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May 10 2010 01:45pm

Quote (Bricegould @ May 10 2010 05:54pm)

To be honest demonblade05 if you're asking for advice present something decent at least and expect harsh criticism. In 4 months you've proven terrible progress. Maybe websites aren't your thing. I remember you asking about this before in a previous topic and had the flash navigation with sound. I am sure we told you get rid of flash all together. If you're looking for opinions don't ask if you can't take them. Your website doesn't even have a doctype declaration and is using a windows charset...

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That show's me you have no clue what the hell you are doing. Come back with something you made.

I did take this out and make a jquery one but I used an seo tool which said I had the words call of duty too many times so I went back to flash, as for the character set for some reason the flash and the Ada where showing up as errors so I was experimenting with what to use to show the flash and forgot to put doctype back I n

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May 10 2010 01:48pm

Quote (demonblade05 @ 10 May 2010 14:45)

You are using XHTML syntax and regular HTML syntax mixed together pick one or the other.

This post was edited by Bricegould on May 10 2010 01:48pm

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May 10 2010 11:25pm

Quote (demonblade05 @ May 10 2010 02:45pm)

forgot to put doctype back I n

You should never not have DOCTYPE, no matter what you're doing.

HTML5 even makes it easy:

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<!DOCTYPE html>

As far as everything else...flash is horrible. Steve Jobs basically said it's a dying breed. I am self-taught web development as well.

My first few months of web development were absolutely horrible.

I would do some research on advanced web development techniques. That's what I did. "The Good Parts" by Douglas Crockford is a great book about JavaScript.

As far as "using Call of Duty" too many times, why not just have a menu list "Version x"?

Also, you do a decent job of keeping focus on the main content of your page, but you don't have any "call to action" buttons.

You do have a nav menu, but, since you have a forum now, why not have a big attention-getting button calling the user to join the forums, or view the forums? It actually took me a while to notice the link on the top right.

You should read up on techniques to guide first-time visitors through what you want them to do, and give them a reason to come back... "New CoD posts every Monday!", etc, etc.

Come up with catchy weekly blogs/posts/tutorings/etc.

After that, you can create an RSS feed/newsletter system that users can subscribe to that will generate site hits for you.

All your other links seem scattered all over the place. You should consider throwing them in an "External Links" or "Recommended Links" section.

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May 11 2010 11:00am

I voted Bad (STATE WHY)
and I think it's because the design just doesn't give me a good feeling, it doesnt interest me, its not cool.

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May 11 2010 12:15pm

not bad.. but i suggest butting some info about the games on your site.

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May 20 2010 11:02am

I am really not feeling all these poorly cutout low resolution imagery on the page. It hurts. Look into buying a beginner design book, not even related to web design. You have some serious issues with spacing of most of the elements on the page.

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May 21 2010 04:24pm

Ooh, PHP. My favorite.

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