Website Under Major Constuction

Can some people check out my WIP homepage: http://n8r2k.deviousbytes.com

!!!!!! look below !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I need comments on:

I especially need reviews from poeple with res' that are not 1024x768 as that is what i am using.

please include your resolution at the end of your post

As i said this is WIP and will be totally different when i am finished. It will have the box thing linked to all my pages. sorry about those @#$% tripod ads. I am still a student(very little income).

The page in the box thing is a fine idea, but it looks like you are using inline frames.

Instead, you should use a div tag with "overflow:scroll"; it's more "up to date", and you won't have your... sponsors (:P) popping up twice in the same window.

The background colour is way too vibrant. Something a bit more subdued could greatly improve your site's appearance.
A quick warning (though you seem a sensible guy who wouldn't do it, I don't want to risk it): No tiling images unless they are meant to be tiled, are not animated, and are nice and small.


I see that your page is built to fit on 800x600. However, this doesn't work perfectly because the content box is precisely 800 pixels wide. (Remember that the browser needs room, too!). I suggest a width of 750 or so.

My resolution is 1280x1024.
Browser is Mozilla Firefox 1.5

Bright red hurts. I'm not even going to bother trying to evaluate the site if I can't even look at it...

Sorry, but I have a set rule of NOT visiting Tripod sites because of their intrusive ads which even sometimes try and install spyware like Gator (depending on the ad).

The ads are really bad, and couldn't hardly see any content.

sorry about the ads and background color. I just snapped that code together in like 5 seconds. thankyou for your input mr. picklesworth. thanks for the suggestions about images. I hate tiling images, i think it looks cheesy.

Man, the red makes it look nasty - really nasty. To be honest you might just be better off getting some free content management solution and building your site that way.

If you need some webspace I'd be happy to host it for you, you'd need to purchase a domain name though.

Tim.

Any bright color is nasty to look at, I'd do something like "mid-grey" + "a little colorshade" .. like 160 128 128, 160 160 144, 144 144 192 etc. etc.

I agree with all the other comments. The red is completely hideous. 1/3 of the page is ads and I don't know why you've chosen to contain the entire thing in a tiny window (which has ANOTHER set of ads repeated in it). You should also lose a few fonts - having so many different fonts/styles on the same page is very, very bad.

I know, i will changing background color as soon as i post this. was actually looking at a greyish background. Like i said this is a WIP after 5 minutes of work. Am going to get rid of ads.

The reason i put the page in a tinybox is because it should support every resolution greater than 800x600 hopefully, once i redo the content. it will also save space on the side. as i dont need a menu on every page. the reason theres repeated ads is because that is a tripod page embedded in another tripod page.

The whole point of this is just to tryout that little box thing i found on www.dynamicdrive.com , a great site btw, going to be experimenting alot with my new homepage.

okay, changed the color to "silver".

k, it shouldnt be as offensive now. I put the page-in-a-box into a table and put the table over the ads. just dont scroll over to the right. I need someone with 800x600 especially to test it. Isn't big10p on 800x600?

looks better at 800 by 600.

But altogether it is just ugly...

the red doesn't bug me, having to scroll about in a 300 by 700 pixel pane does.

k thankyou for your input one question though, what 'red' are you talking about. I removed the offensive background color.

I am working on some code to make it resize to fit better for different resolutions. If anyone has any ideas as to how to do this please post. Will be easier once i get rid of those stupid ads.

{cYanide} has given me webspace. I have uploaded the site, and added a redirection script that will make it adjust to your screen resolution. please pay no attention to the content whatsoever. Just comment about the iframe (to big, to small, not working, ect.) thanks and thanks especially to {cYanide} at deviousbytes.

Get rid of this javascript in your code, it's just annoying to the end user having their browser window resized without permission.

<script language="JavaScript1.2">
<!--

/***********************************************
* Auto Maximize Window Script- © Dynamic Drive (www.dynamicdrive.com)
* This notice must stay intact for use
* Visit <a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/" target="_blank">http://www.dynamicdrive.com/</a> for this script and 100's more.
***********************************************/

top.window.moveTo(0,0);
if (document.all) {
top.window.resizeTo(screen.availWidth,screen.availHeight);
}
else if (document.layers||document.getElementById) {
if (top.window.outerHeight<screen.availHeight||top.window.outerWidth<screen.availWidth){
top.window.outerHeight = screen.availHeight;
top.window.outerWidth = screen.availWidth;
}
}
//-->
</script>

As the others said, the ads are too intrusive, and (not required, but I'm a web standard-junkie), your site doesn't validate to any set standards.

oops forgot to remove that bit. once i rebuild the content, there will be no ads.

is this some new form of protest?

[ot]: @Aurora: your form of protest (or advertisment) is something I really don't appreciate. If you want to sell your work, please, setup a proper site, create something really interesting with your engine so people will be interested in it (=may think to buy it...), but PLEASE dont' post in every thread. It's annoying....
[/ot]

Now my redirect script isnt working.

Please visit website and look at url in adress bar.
post what number of page it took you to please eg: http://n8r2k.deviousbytes.com/3.htm

also your resolution is critical. Thankyous