What do you think?

JOEL33 · #1 04-23-2008, 09:39 AM

Hi Just started using BV great program easy to use well in my level because i don't know anything about codes or html but i still manage to create my website now my question is how do i make my background stay still while scrolling down/up my page?
www.infamousones.com

Collectors-info · #2 04-23-2008, 09:54 AM

Hi, you need to remove the film on the front page as its taking around 2 minutes to load. It will seem fast on your machine as you already have it loaded.

JOEL33 · #3 04-23-2008, 10:05 AM

Thank you for your comment is there anyway i can make it load faster..what if i make the video smaller would that help?

karel · #4 04-23-2008, 10:22 AM

I would personally not have this on your home page at all, people hate to be asked to load a program to view it or to be slowed down, If you want to keep it put it in one of your inner pages, you only get one chance for people to hang around. And it would be a shame as you have done some good work so far.

Paul

JOEL33 · #5 04-23-2008, 09:06 PM

Thank you I'll do that and you guys are right

karenwms63 · #6 04-23-2008, 09:58 PM

When you are on news page, the home nav button's link is empty and cannot nav to home. The contact us takes me straight to my gmail---why?---not to where you are located. You do not necessarily have to put your address, but you should at least say who you are and what are your goals with this site and your email address there.

Also, your page titles (in the browser tab) are showing "untitled page". Do not confuse this with page names. This can be fixed for each page in the page properties box.

Because of the lack of info on your index page, I am not sure what your site is about. Maybe if you add this content to your index page, the viewer will be at ease about your quicktime show. Sorry that I am obviously not the audience from which you need critiques, but even so, your homepage (index page) is the door. If I am not one of the infamous ones, how do I know what your site is about (this should be on index or home page). If you were a newbie with infamous ones, how would you know what this is all about?

OK, so maybe the gamers are in the know, but even gamers have newbies.

Positive note---the layout and colors are perfect for a gamers site.

Your graphics and images are good, but your pages load really slow. The seasoned gamers will know you are new to this and might hold that against you.

Best of luck to you :)

JOEL33 · #7 04-24-2008, 07:27 AM

I know I'm just simple right now not ready to go live yet. i have all my pages saved not ready to publish them yet thats why you have some of the pages like that but thank you anyways

JOEL33 · #8 04-24-2008, 07:35 AM

so how do i make the index page load faster?

Collectors-info · #9 04-24-2008, 09:06 AM

Hi, don't put so much on it & optimize everything. IE: http://www.infamousones.com/1's.gif is at nearly 700kb. This one item is really about twice the pages total size should be. (For an entry page)

Vasili · #10 04-25-2008, 08:58 AM

Great Blue Voda!

A lot of good issues pointed out above, and despite the amount of work it must have been to get this far, try to remember to design for universal viewing: I would nudge you back to a "core page" of 900 wide and suggest you use a floating HTML background (automatically re-sizes for monitors in use, keeping the continuity without distortion as long as the defined pix and main constructs -- like nav, detailed pix, content, etc. --are within defined core page width, just as it is for most gaming sites and platforms) instead of maintaining such a wide format.

whiteshepherd · #11 04-25-2008, 11:24 PM

you have done a lot of fantastic work ... it is a great start ... ditto to the other comments ... keep up the great work ...

JOEL33 · #12 05-11-2008, 06:50 AM

Thank you all
@ Vasili,floating HTML background how do i do that?
and i re-sized it a bit ,but the faster my page load the better i did some more work on it can anyone tell if its still load slow? http://www.infamousones.com thank you

Collectors-info · #13 05-11-2008, 08:47 AM

Hi, to give you an idea on how far over the front page is in kb,s. The small group of 15 images is at around the 2000kb+ mark & is around 4 to 5 times the total that all the page should be. So it might give you an idea on how much it is slowing it down for new visitors.

JOEL33 · #14 05-11-2008, 11:05 AM

Ok so what if i have all pics in form of html would that work?

Collectors-info · #15 05-11-2008, 12:57 PM

in form of html???????? Not sure what you mean.
Put is this way! i am on broadband, but its quite a slow connection. But your page is still taking 40-50 seconds to load. This is purely down to the amount of kb's on the page which has been created by the amount of images.
Simply need to optimize & cut back.

JOEL33 · #16 05-12-2008, 05:30 AM

Thank you and you were right about (1's gif) it took alot and i took it off so i need to take some more pics out which s i don't have a lot most of them are banners, but compare my site to some of the others like gamespot.com ign.com they have alot of images but still load fast and how they do that? this one of my issue right now, i must to have pics in there