another site to rip to shreds...

dead-broke.com
anyone got anything to say?
i know it doesnt validate..but every browser i ever tried the site on, it
looks like i wanted it to...
and i havent ever heard anything but good comments from people that visit
the site.. (except for one dude that wanted to hire me and i told him i
wouldnt work for him... imagine that?)

any comments.. good or bad appreciated..
thanks in advance....
chr0nic

chronic_the_hodog[fuckit]@hotmail.com wrote:

dead-broke.com
anyone got anything to say?
i know it doesnt validate..but every browser i ever tried the site on, it
looks like i wanted it to...
and i havent ever heard anything but good comments from people that visit
the site.. (except for one dude that wanted to hire me and i told him i
wouldnt work for him... imagine that?)

any comments.. good or bad appreciated..

Frames suck, and the images on http://dead-broke.com/main.html load very
slow because you *resize* them using width and height in HTML. BAD.

http://dead-broke.com/flyer_2004_5-28-brewery.jpg Object not found!
http://dead-broke.com/flyer_2004_5-29-jags.jpg Object not found!

Let me decide if I want a new window. New windows break the back button.

http://johnbokma.com/websitedesign/ has some tips.

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<chronic_the_hodog[fuckit]@hotmail.com> wrote:

dead-broke.com
anyone got anything to say?

It is creepy and ugly.

The Doormouse

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"John Bokma" <postmaster (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote

dead-broke.com
Frames suck, and the images on http://dead-broke.com/main.html load very
slow because you *resize* them using width and height in HTML. BAD.
Let me decide if I want a new window. New windows break the back button.

what about a warning.. that "flyer links open in a new browser window"
and a " links on this page open up in a new browser window" <-- on the
"links" page?

would this be more of the right direction for the new windows?
i really didnt like the way the site was working when it didn't open the
flyers in a new window...
and if someone was going to print a flyer.. that would be all that would get
printed.. ?

"The Doormouse" <doormouse (AT) att (DOT) net> wrote

chronic_the_hodog[fuckit]@hotmail.com> wrote:

dead-broke.com
anyone got anything to say?

It is creepy and ugly.

SWEET... THANK YOU!!! lol...
no really thanks for that compliment...
that is exactly the look we are going for! it's a web site for a
Death-Metal band?????
maybe not so much ugly... but definately "creepy"

<chronic_the_hodog[fuckit]@hotmail.com> wrote:

Death-Metal band?????
maybe not so much ugly... but definately "creepy"

*shrug* It's creepy enough. Add some animated cockroaches?
DHTML cockroaches ...

The Doormouse

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<chronic_the_hodog[fuckit]@hotmail.com> wrote

dead-broke.com
anyone got anything to say?
i know it doesnt validate..but every browser i ever tried the site on, it
looks like i wanted it to...
and i havent ever heard anything but good comments from people that visit
the site.. (except for one dude that wanted to hire me and i told him i
wouldnt work for him... imagine that?)

any comments.. good or bad appreciated..
thanks in advance....
chr0nic

Kill the splash screen. It is a barrier to content.
Kill the frames - http://www.karlcore.com/articles/article.php?id=2
Don't resize the images with HTML. This causes very long download times. The
importance of this cannot be overstated. Some studies show that 60% of
people will abandon an online transaction if the pages download slowly. This
has been estimated to translate into $4 billion in lost e-commerce revenue
each year.
"Users will wait about 10 seconds for a page to load, sometimes 15
seconds, before they lose interest" - Usability.gov
There are a number of factors - other than just your site - that can
contribute to increased download times:

a.. Internet or network congestion
b.. Connection speed
c.. Other capabilities (or lack thereof) of the visitor's computer
This makes it all the more important to do your part to limit the size of
the page and therefore trim down the load times. 60% of users use a 56kbps
connection speed or slower. Considering the fact that actual connection
speeds are slower than the modem's capability, total page weight should be
no more than about 30 KB.

-Karl

"Karl Groves" <karl (AT) NOSPAMkarlcore (DOT) com> wrote

dead-broke.com
Kill the splash screen. It is a barrier to content.

adam likes it...(the guy who pays me)
and he changes the pics out once in a while...
(something for him to do at work?)

Kill the frames - http://www.karlcore.com/articles/article.php?id=2
again.. i collaborated with the band and it's sort of how they wanted it...

(he did say something about a total redesign though) (i need to find a new
creepy layout idea)

Don't resize the images with HTML. This causes very long download times.
The
There are a number of factors - other than just your site - that can
contribute to increased download times:

i should make thumbnails.. i been putting that off... there is already a
billion files for this site.. arghhh!

Looks fucking great ....

And yeah...I'm a little lost on the usual group saying "it doesn't validate'
etc....I understand about validation, but look, the site works on everything
that I've tested it on.
A couple of the comments about FRAMES...I agree..dump them mate. Don't
worry too much about "speed"...They'll soon catch up.

Cheers, nice one...

Glenn
(P.S. I'm busting for someone to tell me that one of my sites look
OK....None of mine validate 100% and my customers don't give a shit.)


<chronic_the_hodog[fuckit]@hotmail.com> wrote

dead-broke.com
anyone got anything to say?
i know it doesnt validate..but every browser i ever tried the site on, it
looks like i wanted it to...
and i havent ever heard anything but good comments from people that visit
the site.. (except for one dude that wanted to hire me and i told him i
wouldnt work for him... imagine that?)

any comments.. good or bad appreciated..
thanks in advance....
chr0nic

<chronic_the_hodog[fuckit]@hotmail.com> wrote

"Karl Groves" <karl (AT) NOSPAMkarlcore (DOT) com> wrote in message
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dead-broke.com
Kill the splash screen. It is a barrier to content.

adam likes it...(the guy who pays me)
and he changes the pics out once in a while...
(something for him to do at work?)

Just because the client likes it does not mean it isn't shit.
Don't get me wrong, sometimes you have to do stupid things because the
client asks, but that is a completely different matter altogether.
Rule #1 - If the client knew WTF they were doing, they wouldn't hire someone
else to do it.

-Karl