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March 20th, 2009, 10:43 PM
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Www.30r2-3.com
Last edited by icywave : March 21st, 2009 at 08:56 PM.
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March 21st, 2009, 12:50 AM
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Bad link.
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March 21st, 2009, 09:46 PM
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The overall look and feel of the site is good. Nice layout, etc. and the site is rendering in standards-compliance mode which is always a plus.
However, your HTML, CSS, and site feed do not validate. The interpreted feed location doesn't point to a site feed at all. (This can be fixed with a LINK tag in your page header.) You're site also doesn't conform to accessibility standards, if that's something you're concerned with. From an SEO standpoint, the HTML code has been slimmed down quite nicely so the site should index fairly well, but you could use some work on semantics. Menus should be unordered lists rather than DIVs, etc. Content comes before sidebars which is also good design practice. All-in-all, the site is coming along nicely and has a lot of potential. Load time is iffy, but is still within an acceptable range. You might have to watch that as the number of entries increases. It's most likely due to the large number of images that load on the first page. It's obvious that you've put some time into the design, but it can still use a little work, IMO. As is, the site displays a better design than most, but I wouldn't consider it finished if it were me. If you need help fixing any of the things I've pointed out, feel free to ask away. Hope this helps. Good luck!
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#5
March 22nd, 2009, 02:53 AM
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Thank you nilpo,
Yes I'd like to make all of the changes that you have mentioned above. Please give further instructions. - For feeds, what do you mean by a link tag? - What do you mean by accessibility standards? - I will change the div tags to unordered lists. I will google that. - I will upgrade my hosting plan when there's more traffic. - How would I improve my design? Thank you again. Michael
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March 22nd, 2009, 07:26 AM
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Your first question is by far the easiest to answer. It only requires you to add a single line to your document headers. As you're are aware, RSS feeds are used to syndicate your content. While you have a nice size button that informs your visitors of your feed, search engines are still unaware. Most modern browsers as well as search engine spiders will attempt to "auto discover" any RSS or ATOM feeds associated with a site. This provides a great means of improving your PageRank and search engine rank as it makes your site more appealing. To enable auto-discovery, your HTML simply needs to tell the browsers and spiders where to find your feeds using a LINK tag. This is especially important for you since your feed is hosted at FeedBurner and not on your own domain. html4strict Code:
When I refer to Accessibility Standards, I'm referring to web design practices that make your site more accessible for visitors with certain impairments. Consider a visitor with a sight impairment, for example. They may be navigating your site by means of a screen reader. By coding your web site with support for screen readers, you will have made your page more accessible for that user. And the list goes on. (Btw, this is the last thing I would tackle as it could take the longest. Also, my third piece of advice you'll find below will aid in this effort as well.) To begin coding for accessibility, it's important to first learn about the initiative. Here's two links where you can begin reading. Once you got a handle, I can show you specific ways to improve your site. W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)And here are your accessibility results. WAI Validation for http://www.3or2-3.com/The third piece of advice I would give you right now is to get your html and CSS to validate. Search engines will appreciate the effort and award you with better ranking, browsers will render your pages more efficiently, and you'll be one step closer to your goal of accessibility. Markup Validation of http://www.3or2-3.com/ - W3C Markup Validator
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March 24th, 2009, 12:13 AM
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Thank you again nilpo,
I'm working on the above list. You also mentioned load time and design. I'm currently using services from www.hostdepartment.com. Don't know if that is good or not, they're offering Quad-core Intel® Xeon® Blade-servers as an upgrade I'm not sure if that is worth the money. Any ideas? Or can you suggest a reasonable host that is fair in price? For the design, how many I improve on it? I'm trying hard to make it look nice, clean and not busy at the same time. Regards, Michael
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March 24th, 2009, 02:39 AM
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Once you get those pieces in place, I'll do a speed analysis on your code and let you know if you should consider different hosting. I haven't heard anything bad about them myself, but I haven't really looked into it either.
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March 24th, 2009, 09:41 PM
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Hi Nilpo,
I got my CSS to validate, and I'm got most of the HTMLs working too, I'm currently having problems validating the youtube code. The youtube code involves embedding the assigned video code (The one at the end of the url) twice. And in my blog I'm only using the [tube][/tube] tag to indicate a youtube video. So I'm trying to use regex to pull out the informtion in between but I'm failing. Code:
Set regEx = New RegExp regEx.Global = true regEx.IgnoreCase = True regEx.Pattern = "(?<=<tube>).*(?=</tube>)" displaycontent = regEx.Replace(displaycontent, "<tube1>$1<tube2>$1<tube3>") Can you kindly point to me where am I making mistakes? Thank you. =)
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March 24th, 2009, 09:48 PM
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Hello Nilpo,
I kind of skipped the regex issue and modified my blogging code. So I guess I'll pass the regex part. Now I have finished everything from the list except for accessibility. I'll slowly check into that in the future. Now may you please do a speed test on my script and provide insights to how I may improve the design? Thank you. Michael
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March 25th, 2009, 04:16 AM
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In you're page, it probably looks like this: Code:
[tube]GqDQ0wUcSPQ[/tube] Code:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqDQ0wUcSPQ Code:
<object width="425" height="344">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GqDQ0wUcSPQ&hl=en&fs=1"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GqDQ0wUcSPQ&hl=en&fs=1"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"
width="425" height="344">
</embed>
</object>
 So in short, you want to take this:html4strict Code:
html4strict Code:
Code:
[tube](.*)[/tube] Code:
\[tube\](.*)\[/tube\] vb Code:
Last edited by Nilpo : March 25th, 2009 at 04:21 AM.
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March 25th, 2009, 04:38 AM
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 There are a couple of tiny issues for your RSS feed. You can take a look at the validator here. http://validator.w3.org/feed/check....www.3or2-3.com/ The speed of the site isn't too bad considering all of the images. Here's one speed analysis. Overall for me your site loads in between 6 and 12 seconds. Anything under 10 is considered good on high-speed internet. Your code is clean (and that's good) so there are really only two ways to improve that: host a copy of all the images you are loading locally, and consider showing only excerpts of your posts on the main page. This will reduce the number of images loading on a single page. But even as is, it all looks pretty good. Congratulations. You've done a great done.
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#13
March 25th, 2009, 10:27 AM
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Thank you nilpo!
You taught me many things that would of taken me a looong time to figure out by myself. There's still some questions that I'd like to bother you with. First, I just found out that my content pages, where the articles are, don't validate because there are custom javascripts involved... Just click on any of the articles in the site and it'll lead to one. I don't know javascript personally so I don't know how to modify them. Some of the javascripts involves adding custom elements to forms. These elements are unrecognized by w3c... How may I resolve this? Another thing is that I've always created shortened pages on the front page in my previous blog. I basically pulled the first 600 characters out of my db. However I run into situations where the tags become incomplete. Also if some posts are based on images, then the length of the posts will be a LOT longer than others since links usually have fewer characters than paragraphs... Thank you again nilpo. I appreciate your help.
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March 25th, 2009, 12:20 PM
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Of course, make sure that it renders properly though as yours seems to.Quote:
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March 25th, 2009, 12:46 PM
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I think I might have set a record for the most words I've typed in a single thread.
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