Wallpaper site.

[soapbath]

http://www.dimensionet.com/walls/index.php

Well I would like a review if possible including (but not limited to)

- Loading time
- Website Style
- If you think the User upload will be highly abused.

[iskandar]

I used firefox and 1 MBps internet connection to view your ste.

First of all I would say the wallpapers are nice and I did downloaded a few :) . I could not comment on the loading time since my connection is faster than the average visitor's 56 Kbps that you should aim for.

IMHO, you need to revamp your site design because it's too simple. Black background does not suit the eye and you may want to put on some of the wallpaer on the front page so that it makes your user stays beyond the entry page.

Yes, I think the user upload will be abused by some crackers.

[soapbath]

Okey, added a new wall paper section on the main page. Thanks for the other comments. Also do you think it would be worth adding a Random wall paper on the menu?

[iskandar]

You mean on the left navigation? Maybe no.

[Crazy_Rob]

I can't really read the logo.

[david_sakh]

in the banner at the top the contrast between the background and the text is too low. I'd make the text stand out a bit.

[soapbath]

Righto. Working on that right now.

[soapbath]

Okey made the text stand out alot more.

[ladesignz]

For me loading was alitttle slow not all pics up at once. I agree about the black background - I would go for a more fresh 2005 type look. ....Love the wallpapers though:)

[soapbath]

http://walls.dimensionet.com/greenlight.php is that any better?

[Crazy_Rob]

Much better! Nice job. Try making the font in the header white. It still doesn't stand out very much.

Even the orig. looks better now:
http://walls.dimensionet.com/

One little thing- I would change the Land Wallpapers link to "Landscape..."

[soapbath]

Righto. Thanks for the comments Rob.

[david_sakh]

I would also add 2-4 pixels of padding to your text, to keep it from touching the edges. If they are in paragraphs you can easily do this in CSS by:

p {
padding: 2px;
}

[unTangled]

Loading was a bit slow, but not so much that I left the site. Pictures are great, but you should probably moderate the upload function.

[soapbath]

Righto. I will be changing what people surgested ect. unTangled, a avatar from the site there? :).

[unTangled]

Righto. I will be changing what people surgested ect. unTangled, a avatar from the site there? :).

Lol. That's ok right??? :o

[soapbath]

Tehe, Im pretty sure thats the point :). I like to see em' be used.

[maverick]

The site is pretty. Thought it took little time to download. Ofcourse but that time I was on a dial-up. But dont ignore dial-up users all over the world. Many of them are always interested in wallpapers. I get traffic from all over the world for my maria sharapova blog. Thats why I only kept thumbnails on the blog. By the way, let me know when you would like to exchange the links, because I would like to only exchange with wallpaper sites.

[soapbath]

Its hard to make a wallpaper site for you cheapers ;), to many images. But okeydokie, I have a few tricks up my hair. And now would be a cool time to exchange.

DimensionWalls = http://www.walls.dimensionet.com

[david_sakh]

Its hard to make a wallpaper site for you cheapers

you can always improve on your design. My designs have always been notoriously terrible, :o , but I know what looks good, and who better to tell you what's wrong than fellow webmasters who understand the asthetics/seo balance. I put more emphasis on the latter side, but I still like to think I know what looks good, even if I can't reproduce it myself. :)

[soapbath]

Well I have knocked 900kb of all the PHP files by cleaning them up, I will do other bits yes.

[Lpspider]

-quite a while to load on AOL dial-up connection (plus I had additional things running)

-Personally I hate the style (original one). It looks unproffesional. Another thing - the header/website name also looks a bit amateurish with the 3D text.

-I don't think the upload will be abused much if it's monitored.

also get this error; Parse error: parse error, unexpected '}' in /usr/home/dime/public_html/walls/lv4MhNbBNpbw2sSx4o.php on line 5

[iskandar]

Hey! where's the sexy women pics ? I still need access to those :)

[soapbath]

http://www.walls.dimensionet.com/babes.php <-- theres some, I will get more up later for you Iskandar ;)

[iskandar]

Hehe .. thanks mate!

[Crazy_Rob]

Your site is looking really good, soap!

f your wondering what Gnome is, then go away, this page is not for you. If you do know what Gnome is then welcome to the wall papers for Gnome!

he he he he!

[soapbath]

Np Iskandar, I don't give a dam about you, just want more hits :) (Honesty is the right way!) And thank Crazy_Rob, there are a few funny statements around the site. Oh and find the easteregg for a cash prize.

[soapbath]

Okey, 3 hours later http://www.dimensionet.com/walls/aoe.php

[iskandar]

That's more like it!
Put most popular wallpapers on the front page. You may want users to rate the wallpapers too

[eiso]

It might be an idea to get poeple to grade the wallpapers. And about the design, it's not my favorite use of colors.

[soapbath]

Can anyone surgest why GoogleBot visits any of my sites then only visits on page (and in turn none of my pages ever get indexed except 15)

[iskandar]

Happened to me before too ..
1) make sure you have robots.txt
2) submit your sitemap
3) of course ..a s always .. get good links

i did no 2 and 3 but forgot to have no 1 done. Afetr i did that, googlebot goes deeper.

[soapbath]

What should the robots.txt have (I thought it was only to keep spiders out)

[soapbath]

I got more crawls from Google than normal, so fingers crossed :)

[AzAkers]

Soap,

Your inbound links..do they all point to your sites home pages or do you get links that point to internal pages too..?

Having external links from relevant sites pointing to individual relevant pages on your site will help Google find them, and take interest in them.

Also having comprehensive internal linking - IE relevant navigation link naming conventions - this will assist the spider in determining relevancy and establishing value for the other pages of your site.

Just a couple of ideas.

[soapbath]

All to home page, I should change that then. Righto. Thanks for the ideas.

[voltaire]

thanks for the ideas too.. got a lot of tips here merely by just reading through all the posts!

[soapbath]

Im Shocked how many posts there was. Shame im going to be changing the layout again soon :P