Site Review/Feedback

[ziycon]

Just looking to get some site feedback and opinions please:

Dublinnites :: "Are you having a good nite?"

Thanks.

 

[mneylon]

Welcome to the site

Nice to see a site that validates properly for once (I can just hear Red Cardinal now ...)

A couple of things...

Presumably you're aiming this site at a youth market....

Why have you put the W3C logos so prominently on the main page?


Dublinnites :: Photos the images may need to be resized.. Why can't I see the full version?

The reviews section is really nice, but I had to go poking around to find it

I love the way you've got the logo and Google map integrated:
Dublinnites :: Clubs :: Boomerang

I'd make that a lot more prominent

Is there any way that you could mod_rewrite the URLs?

 

[ziycon]

Presumably you're aiming this site at a youth market....

Why have you put the W3C logos so prominently on the main page?

Aiming it at the market that would go clubing and to restaurants so it can be from the youth market up! Wasn't sure where to put the logos, might make them smaller or move them to the bottom of the page.

Dublinnites :: Photos the images may need to be resized.. Why can't I see the full version?

On my list to do!

Is there any way that you could mod_rewrite the URLs?

Dont know what you mean!??

 

[mneylon]

Dont know what you mean!??

If you compare these two links:
Without mod_rewrite:

http://www.mneylon.com/blog/?p=1218

With mod_rewrite:

http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archive...-scarlett-johansson-jessica-alba-coming-soon/

 

[ziycon]

I kinda understand, it re-writes the link!? Is this helpful in anyway for the site?

 

[mneylon]

I kinda understand, it re-writes the link!? Is this helpful in anyway for the site?

It is from an SEO perspective, as the keywords are in the actual URL as well as on the page

Until you become "a Daft" or "a Technorati" or whatever getting traffic from search engines is how you build up your audience / traffic

 

[ziycon]

Ok, thanks for the feedback, i'll look into mod_rewrite!

 

[paul]

I would add a quick blurb about the site on this image

seeing as there is lots of unused retail space.

 

[gary.b]

Looks good so far: but can you make the background crosshatch thing a bit less contrasting? it's a bit hard on the eyes (my eyes. ) - and maybe make the gradient links in the main menu "Light up" a bit when you put your mouse over them.

Oh, and change " :: Advertisements" to ":: Links" or something - google already markets itself enough, and make the border colour on the ads same as the background colour.

 

[ziycon]

I would add a quick blurb about the site on this image

seeing as there is lots of unused retail space.

Already have something lined up for this area but it will bit a few weeks before its done!

but can you make the background crosshatch thing a bit less contrasting? it's a bit hard on the eyes (my eyes. ) - and maybe make the gradient links in the main menu "Light up" a bit when you put your mouse over them.

Ye, been told this before about the background, not sure what type of colour, thinking maybe #CCCCCC as the whole background!

 

[ziycon]

Is there any easier tutorials on mod_rewrite as im having a bit of difficultiy trying to get it to work!

 

[daviddoran]

Might as well post here.
The basic idea is:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^venue/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ /v/cl_desc.php?id=$1

This should make http://www.dublinnites.ie/venue/9 display like http://www.dublinnites.ie/v/cl_desc.php?id=9 currently does.

Using Rewrite you should also be able to change the backend to reference clubs by name, not ID so you would have URLs like http://www.dublinnites.ie/venue/barcode

 

[daviddoran]

By the way your pages are quite open to SQL injection because there is no input-checking on the ID, so you can make it spit out error messages or manipulate the query by going to a url such as /v/cl_desc.php?id=0+OR+ID>0

 

[ziycon]

By the way your pages are quite open to SQL injection because there is no input-checking on the ID, so you can make it spit out error messages or manipulate the query by going to a url such as /v/cl_desc.php?id=0+OR+ID>0

I got the links coming up as dublinnites.ie/clubs/1.php but the problem is that google maps says there is a api key error and that its not the right site that the key was registered for and also when a user votes on a venue the page cant link back to the previous page as it needs the var ?id=2 to redirect back!

 

[daviddoran]

I'm not sure about the Google Maps part, that is weird. (are you testing on local machine?)
As for the redirect you will need to rewrite that part in the code to redirect to your new format of URL.

 

[grandad]

Another wee observation - I notice you are relying totally on Javascript being enabled on the client's browser. If Javascript is disabled, navigation is impossible. Is this wise?

 

[RedCardinal]

I can just hear Red Cardinal now ...

What did I say

 

[ziycon]

Another wee observation - I notice you are relying totally on Javascript being enabled on the client's browser. If Javascript is disabled, navigation is impossible. Is this wise?

Will the links not still be available as plain text if javascript is disabled? I'll look into it if this is the case! Thanks for the tip!

 

[grandad]

Will the links not still be available as plain text if javascript is disabled? I'll look into it if this is the case! Thanks for the tip!

You are using the 'onClick' event for navigation -

<td onClick="parent.location='photos.php'"><b>Site Photos</b></td>

[I have removed some of your coding for clarity]

If you disable Javascipt, then onClick becomes redundant. So the button is displayed, the cursor changes but nothing happens when you click.

I have seen figures that estimate that up to 10% of users have Javascript disabled, so they would be mightily p*ssed off!

 

[ziycon]

So maybe if i take the onclick event out and just used a standard 'a href' tag within the <td> tags, but this will only make the text clickable, will an image map work to make the whole link clickable?