thewooleymammoth

i just found a bug as well. i uploaded a large image (3.5MB) and it thought it was a video

i noticed you start in 150 entries on some of them, they are only at like 5, you might want to decrease the amount of people needed. You should also simply base the prize on how many people joined. so if fifteen people joined at 2 bucks each and i win 10 bucks id probably be happy with that. the way it is now i am likely to forget it exists because there is no suspense. there is no deadline for me to check in on.

yourself or a mod might want to move this to the beta testing forum. as for a website with a php emphasis. In your browse section it would be nice to be able to sort by the catagories $qry = "SELECT * FROM `dinocharts` ORDERY BY `"mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['catagory'])"`;";

i see that you are new to the forum, and i want to impress upon you that these criticisms are not meant to be any kind of attack. At first you may think people are being rude and harsh. They aren't just straight to the point and very opinionated.

I dont think its too fake looking. I think that the logo/banner text could use a little work, (you could make that a contest) and look a little cheesy. but other than the banner and the flash, i dont think it too fake looking. again with the flash: you should consider that most people will move on to another website within 5 - 10 seconds if they dont see what they are looking for. They also hate scrolling. so having the flash load and take up all the room is probably killing you. I would atleast consider having it made about 25% of its height. or perhaps make it a vertical add and make the width a little smaller. so you can get some content up to the top thats imediatly visible. also consider that the most common screen size is only 768px tall. so between your nav, banner and flash, the main content is very hidden.

the flash and the paragraph. I wouldn't use it for advertising because its so big and the main focus on the page. but that's up to you. I just joined and i dont really like how specefic the catagories are. IMO i would create some larger catagories. Like "digital art", "music video", "stock photos (no photoshop)" etc. After signing up i realized i dont even have the oppertunity to enter any contents because they are too specific. i dont have any pictures of babys or pets and i dont have any suprise videos etc. The catagories should be things people can create or capture when they want to join a contest not just things hopefully i might have. (thats all my opinion, maybe thats not what your going for)

get bumper stickers made and send them to people who join for free. become active on a large multimedia forum and put your site in the signature. also reference things from your site on the forum when talking to other members. add a forum to your own site. Your main banner flash thing starts with calculating which caught me off guard and made me stare at that instead of looking at what your site was. many people may be put off by that. I would get rid of the flash. it takes to long to load and looks a little cheesy IMO(Not good for a media site.). I would go with a js based banner thing there if your looking for some pizazz. you could do just fine with static content though. I would also make it a little shorter so the lower content is visible in the screen without having to scroll down. The paragraph below the flash is a little too lengthy. people browsing arnt gonna stop and read that. You need to get your point across in as few lines as possible. Looking at it again, i might just get rid of that whole mid section. its distracting and the bits below it about how much money people are making is more attractive to me. also you should consider clean urls, nicer looking and more search engine friendly I think the site has potential though, i like the idea and the look. Maybe ill enter in some things... (Look the forum idea is working already (don't spam this forum)) as for the entry fee, you could have a varying range of fees (with varying rewards) I might try this out if the fee was 50 cents then move up to a more expensive one once i decide i like it. Or even a free one with something other than cash as a reward (like free entry to a more expensive competition or their art printed on a shirt). hope that helps Or (if nothing else) inspires some of your own ideas

you need to center the background image. it stays on the left while the content sits in the middle, looks screwed up on wider monitors

your nav links tags are just <a href=''></a> they should be <a href='' style='text-indent:-999px'>Home</a>

its based on a template for one. and secondly it looks like xmas. You should go with a primarily green banner i think

you have alot of css embedded in your page. also drop downs are possible with just css. I recommend that. also in your link you dont have the actual text. Put in the text to the link and use text-indent: -999px;

Awesome, I probably will, thanks.

... yea that could definitely work. don't know why i didn't think of that.

im pretty sure its a php issue. Try renaming the file you get with strtolower()

I know how to create a virtual host, however i have recently been getting alot of business and have to set this up way to often. I also need to enable clean urls so each site needs to have its own root. Does anyone know of a way to automate this? It would make my life much easier. Perhaps a freeware app that adds the info to your hosts file and to your apache http.conf file? I havnt been able to find anything on google If not do you have a different method you would care to share?

You could have a photo shop forum. I would say that relates pretty closely with a lot of things on here.

you would think with all the php i do i would have discovered that long ago.... Learn somethin new everyday. You might want to check out the w3schools tutorial on js loops. Here is a link for the for each equivalent in js http://pietschsoft.com/post/2008/02/28/JavaScript-ForEach-Equivalent.aspx havnt tested it though

<?php /*how to echo each returned row :: the rest is up to you to figure out */ $ar = mysql_query($query); while($info = mysql_fetch_assoc($ar)) { foreach($info as $key=>$i) { echo "$key - $i ::"; } echo "<br /> "; /*to echo a specific column*/ echo $info['id']; } ?> This should echo out each key and data for each row. mysql_fetch_assoc() returns the first row the first time you call it and the 2nd row the second time etc... my code has not been tested Php only works before the page loads. you could use php to populate the javascript array <?php /*how to echo each returned row :: the rest is up to you to figure out */ $ar = mysql_query($query); $row=1; while($info = mysql_fetch_assoc($ar)) { echo "<script type='text/javascript> var ar$row = new array(); "; foreach($info as $key=>$i) { echo "ar.$key = $i "; } $row++; } ?> my js is a little rusty so you might have to correct mistakes but you get the picture. Have fun exploring.

...ok... i don't know why you asked for a review then.

what were saying is... and also you have html errors http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.browse-tutorials.net%2F I also you think you should put the login/register menu at the bottom.

i think it needs to be a bit brighter.

http://spoon.net/browsers/ found this the other day. VERY COOL

i really like it actually, simple to the point. Got some accessiblity help for disabled, well organized. Nice Improvements. I approve couple css errors http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css21&warning=0&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tunbridgewellsdisabilitysports.co.uk%2F

if you are using firefox hold down shift while pressing refresh and it will reload the images, you can see what its like for people coming on the first time.

No one reads stickies these days? Brilliant!