Hi, can you guys tell me what you think about my website please? I've been working quite a lot on it so your feedback is very appreciated, especially since I've only made one other website. By the way, if you had a hard day at work and wanna be rough to someone, just do it : I would really appreciate that you do not try to be kind or anything. I want my website to be as flawless as can be. Do you quickly understand the point of the website and would you use it / bookmark it because it's fun? Is the website long to load/use? Do you have any suggestion? Thank you a lot for your time! http://www.jinxedornot.com PS : RSS and Newsletter are not ready yet, so don't worry about it.
TamuTakDiundang : thanks a lot Alex-Z : should be fixed, thanks! I made a few changes on the website, feedback would be awesome! - Added a description right on top of the front page. - Made the website loggin-free for all the basic features. Took the registering and login panel off of the banner, it is now in the panel once you've hit "more". Also, I made the banner clickable in its entirety instead of only the left part of it. - Once you're signed in, the "sign" and "register" buttons disappear in the pannel and are replaced with "sign out" and "personnal space" - The registration comes in a pop-up like thing instead of in the banner. The weird pop-up only automatically appears when logging in is needed to use the feature. - About is now accessible without expanding the panel. - Changed "more options" to "more", added a little "expand icon" that's the shape of a triangle so that people understand clicking won't reload the page. Changed "more" into "less" once expanded. Made sure the panel would not collapse back if you change page. You need to hit "less" for it to collapse. - Changed all the buttons on the site. They now are actual buttons instead of mere words using a big font. - Added a "cancel" button next to "submit" in the "add a story" form. - I Added a character count in the "add a story" form, also you cannot add a Jinx that's less than 20 character long. - Changed the look or error messages : the messages are now circled with red and are written in a light red rectangle. - I decreased the size of both <h1s> and <h2s> and decreased the spacing below them. - Made the whole font a little grayer, it used to be black. - hitting "ok" in the "comments & suggestion" form skips a line instead of sending the form. - The "registration confirmation" now has jinxes displayed instead of nothing but a welcome message. - Created a "personnal space" with the members-only features in it. - Changed the pagination style at the bottom of the site that was incongruent. It now is bigger, bolder (faster stronger ) and I included "next", "previous", "first""last" and buttons. - I deleted the "add/view comments" inside of every rectangle. Now when you hover over the text, it says "click to add / view comments" instead and gives the number of comments. Still more work to be done on the " added on # by #" which I already decided I'd change so don't bother commenting on this, it is soon to be changed. Please do comment!
I was actually thinking about adding more images to the sides but I'm aafraid it will look cluttered. What do you guys think?
the popup for comments is kinda annoying and in the way "already rated(1)" should be capitalized i was able to click on both jinked and lame links
WARNING! URL CHANGED!! Thanks msl Hi, made plenty of changes. Can you please: Try and imagine it doesn't say "today" at the biginning of every phrase. Do you like it better? What do you see on the banner, without paying a lot of attention? Do quickly understand the point of the site? Thanks a lot. NEW URL: www.jinxed.org
Well, fixed width, or as I call it "crappy little stripe" is a instant strike against it, as are the absurdly undersized fixed-width fonts. The orange on white text has major legibility issues due to the low contrast (excasterbated by the font size). 196 validation errors means your site isn't even HTML, it's total gibberish and it's nothing short of a miracle it renders properly in ANY browser at all since you are relying more consistant behavior of errors than on valid code. Table for a single row of items - /FAIL/ hard, multiple tables on a page that doesn't even NEED tables /FAIL/ harder, and the complete lack of anything resembling semantic markup is just icing on the cake. Of course it's a turdpress template, so it's not like one EXPECTS anything resembling decent code from it.
If you have another solution for round borders working with every browser and allowing for dynamic width without using images I'd be very grateful. Concerning the errors, I am not trying to do html or to respect norms. I am just trying (and succeeding) to make my site work for ff, IE 7 and with a lower level of expectations for IE 6 because I am not trying to make a code masterpiece. And it's not a miracle that it works one or several browser, respecting norms is not a pragmatic and fast way to have a multi-browser working display. Understand the causes of display bugs is, and solutions for those don't require respecting norms whatsoever. Thanks a lot for taking time to review my site. I am not looking for coding tips, I am doing fine unless you have anything on that round corners stuff compatible on all browser and without image which would be just awesome. Or coding tips involving security since I suck at this. Any ideas on the questions I was asking? (better without "today?, meaningful banner? Easy to understand site?) Thanks a lot for your feedback.
Yes url now changed, and I cannot edit my original thread, or at least don't understand how to. New url: www.jinxed.org
Uhm, since when. If you have invalid code throwing more invalid code at it until it works instead of fixing the actual errors is no fix at all. You are making more work for yourself in the longterm should someone else have to maintain the page, should you suddenly have to find new bugs as various browsers start FINALLY following not just the standards for valid code, but the standards for errors as well. (see the people who's invalid markup that was fine in FF2 breaks in FF3 - or worse the mad scramble IE7 created.) To be brutally frank, if you can't be bothered to write valid markup, you probably shouldn't be making a website in the first place. Do you mean without MORE images being that you are already using them? That's easy... have a look at: http://battletech.hopto.org/html_tutorials/eightcorners/template.html All eight sides of a box in a single image file.... that would be less images than you are using now and only requires one additional HTML sandbag. (which I use a bold tag for to keep the code size down)