Please Review My First Blog

Checkout my blog and tell me if you feel that I can make it better, in anyway. All input is welcome, even negative feedback

http://www.repcodes.com

 

looks good to me but you can blend in your adsense code a bit more by matching the background color and text. also, your site doesn;t support cross browser functionality, looks ok on FF but IE shows allignment problem. and finally, since you have a blog, why not use your Dp recent blog feed?

 

Rep added Thanks for the input. Do you know how I can support more browsers?

 

everything look fine.. not bad..
but it took some moment to load the picture(only 512kbps connection speed)
May be you can try to put the picture into smaller size(thumbnail), when ppl click on it then pop up with a larger size picture. I think that would help.

 

Nice clean look, I like it. Well blended colors.

 

i think you put to many script on it

and you post high ress image that slowing down you page

once time i make a mistake by putting high ress image, at one week my UV drop about 50%

just giving you some advise

 

Looks good, however some people may not like the music. I haven't seen a blog with music on before.

 

Looking good. I would like to see some more content and and a little less pictures. Im not a fan of music on websites, though I found myself listening to Alicia keys. Music is cool as long as its optional imo

 

a bit slow to load the website maybe because of too many things to load. im on 1M

 

I like the site, one surprising thing though is that you don't have an RSS feed anywhere on your site. Putting that in somewhere, even if its just in the top nav bar, would work in your favor.

 

heavy stuff on a easy going blog. Love the looks of it, but i hate the heavy scripts.

 

the music should not autostart. Let your visitors decide if they want to listen to the music...

I know you are trying to attract a certain niche...but trust me when I say this..tone it down, just a notch. Other than that it has the potential to be a great blog!

The reason your blog no longer validates is because you are inserting HTML instead of XHTML into your posts.

XHTML is stricter than HTML in that all tags must be closed ie:

HTML: <br>
XHTML: <br />

HTML: <img src="http://yourdomain.com/image.jpg">
XHTML <img src="http://yourdomain.com/image.jpg" alt="some description of your image" /> (you must always use the alt tag in XHTML)

HTML: <hr>
XHTML <hr />

HTML: <meta name="description" content="some description here">
XHTML: <meta name="description" content="some description here" />

so in other words insert this: />
on all tags that don't normally have a closing tag.

good luck with your blog!

 

except for the heavy traffic, overall is still a great website

 

Ok, I Added Rep to Everyone that Posted!!!!

I made all the changed suggested, excepted the picture resolution and the XHTML coding (still learning how)......besides those two suggestions, Is there any thing else I can do additionally to improve my blog????

 

You did a great job integrating what everyone suggested. Your music player though is no longer showing while its surrounding border and label is still there.

Also, I would revamp your discount and shops pages. You have so many wonderful links and resources that it can be a hassle to scroll all down the page. Why don't you add either a search bar exclusive to those pages or some kind of directory type set up in those pages.

Best Wishes

 

I like it! Loving the header.

 

Thanks!!!! I'm trying to find a way to stream this online radio station to the blog, but I can't seem to find the coding that would allow visitors to play the music at their own leisure instead of having it on auto play...but thanks for all your input...

Thanks, rep added

 

Looks great and cool too . One thing your can do is to decrease the header image height . It is almost twice the hight it should have been ( Only my opinion )