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Nice, but it seems a bit overboard on slow-mo effects.

Traxie21 wrote:Nice, but it seems a bit overboard on slow-mo effects.

well, glad you like it :D I will add more and make the website better. For now I will just leave it the way it is.

You really shouldn't use all that gratuitous Javascript. Animations might look nice, but nobody really cares about them and someone visiting a website that's so over-bloated is likely to click away very quickly. Not to mention, some people, though it's not a very large number, choose to not use Javascript (for example, I have Javascript disabled much of the time so pages load faster and to avoid nonfree Javascript code), and it's kind of absurd to force these people to enable Javascript just to see text and images. YouTube is an example of a website that is barely functional without Javascript, but it's still possible to read comments and the first couple lines of video descriptions, and YouTube is a site that actually needs its Javascript (in theory, anyway; I use UnPlug and ViewTube, so I only need Javascript enabled because of a bug in Firefox).

In short: cut down the Javascript use. Use plain HTML or PHP wherever appropriate (e.g. text, images) and make any Javascript effects optional, lightweight, and quick (though preferably, you shouldn't have animations at all in most cases, I think). Also, if there is some feature that absolutely needs Javascript, it's a good idea to have it show some text about Javascript being disabled as a backup.

starblessed wrote:Hey bro, are you thinking of hosting your vids? Or just embedding them?

I will upload my own videos also but that will be in the future.

starblessed wrote:

Luke123 wrote:I will upload my own videos also but that will be in the future.

Ahhh... No, I mean your site, will you be hosting the video's on your server, or embedding them within your page from Youtube.

Im not sure, what would you prefer?

If you want to host your own videos, one thing you could do is set up a MediaGoblin instance, though it's still in an alpha stage at the moment.

while Mediagoblin is nice, it lacks features I wanted, like integration into other systems. Openfire/MediaWiki etc.

That was more directed at Luke123. In any case, maybe you should put a request for those features in the bug tracker. Hard to say whether they'll be implemented, but they might never even think about it if nobody asks.

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<noscript> is your friend.

cheapie wrote:<noscript> is your friend.

LibreJS is even better... is what I would say if it weren't for a problem it has with splitting up lines in forum posts. NoScript would be great if it weren't for the fact that I rarely need Javascript, and the Firefox bug that causes video controls to not appear when Javascript is disabled also occurs with NoScript. :)

In any case, none of these help much with a site that refuses to show anything without using Javascript first.

onpon4 wrote:If you want to host your own videos, one thing you could do is set up a MediaGoblin instance, though it's still in an alpha stage at the moment.

Are you implying Luke123 would want to run a computer at home 24/7 and congest their upload bandwidth at the same time?

Calinou wrote:

onpon4 wrote:If you want to host your own videos, one thing you could do is set up a MediaGoblin instance, though it's still in an alpha stage at the moment.

Are you implying Luke123 would want to run a computer at home 24/7 and congest their upload bandwidth at the same time?

Unless you have proper equipment and a proper connection for hosting websites 24/7, I don't think you have much business self-hosting a website in the first place. I assume from your comment that MediaGoblin uploads a lot of data to some place compared to just using the HTML video tag or something (since your comment otherwise makes no sense), but I didn't ever suggest ignoring such factors.

Can you add my channel.I will make some new vid's when I finished tweaking my netbook.
https://www.youtube.com/user/MrFantasyn?feature=mhee

xavier108 wrote:Can you add my channel.I will make some new vid's when I finished tweaking my netbook.
https://www.youtube.com/user/MrFantasyn?feature=mhee

Sure :-)

I can forgive the layout and colors, maybe even misuse of javascript, but i cant forgive the code. ITS HORRIBLE! Go fix it! Or get better template, posibly free one!

nomohakon wrote:I can forgive the layout and colors, maybe even misuse of javascript, but i cant forgive the code. ITS HORRIBLE! Go fix it! Or get better template, posibly free one!

Well I didn't really make this website for fun, Mainly for posting my videos. Too bad you don't like it.

Luke123 wrote:

nomohakon wrote:I can forgive the layout and colors, maybe even misuse of javascript, but i cant forgive the code. ITS HORRIBLE! Go fix it! Or get better template, posibly free one!

Well I didn't really make this website for fun, Mainly for posting my videos. Too bad you don't like it.

Don't USE a template. Write some clean and simple codefrom scratch. Make it XHTML compliant. Give it a nice Google Web Fond relax as it becomes readable.

If it isn't made for fun, you should definitely cut the unnecessary, show-offy effects... just make it a simple web page, plain HTML with maybe some PHP.

rarkenin wrote:Don't USE a template. Write some clean and simple codefrom scratch. Make it XHTML compliant. Give it a nice Google Web Fond relax as it becomes readable.

Not everyone knows enough JavaScript/XHTML (it's 2013, just use normal HTML 5) to do that. As long as the site looks nice (this isn't the case here, too many weird colors and animations), it's fine to have "bad" code (you can't even modify it anyway).

onpon4 wrote:If it isn't made for fun, you should definitely cut the unnecessary, show-offy effects... just make it a simple web page, plain HTML with maybe some PHP.

Well, it kind of is :-D