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December 29th, 2007, 01:25 AM

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Hello,

I just made a new Blog to promote my old site, please give comments and tell me how I can improve it. I also made some changes to my old site, if you could comment on that as well, it would be very helpful.
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December 30th, 2007, 09:38 AM

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the website is very slow. now actually it's not loading at all.. consider
finding yourself better host.

from what I did see before it went down, the design is nice but far from
professional. you better hire web designer if you want more traffic.

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December 30th, 2007, 10:04 AM

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There's just way too much gray, you may want to consider a different color scheme.
In addition to that, your graphics are way too big and they take way too long.

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December 30th, 2007, 10:38 AM

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Agreed with the input on the gray and color scheme and page loading seem never end.

My input is to first get rid of the marquee (moving text). Reference (point no 3 - http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605a.html)

The other thing I saw is the website seem 'floating' as every sections are by itself and not 'connected'.

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December 30th, 2007, 01:07 PM

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Thank you, I will definitely change the Icywave.Net designs, but right now I'm focusing on the blog, can you guys give me some comments of the blog?

For the slow load, I think the server was stuck at the time? Or am I deceived by the host... because right now the pages load very fast...

nagaisteve1, I did not optimize my site to fit every browser yet... are you using something other than ie?

December 30th, 2007, 03:28 PM

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It looks nice but can you do something about the gray color where your text appears?

Looks like you may need some indentation or remove the dark gray border.
I was trying to read your content but kept looking at the darn gray border

Also your main logo is kind of big, can you shrink it a bit?

December 30th, 2007, 07:07 PM

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You need to do some input validation, I was able to create a persistent XSS attack in about 30 seconds.

December 31st, 2007, 12:09 AM

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I will definitely shrink my logo, but I don't see which gray border you're talking about though, the border of the main page?

Memnoch, can you pm about the specific page?

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Or am I deceived by the host... because right now the pages load very fast...

it might load super fast for people from USA and super slow for
people outside of USA - if your website is targeted for people
from all over the world, you should consider this.

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I'm using IE7.

It does load very fast until it seem got stuck somewhere and never finish loading.

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December 31st, 2007, 12:27 PM

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I will definitely shrink my logo, but I don't see which gray border you're talking about though, the border of the main page?

Memnoch, can you pm about the specific page?

PM sent.

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