My website and a little bit of feedback required

[Al]

Hi Guys,

Over the last 6 months I've self-taught myself HTML, CSS, Javascript etc handcoding and have gone from knowing zero to the site below.

What I'm after is a bit of real world feedback - I've tested it in all current Mac browsers on which I coded it (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari) and it works perfectly as far as I can tell.

Also tested in on the latest version of Microsoft's evil IE and it works 99% fine with a slight issue with the browser not recognising a bold font (this I can forgive as anyone who know webdesign will know how difficult IE is to deal with)

I need you guys to give it a once over in whatever browser you use and give a bit of feedback - what works, what doesn't, what looks good, how's the quality of the films etc etc - the only film I know doesn't work is Marinet and that's because it's currently stuck in post-production issues and is as yet unfinished.

Much appreciated whatever time you can give it.

Love Al
x


https://www.alwilsonfilms.com

 

[TURBO]

site looks wicked mate
the font for the writing is a little funny but that might just b me !!
all the vids load and play fine :mrgreen:

wish i could do stuff like that on a computer!
im using firefox.

 

[Al]

site looks wicked mate
the font for the writing is a little funny but that might just b me !!
all the vids load and play fine :mrgreen:

wish i could do stuff like that on a computer!
im using firefox.

Cool, excellent stuff. How is the font a little funny? Blurry, too small etc?

 

[Ollie133cup]

Brilliant site mate , love the font . Everything worked videos etc and I'm using safari .

 

[Al]

Excellent, cheers Ollie.

Font caused all sorts of cross-browser issues to begin with (generally why most 'sites use the same ones I believe) but I had to be different (lol) and decided to embed them in the end.

 

[TURBO]

Cool, excellent stuff. How is the font a little funny? Blurry, too small etc?

yesterday when i logged on the small font seemed to be a bit blotchy but iv just been on there again and its fine :mrgreen:

 

[Al]

Cool, excellent stuff. How is the font a little funny? Blurry, too small etc?

yesterday when i logged on the small font seemed to be a bit blotchy but iv just been on there again and its fine :mrgreen:

Hmmm odd. Might be the embedded font needed to be fully cached into your browser. Thanks anyway

 

[Al]

I'll open this up to public debate...... (May need a bit of webcoding knowledge to answer)


My server host has recently updated it's analytics software and since then it has been showing my number one landing (the first one you see) page as a 404Error code page (a web code to say the page doesn't exist). This obviously isn't true as the page does.

Does anyone have any idea why (or how for that matter) a 404Error page could be a higher percentage than the main landing page. (I personally can't even see how this is possible!)

Any help or thoughts much appreciated.

 

[DrDrew]

A web-sniffer responds your site ok - so it's not that there's any redirect loops on launching your site so that should be ok.

A primary cause of suddenly getting lots of 404 errors can often be if you've got links in your site to pages / scripts / stylesheets / images etc that don't exist. I noted that you're on an apache server so all your stuff has to be case sensitive too.

If you explore your site a bit in a console - you do see that every page load is causing a console error which is causing your 404 page to be retrieved. Would need to delve into your code a little to see what is causing this - so will look later on my machine at home if you're still having issues then

Where you've got symbols in your text (such as a forward slash) it might be advisable to use the encoded term - rather than the actual typed symbol. I.E. / is / as an html entity code (or sometimes ⁄ if you're feeling that way inclined)

 

[Al]

^ Thanks bud; and tbh I have not much of a clue what all that means. I'm in no way a web coder and self taught just my 'site so I hardly know anything. If you could go through with me (when you have the time) in a bit more detail and idiot proof I'd be much appreciated.

I find it strange how it's been fine (as far as I can tell) for 6 months and all of a sudden started my 404 errors.

 

[DrDrew]

No probs. I'll have a proper look when I'm back at home on my development PC tonight - and then I'll be able to go through what I can see with you.

 

[Al]

Thank you very much, really appreciated. Point blank (excluding 100% compatibility) the 'site works fine with all pages/links/elements 100% there. Just confuses me.

 

[Courtney]

If your still after feedback... I'm using Safari on my iPhone. Everything works perfectly all of the font movements everything, the only thing I couldn't get to work on here was the videos. But that's to be expected because I'm on an iPhone which doesn't seem to like viewing anything but YouTube videos.
It's great - keep up the good work ;-)

 

[Al]

^ Thanks bud. The iphone is a bit of touch and go area. Considering the iPhone uses QT software and all my videos are QT it's odd how out of the 10 or so different iPhones I've tested some work, some don't.

 

[Al]

Over on RS, it's been a general consent that the 404 errors are being generated by hackers/spammers who keep "looking" for non-existent pages.

 

[DrDrew]

Over on RS, it's been a general consent that the 404 errors are being generated by hackers/spammers who keep "looking" for non-existent pages.

Sorry, not been getting home till midnight(ish) recently so not had a chance to look. Trawlers/hackers would tend to look for more particular page names (just guessing randomly is very time consuming). I'll have a look in a few mins.

 

[DrDrew]

Just ran your site through the w3c validator (a very nice & quick way to check a page - and it's checked against the "proper" standards) - and your page does come back with a few errors. A couple of these you can ignore - but ones like the floating </a> should probably be fixed as this could cause a trawler to go look for a page with a really incorrect file name and cause your 404 errors.

https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=...(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0

 

[DrDrew]

Additional.

Just been having a look at this and have found that if you evaluate the resources returned to the browser on page load - and for a few pages (but not all) your 404.html page is also returned with the remaining content. So there's definitely something which is requesting things that don't exist. Unfortunately it's quite time consuming to debug this without a copy of your website files....

 

[DrDrew]

Last piece of info from this check - as I'm about to go off to the pub. The very first time you load a page (or any CTRL+F5 refreshes) your AC_QuickTime.js file is not returned - causing a 404 error.

<script src="AC_QuickTime.js" language="javascript"></script>

Now to stop this you could just try sticking the script block further up the page or the better option, if your hosting provider allows server side includes - you can do the include that way - and it will have to be returned with the page.

Example of a SSI

Same directory

<!--#include file="affiliate.txt"-->

Some other virtual directory

<!--#include virtual="includesfolder/affiliate.txt" -->

This could have happened during the change-over of analytic software if the new scripts take a different amount of time to run

 

[Al]

No problem, any help is appreciated and of course in your own time.

I've just removed all the </a> tags off the pages so down to 9 errors now. I don't know what some of them mean but the hub id tags are because it doesn't "like" the fact that the javascript ids are for ul links as a whole rather than separate (I did this to keep the js script file down) - it works so can't see it causing a 404 error.....