Please check screen layout

[andy75180]

Hi ya,

 

In progress of designing my online chess site at moment.

 

http://www.che55.com/

 

Would people like to view it and comment on any display or layout problems? Can the text be easily read against the wood style background?

 

Any comments would be welcome.

 

Thankyou

[john010117]

The layout is great. I can easily read the text in FireFox. But the registration doesn't seem to be working. Error:

Duplicate entry '6' for key 1

[redbullmarky]

it doesnt look too bad. readability is ok and whilst it looks quite "busy", seems easy enough to get around.

 

i completely suck at chess, but in game #07125 (the current one), shouldnt F6 --> H5 solve the problem?

 

also, on FF2, I get javascript errors by clicking on the board/pieces.

[andy75180]

Yes, I know. I haven't got that chess puzzle part working yet. I hope to have a new puzzle appear everyday in that section.

 

You can register and start playing if you like, but it isn't finished yet. Got lots of stuff to do on it yet, but the chess playing part works. The registration part should be working correct now. I had a duplicate entry I forgot to delete from earlier on.

 

You say the screen is 'busy'. Do you think I should reduce some of the content?

 

 

 

 

[redbullmarky]

so was my answer right then? hehe

 

You say the screen is 'busy'. Do you think I should reduce some of the content?

 

no not really. often i find that busier sites just get a bit overwhelming and tricky to find what you want, but in this case i didnt - so if anything, that's a job done well.

[agentsteal]

Cross Site Scripting:

http://www.fustrate.com/cgi-sys/scgiwrap/<marquee><h1>vulnerable</marquee>

 

Full Path Disclosure:

http://www.fustrate.com/cgi-sys/scgiwrap/

 

User Enumeration:

http://www.che55.com/~root

[andy75180]

You should block this page:

http://www.fustrate.com/cgi-sys/scgiwrap

 

It has both path disclosure and Cross Site Scripting.

 

Fustrate.com ??? I've got no idea what your talking about?

[Voldemort]

Speaking of fustrate, I still have no idea how to fix that. .htaccess won't redirect it...

[andy75180]

That's interesting. What does this cgi-sys/scgiwrap mean? I can't find it on my files on cpanel to block. How will I be able to stop other people reading this file?

 

Anymore files that people can read that I don't know about?

[black.horizons]

yeah...just checked out your site...would i be right in thinking you designed it with the 1024 * 768 resolution in mind? Im running it on a 1280 * 800 size monitor...and everythings off to the left...anyways if you make a new div called "container" and have it start just before your first piece of content (ie not a script) and end just before the </body> tag...then align it to the centre of the screen using:

 

#container {

width: 95%;

min-width: 600px;

max-width: 1200px;

margin: 15px auto;

text-align: left;

background: #FFFFFF;

}

 

or something similar...you may have to adjust the rest of the CSS - didnt look at what you have...but if its positioned absolutely you might run into trouble.

 

nothing seems out of place...just off to the left - unless you want it like that!!!

[andy75180]

Just changed my site so it *should* now auto centre, left and right. Can someone please check it on a 1280*800 size screen? The max mine goes to is 1024*768, so I can't see if i've done it correctly.

 

Thankyou

 

[redbullmarky]

it's left aligned here on 1280x800. i do believe it's because, whilst you've set "min-width", you need to set the actual width for margin:0 auto to work correctly

 

edit yep, using firebug to change min-width to just width:980px, the site centers itself.

 

<div id="background_main" style="margin: 0px auto; position: relative; width: 980px; min-height: 650px;">

[andy75180]

Ok, just replaced my code for the code you put in last post.

 

Is it auto centering now?

[redbullmarky]

yep. though when i switched it to 1024x768, it does kinda overhand the screen on the right hand side a bit so some parts aren't "central". maybe it'd be worth taking 50+ or so pixels off the width altogether. 1024x768 is probably the most common, afterall.

[andy75180]

I've just change width to 1000px and seems to of done the trick. Well, on my monitor anyway it has. It's probably messed up somehow on someone elses screen.

[andy75180]

Got the daily chess problem working on home page now. It should automatically change to a new one everyday using a cron job.

 

Have a try at today's if you like.