Any one fancy a read of this?

http://prattle.com/

I've been slapping together a website this weekend, and blinkin' hard work it is to. I really thought I'd manage this a lot quicker than I have done - and I'm not any where near finished yet :(

Anyhow - I was working on an introduction pitch for my platformer Tommy Tronic as it really is picking up speed for completion now, and I want a few people to look over it for me. Tell me if you spot any grammar and spelling errors please. It's nearly 3.00am here now and I'm knacked out of my skull and have to be up again at 7.00 am.

The whole site is not yet working but the 'Games' link at the top of the page is...have a sniff.

Thanks.

http://prattle.com/

Looks good. Haven't spotted any spelling mistakes (feeble scottish accent impressions aside). My only comment would be that the story goes on a bit. I only read it all because you asked us to, otherwise I would have given up after the first few lines.

Any particular reason you've got a UK website when you aren't in the UK?

It does go on a bit yes - and I'll be trimming that page down but keeping the text for another locked page. I need this little scenario because I've got big plans for Tommy Tronic and his eerie little town. This platformer will hopefully just be a springboard if all goes well.

Thanks for reading it, but there is no scottish accent - just a sloshed gnome. You've been watching too much Rab C Nesbitt!

.co.uk because I'm English with an official UK address, and not Ukrainian in the least!

Right. Bed!

looks good to me :)

one minor thing is that you've got
on the front page.

Why not just say
and make "view the Games" a link to the page.

Why does that site remind me of my old mechano set? :-)

A good looking website!

yeah it looks great, possibly the best website done by a blitzer!

Try changing ourselves just to us (or your company name). And get rid of presently.

I really like your Gnarleysoft logo, by the way.

I really like that site.

I like the playful artistic nature of your site, nice graphics style and fun looking.

Very, very nice graphic design. Well done!

Nice! :D

Looks nice - slick and fun. Good work.

Are you doing the graphics (for the game) yourself or is the guy/lady for hire?

Thanks for the input and comments everyone. I'll make some changes as suggested. It's great to have some fresh eyes look over this stuff for me. It is meant to look sort of fun and 'toyish' which is what Tommy Tronic is all about.

Winni - I'm working alone on this and don't really have time for any other projects as I do full time as Freelance as well :(

I find it hard to read the black text on dark grey background on the games page.

Ah. That explains why I always thought your English was suspiciously good. ;)

The VIP page is not very secure, never use javascript to handle any security (all I had to do was disable it and I was straight in).

Investigate using .htaccess to restrict the area.

Basically, move the vip stuff into a folder called VIP, stick a .htaccess file in there with:

AuthName "VIP Area, enter your username and password to continue" 
AuthType Basic
#change path to correct domain and create .htpasswd
#view Snippets for for more information 
AuthUserFile /var/www/vhosts/gnarlysoft.co.uk/private/.htpasswd 
AuthGroupFile /dev/null 
require valid-user

make sure the htpasswd file exists at the location specified, and make sure you've set up a username and password.

Some control panels let you do this via their tools, usually under a security section.

Thanks for that Perturbatio. I was going to look into this password thing a bit later as I wasn't sure myself it was going to be secure or not, and as it really should be I'll make a note of that code you have there. Big Thanks!

some simple tips for security are:

Never trust user input
Always authenticate server side, never ever client side.
Even if you have javascript validation functions (i.e. form validation), always check the data again server side. (the javascript is for user convenience(
Never trust user input.

That 'AuthGroupFile /dev/null ' is just a 'null' file right - not a directory? It's 0 bytes from my control panel...can't copy anything to it yet anyhow (the /dev directory) - I have to check my permissions but the damn contol panel's so slow I feel like I'm suffocating in there - hate it.

looks good to me, nice and refreshing on the eye.

/dev/null is a sort of 'bin' system file, Linux uses it to send output of programs to oblivion (usually used if you don't care about the output of a file).

Linux treats devices just like files (with a few exceptions), this allows you to send things to other devices easily.

you can of course set up authorization groups, and then change the location of AuthGroupFile to somewhere else.

The only thing I don't like is the fading out between pages. Otherwise, great looking page! Keep it up!

"Steaming mound of meths"? What does that mean? It sounds a lot like a drug reference.