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[ianh41399]

Hello, I came up with, what I think, is a pretty good design for a gaming website. It is still being developed, but I think it already looks pretty good. My site is at mpm.x10.mx Please check it out and tell me what you think.

 

[cybrax]

Watch your thumbnail image sizes and the index page will load faster
504px × 299px (scaled to 100px × 75px)

 

[baz_m_191]

I like the clean look, the font is nice and legible. Like the gaming tab down the side.
The linked pics didn't work( I am viewing on iPhone) but this is still being developed so may be why.
I think you should make a nice title bar, maybe a nice metal effect with hawks eye cut out or some thing like that just to liven the top bar up? Just a thought.

Please review my graphic design site becreative.x10.bz

 

[eggo9432]

Your site does not load for me. I just get an error from Google Chrome. If you fix this, then I will give you a review.

 

[baz_m_191]

Should be up and running now

Cheers

 

[bulletcleaners25]

it didn't really load well for me, the top menu is to far right and gets cut off. I like the dark colours though, they look good.
I think maybe you should either change the logo font or make it bolder so it looks thicker.

 

[essellar]

The linked pics didn't work( I am viewing on iPhone) but this is still being developed so may be why.

The games are all Flash-based, and iOS doesn't support Flash. The links, too, are javascript: pseudo-URLs, which aren't supported in all browsers anymore.

The javascript: pseudo-URLs are not allowed in the latest HTML specs either. Changing the games.php page to accept GET requests and getting rid of the hidden forms will make the design easier to manage and maintain going forward. If at any point you want to use HTML5 features (and the browser takes your DOCTYPE seriously), you'll need to change something. You can either take the images into the form and make them inputs with a submit behaviour (or wrap them in buttons), or switch to GET.

You can use a URL rewrite scheme in your .htaccess to provide "friendly" links in the front end and translate them for the games.php page. For instance, a URL that looks like this:

<a href="/games/bubble-tanks-3/5"><img ...></a>

can be easily translated into something like this:

games.php?gameurl=<path>bubble-tanks-3.swf&rowid=5

There are any number of mod_rewrite tutorials out there to look at; this one at NetTuts isn't bad.

Using GET (simple URLs) instead of POST will cut your page size almost in half (not that your pages are big in any case). It's not going to solve the no-Apple-mobile-support issue, but unless you take it upon yourself to rewrite/recreate all of the games in another format, there's nothing you can do about that.

 

[pooplusx]

Looks well laid out (in Chrome), and I really like the slide out menu on the left-hand side. Would be curious to see more tabs there (in addition to games, though I realize that's your main focus here).