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Answer» Heyy, ;Dme and some friends are making a website, its going to mostly be for games. I was wondering if you could give us any tips. Anything you think is helpful, please tell. Thank You. its going to mostly be for gamesFlash games? What type of system are you planning on? User generated content, like blogs, forums, comments system etc? What about search ENGINE optimisation?By games do you mean game news, reviews, etc. like GameSpot and GamersHell? Here are the 10 golden recipes for webapps, btw (properties your website should have to be a good website): - speed - instant utility - voice - less is more - programmable - personal - restful - discoverable - clean - playful Here is a video about these 10 properties (it uses Flash Player 9): the video One thing I certainly find useful is an easy search interface with additional options such as: You have the regular search box, easy and user friendly: Google Images Then you have the advanced search box which is for users who like a little more options with their search: Google Images - Advanced search Things I've learned when you make websites: - let your pages be consistent. Layout must be consistent. This means your pages must have some sort of uniform look/template for each page. A website with completely different page layouts might be ugly and unprofessional-looking. - Keep the users on your website, don't let them track away as much as possible. This means you better not make a link that goes to another website which replaces the current page; rather, it's better to make the link open in a new tab. Therefor, the user is not detracted to that other website so easily and can also keep looking at yours. - Use generic/universal symbols/words. The more universal they are (play, stop, start, back, home) the better and the more chance people have of knowing how to travel your website. There is a problem if they don't know how to navigate your website and some might give up visiting it again. - Viewable for different user groups/media TYPES. This means you can have CSS code that has a page template for users who don't have flash, for users who have flash, for users who are on mobile web, for people with text-only-browsers, for users with a disability (hearing/seeing) - Dynamic (people don't like HTML pages, they like a dynamic website that they can play with, input comments, maybe even minimize some panes.. etc.) You can either make your own website with several technologies or you can use CMSes (Content Management Systems) such as e107. Treval Thanks for the tips Treval. Depends how detailed you want, but I'm just a 15 year OLD student and found Weebly a great place to start a first website. It's mostly drag and drop, but with some basic html, etc, you can still do some advance stuff with it. It does have a few bugs now and then in the creator, nothing major (just refresh the page). Best of all it's free to create and host your site/blog. http://www.weebly.com The site I created with it, if interested is: Aaron's Game Zone Free online flash games: http://azzaboi.weebly.com Check it out and let me know what you think, any tips or suggestions are warmly welcome. If you decide to use weebly and need any help, let me know. All the best for your gaming site! Quote rather, it's better to make the link open in a new tab.That's DEBATABLE....Debatable how? Quote from: Aaron Check it out and let me know what you thinkI think your banner is too much squished together and your 'Home' should have at least the same font as your others. If you want my opinion I think it's best to grab a book on: HTML CSS JavaScript DOM (Document Object Model) Then maybe later (server side programming): C# ASP .NET However, I see you don't want too much detail and are just a beginner and so I recommend getting a book on HTML, one on CSS and one on JavaScript (or tutorials).. Why I choose for books is because they explain things more in depth and when you have an error you will know quicker why it is occuring. Treval Quote from: Treval on February 25, 2010, 01:48:03 PM Debatable how?http://sam.brown.tc/entry/342/target_blank-do-not-go-there Although I agree with you, a lot of people don't.Thxs for the feedback Treval I am learning HTML, CSS and Javascript at the moment, still a bit new, but learnt a lot with the help of actually creating my first website, Aaron's Game Zone. Could you point out how the banner is squished and how i could improve it? As for the 'Home' at the top under the banner - it is blue as it's a link (like the other links), hover goes black with underline. This is a Breadcrumb trail I was trying to create. You can see it update if you go to another page, for example like the games category, Puzzle / Board & Card: http://azzaboi.weebly.com/puzzlegames.html Does the blue links on all the categories, links and games not look like links or is it just the breadcrumb? I will get some books from the library, thanks for your advice.To illustrate what I mean by the squished banner, I've edited yours in Photoshop (Free Transform) to how I wanted it to look like and I also added some comments. =) Screenshot: here Quote from: Azzaboi on February 25, 2010, 02:42:12 PM I think your breadcrumb is fine; no need to change it. Quote Could you point out how the banner is squished and how i could improve it?I see what Treval is saying, after looking at his modified version of the image. How did you intend it to look? Did you squish it to make space for other elements across the top of the page, or is that how you intended it to look? It is resized, squished a bit for room issues, I'll see what I can do to make it look better. Thx |
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