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[Lyon2]

I finished the website i wanted to create for years, i took some time and it took me 2 months to finish it, it really took more then 60 days to make it like i wanted for so long, i used to use a blog, i still do but the blog will be continued in January 2010 (freeflashclocks.eu).

I am just asking for your cleaver review, make it count please, i want to improve it even further, so please take the time to help me, if you can! he he he.


My flash clocks website
http://flash-clocks.com


Thanks in advance.

[TheDarkHacker]

Very good design,no errors or something,clean code and a perfect site.Perfect colors,contrast,and good image for logo.I can't say you have a hole in something,i can see you are working good.Haha,for a month to create a design like this.Just try to fill the right sidebar,with links or some script for bookmarking website.You didn't needed to add the drop-down menu on the bottom but anyway it looks cool.This is one of the best sites i saw,and i rate it 10/10 I can see you take care for the design,you add colors and backgrounds witch remind on something like clocks.So i got some feelings that this site is for clocks,without to see the title.Continue like this,i can see you are good at Flash and HTML/CSS.Nice thing is providing custom clocks...If you want we can make some link exchange.If you want to make it very very perfect,instead of adding the HTML text for clocks in textarea,add them in quoted area.Styling blockquote tag is simple,like other elements.So you are good at graphic i can see,you have:

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Free Website Templates.
Free Flash Clocks Site. or Free Flash Clocks Blog
Free Logotypes.
Free Website Buttons.
Free Icons.
Free Windows XP Wallpapers.
Free Banners.
Free Forum Sigs.
Free Website Headers.

PS:I just saw you are saying that you have tousands of users on your page which is not possible for website which launched for a day Why you lie,when there aren't some visitors,plus i can't see informations about your website on alexa

Edited by TheDarkHacker, 05 December 2009 - 09:32 PM.

[rvalkass]

Just one thing to say:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%...ine&group=0

Fix the errors. Once it's a valid page then we can look further at the design. Until the errors are fixed you have no idea how your site will appear in browsers!

[TheDarkHacker]

rvalkass,he's website is looking good at all web browsers.You can't believe in w3.org that your website doesn't look good in other web-browsers if there are warnings.Can you check Google with w3's validator? It gives warnings for HTML,same as MSN,as Yahoo,Bing,Gmail....Plus,HTML does not matter that much like CSS matters.All popular HTML pages are with errors.But lots of websites are using CSS with no errors.So don't worry for HTML errors,and don't hear rvalkass You have no errors,as you can see with going here Because and your website winegumkestrel has errors,plus it doesn't have 5,it has 31 Sorry rvalkass,but i don't accept with this post.

[Baniboy]

Overall good design, I would look more into the top navigation bar. The white to black gradient for the active and hovered button does it's job but I get the feeling it doesn't fit in with the other buttons. So try out a background color of #521d1d, maybe that works(you can try making a gradient that has around the same color)

There are many grammar errors as well, which doesn't fit in the picture of a professional site you create in the "About Us"-page.
And you're using flat files. Which is totally fine since you aren't running a complicated website that would need dynamic content, but if you made your site dynamic, the management of content would be much easier on your end. So I recommend it, you waste less time with code and more time doing those nice flash clocks.

The way you give your e-mail address and IM contact IDs is dangerous. You'll get tons of spam. So use an image instead or make a php contact form.
It's also not very professional to have a contact e-mail of a business with a popular domain name such as gmail.com. Rather use the e-mail of your domain. I think google has some tools for this.

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All popular HTML pages are with errors.But lots of websites are using CSS with no errors

Those are errors, but those are hacks which make the site compatible with all browsers. So don't hear TDH on this one, instead fix the errors, and your site will be mobile-compatible too.

But as I look at the source, I don't really think you made this on your own, but used a template or something else. So don't fix those HTML errors if you don't know what you're doing.

Edited by Baniboy, 05 December 2009 - 10:26 PM.

[Lyon2]

I appreciate all comments, though i think html errors are not that important in my opinion, every major browser opens my site as it should if i am not mistaken, at least according to last time i checked which was not so long ago.

I agree with the e-mail thing, i will check out Google tools for this, though gmail has the best anti-spam filters, i could be using my own domain e-mail but i had several business deals lost and other almost lost because the web hosting e-mail server was not working, so it is always a risk using your own domain name as the e-mail to get your deals, i used to use it but i know i lost a few deals for custom flash clocks.

I do not get a spam message using my gmail account at my current domain and my old domain (freeflashclocks.eu, which is not working until January 2010), like i said, gmail is the best in spam issues, and you can use your own filters as well if in fact you get some spam e-mails, but you are right, and i will check Google tools for this, perhaps it asks to validate the domain with some metadata key or some html file to upload to my server root, but i appreciate if you could redirect me from here without having to search for it.

The grammar errors will be fixed, thanks, next time point them out if you can, at least one please, so i will know what you are referring to, i check all spelling but sometimes the dictionaries and lack of time are against me.

Thank you all, even to rvalkass, i know you for a long time here at trap17, so i count on you to help me with some comments on the design if you want, thanks.


Sure we can exchange links, give me the link so i can take a look ok?
Thanks for your nice comments, and the textarea tip, the point was to make it noticeable, but some color would make it better for sure.

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Yes i did on my own, the template was built with ezgenerator, it is a program with templates, but not like my site is, i improved it a lot and changed many things by editing the source code of html and css files, i really can not understand why you say i did not made this on my own, please explain.

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TheDarkHacker, this domain is not exactly new, but most of the traffic comes from freeflashclocks.eu work i made, but i had a problem with hat domain, it is going back up online at January 2010, and freeflashclocks.eu is still on top of every site about flash clocks and it is offline for 1 or 2 weeks.

Edited by Lyon2, 05 December 2009 - 10:36 PM.

[TheDarkHacker]

Why not to hear me? If you call that hacks,you don't know what is hack.Just look at which kind of errors Google has.Flash-Clocks.com website should not be fixed,the only errors are only doubled:

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end tag for "SPAN" omitted, but its declaration does not permit this

I looked the code of his website and for me, it is 100 times better then Google's So people,just look at his code and then say things about that.Another thing, mobile browsers aren't so old, so the only thing which makes website to look terrible on phone is javascript and css.He do not use special JavaScripts,and his CSS is with no errors.Just continue on this way and add more clocks.Sorry because you had your website long time,but i didn't know about that.Anyway,people if you want to talk about something can't you look good at things,instead of saying so much when you don't know informations.For commenting website and it's source,you can't do that for a second,you need 2 minutes minimum.I can see he has a error which he should fix,but it is not that urgent,so you say all this.

[truefusion]

It is a nice layout, but all that space on the right just for a search form? Take out that second column and move the search form to the bottom right area of the banner or something. Likewise, remove the text in the banner and make it real text and position it more to the bottom right area of the banner.

Lyon2, on Dec 5 2009, 05:26 PM, said:

i think html errors are not that important in my opinion, every major browser opens my site as it should if i am not mistaken, at least according to last time i checked which was not so long ago.

All "you" (i quote this word as it could have been EZGenerator) did was forget to close one HTML element. Even though it shows 6 errors, you only need to fix one line of code, not six. Not sure if other mistakes are found in the other pages, though.

[Ho-oh'sRealm]

Excellent design, really nice overall!

Just one thing:

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We are a team of persons who enjoy create flash clocks, we used to be a lot more but most of our team went to work on their own projects and websites, however we all have a passion for clocks and everything about it, it became so about 25 years ago for some of us.

On your "About Us" page, you say that. It's incorrect grammar, and should be:

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We are a team of people who enjoy creating flash clocks. We used to have more people but most of our team went to work on their own projects and websites, however, we all have a passion for clocks and everything about it, some of us loving clocks from about 25 years ago.

Hope this helps ^^

[rvalkass]

TheDarkHacker, on Dec 5 2009, 10:02 PM, said:

rvalkass,he's website is looking good at all web browsers.You can't believe in w3.org that your website doesn't look good in other web-browsers if there are warnings.Can you check Google with w3's validator? It gives warnings for HTML,same as MSN,as Yahoo,Bing,Gmail....Plus,HTML does not matter that much like CSS matters.All popular HTML pages are with errors.But lots of websites are using CSS with no errors.So don't worry for HTML errors,and don't hear rvalkass You have no errors,as you can see with going here

Just because everyone does it doesn't make it right! This is how the problems were caused when Microsoft released IE7. They finally decided to fix most of the rendering bugs from IE6 so that they actually met the W3 standards. The problem was that most web developers had totally ignored the standards and used various hacks and fixes to make their sites work specifically with IE6. The standards are there for everyone to follow - including people who code browsers. If you follow them then you are guaranteed to always have your site displayed correctly. If you use hacks and have errors then your site may work now, but not in the future.

TheDarkHacker, on Dec 5 2009, 10:02 PM, said:

Because and your website winegumkestrel has errors,plus it doesn't have 5,it has 31 Sorry rvalkass,but i don't accept with this post.

The errors on that page are caused by a single URL being encoded incorrectly I'm redesigning the site anyway, so those errors will be gone soon, but thanks for bringing them to my attention.

Lyon2, on Dec 5 2009, 10:26 PM, said:

I appreciate all comments, though i think html errors are not that important in my opinion, every major browser opens my site as it should if i am not mistaken, at least according to last time i checked which was not so long ago.

As I've said above, following the standards is incredibly important to make sure your site displays correctly in all new browsers being released. Coding your page to the current quirks of certain versions of certain browsers is not a good idea as it makes the code a nightmare and makes it difficult to maintain. Following the standards ensures your site always displays correctly in all current and future browser versions.

Lyon2, on Dec 5 2009, 10:26 PM, said:

Thank you all, even to rvalkass, i know you for a long time here at trap17, so i count on you to help me with some comments on the design if you want, thanks.

Of course. I was just a little short on time last night. The colours work well, especially the maroon background - it's different, but not overpowering. It could perhaps have a slight pattern or gradient to make it a bit more interesting, but it does work as it is at the moment. I would also perhaps move the text in your banner towards the bottom right hand corner, off the watch and just onto the sand. The text could also stand out a bit more from the background image. Having the entire right side bar just contain a small search box seems like a waste of space. I'd move the search box to the top of the main content area and expand its width.

The sheer number of Flash elements on the page makes scrolling painful. I know Flash is an integral part of the site, but could you replace each clock with a static image, perhaps with a button to cause some Javascript to replace the image with the live clock if the user wants to see it? That would allow them to see what each clock looks like without the massive slowdown of having tons of Flash elements on one page.

On a side note - all of your clocks link to your old site, and currently the link is dead. Dead links aren't good for SEO and will cause frustration to your users.