Hey everyone! I'm just curious what you all think of this new Anime site! The theme is custom coded and custom designed. Let me know whether or not you's like it, and if there's something you think should be changed. URL: http://www.animedubbednow.net/ Leave comments/criticism/whatever else, below. Thanks for your time. Regards, ~diz.
Well... first off the fixed width layout is a crappy little stripe on my desktop, and too big for my netbook -- again why fixed width layouts are bad design. The undersized px metric fonts are also accessibility rubbish, leaving me diving for the zoom on the desktop on a layout that breaks when zoomed (in Opera). Likewise the light blue text on light grey background used on the menu and some headings is well below accessibility norms on contrast, so they too aren't really all that useful. The footer pushed down a massive amount for christmas only knows what also seems to have layout issues -- and honestly I almost missed it was even on the site given the amount of whitespace between it and the content. It's also painful to watch load if my adblock is disabled... Comes to a whopping 60 separate files so it's almost certainly hanshaking causing the problem, scary for a page that doesn't really do anything or have any real content apart from adverts. The ungodly TWENTY FOUR separate javascripts that total more than double the upper limit I'd allow for an entire page template of HTML+CSS+SCRIPTS+IMAGES (not counting content) kinda gives the indication of just slapping together multiple different libraries and script for no good reason. Under the hood it's a bit cleaner than what I've come to expect from "Just another turdpress" site -- it still has flawed/nonexistent semantics, but it also looks like a lot of work went into cleaning out much of the usual idiotic garbage that steaming pile of manure saddles you with. Still has such oddities as headings inside the lists instead of before them, marked up with spans instead of heading tags, stuff in lists that aren't even related/list items, elements like iframes that have no business on any site written after 1997, though of course it being a tranny document says that anyways -- in transition from 1997 to 1998 coding practices. The only actual numbered heading that's even on the page is a H4... which makes SO much sense with no H3, H2 or H1 preceding it. So... could use some work -- EVEN SO, you've kept it reasonably clean. It just needs some accessibility fixes, a good swift kick to the "gee ain't it neat" javascript for nothing, and to drag the markup kicking and screaming into THIS century.