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Just to keep you posted, I've also downloaded and set up another plugin for Firefox to play your stream. It still doesn't work, so either there is something wrong with how Firefox is handling your stream, or your stream is incorrect/non-standard, so won't play.
QUOTE(tractor @ May 28 2008, 05:11 AM)  This is my first 'kinda good' design. Just wondering what you think. http://www.unitedserverhosting.net/radio It will expand slowly with links and other pages. I am thinking something like -Home -Radio -News -Discussion -Sponsors Feedback please, I know that it isn't great, it is my first. But for its purpose it looks ok.  i like the gray on purple you have going on, im just not so hot about the font you used for RADIO its a bit too groovy for me haha, use a better font and it will look hotter
It looks OK, and should expand well into a full-scale site.
One thing I am slightly concerned about - there was nothing on the radio when I tried to play it. Is that just because the site is in production, and there is no-one broadcasting, or is there something wrong? QUOTE(rvalkass @ May 28 2008, 08:47 AM) It looks OK, and should expand well into a full-scale site. One thing I am slightly concerned about - there was nothing on the radio when I tried to play it. Is that just because the site is in production, and there is no-one broadcasting, or is there something wrong? That was because my computer should have been broadcasting last night while I was sleeping but windows updates restarted it and it got restarted. -- It is back up, and I have added sponsors and copyright | Disclaimer. News bar soon.
Still not playing
 Also, the link to the disclaimer drops onto a new line below the copyright, so covers the purple border of the footer. Perhaps put the Disclaimer link on the right hand side of the footer, on the same line as the copyright.
I love the current simplicity of it all. You go to the page, you open to a radio. You have the option of expanding to a huge audience. Everyone loves music, you can open up a discussions forums. Have shout-outs, requests and competitions where you announce the winner on the radio.
The layout of the site is fine, simple and nice looking. I'm listening to the music now, I like the music; upbeat music. Perhaps have messages in between songs. Give a name to the radio station and between every other song say "X Radio, <insert slogan>". Doesn't have to be your voice, could be a computer generated voice The points you made, yes, go with that. Your gonna have to start recruiting a team though. Help with websites, with the radio and forums. The in's and out's would have to be up to you. QUOTE(rvalkass @ May 29 2008, 04:15 AM) Still not playing Also, the link to the disclaimer drops onto a new line below the copyright, so covers the purple border of the footer. Perhaps put the Disclaimer link on the right hand side of the footer, on the same line as the copyright. May I ask witch browser you are using? It works fine for me with Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explore. @Forbez I hope and generating a request script soon that would be in a popup window that would then send to a admin panel. As for names, I can't think of any.
The only real advice I have is for the design. The concept of the site is great, and you seem to have some great things planned for it.
I think I would make the sponsors bar a bit wider, to accommadate for longer links later on, and to make it stand out a bit more from the other boxes. I would also bring it below the "Radio" banner, just to give the banner some emphasis for the visitor. And for the boxes, I would add some text (most likely a different color), at the top that indicates what information the box contains. Just like you have in the sponsors bar. Other than that, it looks really good for a first-time design. Great job. 
QUOTE(AuronX @ May 29 2008, 02:25 PM) The only real advice I have is for the design. The concept of the site is great, and you seem to have some great things planned for it. I think I would make the sponsors bar a bit wider, to accommadate for longer links later on, and to make it stand out a bit more from the other boxes. I would also bring it below the "Radio" banner, just to give the banner some emphasis for the visitor. And for the boxes, I would add some text (most likely a different color), at the top that indicates what information the box contains. Just like you have in the sponsors bar. Other than that, it looks really good for a first-time design. Great job. Thanks for the feedback. The only other thing is that if it gets big it will be bandwidth eating. http://unitedserverhosting.net/radio/radio_02.jpg It is all one image.  
QUOTE(tractor @ May 29 2008, 08:58 PM) May I ask witch browser you are using? It works fine for me with Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explore. CODE Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.14 (Linux Mint) However, it does work in Konqueror: CODE Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux 2.6.20-16-generic; X11; i686; en_GB) KHTML/3.5.6 (like Gecko) (Kubuntu package 4:3.5.6-0ubuntu14.3)
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Just to keep you posted, I've also downloaded and set up another plugin for Firefox to play your stream. It still doesn't work, so either there is something wrong with how Firefox is handling your stream, or your stream is incorrect/non-standard, so won't play.
QUOTE(etycto @ May 31 2008, 08:25 AM) the site itself looks realy nice and well done the black foreground and black ground goels well with the purple thing behind them. but the radio itself doesnt work for me but the site looks realy nice. Linux also? I am currently working on the coding. I will post any updates.
the site itself looks realy nice and well done the black foreground and black ground goels well with the purple thing behind them. but the radio itself doesnt work for me but the site looks realy nice.
The HTML 4.01 Specification, which your code is set to use, doesn't actually define the embed element, so you can't technically use it. HTML 5, however, does define the embed object.
I'd go with the maximum that the standards specify: CODE <embed src='http://89.46.37.45:8500/' width='300' height='65' type='application/x-mplayer2'></embed> I'm not sure what MIME type that is (application/x-mplayer2) and I couldn't find it on the list. The rest of the stuff you had in there is not in the standards and shouldn't be used. However, that code still won't make it play in Firefox on Linux  I have checked to make sure that MPlayer (the plugin Firefox loads to play the audio stream) will play that stream, and it will, so I guess there is still something in the code that it doesn't like.Update: Turns out that application/x-mplayer2 is actually Microsoft's obscure, non-standard name for Windows Media Player files. Clever, name Windows Media Player after a major Linux audio player... Anyway, I checked and I can play other streams identified as application/x-mplayer2 so I assume there is something about that feed which is non-standard, so the plugin for Linux doesn't like it. QUOTE(rvalkass @ May 30 2008, 12:17 PM) The problem might be something to do with the 21 coding errors on the radio page http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%...ine&group=0 Hmm, I just used bluevoda to do it. Hardly did anything by hand. How would you code this? <embed src='http://89.46.37.45:8500/' width='300' height='65' autostart='1' type='application/x-mplayer2' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/' transparentatstart='0' animationatstart='1' showcontrols='1' autosize='0' displaysize='0' showtracker='0' ShowStatusBar='1'></embed>
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