Zhorkow's CargoShip

One of my latest websites is Zhorkow's CargoShip.

This is a prototype website I am working on to test some ideas I am wanting to implement into another website. The navigation is entirely by frames, so much so that there is considerable use of alt tags to get keywords on the page (see if you can find the single pixel gif with an alt tag).

Due to a problem with my file hosting provider, the downloads presently don't work. Most of the links should work (uh...I hope). There are still a few missing pages here and there.

The design is based on a Zymic template. I liked the layout, but I wanted a little more room, and a faster page load (though I have designed the site to be viewed on an 800x600 screen with little scrolling). The layout is almost straight from the Zymic template, but, other than the logo (made with PhotoImpact 5, available for $9.95 or less) and the background there are no graphics used in the template; the booster rockets at the bottom of the page is a simple table layout anybody could do.

Let me know if you have any problems with the navigation, or if your browser has any problems with the site.

The site, and domain, are hosted for free by 50webs.

 

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after looking your site, i got to remember the German Websites of era 1995-2000,

thanks for taking me to back

 

Forum9, your posts are not helpful. Try making them a bit more helpful or you will no doubt find you will get banned pretty quickly. Tell them what to improve ect .

I personally could not see it as being a rocket, I will make you a design when I get home to hi-light what I mean but you may want to:

Create the menu on the left with more space
Don't use Iframes. They are never good. If it is due to the fact you don't want to edit each page use a tad of php, add this to where the content will go:

<
?php
if (file_exists($filename)) {
   include "pages/$filename.php";
} else {
   include "pages/home.php";

}
?> 

Code (markup):

And then link to pages like: index.php?page=tree, if there is a page called tree in the pages folder (pages/tree.php) it will include that otherwise it will include home.php.. I will show you a example once again when I get home

 

I actually found Forum9's comment to be quite funny. He's not as dumb as he looks.

My intention in the design was to be a little hokey; kind of a throwback to something from a 60's TV show or an old B-movie. Of course, being that I am not that experienced of a designer, that look comes naturally for me anyway.

I just added the rocket boosters because it looked kind of plain without them, and it didn't take anything at all to do that (heck, if I could do it, anybody could).

The CargoShip is a prototype for another site I am building, as I wanted to try frames and see if there were some techniques I could use to also make it more search engine friendly.

For the site I am building, I am wanting to keep the content on the same page using a window to navigate through the different pages of content; actually the different rooms as there is a theme to it based on an old movie. Of course, if I can do the new site using php to get what I want in it, that would be cool.

Some of the remotely hosted content on CargoShip was thrown together in a hurry because the original content was not working right (the site was built entirely offline the first time and I came to learn that a lot of my content did not work when I did get it online). I threw the arcade on there yesterday, but I am going to be replacing it with just some simple Flash games I can host myself because the remote game page is just too heavy for what I wanted on the site; everything to be fast loading without a lot of fluff.

The most universal complaint I have had so far is that nobody seems to like my logo.

So nobody has been tempted to take a look out the porthole, huh?

If anybody has any pictures they would like to recommend for the porthole, that would be appreciated. I need some more along the silly or goofy line.

 

Very unusual design. It isn't bad but it isn't very good either. Since complete redesign would need much time, I would keep existing if I'm on your place.