Tsunami Central

Ok You guys this is my site. It is NO WHERE NEAR DONE but it has enough stuff on it for you to talk and such. It consists of a forum, which you probably have seen on Sexymama's site "KinkyKittensClub.com" if you have seen the topic. Mine is a lil bit different though, ill leave it up to you to find the subtle differences. i also have a Message system, also see on Kinkykittensclub.com but with some slight changes. Then we have "The Wall". The Wall is an annonymous shoutbox type of doohicky. You can spray a message (max length of 25 chars) onto our wall for every one to see. Every time the page loads each message changes color and size. We also have a calendar. Administrators can post events on the calendar via the Admin CP. Admins can also post updates from the Admin CP (the CMS i told you about).

Tsunami Central also has three built in Style Sheets. 'Solstice' is the main style sheet that we use, it is the one with the blue color. 'Autumn' is the Red/Orange one, and 'Hunter' is the green one. Administrators can also edit and change style sheets via the Admin CP

I am looking for some Administrators and Moderators for my site. So if you join my site and send me a message we could talk about you becomming an administrator/moderator.

Ill post a list of more features in a later post.

Tell me what you think you guys. i am open to suggestions

 

 

 

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Well, no offense, and i am sure you are a great website designer, but to me your main pages layout is kinda of plain and boring, maybe if you spiced it up with some images

the banner is kinda blury and looks like somthing that was made on a site like http://www.flamingtext.co.uk/


maybe if you made a graphics request on here, or made one that wasn't so blury, and maybe included some pictures of what your site is about so people dont have to read so much to see what it is about...

i like "the wall" although brick doesn't go with the layout tooo much

the forums, umm, they look pretty good, i dont like how they are scrunched up so small like they are, but the color mixture is good, i dont think the white border on the title under the Main Title box looks so good with it being dominatly dark

and maybe if you make the tables a little bigger for the whole site, like the Menu, and the Login screen so the Sign-up link doesn't go down to the next line like it is.... or so the Whos Online link in the navigation doesn't do the same thing..

just a few suggestions, im sure you dont like some of them but im just trying to help out with my opinion.... good luck

 

 

 

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Yeh, the site is a bit poor, the news system is great, but the logo and layout in general.... I dont like.. also people tend to like light colours better than dark, i found that out wen doing my site... gotta re-design now

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wOW I really like the wall thing. very clever. i really like the possibilyties to just leave a short comment to let something know real quick about someones site

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I love the way you did your post albus, you told me exactly what the problem is and how i could improve. I am glad you all liked the wall, even though it doesnt blend "Harmoniously" with my site. I found the brick background but i had to make it lighter in order for the text to showup. The banner, i know doesnt look like much but its the first one i made for the site. And you were close by guessing flamingtext but it was actually at cooltext.com. I plan on making a flash banner to replace it. I plan on doing a few things to the site to make it look better and not so "plain". i will be making some graphics to use as bullets instead of "»"'s. Maby add a style selector as well.

I know it doesnt matter what i like, its what the 'users' like. But i like black XD. I know thats pityful but im a pityful person so it works out.

Ill definatly take your advice and make the tables bigger.

thanks for the input.

p.s: It might take a lil while for these changes to go into affect because im running into a lil problem with my Admin CP. turns out the so called 'working javascript' i had on my comp is giving me errors when i uploaded it to the site. ill try to get that fixed right now

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Well, you made it with your own creativity, so i think its good.
But well, as people said above, you need to improve your blocks there with some images.
Well here are some of my sugesstions. fit the entire wide of the page with the blocks and the content needed, like making your blocks bigger so it wont look poor, and you may want to use a different color of the background of the blocks.
The logo has poor quality, but it looks good, maybe if you make the same one but with a vector mask... it can be better.
(ha, dont take care of my sugerences so much... im not a web designer... im just a web browser lol, but thats what i think)

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Lol, doesnt matter whether you are a web designer or not. Just the fact that you took the time to look at my site makes me happy . Alot of times you will get your best feedback from people who have absolutely no clue about any kind of programming.

Any ways. I am making some of the 'blocks' bigger right now. I just got done making the user profiles. Users can now change their avatar and such. I 'will' be changing the avatar. Like i said i will probably do it in flash. Cause with flash you can add lil clickamagigs and every one likes those. Ok i figure i might as well go ahead and post a features list of features soon to come:

1) An Arcade - Containing all kinds of classic arcade games plus some new games or newer versions (all games made by me). The Arcade will have a highscores list that will allow you to view users total scores or individual game scores. You will be able to sort them by username or score (asceding to decending and the opposite on both)

2)The Story Board - will allow you to post/view poems and stories (original works only) from our users. You will be able to comment on the content and rate it. Each week the best rated work will be featured on the front page. You can search through the content by sorting it by type, ie poem, essays ect

3)Artwork Showcase - will allow you to upload/view artwork and computer graphics made by our users. You will be able to comment on and rate the graphics just like in the story board. Each week the top graphic will be featured on the front page. You can search through the content by sorting it into categories such as handdrawn pictures (there will be sub catagories), computer graphics, Photographs.

4) Chatroom - Im working the bugs out of it now but it will be a php/mysql based flash chatroom (created by me). It will have smilies and maby little movie type things (inspired by Yahoo! messengers audibles and 123flashchat.com's chat movie things). Possibly even with the ability to talk 1 on 1 in realtime (or close enough) with each other instead of just through the pm system or in the main chat area. Maby even a whiteboard if i get it to working soon enough.

Im getting a cramp. Plus i cant think of anything else so i will post it later if it comes to me

Tell me what you think about these ideas as well

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All of that hears cool, specially the Chatroom

Well im just being curious... what are you using for make your site? i mean.. how you make the login system, and all of that... is a CMS?

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lol, Unfortunatly im coding it all by hand. The reason i like to make my own stuff is because of a couple things. 1) it makes me feel good knowing that i made somthing that works and not having to use someone elses and 2) alot of times i dont like a feature or i would like a feature not on other peoples stuff, so making it by hand is the easiest solution.

Making the Login and membership script wasnt that hard. The Beta form of it was made using nothing but text files as a database. All the users information is located in one text file. The first line in the text file has the number of users, and every line after that has the information for a user on it. the way i set it up is so its kinda like a mysql database, but not really. Im going to use my line as an example:

right now i am the only member on the site (i would have figured since you all looked at my site you would join :'( but its ok ill live) the first line has a 1 on it then the next line looks like this:
username|##|password|##|email|##|rank|##|name||##|so on and so forth

the reason i use |##|'s is because how often do you see people puting |##|'s in their information? not often, not EVER (and you put it in your info just to mess with me i will kill you). then i use the file() function to read the information into a variable then i use explodes on the variable and then vuala! if you want the 1st members username you would use somthing like $user[1][0]. For accessing the the first thing on the first line (before the first |##|)....

CMS stands for Content Management System. Which means rather than logging into the trap17 cpanel. I can add/edit/delete updates and such straight from my site. Because when i login as an admin (which is me) i gain access to the admin cp

if you want further explaination on things such as the forum or message systems just tell me and i will post in depth tutorials in the php section of this site. or should it go in the tutorials section?

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Hello. Congratters with home page finnishing! So as you know, there isn`t home page without mistake! And my hobby is to find them, so with first look I found a lot of mistakes in your home page. So, here are most common mistakes:

At first your site`s logo is bad! Did you make it with Paint??? It`s quality is SO bad, haven`t you ever used Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Photoshop Elements ??? You can choose quality of your pictures... Try to change quality! So, that`s not all! Your logo`s colors don`t yoke with your site`s content. I suggest to change site`s content`s colors.

It seems, that you have written your page with Times New Roman?! That font is used for grave documents or report, but not for homepage! Plus you used it in 12. font. OMG! Try to use Verdana in 8. font or Arial in small font.

Now let`s look at layout: It looks pretty good, but it will look better if you change size of colored Cell. You see, it is so huge, but that title in is very small. And first thing that I see is Cell not title! Shouldn`t it be vica versa:)?

You can change color for your link! Take of underlines of links. When mouseover make that colors changes! And just then underline!

Change color of your site`s header background...


Try to fix those mistakes and your site will look OK:)

Cheers, tempest!

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