FYI, the major component is the images, rather than the texts. Whilst I find FireFox more memory efficient than IE, strange about a "crash", especially on sites without movies / streaming.
Though this subject of a crash might be better in the "tech" forum face mentioned in another thread
george galloway dot com
sorry i meant a link - www.medialens.org , the only link at the moment is to spirednews.com, although i'd have done the same as you if i wanted to promote my siteMandy wrote:It is credited .. right under the title, and before the date, e.g. "MEDIALENS - Fri, 25 May 2007"luke wrote: just one little thing, when you use the media lens articles, you should really give credit to media lens
p.s. SpideredNews is multi-layered (i.e. categorised), and you can even create your own custom summary news page.
thats cool that spirednews allows you to create your own custom page, i'm gonna have a play later
anyway good work on both sites, like i said content wise there good, lots of interesting storys, and i like the way the bigger pic comes up when you move your mouse over the story, i just think it needs to be split up a bit and slimmed down a touch
For what it's worth, here's my constructive (instead of destructive) criticism:
The first page that greets visitors is absolutely huge. The impact is immediatly impersonal. I'd keep the index page (or home page, whatever people want to call it) minimal. A brief introduction in the form of a paragraph from GG, maybe, and allow access to the bulk of all the other information via the link menu on the left.
I'm sure most people would be very happy for the site to contain the amount of regularly updated information it does, and have a lot of resources for them to browse, but not all on the index page!
I've done web design here and there in the past, and in my opinion an index page for something like this ideally shouldn't even generate a vertical scrollbar.
As it stands, there's a link on the left designated "News", which is where all the news should be, but if you click on that link, the last update was January this year, because once you took over as acting webmaster, you set up a feed whereby what should be in the news section just started piling up on the home page instead, making it, well... too long.
Also, how about a seperate link for his TalkSport shows on the main page, just to make it reeeeally easy for people to get to them? At the moment they have to click on "Video / Audio" and then follow the link for the show archive, which isn't particularly prominently placed, and then be directed to another site altogether. That might seem blindingly obvious to us, but not everyone on the net is that savvy and I bet there are hundreds of people who listen to his show who would struggle to find the download.
EDIT - I just noticed there is a TalkSport link on the main page, but further down and not along with the navigation links, as was my suggestion.
The first page that greets visitors is absolutely huge. The impact is immediatly impersonal. I'd keep the index page (or home page, whatever people want to call it) minimal. A brief introduction in the form of a paragraph from GG, maybe, and allow access to the bulk of all the other information via the link menu on the left.
I'm sure most people would be very happy for the site to contain the amount of regularly updated information it does, and have a lot of resources for them to browse, but not all on the index page!
I've done web design here and there in the past, and in my opinion an index page for something like this ideally shouldn't even generate a vertical scrollbar.
As it stands, there's a link on the left designated "News", which is where all the news should be, but if you click on that link, the last update was January this year, because once you took over as acting webmaster, you set up a feed whereby what should be in the news section just started piling up on the home page instead, making it, well... too long.
Also, how about a seperate link for his TalkSport shows on the main page, just to make it reeeeally easy for people to get to them? At the moment they have to click on "Video / Audio" and then follow the link for the show archive, which isn't particularly prominently placed, and then be directed to another site altogether. That might seem blindingly obvious to us, but not everyone on the net is that savvy and I bet there are hundreds of people who listen to his show who would struggle to find the download.
EDIT - I just noticed there is a TalkSport link on the main page, but further down and not along with the navigation links, as was my suggestion.
Actually, there had been many changes since above thread, e.g. :
+Only 5 news stories from SN are on GG.COM
+Talksport logo is at the top right to allow quick link to the download page.
I did wonder whether the caller was "objective", e.g. he said something like half the stories on SpideredNews don't open. If he has an issue with SpideredNews, why doesn't he e-mail SpideredNews ? It isn't GG's site, so why is he e-mailing GG about SpideredNews ?
It is like complaining to GG that they don't like the 'Daily Record' web site.
I think same emailer offered his web design services last week (he claimed to bring it up to the 21st century). So he could be touting for business. George correctly said last week & today that he should e-mail in since we could always use extra help. But as far as I know, he didn't e-mail in.
+Only 5 news stories from SN are on GG.COM
+Talksport logo is at the top right to allow quick link to the download page.
I did wonder whether the caller was "objective", e.g. he said something like half the stories on SpideredNews don't open. If he has an issue with SpideredNews, why doesn't he e-mail SpideredNews ? It isn't GG's site, so why is he e-mailing GG about SpideredNews ?
It is like complaining to GG that they don't like the 'Daily Record' web site.
I think same emailer offered his web design services last week (he claimed to bring it up to the 21st century). So he could be touting for business. George correctly said last week & today that he should e-mail in since we could always use extra help. But as far as I know, he didn't e-mail in.
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No.Mandy wrote:Popinjay : Are you the Pete who e-mailed in today complaining about the length of the page ? (or last week)
Yes.Mandy wrote:Are you on broadband ?
The pages open fine for me, my problem with them (like everybody else's) is the vast length and amount of stuff you cram onto them.Mandy wrote:Are you able to justify the claim that half the pages don't open ? Which pages don't open ?