Hello everybody i have finally finished 90% of my website and i was hoping everybody could visit the link below and give me inputs,modifications,ratings etc.
And please let me know right away if theirs something against TOS.

My site is based upon many things,
Like xbox gaming a definite im a HUGE fan,Also gfx designing im returning from a 2 year retirement take some time to get my groove back but were opening that up,theirs also an added bonus arcade games added daily please review my site all input please.

my site: http://swat.trap17.com

Thank You,
-Swat-



This post has been edited by BuffaloHELP: Aug 19 2005, 02:27 AM

Good graphics but far too many - your site takes a long time to download fully.
You need to tidy your code up - there's a lot of extra closing tags (in total, 22 validator errors and 265 warnings).
Your navigation links are too dark against the dark background.
Not a big fan of scrolling things particularly when there's more than one and when they're scrolling in different directions. Scrollers are used to catch attention but when there's too many of them they actually distract rather than attract.
Your layout breaks if resized to anything smaller than 1024 x 780.
You've got loads of meta keywords and search engines don't use those anymore.

Not reccomended for dialup and no errors??
site loads fast for me and links look fine 2 me also you dont need links on left anyway your main links are on top homepage,forums,downloads,etc.

I'm on broadband and it was slow. This is how slow:

14.4K 325.50 seconds
28.8K 162.85 seconds
33.6K 139.62 seconds
56K 83.85 seconds
ISDN 128K 25.82 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps 2.42 seconds


Well if you don't need them, why are they even there?
Hey mate, if you're gonna ask for people's input about your site, don't get all shirty when they provide it.

do you play conter strike S.W.A.T?

I don't like at all this website :/ It loads really hard and the interface it's a really bad copy of http://www.n-sane.net/ which it's awesome!
cheers!

Ok well first off i got to the bottom of the slow load its my flash but i also found out after you load the site once it will load extremely fast from then on kinda like cookies u already have em so its gonna show up right away when u delete em then it will load slow again but also because im mainly based on xbox im gonna have a xbox theme as default and have many other themes available to registered users and i have added more games hehehehe...lol
also i cant tamper with the theme or else thats copyright i can get sued i dont need that ya know anyways i appreciate your input im gonna make some changes ill inform ya when they have been done and hoping i can get input again.

Thank You,
-swat-

Whether it is copywritten or not, changing a theme is not grounds for sueing. You must, however, give credit to the original maker of the theme.

Anyways, things you need to improve on:

-Link colors on the left nav bar
-validation is important!
-can you reduce the size of your files by any chance or offer a text/small image only thing for people with slow internet?
-marquees are generally bad design :/
-remember to organize your content and make sure that people across browsers can see it.

God...your typing has barely any punctuation. And how are blue bubbles part of an xbox theme?

5/10 for errors and general malfunction of your site.