Hey all. Almost finished my website and would love your feedback on it. Also if you like the website i would much appreciate you clicking facebook like at the top of its page The website http://madladproductions.com Thanks Paul
Couple of points - Flash navgation menu bad from an seo point of view. No text links to rest of site could lead to site crawling problems. Very annoying beepy noise when navigating the menu. Poor head tags (from an seo point of view)
A click on the "logo" gives a 404 error. Not Found The requested URL /psonline/index.html was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Code (markup): Well this is pretty bad from the seo pov. Flash based nav is bad, too. There are jquery nav's that are pretty the same. The beeping noise is annoying. Validator says: 10 errors. Check them here: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=h...(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0 Google Page Speed Score is 80. Suggestions are: Leverage browser caching Parallelize downloads across hostnames Serve scaled images Combine external CSS Enable compression Code (markup): A really bad thing is this one here: [Score: 0/100] Serve scaled images The following images are resized in HTML or CSS. Serving scaled images could save 2.3MiB (98% reduction). * http://madladproductions.com/images/printscreens/loadedup.png is resized in HTML or CSS from 1920x1080 to 170x106. Serving a scaled image could save 836.0KiB (99% reduction). * http://madladproductions.com/images/printscreens/trophies.png is resized in HTML or CSS from 1920x1080 to 170x106. Serving a scaled image could save 813.1KiB (99% reduction). * http://madladproductions.com/images/printscreens/useronline.png is resized in HTML or CSS from 1920x1080 to 170x106. Serving a scaled image could save 652.1KiB (99% reduction). * http://madladproductions.com/images/pst.jpg is resized in HTML or CSS from 242x158 to 156x90. Serving a scaled image could save 33.6KiB (63% reduction). * http://madladproductions.com/images/community.jpg is resized in HTML or CSS from 200x106 to 157x92. Serving a scaled image could save 1.6KiB (31% reduction). Code (markup): Your site is loading 2,39MB to my hdd ... that's too much. Scale the images you use. Do not scale them within CSS or HTML... from 1920x1080 to 170x106 pixels... wow, what a waste of bandwidth. Good luck
Paul, flash menus sucks, you want to keep as much text as possible above the fold, all these flashy menu and banner looks good but are of no help. Stick to DHTML if you really need these things.
Why DHTML when you can just use jQuery? jQuery is really easy to implement/use. E.g. this one: http://webdesignersdesk.com/demo/css3menu/
jQuery is good. I have used jQuery to implement a few flash like elements to my site and jQuery shows up on mobile phone browsers as well such as iphones. I'm not too sure about DHTML.
Another vote for jquery here, dhtml menu effects i stopped using about the same time i last looked at ms frontpage.
I like the look and feel... very nice. cool and clean. The screenshots look a while (initially) to load compared to the rest so not sure what's going on there... it's like they're really large pics just scaled down pixel wise and not true thumbnails? anywho... nice site.