted 09 June 2005 - 06:55 PM

Actually, apart from the broken images in the forums, it looks great. Everything well laid out and presented. The navigation system at the top of all and bottom of some pages makes your site easy to navigate. Having the message board on the left hand side of the front page is an effective way of telling visitors the pages content.

The only critism I can find is that none of your pages make use of the title attribute. This is a good tag. At the top of this page, in the title bar (the bar with the _ and X button,) its says Ideaz Unlimited. Your site could benefit from this. To do this simply add this into your <head> </head> tags:

<title> Ideaz Unlimited </title>

The red part represents what you can change and the blue what you can't.

That's the only critism I can find. Congratulations on a good site!

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The trap17 banners are located here.

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Posted 09 June 2005 - 08:31 PM

Well it looks absolutely beautiful. That is a cool layout!
The only thing that bothers me at all is the broken links. Also, there is not much material that I am into, but that is just a matter of taste.
I do like the poetry though.

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Posted 10 June 2005 - 12:21 AM

Looks good. It has a very clean interface, so navigation looks pretty simple and straight forward. That's pretty rare these days. Simple, but effective. Only suggestion I have is try to add a bit more color.

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Posted 10 June 2005 - 01:26 PM

Thank you all for taking the time, and for the great feedback :D

Yes, I will fix the title tags. They're useful, as I can see... *grin* I thought I included them, but I think some of them got mixed up with the javascript in the <HEAD> part of the pages and were ignored; and for a few pages, I think I must've plain forgotten :oops:

I'm glad the navigation seems okay. I have been trying to keep it as simple as possible. Good to know you liked the message board for the front page, cmatcmextra :D Also, thanks for the links to the banners. I'll try to include one of them on the credits page, or even try my hand at creating one (wonders if it needs admin approval... maybe I should just post the banner and see what everyone thinks). Didn't notice that thread before, thanks again for pointing out.

The colors are deliberately restricted. I wanted the site to have a very blue look, and since I have no specific theme to go by, I was actually thinking of making it monochromatic (shades blue and white only). Luckily, I like gray and dark green, so some of the content is non-blue. I'll try to find unobstrusive ways of including more color :(

Thanks again, everyone!

Cheers,
Neel

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Posted 10 June 2005 - 06:22 PM

How did you manage to get horizontal scroll bar? Try to fix this :D Try to learn CSS, your site would look wonderful if you use it, cause it looks nice already, but with CSS you would give it a great boost.
On the other hand I like content especially poetry, site to be bookmarked :D
Just work on this, you are on the right way.

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Posted 11 June 2005 - 06:01 PM

rvovk,

Thanks a ton for the feedback. I am a bit of a stranger in the CSS world, but trying, nevertheless, to find my feet in there. I do use a bit of CSS for the layout, but it's all very basic. I guess I didn't notice the horizontal scrolling because it doesn't show up on my computer. I will put a overflow: hidden for horizontal scrolling in the external stylesheet, that should, hopefully, set things straight.

I'm glad you liked the poetry. Thank you very much :D Again, still a beginner to the world of writing, but I am enjoying it very much so far. That counts enough to keep me from giving it up, hehe.

I am, of course, thinking of ways of developing the site; and even if don't put an "Under Construction" sign over there, it's still being worked upon :D Thanks again for the feedback, it helps tremendously.

Regards,
Neel

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Posted 11 June 2005 - 07:56 PM

Which resolution do you use at home? 1280*1024? That might be the answer to you problem, cause you don't see horizontal scrollbar that way. Try lower your resolution to 1024*768 and you might see it :D Hope I am not wrong :D

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Posted 11 June 2005 - 09:03 PM

This is a great site, and its very clean and simple..

The only criticism is maybe make the welcome page more colorful and maybe a background.

Keep up the good work!!

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Posted 12 June 2005 - 05:39 AM

Rvovk,

Yes, you're right - I think I'm just using the resolution at which the scrollbars just about disappear. Will fix the CSS, thank you again :D

Fusion,

Thank you so much for the input. It helps a great deal :D I'm still looking for the right background for the frontpage. Will come along soon, hopefully. That comment was spot on :( I'm looking forward to some more color, although colors that won't be too conspicious.

Thanks again!
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