Opinion on site wanted.

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tytanic11
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Opinion on site wanted.

Post by tytanic11 »

A developer I met on these forums and I have been working on this site in the past few days - and now it's to a level where it's usuable, and decent looking. I'm interested in everyone's opinion on it, functionality wise - we're still working out small cosmetic issues. The site is http://linknumber.net

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Post by Roja »

Not bad!

The design is simple, and straightforward. The colors aren't the worst possible either. The xhtml is valid, and the layout is obvious.

There are a few css validation errors, but they look simple to fix:

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/vali ... umber.net/

The redirect that you use to send people to the link image uses a HTTP 302 response. Arguably, I think the standard would prefer a 303, but a 302 isn't "wrong", since many http-1.0 clients don't understand 303. (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html - scroll down to 303).

I would change the wording when you add a new link from ("Data entered successfully. Your number is XX.") to ("Link entered successfully. Your link number is XX.")

I'd offer a GET link to users as well - having to type in a link number on a form isn't ideal.. I'd want to be able to do like.. http://linknumber.net/?page=25 or some such.

The error codes it returns are a little unclear. If the linknumber doesn't exist, it doesn't tell you - it just returns a blank page. Worse, if it is defined, but isn't working right, you get a standard apache error message. Those could be improved on.

It even does well in the colorblind web page test.

All in all, very solid. Well done.
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Post by Skara »

Heh, I didn't put the first error and the second I thought was a valid comment style. ^^;

"Data entered successfully." is from an older version...

"http://linknumber.net/?page=25" http://linknumber.net/25 would be even better, as Tyler suggested.

"If the linknumber doesn't exist, it doesn't tell you - it just returns a blank page." It should have, though!! :P Stupid coding error.
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Post by josh »

It wasn't obvious at first glance that there was links on your header

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Post by phpdevuk »

if your site is on apache you could easily use mod rewrite to create the link http://linknumber.net/25

I use the code below in a .htacess file in a similar fashion on one my sites to allow users to browse via http://mysite.net/country/[country_code]

so that http://mysite.net/country/GBR takes you through to the UK page.

it maps it through to http://mysite.net/country-profiles.php?countryCode=GBR

would work well for linknumber I think.

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RewriteEngine On 

RewriteRule ^country/([A-Z]{3})/profiles$ country-profiles.php?countryCode=$1 [L]
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