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#1 DIGI_Byte

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Posted 23 August 2009 - 02:09 PM

http://warofthegods.org/

I'd like you opinions and comments, 1 Issue I'd like to fix is when the screen res is to small, I'd like the images not to stack under each other.

Another is some how making description boxes for the spell books appear just below the spell when the viewer clicks on that specific spell


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Posted 23 August 2009 - 06:42 PM

Technical:
- make it valid (X)HTML
- use CSS for styling instead of HTML attributes

Content:
- revise the About page
- remove all kinds of "note to self and readers" comments, it makes the site look too unprofessional
- put the "legal" stuff at the bottom instead of the banner
- check all your links, I think some faction's spellbook page leads to another faction's


Also:
Why aren't you displaying our Google Ads on the site? All hostees are required to have it.

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Posted 24 August 2009 - 12:49 AM

Why aren't you displaying our Google Ads on the site? All hostees are required to have it.

Because as far as I know Google adds aren't required on websites not hosted VIA T3A or Revora.


- use CSS for styling instead of HTML attributes

I do use a CSS file, every BG font and what not uses a single CSS file at the root level of the site

make it valid (X)HTML

And as far as I know this below sets it compatible with XHTML, Dreamweaver makes this automatically and ive never understood this so I always Left it alone
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

Edited by DIGI_Byte, 24 August 2009 - 12:58 AM.


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Posted 26 August 2009 - 04:50 AM

Ok Ive made some changes to the website, Please dont bitch about some sub pages leading to the scourge stuff, I'm still in the process of making the website.

Edited by DIGI_Byte, 26 August 2009 - 04:50 AM.


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Posted 04 September 2009 - 02:33 PM

For a start, I would recommend NEVER use DW or any other similar editor to code what you cannot code in notepad were you so inclined.
Secondly, worry about content more than presentation. HTML is a semantic language, its just saying what stuff is. Instead of writing your markup so it fits the look you're after, write it so it makes sense as text. If you write meaningful markup (header elements for headers, list elements for lists, tables for tables, its not that hard) you'll have a nice clean slate to work off when you want to style it, and search engines and different user agents will love you more.

And valid code means more than just not removing bits you don't understand, it means doing things correctly. Its a very misunderstood concept because browsers are very tolerant, but if its not valid, its technically wrong, does parse, does not compute, etc. Currently theres about 13 errors, and if you had that much wrong code in a mod or program, it wouldn't compile or it would crash badly, browsers just try and second-guess what it thinks you meant. This means you can be wrong and your site work, but you can't really control anything the browsers going to do unless your codes valid, because only then will it obey your code as its written. The official W3 Validator can be found at validator.w3.org, use it.

If you further separate the presentation from the content and as DLotS says, use a separate CSS file for your styles, it allows you to control the entire look and feel of a site from one file, so any nice cleanly marked up file can be made to fit your site in a single line. Every single height, width, border, align, etc. attribute you've used should be in the CSS, and would save you a lot of work if it was.

Lastly, for your actual design, the navigation needs to be clearer. Unless I'd hovered over the orbs and seen the url's in my status bar I'd have never realized they were links.

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Posted 11 September 2009 - 06:45 AM

Dreamweaver is actually pretty fantastic, as long as you only really use it as a coding app and for occasionally *quickly* checking how some elements will show up. Don't rely on it though, as Jeeves says :p

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Posted 11 September 2009 - 11:37 AM

Dreamweaver is actually pretty fantastic, as long as you only really use it as a coding app and for occasionally *quickly* checking how some elements will show up.

It's the other way round. Dreamweaver is a designing app. If you're mainly typing code, use a programming IDE like Eclipse, Netbeans or Zend Studio (in case of PHP).
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