My site The Shadows.

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  2. Sorror

    Sorror Active Member

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    1. Site comes to pieces on the Opera browser

    2. <meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow" /> - noindex for sure?
     
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  3. shadow20002

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    It is bad?
     
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    are you sure you need those ads between the articles?
     
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  6. shadow20002

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    Well if you ask me, i found that is the best place since the ads fit perfectly under the articles which isn't a mess at all for the whole page.
     
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    1) Keep the ads between the articles (that's respected behaviour), but drop the one immediately after your banner - with the size of your banner, your content drops below the fold.

    Speaking of that banner, it's a Google PSA - put in an alternate display, especially because of where you've got it.

    2) I really like your banner. The text, however, is a little difficult to read. How about trying "The Shadows" in the bottom left corner? Then, put any other text say in the bottom right corner, after trimming it down a bit. As it is now, the grey text gets lost on the white, and the yellow gets lost on the yellow/red.

    3) Unless you've made changes, it doesn't look too bad in Opera 8.5, if you're using 1024 or larger. At 800, you've got some overlap issues (ditto in Firefox 1.5 and Netscape 7.2).

    4) Anyone else having problems with load times? I'm on a Cable connection and the site takes between 15 to 45 seconds to load anything (depending upon the browser). Yikes. Check the number of images you've got displaying, as well as the variety of sources. (Featured Music Video, for example, hasn't loaded in any of the three browsers I used.)

    5) Only have the images link to an image if it's larger. So, get rid of the link for Tales of Terror - it makes one think that they're going to see more, when in fact they don't.

    6) Speaking of the images, how about floating them to the right or left of the accompanying text? Your images are thin enough that this may work (although you may have to trim a couple down a bit more. Otherwise it seems to me that you're losing a lot of prime space.

    Overall, very busy, but I think you've got a good start, as you're definitely going down some good paths.
     
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    Thanks for your advice, i will make the best of it. :)

    1)How do i get a alternate display for SPA?

    2)Yea, like you said, i will try to get it better than that.

    3) I notice that almost all of my visitors use 1024x768, so i think i will leave it that way. :)

    4)The music featured video section is still on pending that's why there look like is loading but there are nothing to load.


    5) and 6)For the images parts, i just upload them to blogger...that's why take a lot of space? :eek: Fix them right away.
     
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    I can't view it :(
     
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    could you make the text (edit: article text) just a little bigger? with the gray color on white background and the size, i honestly didn't get the feel to read it.
    or maybe it's just me. :D

    but aside from that, it looks great, i like the banner too.
     
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    Oh, that's why i'm getting less comments or not at all these days. Thank you for the advice.

    I will modify the text color and make it bigger so everyone must be able to read it.
     
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    Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner:

    Thanks for your advice, i will make the best of it.

    Through the AdSense interface, create a new ad, with an alternate display. Copy and paste the ad that they give you into Notepad (or some such), and cut out the google_alternate_... line. Then paste this into the appropriate location on your site's files - i.e., insert it into your existing AdSense code.

    Any reason to keep it? I'd hide this until this isn't pending. By all means keep it in the layout's code, so you don't forget about it, but don't display something that appears like it should be displaying something, when in fact it does not / won't.

    My experience with Blogger is NULL. Has anyone worked with Blogger that may be able to help (assuming the person also agrees that the images should get moved over to the left of the text ;) )?
     
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    Just get eveverything right in the place by now, got a litlte minute to check it out? :)


    Anyone else is always appreciated. ;)
     
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    Sorry, thought I responded to this yesterday :eek:

    Much better, I'd say. Did I mention I really like the modified banner?
     
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    Really? I must leave the way it is now! Thanks for the comment.
     
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    I love the logo, that has a great color sceme. I would however small down the site, try to keep it more simple, divide stuff over multiple pages etc. because now it has quite a big loading time.
     
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    Well, everything is setting up now. :)
     
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