Web page critique

[Dameon]

Casio, I personally never insulted your page, just saying the right click message was ineffective, and that it takes very little if any effort to get around it. As pretender mentioned, insulting other people's sites is not going to change the appearance and how people perceive yours. Furthermore, if I wanted your opinion about my site, I'd ask for it... and please refrain from using real names on this page, thanks.

 

[spamboy]

Haha. That was so bad I sh*tted (shat?) and giggled when I looked at it. lol.

 

[Deicide]

Why did it take you 2 min to load the pic? It takes me a less than 30 seconds on 56k to load the second intro page.

Probably because you have it set in your cache, or your viewing the file locally and its calling the image from your hard drive. Get rid of all midi/dhtml flying junk/java image scripts. I know that after you get rid of that, all you will have will be two frames and some text, but you should think about adding in pictures that won't take a year to load and scripts that don't send people into convulsions.

 

[dcdomain]

Ok, I'll try not to seem like an a-hole in my crit.

Intro animated text is not needed. Heck, if you want to look professional, get rid of the intro page altogether. You notice how most "professional" sites take you directly to the source? If you want repeat visitors, let them get to the content quick.

All those special effects are 'lame' for a professional site. If you wanted to make your own kiddie page, sure go ahead, but get rid of all these effects. They don't fit in with your overall theme and really limits the kind of people that will be able to access your site. Those effects are really slow on older computers.

How many professional sites out there you see in black? On the web, black is associated with warez or porn sites. The light green is also a bad choice. If you wanted to use green (which you shouldn't) you should have gone for another shade.

All your text pics, are really pixelated. Fix them.

The gray border, doesn't fit. Looks as if you used AOLPress or something to build this site. If you want to organize your page, drop the gray border line and go for something else.

So we go from an index page, go through all the effects and we get to a huge pic. Where's the content? If it takes too long to get to your content, people aren't going to bother.

All that best viewed in, copyright stuff is not needed. Did you really go and copyright it? Didn't think so. If you must have that on your page, make the text smaller.

Right click disabled? Why? What do you have that other people would want?

The huge NEWS, ABOUT, RIGS etc. logos are not needed. Just use normal text and make it smaller.

Remember... content is king, you don't need all that cheesy flashy stuff to grab people. A clean layout, link tree and content is what grabs people.

 

[CasioTech]

thanks, dudes.

ok...

The right click.. 50% of people don't know how to view source unless they right click. And don't speak for them, because I would know.

The black backround, humm... what color could I use to make it look gothic like, to match the picture in the front?

I don't see why my page should take 2 min to load, if my pic is 138k?!?!

I did clear the cache, and the cookies, and temp internet files.

About the shaking, I need something that will strike fear in the picture that is on my index page, something about fearing video cards.

Gizmology Thanks, I needed that before I would have deleted my whole site.

I need to know where I have shaking text. My whole screen shakes if that's what you mean.

DCDOMAIN What grey pixelated borders?

 

[Suicidal]

I recommend checking out CoolHomepages for some inspiration. If it's professionalism you're after, you really should compare your site to Anandtech, see the difference?

Here's a few pointers:

White space is your friend.
Remain unbiased if you really want to review hardware (unless you want to buy all your own stuff to review).
Use smaller optimized graphics
Get rid of the flash, unless it ads something vital, don't use it.
Lose the javaScript no click, it's annoying (Not like buy.com or any real prof. site uses it)
Splash pages lose visitors, so annoying.
Read up on the latest HTML, your designs looks first generation.
Get a book on web design (Hillman Curtis' Flash Web Design and maybe a Computer Arts magazine)

Why would someone want to fear a video card? Is it going to try to eat them? My Hercules Geforce 2 is rather placid, it hasn't tried to kick my ass lately. And if it's a gothic look you're after, forget about it, you have a lot to learn.

 

[dcdomain]

The borders aren't pixelated... I'm talking about the borders/dividers separating your updates, and used in some other areas of your site.

The text pics itself are pixelated, and they are definitely not needed. You could just go with normal text instead of the pics.

 

[CasioTech]

dcdomain, I like your site, do you think that black is a good background color?

 

[CasioTech]

how did you do the mouse over where the link just goes from grey to white?

I need to learn that, because my mouse over is "cheesy"

 

[ManSnake]

Hated the geocities pop up crap!

 

[GoldenBear]

Professional sites that use black:

Ars Technica
Shugashack
Blues News
Voodooextreme

And those are essentially the four biggest sites that bring just news.

 

[CasioTech]

so what are you saying, is that a good thing or not?

 

[GoldenBear]

Good for computer type sites.

 

[CasioTech]

and since my site is computer based...

Thanks Golden Bear

 

[dcdomain]

Yeh, I do like black as my background color because it's a personal site. I agree that some computer sites that use black do it well. Anyway, it's a little played out, I'm going with a different background in my next revision.

The mouse over links are easy, just view source on my menu frame. Here's the code:

<style type=&quot;text/css&quot;>a:link { color: #999999; text-decoration: none; cursor: default }
a:visited { color: #999999; text-decoration: none; cursor: default }
a:active { color: #660000; text-decoration: none; cursor: default }
a:hover { color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; cursor: default }
</style>

Insert that right before </head>
Play around with the colors and text-decorations to add under lines, and what not. You can get the background to change colors too...

 

[CasioTech]

yes, thanks, I can't view source on this computer, it networked, and the &quot;administrator&quot; took off everything like right click (properties) and any thing practically above the address/navagation bar.

Thanks again.

 

[Josh]

Err--- That is like the same exact thing as last time and you just made some effects w/ javascript! You just wanted to advertise your site, admit it...it's ok, everyone does it at some point.

 

[GoldenBear]

Josh, how'd you get to be a part of that whole network of gaming fan sites? Is there a head site somewhere?

 

[GoldenBear]

And for a REAL design, here's one:

www.whq-network.comwww.whq-network.com

PS: Paulson helped.

 

[CasioTech]

wow, josh, I did do a little tweaking and made my page more consistent in terms of dhtml

tell me, I emailed, you and stuff about being hosted as part of your network/site, why didn't you reply?

Golden Bear, did you make your site with a proggy? Did you do the nav table with dreamweaver?

 

[GoldenBear]

No, I stole it

 

[sparkle]

yep, a pretty biased page. I would lose the effects personally. Those shakey and fading screens make me angry... grr

 

[CasioTech]

the page may look bias, but it's not... Believe me, I am pretty mad at 3dfx over the last 6 mon. for their poor performance, and sucky marketing.

 

[Windogg]

Don't veiw the page when you are drunk.

RUNTIME ERRORS?

 

[CasioTech]

yeah, unless you want throw up on your monitors and keyboards bezel!!!!