REVIEW REQUEST: http://www.Yao-Ming.tv and http://www.TimmyChang.net

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These two sites are somewhat similiar in design and concept. The content is heavily dependent on multimedia files, pictures, etc. Please let me know what you think and if the presentation of the media is presented in an appropriate manner. Thanks.

www.Yao-Ming.tv

www.TimmyChang.net

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I opened the Yao-Ming site and started to read the disclaimer then the page changed to a frame site.
The frame site has a big horz scroll bar at 800x600 (right frame) and little vert and horz scroll on left frame. and if you don't scroll right on main frame you wont know there is an iframe at the top and could miss the bottom content.
The red font on the red background is very hard to red, ok now the background colour has changed, whenever you use a background image in table (or in the body/frame) ALWAYS use a bgcolor as well, something similar to that of the background so people can red the content while/if the background loads.

The TimmyChang.net site is very long, maybe put the few items you have on the very right some place else which would make the page shorter.
This site I also have a slight horz scroll bar in the right frame at 800x600.
When you use images, NEVER resize them with width and height tags, thise images are around 30kb each and take forever to load, use a graphics program (Irfanview is an excellent free graphics program, which can actually make thumbnails for you) Ok I was wrong, some are actual thumnails, but some aren't

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You've got a decent start on these. with the Yao-Ming site, the best part is the logo. You should try to leave a little more space underneath it so it stands out more. I would also lose the black backgrounds and keep a white background in the middle area.

There is a lot of content on both of these pages. Resist the urge to plug anything and everything into your front page. Instead, make careful selections and format the content to flow with the rest of the site. The two sections towards the bottom of the Yao Ming page (white background and black background) seem particularly out of place. The Timmy Chang page isn't quite as disjointed but it's got a similar amount of information there that people probably aren't going to scroll down to.

On the Chang page, most of those links seem to be going to another site. It really breaks the flow of the site. I would try to include that content on your own site as much as possible. There are a lot of scripts that you can find on the 'net to help you out with photo galleries etc. without having to use a remotely hosted solution.

They have: 21 posts

Joined: Oct 2003

Yeah, nice start on the Yao-Ming, I would tone-down the colours a little bit. It would hurt your eyes after a while

They have: 80 posts

Joined: Feb 2003

its very nice , but when i hover over ur links by the video i get a load of underlines which is not very pleasant. it goes the same with the links for the other websites , the red on green is very hard to read, overall i think its a gr8 site .

cheerz

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Too many frames!

First site is too red and the other is too dark(black) :S

Speaking for both sites:
I think you are off to a good start but still needs a bit of work.
You are trying to cram in too much information onto a page and the viewer just gets information overload, try splitting it up over several pages.

For the Timmy Chang site:
Why not have the season stats in text rather than in a formfield?

For both sites, you have a lot of CSS and JS which I'm sure does not get repeated so why not have them in external files?

Both sites take an incredibly long time to load.

They have: 6 posts

Joined: Oct 2003

thanks for all your educated suggestions/critiques. i do agree that the pages load too slow because of bad content management. I'm hoping everybody will move to broadband soon Smiling

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Quote: Originally posted by anthoang
I'm hoping everybody will move to broadband soon Smiling

haha, not too likely in the near future. Although broadband is getting more and more popular these days, the chances that everyone having it are very slim.

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Joined: Mar 2003

I like the look of this site though it does need some fine tuning.

On the splash page I'd lose the border around the pic, or alteast make it black.

One thing I recomend is to make it clear that the links on the page are videos, also put the file size of the videos in the link so 56K users know what they are in for.

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Joined: Oct 2003

Win XP, IE 6.0, 1024x768, 24-bit colour, 56k-modem.

- Site takes ages to load.

- Frames never look good, especially when they scroll. Use tables of CSS if you can.

- If you are going to have that disclaimer on the first page, don't auto-redirect them to the main site. Let people read the disclaimer first, and give them the option to go to the main site.

- You're using too many different colours on there. As a rule, you should use MAX 4 colours.

- The blue link at the bottom is unreadable and hard on the eyes on that red background.

- Scrap the counter.

Just my opinion!

- Will

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Joined: Jun 2004

I cant read the font

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