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Hey guys, I am finally ready to release my website into the public, but I was hoping you guys would take a look, and tell me your opinion on it. The address is http://ragus.110mb.com . You can leave a comment here, or on the shoutbox in the website. It is a website made specifically for guilds of the game Warhammer Online. My goal in mind when I was making it was to make reloading the entire page a thing of the past, and for the most part, I have succeeded. Oh ya, I know the page is kind of slow, I will be signing up for AN Hosting soon though. Well thanks! If you notice something that you think should be changed, please point it out! :D:


-Ragus73

Looks alright.

You need a black background me thinks, and some tweaking and sharpening of the layout. The glow around the swords is cut off, and it doesn't really look at a whole...but you use JS / Ajax I see, that's very nice :).

I followed your suggestions Daevius, and made the BG black, I also moved the swords inward a bit, but it was chopping off part of the handles, so I had to move it back so the tip was right at the edge of the page. Replaced the vague orange marks at the top of the screen so its a small fire, sooo....is it better now? :D

the background of the swords is like dark red.
i say to go on photoshop and change those to black to match.
basically make your whole logo just blend as one.

I'm afraid I cannot make my whole logo "blend as one" because it causes problems with display on different size monitors. I did not see a dark red background behind the swords? There's just the swords, flame around them, and black...on my screen that is?

there is a magentaish color that separates it. i checked with 2 comps, google chrome and ie8. =]

Well thats why you are seeing the website differently....Chrome and IE8 are in beta stages, looks fine in firefox and IE7. Would you mind please posting a screenshot? :D

Looks 100% better now, you can also make the sword's image larger, so the flames won't be cut off.

Also, the pictures on top (the header, 3 images) have weird white lines right or left...also I think the buttons should be centred, and the body needs a more clear border me thinks :), but for the rest...looks much better now :)

Well....In my opinion, I could just take the swords, and make them 100% vertical, but it just wouldn't look right to me, I have it slanted 20%, and imo, It looks great as is. Hmm..about the white lines, I saw them when I was using a friends computer....I have no clue how they get there :/. I dont see them on my computer. I'll center the buttons right now. The border...well it fades...its supposed it...isnt it? lol

Aha!!! figured out those white lines, was some text that was hidden behind the header/buttons, im removing it now :)

Not loading for me :/

Lol wasn't loading for you because I was uploading the index.html a few minutes ago...try again. Again, sorry if it loads slow, but i'll get a new host soon.

nice site.

and is fast to load.

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Originally Posted by juliom

nice site.

and is fast to load.

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veryyy slow for me.
the header looks fuxxed up :/

In what way does the header look strange? Can you post a screenshot? or describe it in detail? thanks

Sorry for the double post, was my internet lagging :( but anyway, I looked over the header, and changed it so it is much smaller, from about 150kb to 50kb, so it should load faster, and look basically the same.

is this good for you?

I'm sorry...I must be color blind, I cant see a bit of difference in colors where you circled in blue? Btw...what size monitor are you using?

Mmm, good page, and good use of Javascript... there are little graphical "bugs" but it still looks and fuctions nice.

I don't see anything with my eyes as well, but photoshop says there's about 4/256th of red involved...

Argh...I found a problem that I just can't figure out... I changed the page around quite a bit..So, to cut to the chase, I told the text in the center to align left, then placed an <Iframe> that contained a html that basically showed an image 100% by 100% transparent. Thus i planned on putting that frame there invisibly, so the text stayed relatively on the lighter gray area. It shows perfectly in Firefox and Chrome, but in IE...sigh...its showing a bit ugly white rectangle...How do i get it transparent? If i set the bg color to black, it would clash with the lighter gray.

Ah, I have that problem too.
Stupid IE won't let us change the iFrame's background =/
I'll try and google for it.

EDIT:
Does this work?

Just paste in <head>

Code:

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<style type="text/css">
body {background-color: transparent}
</style>

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Problem with that is...I have the BG color set to black, if I set it transparent, page looks ugly white :(. Weird thing is...the iframe shows up white rather than black...

Solved!!! I took a screenshot of the area where it was showing up right, cropped it in photoshop, stuck it into the iframe's html, and walla. Only thing is...its not 100% lined up...but actually doesnt look too shabby... Take a look and tell me what you think?

In every page -except "home"- the images on the left show perfectly vertically aligned.

You might have looked at it as i was quickly changing it. I had to change the javascript, add in another css table, adjust widths and all that, Just finished now, and i'm quite pleased :)

It's good now =)

Yeah, but is it just me or really site except area with text (buttons etc.) is black.

Reload the page, it has a background, its just stubbornly slow sometimes. the good news is, probably later on today I will get the new host, bad news...gotta wait a couple of days for the nameservers to change :P.