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Post February 16th, 2007, 7:24 pm

Hey i'm creating a new site, its for free flash tutorials, the layout is almost done, still have a few things to fix up, will end up changing the content imaging, hopefually adding forums in the future, and lots more content to be added but i'm makign that a dialy thing hopefully, so please give me all your feedback the site is http://www.flashassault.com
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Post February 16th, 2007, 7:24 pm

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Post February 27th, 2007, 2:54 am

oh man your site is really laggy. please do something about it and then i will review it, i promise.
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Post February 27th, 2007, 5:12 am

umm, wut browser are you using and what is your connection speed, its lags a lot in ie6, but is fine wit ie7, firefox and ophera
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Post February 27th, 2007, 9:01 am

I'm also seeing a lag on your site and I'm on IE7. The lag is caused by your front page main animation causing the left-sidebar animation to be running at very slow speed.

When I go into the internal pages, the left-sidebar menu works fine.
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Post February 27th, 2007, 7:07 pm

yea kinda laggy on mine as well, but good content
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Post February 27th, 2007, 7:09 pm

well if its laggy on the majorty of computersd i better fix it, lol i'm sorry that i havent seen lag for a while wit my new pc and high speed internet, thats y i need average pc to test it
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Post March 1st, 2007, 8:25 am

Yeah it is a tad laggy for me to, but its a interesting idea. Cant wait to see it totally up and running!
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Post March 16th, 2007, 7:29 am

Why did you have to put that ad box right there slap bang in the middle of everything? It sort of messes up the whole thing ...
And I struggle to read the "our sponsors" text aswell, it's the blue on the red that does that or the font maybe ...

On the 3d page ... why not make the images links aswell ... because I first didn't see the link because it's the same colour as your other text

The w3c HTML validator also found 39 errors in your codin ... It's something to look at.

On one op the other posts there is an example of how to remove the "click to activate and use this control" ... I'll find it now and Quote it here.
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Post March 16th, 2007, 7:32 am

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One little trick to work around the "Click to Activate and Use This Control" problem
(due to a plugin issue with microsoft)

Your embed code is:

Code:

Code: [ Select ]
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/s wflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0"
id="mars" align="middle" height="130" width="130">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
<param name="movie" value="mars.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff">
<embed src="mars.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff"
name="mars" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
align="center" height="130" width="130">
</object>
  1. <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
  2. codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/s wflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0"
  3. id="mars" align="middle" height="130" width="130">
  4. <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
  5. <param name="movie" value="mars.swf">
  6. <param name="quality" value="high">
  7. <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff">
  8. <embed src="mars.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff"
  9. name="mars" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain"
  10. type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
  11. pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
  12. align="center" height="130" width="130">
  13. </object>

If you ceate a myprintln.js file that simply says:

Code:

// myprintln.js
function myprintln(s) { document.writeln(s); }

and put this in the head of your file:

Code:

Code: [ Select ]
...yada yada yada... 

 <script src="myprintln.js"></script>
 </head>
  1. ...yada yada yada... 
  3.  <script src="myprintln.js"></script>
  4.  </head>

...and wrap your script like this:

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<script>
myprintln('<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"');                 
myprintln('codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/c abs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0"');
myprintln('id="mars" align="middle" height="130" width="130">');
myprintln('<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">');
myprintln('<param name="movie" value="mars.swf">');
myprintln('<param name="quality" value="high">');
myprintln('<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff">');       
myprintln('<embed src="mars.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff"');
myprintln('name="mars" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain"');
myprintln('type="application/x-shockwave-flash"');
myprintln('pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"' );
myprintln('align="center" height="130" width="130">');
myprintln('</object>');
</script>
  1. <script>
  2. myprintln('<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"');                 
  3. myprintln('codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/c abs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0"');
  4. myprintln('id="mars" align="middle" height="130" width="130">');
  5. myprintln('<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">');
  6. myprintln('<param name="movie" value="mars.swf">');
  7. myprintln('<param name="quality" value="high">');
  8. myprintln('<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff">');       
  9. myprintln('<embed src="mars.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff"');
  10. myprintln('name="mars" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain"');
  11. myprintln('type="application/x-shockwave-flash"');
  12. myprintln('pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"' );
  13. myprintln('align="center" height="130" width="130">');
  14. myprintln('</object>');
  15. </script>

...it will work around that problem
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Post March 16th, 2007, 8:17 am

Yes i do know how do do that, i only do that for flash files that are aprat of the layout do to it takesa a long time to do everything, and i will think abut relocating the banner, the site not even close to being finished, i have gotten side tracked with a another site.
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Post March 29th, 2007, 6:38 pm

lol ya i have totaly changed the purpiose of this site, it will now be the homepage for my flash team so i'm changing the layout again, but not for a bit i'm updating my site http://www.boogames.ca and i have a clients site i have to do
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Post March 29th, 2007, 7:59 pm

LOL, a flash site without an ounze of flash on it.

I think it's too dark for a tutorial site. I dont know, I believe educational sites should be well lit, so to speak.

The tutorial navigation, hmmmm, no. It's gotta go. Floating nav bars, old school, and the reason for the laggyness (not a real word but you know). If you decide to keep it, it should not open up and over lap your main content table. Also , once you open it, it stays open unless you click on something, another reason it should go.

Your css, you might want to put your styles on a external style sheet. God forbid you might want to change the look of your site one day and have to go through 100+ pages to do so. While on the subject of css, you should try using div tags in place of tables, it will make life easier, and give you more control through css.

News and Updates pages, where you have text you should use some padding or margins so your words don't run into the edge of the boxes. personally I would just take out the boxes altogether. All your other pages are showing me this message:

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Warning: main(donate.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/boomoto/public_html/flashassault/index.php on line 143

Warning: main(donate.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/boomoto/public_html/flashassault/index.php on line 143

Warning: main(donate.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/boomoto/public_html/flashassault/index.php on line 143

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'donate.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/boomoto/public_html/flashassault/index.php on line 143


As for everything else, it's just fine. By the way, I am viewing it in Safari (Mac). 8)
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Post April 5th, 2007, 4:52 am

work on the site and then i will give you other review
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Post April 5th, 2007, 7:15 pm

yeah it is laggy for me as well. One time it came up with Page not found error.

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Post April 6th, 2007, 4:02 am

Ohh. i think changes are going on in your site
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