Hi guys please review my revamped site. looking for new inspiration, so any views however negative, i will take on board.

www.wexforddj.com

cheers

DJ Cam

Big improvment from your last one..........well laid out...colours go well....good work.

This page
http://wexforddj.com/dj-salsa-wexford.php
the text is being covered by the video frame and the video
is just a black box on my screen.
Same with the video here: http://wexforddj.com/salsa-djs-wexford.html

Equipment and links text is just a little too big for the menu boxes.

If you lived closer, I would want to book you................

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hi David, okay i've looked at the pages again, in explorer and firefox and can see no problems with the text, you say you get nothing but a black box. Do you have youtube plugin installed, perhaps that could be the problem, the text behind the black box says "youtube player loading" thats incase anybody with extremely slow connections can make their mind up wether they want to watch them (as the actual youtube player can take an age when page is loading up) on dial up. thanks for your other comments.

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I can view videos at utube but I cannot view other peoples embedded videos
including many which are posted here.

Have you a link as I have googled and tried a couple but nothing seems to work.

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i agree with David, your music or video does not come up. go to my site and see how easy and quickly all the videos come up, whether they are WMV files or SWF files. you probably need some help with the correct software for your videos. they should come up immediately. let me know if i can help you out - send me a video and i will convert it and you will see how quickly it will come up

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Very nice! You have come a long way, so keep up the good work. I had no problem here with your site's videos on IE or FF, however I am not in your target audience area. Good Luck.

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I'm not to sure of the legal side to showing or playing music videos on your own a platform is, but i do know that by embedding from utube you are ok. - I Think!! lol



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One other thing
If you have "google web accelertor" enabled you may need to disable it, as I too had a problem of not being able to view the music videos in the beggining.

www.wexforddj.com

ps. Please let me know if this helped.

DJ Cam

if you think that a visitor is going to go to your site and he has to do anything special so that your site works, good luck. you have to make it easy for the visitor to see or hear what you want them to see or hear.

good luck

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why so snotty? mr magoo

i'm only guessing as to what the problem might be for some users who use google web accelerator. thats all.

Unfortunately hes right, even tho you took it as snotty. You have to design for the visitor, and rather or not they have it installed. You need to do what you can to insure it starts rather they have that accelerator installed or not.

Karen

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Absolutely! It always has been and always will be "KISS" (Keep It Sweetly Simple --this is better than the other 'KISS").

You can only assume that every visitor has their system set up with the same settings it came with "out of the box" and can never think that they have invested in the gizmos you think are ordinary.

Personally, I have such a total disdain for sites that hint at such arrogance along with my aversion to most things Google that when I build websites I never include them at all, and neither my clients nor their clientele misses them whatsoever. It's all about making the site perform according to expectation (let alone potential) on every monitor that lands on it .... and THAT is the bottom line, not how pretty it looks or if it is loaded with the advanced toys currently in play (which more likely than not will fade just as quickly).

You owe Magoo an apology, IMO, and have some major re-thinking to do about perspectives with regard to compliant web building technique that is supported throughout our Community -- especially that we are here to help and encourage each other freely!

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Hi guys please review my revamped site. looking for new inspiration, so any views however negative, i will take on board. this was your first post.

i wasnt being snotty, just brutely honest. when i started to put video on the net and was using an inferior hosting company, my daughter told me "Dad unless i can see the folds in the napkins and the color of the flowers, I would not want to look at your video."
this is the link that we made for the Hilton project:
www.hiltonweddings.info
it is tough to digest when your own daughter tells me this, but in the long run she was right. with Blue Voda you have the ability to show off the best video, the best sound on the internet. why would anyone not take advantage of this.

everyone has their expertise. Naval is a genius with scripting, Vasili is a genius with words, thus being able to tell people what to do and how to do it, and so on, i could name quite a few very talented people in this forum. I have worked hard to give the best video on the internet. all i said to you is if you need some help to improve your site, i would be very happy to assist you. By the way it would be for FREE!

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As i pointed out earlier, I think there may be legal implications in showing music videos on your own platform. If you can answer
this question for me, then sure i would not think twice in changing from utube.
If i caused offence to mr magoo it was only because of his "Good luck"
remark and nothing else. If Mr Magoo is thinking i'm being stubborn, i'm not. this is the first time my music videos have caused any problems
in previous "testing ground reviews".

I'm still quite happy to take any comments on the board, as i have in past
to benefit to my site.

I would still like to know if "disabling the web accelerator" worked helped.
If you can help me with those two queries please let me know.

1 -legal implications !
2 -google web accelerator !

If anyone here is also having video issues please tell me. I will try and fix
them (within utube). I do recall an email recently from VodaHost highlighting the benefits
of enabling a utube player on your site. I.e "hit count" etc.

regards

DJ Cam
www.wexforddj.com



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Hi DJ,

I'l start by saying in general I liked your site. Very nicely done and attractive to your potential audience. I do however want to mention IMHO that I, looking at it from a potential client's view, felt that the utube video part was unnecessary. I believe you would want your audience reading through your site to see what you have to offer rather than looking at videos. I personally found it distracting once I clicked on it. Again, this is just my opinion. Others may like it.
One other thing that puzzled me... You currently have a Christmas theme on your site. Does this mean you will be changing your site for each major holiday? My apology if this had already been covered in your previous site attempt.

Hi there Paul. yeah thanks for that. I am in process of minimise the number of vids and maybe have them catergorised (still working on it though). I thought about maybe having the text before the vids perhaps too. And Yes, i am trying to keep it themed to some extent. (don't worry i won't be asking for reviews of my site for Each holiday). lol.

thanks
Dj Cam

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You can't have your cake and eat it too! .....


With regard to Music videos on your site, and any possible legality? There is no difference between embedding a YouTube video and posting one of your own, inasmuch as they both create the relationship between you the Publisher of the website and the USE (authorized or not) of the video and the promotion thereof.
YouTube has a whole squad that daily scours all the postings to make sure they comply with rights and use terms, especially when there are potential issues of revenue on a previously Copyrighted piece (ASCAP).... and that bears to burden to the Source of such items, questioning whether or not they are bootlegged or copied/distributed without authorization. Most commoners assume that since the videos in question have the YouTube watermark that they are "proven" safe to re-distribute or fall into a loosely defined "Public Domain" category: not true, but they do in fact help to confer liability to YouTube as "Source" only. You can still be held liable for damages or lost profiability as Site Publisher (promotor, distributor ... as in "re-broadcast or source of un-licensed viewing").

The real issue for common Publishers has always been not so much about Piracy or Legality (although it is paramount to the industry), but about the technical liabilities, specifically band. It has always been favored to rely on YouTube's band and not the allotment of each individual hosting account. VodaHost provides such an awesome monthly allotment that I doubt anyone has ever come close to exceeding it, even if you had 1000 videos plastered on the site. And, there is the control issue: having total control of the elements on your site is a surety that cannot be easily replaced. For example, how are you going to deal with the possibility of video links going dead, or videos themselves being downed by YouTube for whatever reason? Which brings me to another perspective ....

Since band is no longer really an issue as a VodaHost client (I seriously doubt you will exceed 1,000,000 downloads a month), I personally would source and use videos that did not have a Watermark from YouTube. I tend to think it telegraphs how technically challenged the Publisher is, and allowing such a detraction and "less than professional" look to appear on a website that is supposed to accentuate technical (and artistic) expertise is such a disconnect that even visitors are left with an unsettling sense of incongruency or "average" feeling. But, that is only my view .....

Whatever your choice, you must decide how much risk you are willing to assume to get the results you desire.

So .... a few things to think about and reflect on. Maybe it helps to paint a clearer picture of the overall aspect of attending to a website design with attention given to not just the visual candy, but the logical purpose and function as well.

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okay I really don't know where you're coming from as regards the Cake?
but thats irrelevant...

Thank you very much for answering some of the legal stuff to me.. really appreciated.

I'm still wondering though whether my 2nd question will be answered.

Thanks

DJ Cam
www.wexforddj.com

Web accelerators are mostly used by DIALUP users to load pages faster by SPLICING graphics (video, multi media etc) and other content into layers and then only loading the layers necessary to place hold the content so that it is rendered usable by the viewer...this can mean a reduction in the COLORS rendered as well as frames in video or other animatons and totally disabling others, like flash. By reducing the quality of the content they are able to reproduce loading times similar to higher speed page loads....

So.. I wouldnt USE the accelerator, even when i had dial up. So if your question is.. will the accelerator interfere with the QUALITY of your visual experience .. the answer is YES.

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Thank you Karen

exactly the answer that was needed.

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vasilli - not done intentionally. the site has been revamped. AS STATED!!!!!!!!!

Hmmmmm....... "no excuse for ignorance," saith the Judge before he sentenced the accused!

I'll mention only things I see on the Main page of this "revamped" version to make it somewhat more brief:
A) In your scrollbox, you have 3 spelling and punctuation errors (punctuation = words running together);
B) Your images along the page bottom bar are all distorted due to stretching rather than having been edited. Use the Pixresizer at least, to end up with images that are representative of a level of professionalism you wish to project!
C) It seems the pages are loading slower than they should be .... double-check to be sure you properly loaded you scroller script and that each picture has been properly reduced not just for size to fit, but file size also.

i'll check for the spelling. the images along bottom are only temp. the proper ones are to be inserted at the weekend - sometime. i don't know exactly what you mean in regards (c) could you explain it simpler to me. sorry for being dumb.

Re: C) Page loading slower than expected.

I was simply making an observation from my end, that the page was loading slower than expected, since I have very hi-speed and very reliable internet connection. My first thought was toward the images .... if they were distorted so due to improrper editing then they might also be larger file sizes than optimal as well (proper editing, re-sizing, etc. usually reduces file size at the same time).

And ... if the images were put on the page without proper preparation, I thought it would be prudent to make sure your scroller was installed properly as well, as often scripts will perform at less than optimal speeds and accuracy if they are not.

Either of these will contribute to slower page loads and possible page errors, depending on Visitor connection, browser, and system. If at all possible, try to prepare for a more "universal" viewing experience, and you will assure better results across the board.

Thank you Vas. appreceated.
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