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02-Jun-2004, 06:07
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TemplateArchives (Please Review)Hi guys,
i have finally finished my site and we are working very hard to present all you guys out there with free templates. Please what we are now looking for is your comments.. Please comment on the loading speed, the design, contents and on bugs you find.. also please comment on the menu.. www.templatearchives.com |
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02-Jun-2004, 15:36
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Congratulations on the validated code!
Let's start from the top and work our way down. Top-left, where there is grey area is, you need to add a benner program similar to the one on GIDForums™. phpAdsNew would work perfect for this. Not only will it add a bit more to the template, but you will be able to generate some more cash flow.  The main header links "CSS/Hi-tech" have very nice popups, but instead of those, maybe have the popup appear below the links, and above each of those square boxes (the ones 3 in a row). The New templates section looks nice, however if you moved the View button down some, and to the left of Download, it will look a little bit better. On the domain check area on the left side, I believe it would look better if you made the textbox and check button stand out more. Right now it seems like you have to hunt for the check button, and when you think you found it, you aren't quite sure if you can read it. Also, why does it goto Lycos Partnership? You can get your own domain registration for around $149 with enom. You can register domains at $6.95 per domain. Where it says "GET A FREE TEMPLATE NOW!" I think it would be better if you put "about us", or "what do we offer?" Then describe a little bit about the company. This is just the first page, the other pages need a lot of work. mail.php/upload.php/about.php should either be a popup, or a full template like the main page is. links.php should be a full page, with information about the affiliates, how to become an affiliate, and how to submit a link. This is a start  __________________
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13-Jun-2004, 08:44
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HTML Stuff
In the HTML, this appears to be illegal and strange: <font class="content"><center><font class="content"> Also, my editor indicates there are 78 occurrences of "<table" and only 77 occurrences of "</table". Although there is a doctype declaration, it fails to reference a specific DTD, and also fails to conform to any W3C-published DTD. You probably wanted the following for your doctype declaration: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> The text size on the page is absolute instead of relative, so it remains teeny-tiny even though the user has selected "View|Text Size|Largest" from within IE (try getting your Dad to try to read it on a 1600x1200 screen). Loading Speed Let's see some of the highlights from wget --page-requisites --user-agent="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)" --server-response http://www.templatearchives.com/
28 files? Well, clearly unlikely to be a fast loader anytime soon. However, some benefit could be gained across the board by learning to use mod_expires so that the client browser does not have to eternally re-confirm that the many little .gif images have not changed since they were last cached. The ratio of bytes of HTML (almost 30KB) to bytes of actual human-readable text on the home page is extremely high. If there was a clever reason for not specifying the height and width in the img tag for the logo, I did not grasp it. That could be viewed as a minor speed optimization (though no affect on actual download times). index.html could be shrunk somewhat (maybe enough to drop one packet off the conversation) by stripping the extraneous indentation space. Real gains in speed will probably require structural changes. E.g., is it really necessary to put the login panel (with it's Herculean 18KB generated image) on every page? Perhaps a mere link to a single login URL would suffice. I also saw a most fascinating phenomenon. wget actually fetched the 18KB random number image twice, the second time at the very end. Was it because the Set-Cookie header on this image contains an "expires" param that expired before the entire page could be downloaded? Does IE end up double-fetching the 18KB image twice as well? Certainly worth taking a look at the logs to see if the random number image is generally being fetched more often than the pages that reference it. |
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15-Jun-2004, 11:22
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02-Jul-2004, 07:58
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sorry but i can't remember the details of the last thread, but its exactly something like this one and i got lots of posts from Boby Douglas on it, so i don't think it didn't comply to the "term of use" but anyways, it doesn't matter now.. Thanks for the tip.. though
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24-Dec-2004, 17:04
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You did a pretty good job on CSS layout. I've used CSS layout in my site too. Well done!
Below are the pages of my site: All of these pages and it's sub-pages are CSS layout. www.ex-designz.net www.ex-designz.net www.ex-designz.net www.ex-designz.net www.ex-designz.net www.ex-designz.net www.ex-designz.net www.ex-designz.net www.ex-designz.net www.ex-designz.net Happy Holidays! Dexter |
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24-Dec-2004, 21:28
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Dexter, I think you have posted your links enough.
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