Swat Designs My site i created.

Hello everybody i have finally finished 90% of my website and i was hoping everybody could visit the link below and give me inputs,modifications,ratings etc.
And please let me know right away if theirs something against TOS.

My site is based upon many things,
Like xbox gaming a definite im a HUGE fan,Also gfx designing im returning from a 2 year retirement take some time to get my groove back but were opening that up,theirs also an added bonus arcade games added daily please review my site all input please.

my site: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Thank You,
-Swat-

Edited August 19, 2005 by BuffaloHELP (see edit history)

Good graphics but far too many - your site takes a long time to download fully.You need to tidy your code up - there's a lot of extra closing tags (in total, 22 validator errors and 265 warnings).Your navigation links are too dark against the dark background.Not a big fan of scrolling things particularly when there's more than one and when they're scrolling in different directions. Scrollers are used to catch attention but when there's too many of them they actually distract rather than attract.Your layout breaks if resized to anything smaller than 1024 x 780.You've got loads of meta keywords and search engines don't use those anymore.

Not reccomended for dialup and no errors??site loads fast for me and links look fine 2 me also you dont need links on left anyway your main links are on top homepage,forums,downloads,etc.

Not reccomended for dialup and no errors??

I'm on broadband and it was slow. This is how slow:

14.4K 325.50 seconds
28.8K 162.85 seconds
33.6K 139.62 seconds
56K 83.85 seconds
ISDN 128K 25.82 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps 2.42 seconds

also you dont need links on left anyway your main links are on top homepage,forums,downloads,etc.

Well if you don't need them, why are they even there?
Hey mate, if you're gonna ask for people's input about your site, don't get all shirty when they provide it.

do you play conter strike S.W.A.T?

I don't like at all this website :/ It loads really hard and the interface it's a really bad copy of http://www.n-sane.net/ which it's awesome!
cheers!

Ok well first off i got to the bottom of the slow load its my flash but i also found out after you load the site once it will load extremely fast from then on kinda like cookies u already have em so its gonna show up right away when u delete em then it will load slow again but also because im mainly based on xbox im gonna have a xbox theme as default and have many other themes available to registered users and i have added more games hehehehe...lol also i cant tamper with the theme or else thats copyright i can get sued i dont need that ya know anyways i appreciate your input im gonna make some changes ill inform ya when they have been done and hoping i can get input again.Thank You, -swat-

Whether it is copywritten or not, changing a theme is not grounds for sueing. You must, however, give credit to the original maker of the theme.

Anyways, things you need to improve on:-Link colors on the left nav bar-validation is important!-can you reduce the size of your files by any chance or offer a text/small image only thing for people with slow internet?-marquees are generally bad design :/-remember to organize your content and make sure that people across browsers can see it. God...your typing has barely any punctuation. And how are blue bubbles part of an xbox theme?5/10 for errors and general malfunction of your site.

I have no clue what you guys are talking about slow loading.... I have crappy dsl and it loaded in less than a second. The only reason I can think of that there would be such a variety of load times is when you visit it and how much load the server has at the time. Because like on my site, there are times it loads fast and no problems what so ever, but there are times it takes forever to load which is mainly a problem with the server having to much of a load. So I would be saying the site is bad just because it loads slow for you.Personally, I like the banner a lot. Nice little flash work with the moto, but if I were you I would make it a little more creative then just a fade in/out.On the navigation on the left, You really need to change the link colors from the normal text. It is hard to tell which are links and which are categories. I would just darken the categorys' names a bit so there more of a contrast between them.Your site is probably pretty knew from the look of things but you really need to get a lot more content on it. For example, there is nothing in the download section. The journal module isn't activated and the forum link doesn't work.Well, theres still a lot of work to be done on your site. You have a very good start. Good luck and have fun :)xJedix

Graphics - the graphics and such are very nice and tidy. but since its a theme and you havent really added anythign to it except ur name "Swat", and the flashing text, (which isnt done in flash like ppl keep saying) so pretty much, well done on selecting a nice theme but 2/10 for lack of creativity.Layout - Again its a basic PHP-nuke layout with nothing special about it. The Navigation on the left isn't easy to naviagte as its bassicly a long block of text links.Content - You've installed some modules so again, more to do with php-nuke. I'm not sure if i found much unique content, not generated from a module.overall. . . . 3/10 . . . and the only reason thats a 3 and not a 1 or 2 is because u've installed some modules and changed the header graphic a tiny bit. Otherwise theres no reason i would return to this page, to me its just like all the other ugly PHP-nuke sites out there . . . . . don't get me wrong, php-nuke can look good, but its just all the standard unessary links and such . . .

Ok here is the deal half of you saw default theme half of you didnt site was down for maintenance i tried reducing load speed it worked from everything i hear,now the default theme is back and forum link issue fixed reason that wasnt working is i was updating installing sentinel security and fixes and patches and i hit a road block on the way everything is now back up if it still loads slow im sorry thats just how it is switch themes if u want.....lolAnd navigation is diff. alot less and modules slowly being activated....Sorry for inconvience.Thank You,-swat-

I tryed to go on it but it wasant working i dont know why please try to fix the problem.ViBUtX

Mmmh I'm getting a very nice white page, no text or images or anything, its an amazingly compact site and it loads within 0.001 sec. :]j/k