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05-17-2008, 05:55 PM
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Please Review My Site - Endgame Arcade
I would like to know what everyone thinks about my website.
I know the news banner is blue it wont let me change it... other than that how do things look? http://www.endgamearcade.com
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05-20-2008, 03:00 PM
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You are drunk... j/k fixed it.
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05-20-2008, 04:42 PM
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Ok, please do not take any of this personal. You asked for a review so here it is.
The site is boring, the logo looks like text and could be done in html, and my eyes don't know where to focus. I'd honestly never visit the site as there is nothing unique about this site and it doesn't have an attractive design. Things you can do: Get creative with the logo, when you think of EndGameArcade there should be an image that pops into your mind; that image should be a logo. When you think of YouTube you see a black "You" with a white "Tube" and a red background. Secondly, get some graphics or some sort of design on the site and give it a fixed width as there is way too much white space on higher resolutions. Lastly, I see you kept the ads to a minimum but you should try and blend them in with your design a bit more and position them in more viewable places as they will not get many clicks where they are at the moment. |
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05-21-2008, 10:09 PM
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I think I fixed the space issues with higher resolutions. Im not very good at coding or photochopping. this is a learning experence for me.
where could I move my ads and how do I "blend" them so they would be viewed/clicked better Im at a week with ads and I have 1400 impressions with 1.26% CTR. I am not really sure what to do for graphics Im thinking about a chess theme. Im working more on content than anything else. I got gamepacks 2700 game pack and im going through them and picking out the best ones. I appreciate the honest review as its the only way I can improve on my design.
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05-21-2008, 11:03 PM
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More content is good but to be honest, not many people will stay on a site nor return to a site that does not look appealing unless they have to. Therefore, I'd work on getting a custom and interesting design in place before worrying too much about the content. Secondly, this is my personal opinion, but I think a fixed width looks better than a flexible width - plus it's easier to code...
Hope this help, - Devon |
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05-21-2008, 11:19 PM
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I honestly dont know the difference as far as the code goes... fixed vs flexible?
Ive been learing by changing things and deleting them till it looks like what I want.
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05-22-2008, 04:21 AM
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A fixed width is a set pixel size such as 760px whereas a flexible width uses a percentage of the browsers width to determine the pixel size such as 100%.
Ex. In a flexible width site such as yours, if your visitors browser is 1024 width and your site is set to 80% then the site will be displayed at about 819px wide. Whereas if your visitors browser width is 800 then your site would display 640px wide. Lets say you have a div around your entire site with the id of "wrapper"... To have a flexible width of 80% you would commonly use: #wrapper { width: 80%; margin: 0 auto; } To have a fixed width of 800px you would commonly use: #wrapper { width: 800px; margin: 0 auto; } Coding Tips: The "margin: 0 auto;" is short hand for "margin: 0 auto 0 auto;" which is also short hand for "margin-top: 0; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: auto;". Basically the code centers the div in it's parent. To further help you understand the short hand it goes clock-wise starting from the top, like so "margin: top right bottom left". If the top & bottom are the same and the left & right are the same then you can do it like this: "margin: top-&-bottom-size left-&-right-size" which would look like: "margin: 0 auto;". Shorthand coding is nice because it's less typing, easier to read, and uses less bandwidth because it's results in a smaller file size since there are fewer characters in the document. Hope this helps, - Devon PS. I'd highly suggest that you search for some basic xhtml/css coding tutorials online and learn it. Otherwise, you're going to be paying someone to do the work for you if you want the site to be successful. It's not nearly as hard as it may seem, just read a few tutorials. |
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