Neoshopdesigns... looking for feedback

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capaone
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[quote=Dmitri]No one here has the guts to post anything but "omg that's great" so i'll be the first to provide some criticism. [b]**** WARNING ******[/b] Not for the light-minded. Viewer discretion is strongly advised. [b]Layout:[/b] The old layout was horrible. It was green and it's not a good day to be green. Plus the colors clashed so horribly... well yeah. New layout is much better. It's sleek, attractive and should appeal to both genders. Your front page needs work in terms of keywords. You want to attract people via search engines so you have to get the right keywords on the front page. But dont keyword spam since that will get you banned from search engines. A quick description on what your site has to offer is good, not a thank you letter. You also need a solid navigation menu if you plan to add more types of graphics since stuffing it all in the top menu bar is going to make it look ugly; especially for those who do not have widescreen monitors. You must add the neopets copyright used with permission junk (see bottom of this website) [b]Bandwidth[/b] A DNS lookup shows that you're on a free/crap host. Their premium/paid package is a big rip off too and hardly any different from the free package. This site for example uses [b]700 GB[/b] of bandwidth per month and the graphics portion JUST started 3 months ago. Your host only provides [b]10 GB[/b] a month. Try looking into lunarpages or dreamhost(if you dont plan to use mysql databases cause their SQL DB server is slow as hell) You would have to pay around $10 a month unless you plan to host all the graphics on an external service like imageevent. Then you can get away with 24.95 a year. P.S. imageshack and photobucket's free accounts are no good. Tinypic provides unlimited bandiwdth for the time being but it's owned by photobucket.com And if they go out of business or change their name/domain URL, ALL your graphics will unlink. (In my case, since everything is routed via the neomallers.com domain name, even if my host dies, i can continue to provide the service simply by pointing the domain to a different host) TheURL of my graphics remain neomallers.com/ no matter what. [b]Credit Links[/b] Try including the credit with the graphics. Most people wont bother going to the credit page to get the code for the buttons. They're lazy (but not lazy when it comes to removing credits) . Trust me. I know all about it.[/quote] THANK YOU this is what i wanted... i really dont want people just to say "o thats great" i really want people to tell me how they really feel and what i can do to make it better! i taught myself basic html a few years ago and really im just trying to remember it all so yeah it will take me a while to get it completed but i know i can do it. I looked and looked for a image host and couldnt find a good one, i also tried hosting them straight from the site but couldn't get it to work, so im going to look into that imageevent!
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It didnt affect ALL the images on imageshack, just some. I heard that some of them have already been fixed though.
[hr][size=11]Training, Luck & Medicine! ^_^ www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=_jaspeh_&misc#c [/size]
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i should still have better hosting for my pictures.... i bought the imageevent and am now uploading and changing the codes on the site
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You can also try lunarpages.com It's a web host that offers pretty good stuff for 4.95 a month. I used to host there for abit until my CPU usage started spiking so i left. Dreamhost is great for your site (they dont care about BW) but they're expensive. (costs $10 a month) However, I think i have a neomallers.com $50 discount lying around somewhere so if you choose to go that route, give me a shout and I'll look for that promo code.
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so you're not a 'sec'something person 0:-) good good. i will just stop typing and start lurking from now on. bwahaha. someone commented on my shop not being readable and i guessed the wrong culprit. :( but just to be safe if i change back to your graphics i will upload them to my photobucket. My Shop- http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=luckyrobomaverick My Trades- http://www.neopets.com/island/tradingpost.phtml?type=browse&criteria=owner&search_string=luckyrobomaverick
My Shop- http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=luckyrobomaverick My Trades- http://www.neopets.com/island/tradingpost.phtml?type=browse&criteria=owner&search_string=luckyrobomaverick
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i am in the process of uploading and recoding everything to imageevent which is safe so there will be no worries soon!

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