Website Review and Suggestions

**maroon_cool** · 03-11-2007, 10:45 AM

Hi,

i'd like to read what you guys think about my site: www.take-fun.com

Everything from the domain name through the writing style to the overall look and feel....if you could also comment on speed.

Appreciate your input

**travelagent** · 03-11-2007, 11:36 AM

Considering it was done in Joomla, the load time wasn't bad, but I would certainly remove the YouTube as it has nothing to do with the content of your site.

On your main page, you have the following code warnings:

Code:

line 259 column 82 - Warning: <style> isn't allowed in <div> elements
line 341 column 332 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 341 column 341 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 344 column 163 - Warning: <embed> is not approved by W3C
line 476 column 70 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&task"
line 476 column 80 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&cid"
line 476 column 87 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&Itemid"
line 649 column 50 - Warning: <img> element not empty or not closed
line 215 column 2 - Warning: <iframe> proprietary attribute "border"
line 215 column 2 - Warning: <iframe> attribute value "No" must be lower case for XHTML
line 339 column 1 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 476 column 99 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 649 column 50 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute

On your frames (php) you have the following 63 code warnings:

Code:

line 4 column 1 - Warning: missing <!DOCTYPE> declaration
line 23 column 261 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 31 column 189 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 41 column 249 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 49 column 188 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 59 column 257 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 67 column 185 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 77 column 244 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 85 column 184 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 100 column 5 - Warning: discarding unexpected </td>
line 106 column 188 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 113 column 177 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 120 column 179 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 127 column 182 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 147 column 181 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 154 column 181 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 161 column 193 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 168 column 181 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 188 column 183 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 195 column 176 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 202 column 172 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 209 column 179 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 230 column 178 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 237 column 183 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 244 column 185 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 251 column 181 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 272 column 176 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 279 column 179 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 286 column 184 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 293 column 184 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 4 column 1 - Warning: inserting missing 'title' element
line 22 column 13 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 26 column 81 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 30 column 13 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 40 column 13 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 44 column 80 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 48 column 13 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 58 column 13 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 62 column 80 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 66 column 13 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 76 column 13 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 80 column 80 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 84 column 13 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 105 column 7 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 112 column 2 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 119 column 2 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 126 column 2 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 146 column 7 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 153 column 2 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 160 column 2 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 167 column 2 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 187 column 7 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 194 column 2 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 201 column 2 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 208 column 2 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 229 column 7 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 236 column 2 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 243 column 2 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 250 column 2 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 271 column 7 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 278 column 2 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 285 column 2 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 292 column 2 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute

**knowledgedot** · 03-11-2007, 12:20 PM

If that's your own template, good job! Most designs ive seen recently go for the lighted gradient over other gradient kind of theme (hint:webmaster-talk

), it's refreshing to see some vector work make its way out of the 10-mb crazy jpeg file and into an actual live atmosphere.

Props for that, but the forum skin is a little [very] dull. If you could work your forum to look like your site, you'd be set. Also, Take-Fun isn't too appealing of a name: find your niche and stick with it, generic names don't fare too well in the world of small-time websites.

One final critique, make the various navigational sectors of your site stand out more [i.e. make the nav links on the left side under 'main menu' bold], and perhaps change the top picture links to completely remove the opaque layer that's there now. Change that to the black one that's currently set as a rollover image, and change the rollover and clicked link image to the blue one.

Have fun

**mobwonder** · 03-12-2007, 12:34 AM

I liked your site.
You should reduce loading time of your homepage.

**allaboutweb** · 03-12-2007, 02:22 AM

I like your domain name

**Orp** · 03-12-2007, 04:17 AM

I think maybe before the pic of the car appears, is that you need to add a short introduction about the site. Just a couple of words and then the posts could appear.

I think the main menu should be a little bigger so it would stand out more and that way ensuring people don't get lost.

**webmastertalk** · 03-12-2007, 06:32 AM

your domain name and your site is very good. the site takes abt a minute to load on 100Mbps net connection. you may reduce this time.