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One of my mates has just made a website and asked me to see if there's anything wrong with it, or if i've got any suggestions for it, and i cant really think of much so i thought id give neowin a shot, it might also help advertise him a little!

http://www.metalwasp.com/

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Your friend has talent, that's for sure!

I like the website, a lot. It fits very well on my wide screen monitor, a huge plus. His transition between pages is also really cool. I also enjoyed his Winter video, it was well done :yes:

I would just change the "About" page, it doesn't look too appealing.

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Works fine for me in Firefox and Chrome on Mac. The only thing I would change is add a little spacing between the menu sections. It almost looks like a run-on word.

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Your friend has talent, that's for sure!

No kidding, the site looks awesome!

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he made it all by himself, as well as all the work in the portfolio too, so its good to see other people finally saying good things about it!

he's loving the feedback so far, thanks a lot guys!

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Only comment i could add would be;

The homepage felt like an intro video and i was just try to skip it...took me a while to realise there were links a the top (spacing - The nav just looked like a tagline of the video until i spent my precious time :whistle: to read it (its crazy how much you dont actually read but just 'recognise')).

Maybe a skip button while the video is playing? I would also put some content on the home page aswell, apart from the video (an introduction? new works or something? The videos great but i wouldnt call that a homepage...does that make sense?

But its a really excellent design, and fits the aim of the sit really well! The works are great aswell! Im sure he wont find it hard to get work once potential employers see this!

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My Recommendation would be to rethink whether or not having a video on the main, first loading page is a good idea.

Maybe some flash or nice graphics and then a link to the video?

I browse all websites with the sound turned off and only turn it on if I actively want to listen to a video

The paragraph in the "About Us" section has some grammatical errors and could use some refinement

Such as the first sentence, there should be a comma between "original" and "non-generic" and then later on a comma between "gritty" and "to the point"

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this is all very helpful guys!

thanks for pointing out the grammatical errors!

and now youve got him looking into a new home page.

what do you guys think about having the video as an intro, with the option to skip, with it then taking you to a homepage featuring a live twitter feed, with posts from his twitter account, aswell as any mentions (tweets with #metalwaspmedia in it)

aswell as some sort of news section explaining the status of his current project and anything related to MwM.

can you guys think of anything else that would be useful to have on the home page?

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Very nice indeed but I would rethink the landing page!

Also got this Using Firefox: on a Samsung 22" screen

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Very nice indeed but I would rethink the landing page!

Also got this Using Firefox: on a Samsung 22" screen

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he's changed a bit of the code and says this should be fixed now, could you check again to see if the bug is still there?

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he's changed a bit of the code and says this should be fixed now, could you check again to see if the bug is still there?

No problem!

It still says; artist nam

email addres

and the.. cancel/send is still screwed up!

Cheers

It seems to be OK in IE8 so perhaps my FF's cache needs to be cleared I am not sure!

Just cleared the cache and it's still doing it, sorry!

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No problem!

It still says; artist nam

email addres

and the.. cancel/send is still screwed up!

Cheers

thanks a lot for that mate!

does anyone have any idea on how to fix this problem then?

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I would have to suggest not auto-playing any video. I don't happen to care for complete flash sites myself, so that's about all I can really comment on without suggesting not using flash outside of video.

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@Farstrider

he thinks he's fixed it now if you could do us a favour and see if you can still get the text to be all messed up!

any other suggestions for replacing the video on the home page?

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Sorry old son, it's still the same! This is why I do not try to hard to make websites! These sort of things drive me nuts! :)

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Well i hated being assaulted by metal crap as soon as the page loaded, and as a general rule i hate flash on page load, so i closed it straight away

sorry, make the music an option, and not rammed down your throat full volume the minute it loads...

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Well i hated being assaulted by metal crap as soon as the page loaded, and as a general rule i hate flash on page load, so i closed it straight away

sorry, make the music an option, and not rammed down your throat full volume the minute it loads...

As much as I agree with what was just stated, flash is appropriate here. Why not play it muted (as a default) with an option to volume it up? People can "see" what type of site it is without the obtrusive sound.

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Looks pretty good, the background images are very nice. however...

- I dislike websites made entirely in flash

- There's no warning message for those with no javascript (e.g. running noscript) that the site will not be functioning

- HTML issues (probably flash's fault): No DTD; No opening <html> tag; No closing </body> tag; obsolete pre-css styling attributes; and an instance of '<script language="JavaScript">' that should be '<script language="text/javascript">'.

I'm also unsure about the image surrounding the box, I like the effect, however the red bits on the inner part of the image (not the outline) just don't work somehow, whereas the black bits on the grey look perfect

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Nice site, bookmarked to check the vids out tomorrrow only thing i didnt like was the "About" page, thought the camera image was a little too big and the text used to tell you about them just seemed out of place a little. Other than that i liked it =)

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I would change the font and the overall layout of the About us section. It feels weird with the rest of the site.

Also, as other said here, maybe he can rethink the intro video. Some people would not like it to auto-play when they land on the site.

Otherwise, the site is cool.

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Sorry old son, it's still the same! This is why I do not try to hard to make websites! These sort of things drive me nuts! :)

aw mannnn :(

thanks for your help though!

thanks for all the feedback guys!

he's come to an agreement that the homepage and video both need changing, once he figures out what's going on with it, itll hopefully be more enjoyable for everyone, rather than like you said, having it shoved down your throat!

be sure to check back to the site later on the leave more feedback in here, as a lot of the changes are based on your feedback, since he doesnt have much other feedback on it!

Nice site, bookmarked to check the vids out tomorrrow only thing i didnt like was the "About" page, thought the camera image was a little too big and the text used to tell you about them just seemed out of place a little. Other than that i liked it =)

he's got another site, full of stupid video he's made in his spare time, be sure to check them out too since theyre quite funny!

http://www.sanchballs.com/

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you don't see **** without flash.

yeh he's looking into a building a mobile / ipad / nonflash version.

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