Ideaz Unlimited

mama_soap

Jun 9 2005, 06:11 AM

A few days ago, I posted a snapshot of the front page of my site, and luckily, no one hated it. Er... so far

Finally, I have the whole site up and running, and I will be grateful for any suggestions/feedback. I've tried it on Mozilla, Opera, Firefox, and Konquerer and they seem to be rendering it OK, almost the way I want it (firefox is drawing borders around the buttons, I'll try and fix that asap). I'd really appreciate help here... if you could just look at it and tell what you thought of it, it would be wonderful. The "Entertaiment" section won't work, all the game applets I have are too big and I'm trying to push it into my current layout. Since I have other things to do, I'll get this done in a week or so.

Also, the problem of the month and article of the month (the main things, really) will not work because I have to make sure I'm not infringing any copyright laws. The articles will be mine, of course, so no problem there, but the problems will be borrowed from other sources, and I need to confirm that it's all right. Again, I'll probably need a few days to sort this out and put 'em up together.

I have a link to Trap17 in the About->Credits section. I'm not sure if this is enough. Ideaz? A banner/button, perhaps, that I should be using, instead of an obscure text link?

Finally, the forums. Again, this seems to be running all right on my comp,but I still need to make sure it's universally ok, lol. Again, if you can look at it, it'll be really nice. Nicer if you join, hehe

If you have any suggestions... I mean, feel free to rip my site apart and abuse it -- I've grown a thick skin lately. *big, stupid grin* For nobody's information, I built the site using a text editor and Opera. No phpNuke, no Dreamweaver. So it's probably looking thoroughly unprofessional, please let me know what you think if you have the time.

Cheers,
Neel

electriic ink

Jun 9 2005, 06:55 PM

Actually, apart from the broken images in the forums, it looks great. Everything well laid out and presented. The navigation system at the top of all and bottom of some pages makes your site easy to navigate. Having the message board on the left hand side of the front page is an effective way of telling visitors the pages content.

The only critism I can find is that none of your pages make use of the title attribute. This is a good tag. At the top of this page, in the title bar (the bar with the _ and X button,) its says Ideaz Unlimited. Your site could benefit from this. To do this simply add this into your <head> </head> tags:

<title> Ideaz Unlimited </title>

The red part represents what you can change and the blue what you can't.

That's the only critism I can find. Congratulations on a good site!

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The trap17 banners are located here.

Harisn

Jun 9 2005, 08:31 PM

Well it looks absolutely beautiful. That is a cool layout!
The only thing that bothers me at all is the broken links. Also, there is not much material that I am into, but that is just a matter of taste.
I do like the poetry though.

Phyre

Jun 10 2005, 12:21 AM

Looks good. It has a very clean interface, so navigation looks pretty simple and straight forward. That's pretty rare these days. Simple, but effective. Only suggestion I have is try to add a bit more color.

MarCrush

Jun 10 2005, 01:15 AM

QUOTE(cmatcmextra @ Jun 9 2005, 11:55 AM)

This title tag also makes it easier when your site is minimized and lots of windows are open, if you don't use the title tag, it might be harder for users to know which site is yours on the task bar or the tab bar. Just a thought.

mama_soap

Jun 10 2005, 01:26 PM

Thank you all for taking the time, and for the great feedback

Yes, I will fix the title tags. They're useful, as I can see... *grin* I thought I included them, but I think some of them got mixed up with the javascript in the <HEAD> part of the pages and were ignored; and for a few pages, I think I must've plain forgotten :oops:

I'm glad the navigation seems okay. I have been trying to keep it as simple as possible. Good to know you liked the message board for the front page, cmatcmextra

Also, thanks for the links to the banners. I'll try to include one of them on the credits page, or even try my hand at creating one (wonders if it needs admin approval... maybe I should just post the banner and see what everyone thinks). Didn't notice that thread before, thanks again for pointing out.

The colors are deliberately restricted. I wanted the site to have a very blue look, and since I have no specific theme to go by, I was actually thinking of making it monochromatic (shades blue and white only). Luckily, I like gray and dark green, so some of the content is non-blue. I'll try to find unobstrusive ways of including more color

Thanks again, everyone!

Cheers,
Neel

rvovk

Jun 10 2005, 06:22 PM

How did you manage to get horizontal scroll bar? Try to fix this

Try to learn CSS, your site would look wonderful if you use it, cause it looks nice already, but with CSS you would give it a great boost.
On the other hand I like content especially poetry, site to be bookmarked

Just work on this, you are on the right way.

mama_soap

Jun 11 2005, 06:01 PM

rvovk,

Thanks a ton for the feedback. I am a bit of a stranger in the CSS world, but trying, nevertheless, to find my feet in there. I do use a bit of CSS for the layout, but it's all very basic. I guess I didn't notice the horizontal scrolling because it doesn't show up on my computer. I will put a overflow: hidden for horizontal scrolling in the external stylesheet, that should, hopefully, set things straight.

I'm glad you liked the poetry. Thank you very much

Again, still a beginner to the world of writing, but I am enjoying it very much so far. That counts enough to keep me from giving it up, hehe.

I am, of course, thinking of ways of developing the site; and even if don't put an "Under Construction" sign over there, it's still being worked upon

Thanks again for the feedback, it helps tremendously.

Regards,
Neel

rvovk

Jun 11 2005, 07:56 PM

Which resolution do you use at home? 1280*1024? That might be the answer to you problem, cause you don't see horizontal scrollbar that way. Try lower your resolution to 1024*768 and you might see it

Hope I am not wrong

Liquid-Fusion

Jun 11 2005, 09:03 PM

This is a great site, and its very clean and simple..

The only criticism is maybe make the welcome page more colorful and maybe a background.

Keep up the good work!!

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owbussey

Oct 19 2006, 01:32 AM

The website has a nice clean look to it. I like the theme and the cartoons on it. Did you design those? Your site is full of a lot of entertainign info. And each page has a different monster. I like that.

mama_soap

Jan 30 2006, 01:36 AM

mykokology: Thank you so much for your input. The fact that I'm responding two months after your post must be some indication of how involved I am with the website

Well, the thing is that the site is more or less defunct now. While all your points are very valid (I'll keep them in mind when I'm onto my next website), I think I'll have to just declare the current site 'finished' for reasons apart from what you've pointed out. I am looking at it now and I can't believe I put together such junk.

The problem perhaps was that the site was not focused - parts of it were personal, parts of it weren't. So I will have to have two websites, one professional, one personal. That way it'll be easier to manage things.

Thanks again for the valuable input. If you have the time, I'd appreciate your going over to ideazunlimited.trap17.com/mambo, a test installation of a site I'm planning to construct for college. It has a long way to go, but I'd appreciate inputs at the construction stage... thank you!

mykokology

Nov 17 2005, 03:10 AM

Ok I'm going to rate a site based on these factors: color, navigation, content, and overall layout. The maximum score for each criteria is 5 so 20 is the perfect score.

color (3/5) - The color you chose for the site is so plain and a bit boring. Try to liven up the site by adding a couple of other different colors or another shade of blue just to give the page some personalit and style.

navigation (3/5) - I'm not too keen on your navigation links. The first few seconds that I was on your site I got a bit lost and confused. There are links on top, at the bottom, and on the side. I didn't know what to click! another problem when it comes to your links that bothered me so much is when you try a link (e.g. the poems) with a content that is really long, the navigation links at the bottom don't seem to move down. They end up in the middle of the page intersecting with the page content. I supposed that you used DIV for your navigation links at the bottom that's why they don't go down when the content is long already although I'm not quite sure what codes you used as I didn't have the time to check it. You might want to make this a bit more organized but if you don't have the time to do so it's not that big of a problem. Visitors will figure out sooner or later what or where they'll will click.

content (2/5) - Since the site isn't finish yet some of the links lead to an 404 error page or "nothing in there yet" page. The poetry section is nice though.

overall layout (2) - The overall layout isn't that eye catching and unique. I can say there is nothing special in it. Another thing that I didn't like is the google ad that is so huge located in the midle of the page!!! I f you are to put ads on your site for profit, you should at least put it in a strategic spot that will help you earn money but will not ruin your layout. It should blend well with your layout. But the positive part is the site is simple, nice, and clean.

OVERALL RATING: 10/20

additonal comments: Try to advertise your site a bit more so you'll have more visitors and forum members. Good luck!

kitty

Sep 15 2005, 09:37 AM

Hm..I like this very much,the firs off all the colours beat me in positive thought,your site colours are in harmony and it is very peacefull to look at it,I also like the navigation-button on your home page..I've also checked out your forum,it has a very interesting topics and themes to talk about...I personally think,that you did a good job,with your website and when you put some little details on it,it will be perfect..

Congratulations!

adriantc

Sep 11 2005, 01:42 PM

Well i can tell you the "ideaz" is great. I specially like the flowers and the billboard and the color theme you choosed. Still on the front page there is a bug... the text that links to the forum , faq and so on has the default font which doensn't match the rest of the website.
Also the font on the other pages have the same problem as the front page. The font for Ideaz Unlimited is great even if it is pretty hard to read. You should try to apply the same font to all texts. Of course that is just an "ideaz"

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