Review my website ZippyGame.com
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Review my website ZippyGame.com
Hey,
My website is http://www.zippygame.com.
I have now been working on my website for a few months, please take a look around and tell me what you think about it and where I can improve. I know there aren't alot of games but thats all I have left to do on my todo list!
Please leave any comments below.
Tom.
My website is http://www.zippygame.com.
I have now been working on my website for a few months, please take a look around and tell me what you think about it and where I can improve. I know there aren't alot of games but thats all I have left to do on my todo list!
Please leave any comments below.
Tom.
Re: Review my website ZippyGame.com
Your URL structure could be better designed. Try not to use id as a parameter since some search engines will ignore these URLs when indexing pages. A better idea would be to use "clean" URLs to go from this:
To this:
In addition, it's common to use htaccess to redirect visitors going to mysite.com to www.mysite.com. This will help with making sure your website uses only one form of the two and stops duplicates in search results (along with bad rankings for duplicate content). You'd want this in your .htaccess file:
The great thing about this is, your visitors will be redirected to the full URL, not just the domain.
Also, your layout's code is outdated. I suggest upgrading to XHTML and tableless layouts. While the website may look nice, the code looks freshly generated by Photoshop's web exporter. Other than those little suggestions, your website looks nice, it has a clean layout, and you're doing a great job.
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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]Also, your layout's code is outdated. I suggest upgrading to XHTML and tableless layouts. While the website may look nice, the code looks freshly generated by Photoshop's web exporter. Other than those little suggestions, your website looks nice, it has a clean layout, and you're doing a great job.
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Wow thanks alot you have been great help.
I have added the code to the htaccess file now it redirects them to the full url!
Just finished changing to search engine friendly URL's too and it all works great!
Any more reviews/ideas anyone??
I have added the code to the htaccess file now it redirects them to the full url!
Just finished changing to search engine friendly URL's too and it all works great!
Any more reviews/ideas anyone??
Re: Review my website ZippyGame.com
You should make a robots.txt, setup a dynamic Google sitemap, and add alt tags to your thumbnails and other graphics on your site. Also, your contact form goes to a misspelled file sendeail.php with no formatting for the page when there are missing fields. And there's also a missing space in "Thankyou" on your thank you page. Also, your form stores information such as the user agent, IP address, referral urls, and other information in hidden fields which should not be trusted. You should also add a CAPTCHA. It's fairly easy to use reCAPTCHA for this.
Re: Review my website ZippyGame.com
Hi, I have changed the contact form, I was meaning to do that anyway but I forgot
glad you reminded me 
Anyway when a form is entered wrond or not entered at all the error is on the same page and remembers what the user entered so they don't have to re-fill out the form. But the problem I am having is the recaptcha, I got it to work fine but it was a bit too big, bulky and ugly looking on the site, so I have made my own.
It works! do you know how I can add more than one verification number to be allowed?
I have made it so the user has to input the value I select, which works but now I want to be able to let the user to input more than one verification code.
Anyway heres what I got:
Is there a way of adding an 'or' in there so there is more than one code?
Tom.
Anyway when a form is entered wrond or not entered at all the error is on the same page and remembers what the user entered so they don't have to re-fill out the form. But the problem I am having is the recaptcha, I got it to work fine but it was a bit too big, bulky and ugly looking on the site, so I have made my own.
It works! do you know how I can add more than one verification number to be allowed?
I have made it so the user has to input the value I select, which works but now I want to be able to let the user to input more than one verification code.
Anyway heres what I got:
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if(trim($spamcheck) != '354729')
{
$error = 'The verification number you entered is wrong!';
}Tom.
Re: Review my website ZippyGame.com
reCAPTCHA allows customization so you can have just the verification or your own complete skin. What you want to do is use PHP to generate a random string of letters and numbers and store it in a session after generating an image to display to the visitor. Here's a tutorial on how to create a CAPTCHA.
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Re: Review my website ZippyGame.com
This misconception needs to die here today. This was probably true 5+ years ago, but since every crawler that I have come into contact with would read with query string without prejudice.Gabriel wrote:Your URL structure could be better designed. Try not to use id as a parameter since some search engines will ignore these URLs when indexing pages. A better idea would be to use "clean" URLs to go from this:
Although don't get me wrong. There are other benefits to using clean urls, this just isn't one of them.
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True, I should have given a better point other than the URLs looking nicer. I do recall Google mentioning in their sitemap protocol to not use URLs with ids.John Cartwright wrote:This misconception needs to die here today. This was probably true 5+ years ago, but since every crawler that I have come into contact with would read with query string without prejudice.
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Oh I see what you were saying, my bad. Basically just to clarify things, query strings are ok to use, just specifically avoid using the key "ID" in the querystring.
Good ol Google dropped the ball there.
Good ol Google dropped the ball there.