Anxiety35 — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 06:51:30 +0000

I'm not very good with php yet, but I'll work on doing that. That would look a lot more real and professional. Thanks for all your advice, it's helping out a lot.

CptAwesome — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 06:08:06 +0000

I decided to send myself a copy of the fake news, and noticed you just put all the variables in the address line as Get variables. This is of course the easiest method, but it's also the elast effective, since most people will instantly spot their name along the top, amongst all the other details.

I don't know what permissions you have on the server, but you'd be better served to have a database with IDs, or just textfiles, the it could be "article=1244" instead of all the get variables.

Anxiety35 — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 05:42:35 +0000

thanks, I never would have thought of that.

CptAwesome — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 05:35:35 +0000

You set the background colour of the form inputs, without setting the font colour so, for people who don't use black on white, it's invisible.

Anxiety35 — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:53:10 +0000

alright, thats for the input... I'll work on a new design to make everything look nicer and I'll make my own banner too... I'll post here again once I've re-done it and see what you guys think.

Thanks a bunch

dojo — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:48:22 +0000

The banner is from a site that make banners instatly ... used the same style 4 years ago
You need some work .. a lot of work. The idea is nice, but use a nicer package

Good luck

andyy15 — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:20:51 +0000

Hey have you seen your website on a 1400 X 1050 screen resolution. Your banner/header on top is 592 pixels but the main content table looks to be 75%. Therefore your table is bigger then your banner making your site look very wierd. Put everything in a 750 pixel table and change your header imager to 750 pixel width. Other then that you I agree with Megan you site needs alot of work in design.

Megan — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:52:09 +0000

Hello, Anxiety Sorry it took me so long to get to reviewing your site. To be honest, I think the design needs a lot of work. I think what you should do is get a template and customize it for your needs. That would be the fastest and easiest way to get a decent looking design so you can concentrate on showing off your programming skills.

Once you get a good template the only hard part will be to put in your site title. Grab a unique and fun looking font. Don't bother trying to put special effects on it or anything, although colouring some letters or playing with sizes might be effective.

One other piece of advice is to avoid centering blocks of text. It looks really unprofessional and makes the text hard to read. Since the lines are start at different spots the eye has to jump back and forth to read from line to line. It's uncomfortable for people.

I hope that's helpful

Anxiety35 — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 05:09:02 +0000

thanks... I had never check that pumpkin story for errors because a friend of mine wrote it for me... and I didn't think to spellcheck it for some reason...
Thanks for the input... I like the gender idea.

Renegade — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 05:00:42 +0000

Fix the spelling errors and add in another option to specify the gender of the person.