Just minor loading time issues, but its well worth the wait for the content and I am too busy in other windows doing stuff. This is uh... really weird 0__0 let 'em call it what they want but I would name it something different.
I've noticed the loading times are getting longer - but thats probably due to the increase in content. There's also a wait period because if you scroll around too quickly while everything's loading the entire page gets all blurred up and you would have to refresh and actually wait for everything to load
I really like the switch from the orange to grey, make the site look more cleaner and sleeker. However, I think there are too much content displaying, making the site clutter and site's load time slow. I think you should move the random post section around the bottom, make the rss section horizontal, and enable hide/unhide on comrades and maybe even on the comments section. Anyway the site's good now, but will be excellent with just a few tweaks ;>
I just have one complaint. I think the site is not large enough for all the content. The posts are all squeezed in between the ads and links. Do people still use 800x600 anyway?
Navigation and the ability to find what I'm looking for is no problem for me. Compared to other sites, you present information navigation in ways that I things should be seen more often. I like how you use pictures and texts for your post under category heading and on the top page. Very few people process information by text or pictures alone. Sure it can result in longer loading times, but I still think it a good trade off in ease of navigation. My connection is 384kbps -pretty slow- and I don't think your site loads any slower than other sites. Actually it loads at a very nice speed for me. Probably if I look for something that gets to me, it would be your site feels top heavy. I know you are trying to keep visitors from having to scroll too many pages to find the information they want. I use Firefox 2 and usually click the old finder button to hide most of the navigation toolbars when I view your site. My 20" iMac is set at the default 1680x1050, but still scroll four pages to get to the bottom of all the headings. I don't think you have too many headings, just too bunched up towards the top of the site. I'm sure the site will feel different when you rework the banner. I've got one nasty headache tonight, so I hope all this makes sense and something can be of help. What the #ell do I know! ^_- I can't decide how to lay out my future site. T_T
Oh, oh... I just refreshed the cashe. Things do look a little better with the new banner. I think I like the green better than the orange. Although, I'm not sure if green -replacing all the orange- would look better. What about a different tint or hue of orange? I guess it's me and orange... ^^; Danny, I like your site very much. It's the best of it's kind on the internet.
It's been so long that I've quite well forgotten how I stumbled onto your site. Can't imagine what my day would be without it now (probably very boring). I do like the modifications, though. The color scheme IMO is much better, more subtle. As for the post, very weird stuff. Sort of reminds me of the Gundam condoms you posted about once upon a time.
Did you photoshop that x-wing(starwars) there or is it really in the ad? I hope it's real so I can show friends
Haha! George Lucus is going to sue somebody, haha.
it's take longer to load now for me.. and if i scroll the screen before it finish loading, everything gets messed up... O__o
Man, getting approval from George Lucas would have been hard. Spoof songs like "The Saga Begins" by Weird Al' is easy, but RABBIT FUR? Gah.
Nice site revamp there Danny :) Seems cleaner now
Hahah! Brilliant! Please show more Japanese oddities like this. I nearly fell off the chair with the Gundam Condoms...
Woo interesting marketing plans... Woo Just love the white!!! nice revamp!
About the person who collects napkins, could be worst... thankfully he collects unused ones only. lol. real funny on the whisper with xwings! ^^ speaking of cross branding products, have you seen the Pocky Gundams Danny? http://pocky.jp/campaign/gundam/index.html
This just shows how weird ppl are & there are a lot more out there! Haha! Love what you did to your site, Danny. Keep it up!
haha! Two-wings promotion? Well, those two have similar two wings.
thanks god you got rid of those flash movies. now readers can actually focus on the content, instead of getting distracted by flash header. try to optimize the page load time by getting rid of useless stuff :D
and PLEASE, PLEASE ..get rid of this white background !!!! its driving me crazy. I dont know about you ppl, but i have hard time reading text on white background. and thats why i have to use custom css with gray background, in opera, for pages with white backgrounds. sure, the pages look ugly, but atleast i can read the text without getting a headache :D
Everyones a critic, but clearly not everyone has seen the link at the top of the page that allows you to switch between the flash header menu and the non-flash one. Its been there for quite a while, maybe it was too hard to spot with it not being on a grey background. Keep up the good work and ignore the "naysayers".
Speaking of problems/complaints from your poll... i have nothing to complain about, but sometimes i can't comment your page?! please answer my question thanks
Kevin, Could be to do with cookies or Javascript settings. Jon, You said it - that person keeps coming out with stuff like that - wonder why they bother coming back. himanshu, SIR YES SIR! Not. Marvin, yes - seen them before but they kinda look odd. seth.frostheart, KL, That usually happens with IE... K Chao, Yep - sorry! Edward, Thanks for feedback. You can hide the comments with the "hide comments permanently" link. としあき, Will consider changing the width - I changed it a bit to 866 recently ^^; Jason, Am considering some of your suggestions for a while - thanks ^^
You had me fooled there for a minute, I thought there was going to be some new cool Star Wars product . . . .
"naysayers"... i am sorry if i sounded that way. as far as turning off the flash header is concerned, i really didnt knew that it could be done...honestly ;) lol...and its got nothing do with white/gray or orange backgrounds :) "You said it - that person keeps coming out with stuff like that - wonder why they bother coming back." thx danny...nice way to treat your fan :D it seems that i sounded rude in my previous comment. "sure, the pages look ugly, but atleast i can read the text without getting a headache :D" he he ...my english is really BAD. what i meant to say was that pages look ugly when i USE the "User Mode" in opera to change the background to gray and remove all the formatting, so that i can read the text properly. I know a lot of people with eye problems, who use Opera's "User Mode" to remove all formatting from pages, because its easier on the eyes, especially when using a bright LCD. I never intended to say to that your site looks ugly. Your default pages look absolutely GORGEOUS! they are just pure eye candy :D but all i can say is that i posted that comment in a good spirit,and if i offended you people in any way, then i am sorry.
I guess I m pretty much used to those messy looking Japanese sites so much so that Danny's site looks much much much more well organized and clean in comparison. Anyway the best way to irritate people is to white text on black background, orange/yellow text on blue backgrd. Ultimate eye killer.
X marks the spot :) or it's sort of a fluid patern.
Needs more AJAX. You can never have too much AJAX. ...well...maybe you can, but you can never have too much effective AJAX.
Hey danny. My birthday was yesterday and so as a thanks for bringing out nice and bizzare info regarding Japan. http://shinings.blog116.fc2.com/ Check this out. :D
Just minor loading time issues, but its well worth the wait for the content and I am too busy in other windows doing stuff. This is uh... really weird 0__0 let 'em call it what they want but I would name it something different.
I've noticed the loading times are getting longer - but thats probably due to the increase in content. There's also a wait period because if you scroll around too quickly while everything's loading the entire page gets all blurred up and you would have to refresh and actually wait for everything to load
I really like the switch from the orange to grey, make the site look more cleaner and sleeker. However, I think there are too much content displaying, making the site clutter and site's load time slow. I think you should move the random post section around the bottom, make the rss section horizontal, and enable hide/unhide on comrades and maybe even on the comments section. Anyway the site's good now, but will be excellent with just a few tweaks ;>
I just have one complaint. I think the site is not large enough for all the content. The posts are all squeezed in between the ads and links. Do people still use 800x600 anyway?
Navigation and the ability to find what I'm looking for is no problem for me. Compared to other sites, you present information navigation in ways that I things should be seen more often. I like how you use pictures and texts for your post under category heading and on the top page. Very few people process information by text or pictures alone. Sure it can result in longer loading times, but I still think it a good trade off in ease of navigation. My connection is 384kbps -pretty slow- and I don't think your site loads any slower than other sites. Actually it loads at a very nice speed for me. Probably if I look for something that gets to me, it would be your site feels top heavy. I know you are trying to keep visitors from having to scroll too many pages to find the information they want. I use Firefox 2 and usually click the old finder button to hide most of the navigation toolbars when I view your site. My 20" iMac is set at the default 1680x1050, but still scroll four pages to get to the bottom of all the headings. I don't think you have too many headings, just too bunched up towards the top of the site. I'm sure the site will feel different when you rework the banner. I've got one nasty headache tonight, so I hope all this makes sense and something can be of help. What the #ell do I know! ^_- I can't decide how to lay out my future site. T_T
Oh, oh... I just refreshed the cashe. Things do look a little better with the new banner. I think I like the green better than the orange. Although, I'm not sure if green -replacing all the orange- would look better. What about a different tint or hue of orange? I guess it's me and orange... ^^; Danny, I like your site very much. It's the best of it's kind on the internet.
It's been so long that I've quite well forgotten how I stumbled onto your site. Can't imagine what my day would be without it now (probably very boring). I do like the modifications, though. The color scheme IMO is much better, more subtle. As for the post, very weird stuff. Sort of reminds me of the Gundam condoms you posted about once upon a time.
Did you photoshop that x-wing(starwars) there or is it really in the ad? I hope it's real so I can show friends
Haha! George Lucus is going to sue somebody, haha.
it's take longer to load now for me.. and if i scroll the screen before it finish loading, everything gets messed up... O__o
Man, getting approval from George Lucas would have been hard. Spoof songs like "The Saga Begins" by Weird Al' is easy, but RABBIT FUR? Gah.
Nice site revamp there Danny :) Seems cleaner now
Hahah! Brilliant! Please show more Japanese oddities like this. I nearly fell off the chair with the Gundam Condoms...
Woo interesting marketing plans... Woo Just love the white!!! nice revamp!
About the person who collects napkins, could be worst... thankfully he collects unused ones only. lol. real funny on the whisper with xwings! ^^ speaking of cross branding products, have you seen the Pocky Gundams Danny? http://pocky.jp/campaign/gundam/index.html
This just shows how weird ppl are & there are a lot more out there! Haha! Love what you did to your site, Danny. Keep it up!
haha! Two-wings promotion? Well, those two have similar two wings.
thanks god you got rid of those flash movies. now readers can actually focus on the content, instead of getting distracted by flash header. try to optimize the page load time by getting rid of useless stuff :D
and PLEASE, PLEASE ..get rid of this white background !!!! its driving me crazy. I dont know about you ppl, but i have hard time reading text on white background. and thats why i have to use custom css with gray background, in opera, for pages with white backgrounds. sure, the pages look ugly, but atleast i can read the text without getting a headache :D
Everyones a critic, but clearly not everyone has seen the link at the top of the page that allows you to switch between the flash header menu and the non-flash one. Its been there for quite a while, maybe it was too hard to spot with it not being on a grey background. Keep up the good work and ignore the "naysayers".
Speaking of problems/complaints from your poll... i have nothing to complain about, but sometimes i can't comment your page?! please answer my question thanks
Kevin, Could be to do with cookies or Javascript settings. Jon, You said it - that person keeps coming out with stuff like that - wonder why they bother coming back. himanshu, SIR YES SIR! Not. Marvin, yes - seen them before but they kinda look odd. seth.frostheart, KL, That usually happens with IE... K Chao, Yep - sorry! Edward, Thanks for feedback. You can hide the comments with the "hide comments permanently" link. としあき, Will consider changing the width - I changed it a bit to 866 recently ^^; Jason, Am considering some of your suggestions for a while - thanks ^^
You had me fooled there for a minute, I thought there was going to be some new cool Star Wars product . . . .
"naysayers"... i am sorry if i sounded that way. as far as turning off the flash header is concerned, i really didnt knew that it could be done...honestly ;) lol...and its got nothing do with white/gray or orange backgrounds :) "You said it - that person keeps coming out with stuff like that - wonder why they bother coming back." thx danny...nice way to treat your fan :D it seems that i sounded rude in my previous comment. "sure, the pages look ugly, but atleast i can read the text without getting a headache :D" he he ...my english is really BAD. what i meant to say was that pages look ugly when i USE the "User Mode" in opera to change the background to gray and remove all the formatting, so that i can read the text properly. I know a lot of people with eye problems, who use Opera's "User Mode" to remove all formatting from pages, because its easier on the eyes, especially when using a bright LCD. I never intended to say to that your site looks ugly. Your default pages look absolutely GORGEOUS! they are just pure eye candy :D but all i can say is that i posted that comment in a good spirit,and if i offended you people in any way, then i am sorry.
I guess I m pretty much used to those messy looking Japanese sites so much so that Danny's site looks much much much more well organized and clean in comparison. Anyway the best way to irritate people is to white text on black background, orange/yellow text on blue backgrd. Ultimate eye killer.
Stay on target...stay on target.
This is just too weird...!!! the advertisement guys from this "napkin" company should re-think about their market campaign…or maybe, they had way too much access of Star Wars movies and did it on purpose...that is even weirder!!!
