>>1. Right now, those advertising banners show more artistic flair and baptivate more interest than your site's banner. FIX THIS. Also why isn't your banner anti aliased? Get somethign ANYTHING that makes nice text. Honestly some auto genrrated rubbishf rom flaming text would do better at the moment.
There are way too many show off losers on graphic design boards or even regular gaming boards who would happily make something better for you, for free.<<
I only have EI so I cant check out the sit eon other browsers. I forgot that they arent all compatible so tell me what browser you use and I will check it out using that browser cuz the site looks fine on mine.
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2. The left menu is terrible. Why is the stuff up the top in caps and the rest not? Why is it pushed RIGHT TO THE EDGE of the table? Why is it in Sans Serif font while the main text is serif?<<
I never paid attention to that. I will check it out and see If I can make it match Thanks for pointing it out to me.
>>3. Which brings me to the main text. I LIKE the way your site has a nice simple, friendly explanation on the front page. In fact as far as front pages go, this one is great, it has a bit of info, a featured content peice and yeah. But WHY DOES ONE PARAGRAPH OVERLAP THE OTHER? Maybe it's jsut my browser, but it is CARDINAL SIN to have text overlap other text ok. The second paragraph is written over the top of the last line of the previous one. If you take any of my advice, please fix this and please ensure compatibility for all browsers.<<
See that must be your browser cuz there is no text overlap when I view the site. Except when I am the Wii the site look terrible on Wii and I am trying to figure that out.
>>4. The far right edge. WHAT IS GOING ON! Look it jsut needs to be neatend up. Right now the top row of empty banners, the second row of ads, the ad for Rats colelctables and the colum advert DO NOT LINE UP. You will be AMAZED how much better the site would look overall if that all aligned properly. Resize your banners, check your spacing, anything. There are millions of ways you could fix this.<<
Ok well the Top banners I can fix because I linked to them from other sites and will look into that, the adbrite banners I cant change because they arent mine. Wehn i view them in the editor they are just small little blue boxes.
>>5. Colour scheme: What is going on. There's nothing wrong with black, it's cool. What I'm talking about is, why is the subhecding for the featured video green? Nothing else is. Why are links in the body text blue and links on the menu white? You need to sort out a consistant theme.<<
Um the Featured video text is gold and the background is black, the text beneath the video is white just liek the rest of the site.
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6. That background picture. It does not repeat smoothly. Fix it or get rid of it.<<
Theres nothing I can do with that, its a flaw within bagebuilder.
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7. Hit counter. I want you to work this one out on your own. Think carefully about who is interested in the number of hits your website gets. Think carefully about the importance of this infomation. Once you have that, think about whethor it belongs on your front page. Finally thinka bout what sorts of websites have hit counters on them, and what sorts of websites dont. What catagory do you want your site to be in?<<
Well I hadn't considered it that way, interesting point.
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8. "MORE..." is written in the menu. But there is nothing more. What the hell?<<
SHould say MORE to come, I have to fix that as well. Sorry. I onlys tarted this barely to weeks ago so its still work in gprogress but I needed to get more opinons before I start showing it off to the world.
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9. Copyright notice: Maybe you guys should read a few of these yourself. Start with youtube's user agreement.
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However, by submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube's (and its successor's) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the YouTube Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each user of the YouTube Website a non-exclusive license to access your User Submissions through the Website, and to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform such User Submissions as permitted through the functionality of the Website and under these Terms of Service. The foregoing license granted by you terminates once you remove or delete a User Submission from the YouTube Website.
It's your video yes, but you do not hold a copyright on it.
Also, I'm not sure on the legality of recordings of video games but you might want to look that one up too, especially in regards to cutscenes, should your site include any.<<
We have been given permission from Youtube to link to their videos, we contact each video director individualy and make sure we have thier permission, and we have contacted most major publishers and they do not have a problem with the site. We did our legal work before we started.
Final problem, a problem I think once fixed will fix ALL OTHER PROBLEMS.
>>I found this, written in the source code
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It is either that or site builder, which I havent had experience using. We have Publsiher 2007 and *are* working on getting it to work with our site, but its nothing like the forntpage I learned on so Its a new experience. I sincrely thank you for yor comments I will continue to accpet all feedback, the problem is we have people who say it looks fine and they love it and then we have those who are ciritcal and those who are very critical and we have to balance all that out.
The question is does it look BAD, so bad you cant spend time there? THAT is what we need to consider. If it is easy to use and pleasnt to look at thats the most improtant aspect.
For now we have only been working on it for 2 weeks, and we aren't finished. What I don't get is why it can look fine in one browser and look terrible in another? I never did understand that, nor how to fix it. That is one erea i need to figure out. NWR looks GREAT when I use IE, but when I load Firefox it looks all scrambled and tied up in nots.
I don't know maybe its my computer. We test the site on the following computers, one with windows xp sp 2, one with linux and firefox, andone with vista and the new IE. On all of those the site looks the same, except on vista it looks stretched and has a HUGE gap on the right side of the page where we cant put anythng because it doesnt show up in our editor.
WHat Editor is most reccomended? Is SItebuilder decent? I downloaded it before but didnt take the time to learn it. I have publisher 07 but its so different from what I am used to Its not funny. I know I can upload pages saved in publisher but I iether have to activate it with Yahoo to publish the pages or I hvae to uplaod them to my servers, load them with PG and save and publish them that way.
Its a major headache. Thanks for the replies though and I do *really* appreciate your advice.