s1p5a0r6k6i3e — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 09:31:30 +0000

This might help you to check your site loading times;

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

I always have a problem with putting to many pictures on sites.

The experts tell me that a slow loading site loses viewers and search placements.

survivorshrine — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 00:34:53 +0000

I experienced a very long loading time while using DSL. Though the images look nice, it seems to be used too excessively in the layout.

Typically, I expect a gaming site to have one main area where the newest/top story is posted and it took me a good while to find out where that exactly was. Also, I feel the bottom half of the page lacks real content and to me, it makes me raise a brow of the validity of the site and it's content. More ads than content usually is not a good idea IMO.

What I think would improve the site is a better sense of organization. When I first looked at the page, I believed the main story was about Halo when it was just the banner. Perhaps more section, with less text, and more appropriate images would do the job (I think most of the images are spent on the actual layout of the site rather than images that match your content).

Just some thoughts, good luck with your site.

heebiejeebieclu — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:17:34 +0000

Uhuh. I got it. It's sure blinkin'

Wasn't before though - how strange.

timjpriebe — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:13:55 +0000

I like the look, overall. As an occasional peruser of gaming sites, the look really fits in well with those.

I would suggest some image compression for the images, however. I don't think there's any need to get rid of all of them (or maybe even any of them), but compression would help tons. I am on high-speed internet, and it still took around 10 seconds or so to load.

The "Newest Cheats" text is blinking in Firefox, but not in Internet Explorer. Which means that if IE becomes more compliant, it will probably blink there as well. Plus, the gamer crowd is one that's more likely to use Firefox than some others.

heebiejeebieclu — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:41:35 +0000

There should be one on w3schools.com

spiderx — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 21:18:43 +0000

Can any of you recommend a good tutorial on how to convert my page into CSS for layout and XHTML for displaying the info?

Seems a little tricky:)

heebiejeebieclu — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 13:28:31 +0000

its weird because i see no blinking text

dojo — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 13:17:54 +0000

Nice job. 2 things: blinking text is not OK. and the images load slow (I have the same problem though ). You could optimize them a bit so that they become smaller (in Kb) and still quality images.

Anyway ... very nice

spiderx — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 17:16:57 +0000

Thank you everyone I appreciate the feedback.

I was never very good at coding so I can see that the layout is messy, but with some tutorials I should be able to clean it up:)

TaylorAtCTS — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 19:13:58 +0000

GJ with PS, your skills are impressive.

However, the code on your swebsite is in bad shape, it looks like its tables and thats not good

- Use CSS for layout and XHTML for displaying the info
- It took forever to load and im on 7mps broadband
- The tables make it load very funny.. and bad....
- GREAT PS skills

6/10