What do you think about the design?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by melbel, May 7, 2008.

  1. #1
    Heya, I just wanted to see what you think about the design of this site. Let me know what you think. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
     
    melbel, May 7, 2008 IP
  2. Merbenharry

    Merbenharry Peon

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    #2
    looks Great well did u do that site !!! can u help me with some resources plzz
     
    Merbenharry, May 7, 2008 IP
  3. melbel

    melbel Notable Member

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    #3
    I'm unsure of your question.
     
    melbel, May 7, 2008 IP
  4. deathshadow

    deathshadow Acclaimed Member

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    #4
    It loads reasonably quick given the amount of it that's filled with graphics - at 114k in 23 files there's a little excess overhead, but well below 'the norm' these days. Well done in that arena.

    Design-wise it's a bit cartoonish in the color contrasts, in general it's like you have a site targeting 10 year olds - much akin to the appearance of many 'popcap' games. Not necessarily a bad design, but I'm not sure it's appropriate given the topic.

    The code - UHG. 8 tables for a design that should only really need one, hordes of presentational markup, presentational images in the markup, inlined javascript doing CSS's job, wasting time on 'bot meta's to declare the DEFAULT BEHAVIOR, 42 validation errors, etc, etc. Net result is 11k of markup for 1.1k of content on your home page - a sure sign something's not kosher, and begs the question "why bother having external CSS in the first place?" - as I've said of many websites lately, there's more of 1997 to this than 2008.

    Not trying to be harsh, just telling it like it is.
     
    deathshadow, May 8, 2008 IP
  5. ferman

    ferman Well-Known Member

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    #5
    its average design
     
    ferman, May 8, 2008 IP
  6. melbel

    melbel Notable Member

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    #6
    I'm not sure what you're saying.
     
    melbel, May 9, 2008 IP
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    itcn Well-Known Member

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    #7
    I don't want to speak for someone else, but I think he's saying get rid of the excess code. You don't need to create 8 tables to create the site - put it in one table, or maybe try divs with css. Try getting rid of excess (or all) javascript, and run the page through the html validator to fix the errors: http://validator.w3.org/
    You've also got lots of graphics and are using inline styles for a lot of tables, rather than using the external css file.
     
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  8. phish3rz

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    #8
    Get rid of all your excess code, for example - Unwanted met-tags etc...
    It is a fast loading website for the sheer amount of graphics you are using in the header so good to you on that one. I would look into just removing any code which you dont need to make it look more professional and run effiiciently.
     
    phish3rz, May 10, 2008 IP
  9. melbel

    melbel Notable Member

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    #9
    What would this change?
     
    melbel, May 11, 2008 IP
  10. and_y

    and_y Active Member

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    #10
    These are the changes that could be done :

    - remove tables and use div
    - the header and footer images seem to crispy so work on both of them to get a better result
     
    and_y, May 11, 2008 IP
  11. konrad

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    #11
    It's not the prettiest site i have seen, but its fairly deece and its not confusing.
     
    konrad, May 11, 2008 IP
  12. mario87

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    #12
    primitive but very nice)
     
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  13. jam4

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    #13
    Average design but a lot of scope for improvement
     
    jam4, May 16, 2008 IP
  14. mddv

    mddv Well-Known Member

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    #14
    Nice design concept but it looks like it needs to look a bit more professional. It seems that your design will be more effective it were a kids site.
     
    mddv, May 16, 2008 IP