Please review my new website www.bramj24.com

Discussion in 'Websites' started by neelham, Jul 29, 2012.

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    Please review my new website www.bramj24.com. Also you can post there.
     
    neelham, Jul 29, 2012 IP
  2. backup

    backup Member

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    It would really look much better, if it had some featured images or video on each article :)
     
    backup, Jul 29, 2012 IP
  3. jaspher

    jaspher Greenhorn

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    #3
    good layout and placement of ads...
     
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  4. deathshadow

    deathshadow Acclaimed Member

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    Start broken record:

    The fixed width is too big for my netbook, too small for my workstation, and falls apart miserably when zoomed or on displays smaller than whatever magical size it was designed for. Much of the falling apart can be blamed on entire sections of the layout being absolute positioned. Said issues are further exacerbated by the absurdly undersized fixed metric (px) fonts on everything, leaving users like myself little choice but to dive for the zoom. The annoyingly slow javascripted menu also makes navigation a chore -- and the lack of scripting off graceful degradation sure as shine-ola doesn't help matters any.

    Under the hood with 48 validation errors you do not have HTML, you have gibberish... with 58k of markup for 8.8k of plaintext and no significant content images/objects, it's also bloated via three or four times as much code as should be necessary.

    Looking at said code it proudly proclaims on the first line to be in transition from 1997 to 1998 coding practices... basically fifteen years behind the times. Transitional is for supporting old/outdated coding techniques and not for building modern sites. Could be worse, could be HTML 5 which seems carefully crafted to take those decade out of date coding practices and make them 'the future' throwing away all the progress of the past decade.

    Everything I've come to expect from a turdpress template are present, from the endless pointless DIV around things that don't need them, even more endless pointless classes, presentational markup, static scripts and static style inlined in the markup, inaccessible/malformed forms, absolute URL's helping to piss your bandwidth away, nonsensical/broken heading orders, pointless/redundant bandwidth wasting TITLE attributes, and a whole host of other "HTML, what's that" failings.

    I give it 75/100 on my /FAIL/ rating scale (I'm making a automated tool to rate site code -- lower is better)... which combined with the accessibility failings really means it needs to be thrown out and started over -- there's little if anything worth saving from it's current codebase.

    Just to give you an idea what I mean, where turdpress is crapping out this:
    
    <div class="main_menu">
                             <div id="megaMenu" class="megaMenuContainer megaMenu-nojs megaResponsive megaFullWidth wpmega-preset-blue-silver megaMenuHorizontal megaMenuFade megaMenuOnHover wpmega-withjs wpmega-noconflict"><ul id="megaUber" class="megaMenu"><li id="menu-item-102" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom current-menu-item current_page_item menu-item-home ss-nav-menu-item-0 ss-nav-menu-item-depth-0 ss-nav-menu-reg"><a href="http://www.bramj24.com"><span class="wpmega-link-title">Home</span></a></li><li id="menu-item-131" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom ss-nav-menu-item-1 ss-nav-menu-item-depth-0 ss-nav-menu-reg"><a href="http://www.bramj24.com/?action=add_article"><span class="wpmega-link-title">Submit Article</span></a></li><li id="menu-item-182" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom ss-nav-menu-item-2 ss-nav-menu-item-depth-0 ss-nav-menu-mega ss-nav-menu-mega-alignCenter ss-nav-menu-highlight"><a><span class="wpmega-link-title">Categories</span></a>
    <ul class="sub-menu sub-menu-1">
    Code (markup):
    It should be more like this:
    
    <ul id="mainMenu">
    	<li>
    		<a href="/" class="current">Home</a>
    	</li><li>
    		<a href="/?action=add_article">Submit Article</a>
    	</li><li>
    		<span>Categories</span>
    		<ul>
    
    Code (markup):
    ... and people wonder why I call the folks at turdpress inept...
     
    deathshadow, Jul 29, 2012 IP
  5. jenyfarlopej

    jenyfarlopej Member

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    I like the layout, colors and logo. General impression from the site is good. The font is good , and the color is easy to read.
    Defiantly nice template. It's a really great design and I'm telling from heart.
     
    jenyfarlopej, Jul 30, 2012 IP