Found a Web designer

[kennyboi]

I made a post on IA looking for a web designer and i
found somebody that did if for a great price. So i need
you guys/girls to check it out and let me know what you
like/dislike about my website. you will be rep'd in return.


if your a A&& Hole looking for attention find it somewhere
else NOT HERE ok

thanks to all and have a nice day!!!!!!!!!!!!


click here ---------------------> www.kennyent.com (http://www.kennyent.com/)

we are still updating and adding stuff.

[Kevykev]

It's a good start!

Loaded better the second time (after cookies were stored i guess). I would place that video somewhere else, not on the first page (probably why it loads slow).

I'm sure the site will be refined as time goes by. :goodjob:

[Bruce Leroy]

The site is ok, takes a little long to load. Pics need to be better tho.... Especially the ones of you in the s63. The location, and cars in the background make it easy to tell that its not yours.

PM'd you.

[Evil Goat]

i hit about 30% and closed the window...loads to slow which leads me to believe its probably to busy and uninteresting

[4dmin]

honest opinion - looks like a flash site from 3-5 years ago

http://www.templatemonster.com/category.php?tid=-+Any+-&search_words=-+Any+-&from_=-+Any+-&to=-+Any+-&type=1&cat=19&style=&author=

go buy a 50$ template and have someone do it up for you... if you would of hit me up i could of knocked it out for 250$

[kennyboi]

i made a post i remember you saying something you should have told me pm me
an i'll give you my number



honest opinion - looks like a flash site from 3-5 years ago

http://www.templatemonster.com/category.php?tid=-+Any+-&search_words=-+Any+-&from_=-+Any+-&to=-+Any+-&type=1&cat=19&style=&author=

go buy a 50$ template and have someone do it up for you... if you would of hit me up i could of knocked it out for 250$

[kennyboi]

i guess it depends on your connection speed doesn't take that long for me




i hit about 30% and closed the window...loads to slow which leads me to believe its probably to busy and uninteresting

[kennyboi]

S65 lol




The site is ok, takes a little long to load. Pics need to be better tho.... Especially the ones of you in the s63. The location, and cars in the background make it easy to tell that its not yours.

PM'd you.

[kennyboi]

I REP'D EVERYONE THAT MADE A POST SO FOR

THANKS


NOTE: ITS ONLY BEEN UP FOR A WEEK :)

[VQ35 Star]

got to 70% and closed the window.

For people to stay at your site you need to catch the viewer in about 5 sec. or they loose interest and leave. I am not on a slow connection at all and yet this seems to load very slow. Fix that and maybe viewers will stay interested in the content(which ever it may be) and stay.

[Sammich]

yea i didnt close it, but it does load very slow...i did look at the model tho...lol

[DJ Maestro]

I agree with the majority here, the initial load time is much too long. It is true that after the info is cached that future load times will be much less, but you are looking at making a first time impression. There are not many people who will stick around for a long load time in this age of high speed internet. People want speed and instant satisfaction. Never make the customer wait. :goodjob:

[ATK_Designs]

Took a long time to load. Site could be some what better.

[kennyboi]

JUST FOUND OUT MY DESIGNER IS UPDATING IT SO IT WILL LOAD RATHER SLOW
UNTIL HE'S DONE THANKS

[Vteckidd]

Yeah load time was easily 5 min and im on DSL 7MBPS

I think the Home page should have an ABOUT US thing on it. I mean you arent trying to show pics and video, you are trying to get people excited about working with you.

I would have the main page say something about what you do and what KennyEnt is about.

No one wants to click through pages of media to find out what it is you do.

KennyEnt is such a broad name that i think you really need to say what you are all about on the first page

[kennyboi]

MIKE shut up lol j/k

you are absolutely right. I am going to thank about
that tonight. But there is an about us section on the
website. I going to add something else to the home
section tho....I have no idea why its loading so slow
maybe because of the size of the media..... I'll think of
something... i really appreciate the feedback.... That
will make me think about add/changing up some things




Yeah load time was easily 5 min and im on DSL 7MBPS

I think the Home page should have an ABOUT US thing on it. I mean you arent trying to show pics and video, you are trying to get people excited about working with you.

I would have the main page say something about what you do and what KennyEnt is about.

No one wants to click through pages of media to find out what it is you do.

KennyEnt is such a broad name that i think you really need to say what you are all about on the first page

[kennyboi]

Now that doesn't really help me... What do you think will make it somewhat better??




Took a long time to load. Site could be some what better.

[kennyboi]

loaded just fine for me anybody having loading problem

[Vayda]

I'm not sure you're gonna like me after this...but i'm rather opinionated about webdesign :)

1. Load time wasn't extravagant, maybe a minute or two, but for what came out of it i'm very dissapointed. if i have to wait that long it better be fricken homestar runner. Or at least something better than what it was.

2. Times new roman? Seriously?

3. You know you can make an actual copyright symbol down there at the bottom? Get on your designer about that man.

4. The times new roman ended on the contact page. Why? That seems really inconsistent and unprofessional.

5. The video on the front page really bothers me. I don't know why it's there, it adds a ton to the load time, and the guy (if that's you i'm sorry) doesn't seem to be able to say "kenny e n t dot com"...

6. On the media page, make it so the pictures and text link. I really don't like websites that need to explain to me how to navigate. If i can't figure it out on my own, i'm closing the window.

7. There's no indication of what page i'm on when i'm looking on it, the links at the bottom don't change or anything. i just clicked "media" like four times thinking my mouse came unplugged (which it does a lot, my usb slot is broken) before i realised i was already on media.

8. The site looks fine at a widescreen res (yay!) but in firefox at 1024x768 (which i believe is the most common screen resolution still, correct me if i'm wrong) i get TWO erroneous scrollbars (horozontal and vertical)...they bother the hell out of me. Five pixels smaller and those would be gone.

9. The whole flash thing right now doesn't seem to have a point. All it's doing is making shiny transitions between pages, which i could care less about since it lengthens the load time.

10. because of the flash, i can't link to individual pages.

11. Those poor models. They look so fat with their pictures stretched in the thumbnails.

12. A counter? Seriously?

13. An email form? that opens in a new window? Seriously?

14. on your "about us" page, commas go INSIDE quotation marks, and a comma is needed after "etc." Also, your sentences are repetitive in their structure.

15. When i do as the about us page says and visit the contact link, i'm greeted by a large "FOR BUSINESS ONLY" ....well i don't want to do business, i just wanted something personalized... :thinking:

16. I agree with Admin. this would have looked awesome about five years ago.

17. Your website does not validate. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kennyent.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
Not a huge deal when it comes to end-user usability, but your designer should know better.

I hope you weren't kidding about that really good deal :(

edit: it's "view" not "veiw"

[4dmin]

since I've gotten 3 request for websites today off of this thread I'll give you some info on web development + cost.

time is money. normal developer/programmer/designer cost anywhere from 50-150$ an hour. your best bet and cheapest way to get a site that will suit your needs is do the following:

1) determine the type of site you want: personal, home business, commercial, ecom, etc

2) buy a domain (i suggest using godaddy.com it will run 9$) - prefer .com over .net, .biz, .wtf? and get a domain name that is easy for people to understand

3) get basic idea and layout ready for designer/developer - type up info + add photos to word docs; this is an easy format someone can take and run w/

once you've got that sh!t together get someone to build your site... an idea for rates... industry standard for small website $499 (no custom programming) anything above and beyond that goes up in price into whatever you can imagine $ wise. anytime you contract someone to design a site for you make sure you check out their previous work! after your site is built you will need web hosting this can range from FREE to $100s a month depending on site, server and bandwidth needed.

i don't take on many clients b/c i don't have the time and a lot of times it isn't worth my time. my normal going rate for a small no brainier site that the client has provided me everything min = $250 ($50+ an hour depends on work).

[quickdodge®]

So you're "the future of entertainment?" Hmmmm.

Later, QD.

[kennyboi]

yep.... i was wait on you q.d


So you're "the future of entertainment?" Hmmmm.

Later, QD.

[kennyboi]

I'm not sure you're gonna like me after this...but i'm rather opinionated about webdesign :)

1. Load time wasn't extravagant, maybe a minute or two, but for what came out of it i'm very dissapointed. if i have to wait that long it better be fricken homestar runner. Or at least something better than what it was.

2. Times new roman? Seriously?

3. You know you can make an actual copyright symbol down there at the bottom? Get on your designer about that man.

4. The times new roman ended on the contact page. Why? That seems really inconsistent and unprofessional.

5. The video on the front page really bothers me. I don't know why it's there, it adds a ton to the load time, and the guy (if that's you i'm sorry) doesn't seem to be able to say "kenny e n t dot com"...

6. On the media page, make it so the pictures and text link. I really don't like websites that need to explain to me how to navigate. If i can't figure it out on my own, i'm closing the window.

7. There's no indication of what page i'm on when i'm looking on it, the links at the bottom don't change or anything. i just clicked "media" like four times thinking my mouse came unplugged (which it does a lot, my usb slot is broken) before i realised i was already on media.

8. The site looks fine at a widescreen res (yay!) but in firefox at 1024x768 (which i believe is the most common screen resolution still, correct me if i'm wrong) i get TWO erroneous scrollbars (horozontal and vertical)...they bother the hell out of me. Five pixels smaller and those would be gone.

9. The whole flash thing right now doesn't seem to have a point. All it's doing is making shiny transitions between pages, which i could care less about since it lengthens the load time.

10. because of the flash, i can't link to individual pages.

11. Those poor models. They look so fat with their pictures stretched in the thumbnails.

12. A counter? Seriously?

13. An email form? that opens in a new window? Seriously?

14. on your "about us" page, commas go INSIDE quotation marks, and a comma is needed after "etc." Also, your sentences are repetitive in their structure.

15. When i do as the about us page says and visit the contact link, i'm greeted by a large "FOR BUSINESS ONLY" ....well i don't want to do business, i just wanted something personalized... :thinking:

16. I agree with Admin. this would have looked awesome about five years ago.

17. Your website does not validate. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kennyent.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
Not a huge deal when it comes to end-user usability, but your designer should know better.

I hope you weren't kidding about that really good deal :(

edit: it's "view" not "veiw"


I'll forward this to the web designer

thanks
---kenny---

[ironchef]

Do you know how to design a website???? All this talk about the problem DOESN'T do me any good if your not going to state what needs to be fix on
how to make it better don't say Sh!t at all.....

thanks
---kenny---He does state what needed to be fixed, and common sense would tell you how to fix it.

Hopefully you didn't pay much for it, cause you got hosed otherwise.

[kennyboi]

nawl i didn't pay much.... but its better than nothing.


and he really didnt state what was wrong just a list of problems to me...


He does state what needed to be fixed, and common sense would tell you how to fix it.

Hopefully you didn't pay much for it, cause you got hosed otherwise.

[kennyboi]

Ya'll keep saying "so 5 years ago" its 2008 and how many of ya'll still driving older cars come on people.....

that like me being a a$$ hole, and say your car is so 1990ish....
come on Im not a website designer so i don't know sh!t about whats old
or whats new...
(not talking about anyone just tryna make a point)


Thanks for the comments

[4dmin]

Ya'll keep saying "so 5 years ago" its 2008 and how many of ya'll still driving older cars come on people.....

that like me being a a$$ hole, and say your car is so 1990ish....
come on Im not a website designer so i don't know sh!t about whats old
or whats new...
(not talking about anyone just tryna make a point)


Thanks for the comments

you have to understand you made a post about your site as if you were asking for constructive criticism. this is what i tell my clients, figure out what you want by finding sites that you like related to the same material you plan on building your site around. your peers/competition sites should be how you try to market yourself.

honestly for making an entertainment site the execution is very poor. reason being the flash work is weak scripting that looks like it was done back in 2000. nothing wrong with this if you were running a site where image doesn't matter. your flash should be more clean, fast and up to date. I wouldn't suggest doing a complete flash site anyway if you plan on trying to gain search engine traffic, b/c the bots can't crawl flash like they can plain jane static html. whoever is doing your site is a noob. nothing wrong with that everyone has to start somewhere, but I would suggest a completely different direction for your site. My time isn't FREE though so if your interested you know how to contact me. :goodjob:

[Vayda]

I missed something getting edited here, but fyi, i DO know how to design a website. I considered responding to your first post, i really did, but i've never been a professional and i thought you were looking for something much more upscale. I don't think i should be paid for my work, it's a hobby. But i could have done better than this. If i was unclear about anything, let me clearly state how to solve each problem.

1. compress the flash file or do away with flash all together. Perhaps use flash only for the videos, and leave other content in standard HTML. Alternately, add homestar runner.

2. Use a better font than times new roman. Personally i like verdana, but arial has its uses.

3. the code for the copyright symbol is ©.

4. Keep one font consistent throughout the site.

5. Um...rehearse saying "kenny e n t dot com" more?

6. I don't know how i can be more clear about this one.
<a href="media.html"><img src="media.jpg"></a>
But don't ask me how to do it in flash...

7. Make the links change color or something when you're on the corresponding page.

8. Make the flash area five pixels smaller on each end. Test in all screen resolutions before publishing.

9. lose the flash.

10. lose the flash.

11. Scale the thumbnails properly.

12. lose the counter. I don't give a damn how many people have seen your site. Site popularity races are, like, SO 90's.

13. Lose the email form that opens in a new window. News flash, most people know how to access their own email and type in an address. The feedback page needs to contain nothing more than "technical problems? please write to [email protected] and include a link to the problem page."

14. fix the comma error. Your sentences continuously follow the same structure of dependent clause, independent clause. Mix it up a little! Compound/complex sentences are your friend! pick up a copy of the Little Brown Compact Handbook if you don't remember your seventh grade grammar.

15. Either change where it tells me to visit the contact page or change where the contact page essentially says "don't contact me"

16. My car is a 2007, kthx.

17. Um...correct your code? there's like, sixteen lines of code and sixteen errors. that's very technical though, i don't expect most people to have a valid website.




I know i'm being a total smartass to type this all out, but the option is doing my homework, so here i am...

[Zeeb]

Honestly that site made me laugh, gave me a goot chance to catch up on some sleep while it loaded tho :goodjob: anywho...



I design websites. I do free lance work, anyone need anything hit me up. My prices are cheap because I use my work for my portfolio..

studiozdesigns.com

[kennyboi]

you have to understand you made a post about your site as if you were asking for constructive criticism. this is what i tell my clients, figure out what you want by finding sites that you like related to the same material you plan on building your site around. your peers/competition sites should be how you try to market yourself.

honestly for making an entertainment site the execution is very poor. reason being the flash work is weak scripting that looks like it was done back in 2000. nothing wrong with this if you were running a site where image doesn't matter. your flash should be more clean, fast and up to date. I wouldn't suggest doing a complete flash site anyway if you plan on trying to gain search engine traffic, b/c the bots can't crawl flash like they can plain jane static html. whoever is doing your site is a noob. nothing wrong with that everyone has to start somewhere, but I would suggest a completely different direction for your site. My time isn't FREE though so if your interested you know how to contact me. :goodjob:


yeah the guy that did this was his 1st time so give him some credit, remember i said that it only been up for a week. when i decide to change it up and i will in the future i'll contact somebody with better experince thanks:D

[kennyboi]

I missed something getting edited here, but fyi, i DO know how to design a website. I considered responding to your first post, i really did, but i've never been a professional and i thought you were looking for something much more upscale. I don't think i should be paid for my work, it's a hobby. But i could have done better than this. If i was unclear about anything, let me clearly state how to solve each problem.

1. compress the flash file or do away with flash all together. Perhaps use flash only for the videos, and leave other content in standard HTML. Alternately, add homestar runner.

2. Use a better font than times new roman. Personally i like verdana, but arial has its uses.

3. the code for the copyright symbol is &copy;.

4. Keep one font consistent throughout the site.

5. Um...rehearse saying "kenny e n t dot com" more?

6. I don't know how i can be more clear about this one.
<a href="media.html"><img src="media.jpg"></a>
But don't ask me how to do it in flash...

7. Make the links change color or something when you're on the corresponding page.

8. Make the flash area five pixels smaller on each end. Test in all screen resolutions before publishing.

9. lose the flash.

10. lose the flash.

11. Scale the thumbnails properly.

12. lose the counter. I don't give a damn how many people have seen your site. Site popularity races are, like, SO 90's.

13. Lose the email form that opens in a new window. News flash, most people know how to access their own email and type in an address. The feedback page needs to contain nothing more than "technical problems? please write to [email protected] and include a link to the problem page."

14. fix the comma error. Your sentences continuously follow the same structure of dependent clause, independent clause. Mix it up a little! Compound/complex sentences are your friend! pick up a copy of the Little Brown Compact Handbook if you don't remember your seventh grade grammar.

15. Either change where it tells me to visit the contact page or change where the contact page essentially says "don't contact me"

16. My car is a 2007, kthx.

17. Um...correct your code? there's like, sixteen lines of code and sixteen errors. that's very technical though, i don't expect most people to have a valid website.




I know i'm being a total smartass to type this all out, but the option is doing my homework, so here i am...


thanks
fyi the car thing wasn't directed towards you "like i said just making a point"
Pm me your number.............

[sararose]

*pretend like I'm quoting all of Vayda's posts here*

Wow, Vayda said everything EXACTLY as I would have said it! I'll try not to repeat too much. :o

Images should never be resized using Flash or web editing programs. They need to be properly resized in an imaging editing program like Photoshop to be resampled correctly, as to not get distorted (size stretching, noise, artifacts, etc., etc.). I think bottom line is, between the loading time and the horrible page transitions, this page does not, and should not, be in flash. There really is no point to it, and you should really stick to a format viewable by any and ALL browsers.

I'm only just viewing the website now, but I don't think making a switch from Times New Roman to Vivaldi is much of an improvement. He needs to stay away from stock fonts, and go with one of the more simplistic and modern.

And I think the videos definitely need some controls on them (play, stop, mute, etc.). Plus, I don't know how professional it is when your camera man needs to correct the subject he's filming on the name of the website he's supposed to be promoting. :o

And I just have to reiterate... 1. LOSE THE COUNTER! 2. Spell Check + Grammar fixes pronto! 3. Your designer NEEDS to use a proper copyright sign! The "c" in the parenthesizes look ridiculous.

Good luck!

[Vayda]

the flash thing is really a shame, because i can tell the designer has a wonderful knowledge of flash and its many intricate workings, something i will never be able to say. It's unfortunate that someone with such talent in that arena knows so little about webdesign =\


On the topic of everyone saying the site looks "so five years ago"...Five years ago website technology was vastly different. PHP wasn't used in basic webdesign, CSS was almost unheard of, and div layers were yet to be thought of. Framesets were standard and the only way to lay a website out was to use tables. iframes were the new technology. I feel nostalgic :D

to carry on the car metaphor, it's less like driving a NA Miata and more like driving a 1982 Civic. NA miatas are cool. 82 civics are old. You're driving without vtec, man.

Anyway, my point is that internet technology moves a hell of a lot faster than car tech. Flash sites from five years ago - like this - are inefficient. they take a lot of load time and burn a lot of gas. They're badly tuned carburetors. Plus, things go out of fashion. And especially if you're the future of entertainment....be on the cutting edge, yaknow?

[sararose]

I feel nostalgic :D?

Remember the old Geocities drag-and-drop website editors from the 90's? Or the AOL "customizable" profiles, which were actually extremely basic HTML web pages? Oooooh memories...! :lmao:

[Vayda]

man, fsck that editor. I went like ten minutes with that before i moved on to notepad. Here's a hot tip: if notepad is better than you, you suck.

I just had to go look through archive.org to see what my first website looked like. the images are broken but man...talk about a blast from the past...

[kennyboi]

*pretend like I'm quoting all of Vayda's posts here*

Wow, Vayda said everything EXACTLY as I would have said it! I'll try not to repeat too much. :o

Images should never be resized using Flash or web editing programs. They need to be properly resized in an imaging editing program like Photoshop to be resampled correctly, as to not get distorted (size stretching, noise, artifacts, etc., etc.). I think bottom line is, between the loading time and the horrible page transitions, this page does not, and should not, be in flash. There really is no point to it, and you should really stick to a format viewable by any and ALL browsers.

I'm only just viewing the website now, but I don't think making a switch from Times New Roman to Vivaldi is much of an improvement. He needs to stay away from stock fonts, and go with one of the more simplistic and modern.

And I think the videos definitely need some controls on them (play, stop, mute, etc.). Plus, I don't know how professional it is when your camera man needs to correct the subject he's filming on the name of the website he's supposed to be promoting. :o

And I just have to reiterate... 1. LOSE THE COUNTER! 2. Spell Check + Grammar fixes pronto! 3. Your designer NEEDS to use a proper copyright sign! The "c" in the parenthesizes look ridiculous.

Good luck!


WITH THE VIDEO CONTROL.. YOUR RIGHT I TOLD HIM THAT..... THE WEBSITE HAS ONLY BEEN UP A WEEK AND THE MOST TWO WEEKS... AND WITH THIS POST IT POINTED OUT A LOT OF THING THAT WILL BE CHANGED.... IM NOT CHANGING MY WHOLE WEBSITE NOW, BUT THING WILL GET CHANGE THO.....

AND MY THING IS I MADE A POST SAYING " I NEED A WEB DESIGNER" AND NOBODY STEP UP, A FEW "CALL MY BOY" (NEVER RETURN MY PHONE CALL) "CONTACT THIS GUY" (DID THAT... NEVER CONTACTED ME BACK)

YA'LL SEE MY POINT.... I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU ALL FOR BEING HONEST..... YOU ALL WILL BE REP'D

[quickdodge®]

yep....

RIP hip hop. Later, QD.

[willum14pb]

being that it took more than 1 minute to load on my T1 connection i lost interest and closed the site. sorry.

[willum14pb]

ok i finally waited for it to load.. I hope you didn't pay him more than $50. Honestly, the absolute worst website i've ever seen. I wouldn't even call it a website. It looks like he opened up flash and hit a couple buttons and said "HERE!"

[kennyboi]

ok i finally waited for it to load.. I hope you didn't pay him more than $50. Honestly, the absolute worst website i've ever seen. I wouldn't even call it a website. It looks like he opened up flash and hit a couple buttons and said "HERE!"

Damn ok everybody saying the same thing
so here's a question

WHAT WILL MAKE IT BETTER????????
(you can call me if we need to talk
678-206-1784 kenny, if not please post)

[Nismo]

where you at a car dealership when you took those pictures of the mercedes?

Retake or edit your videos so there arent people walking around randomly in front of the camera in them.

[kennyboi]

with the video I would but that's done... that was my 1st time editing a video. next time will be a lot better..... we will make changes, fix some things that need fixing..
A LOT OF YALL MADE SOME GOOD POINTS, AND FOR THAT THANKS

[kennyboi]

and for the ones that made money off of my post, where's my cut lol

[Zeeb]

Damn ok everybody saying the same thing
so here's a question

WHAT WILL MAKE IT BETTER????????
(you can call me if we need to talk
678-206-1784 kenny, if not please post)

Like I said, Hit me up. I am aan actual web designer.

[kennyboi]

pm me your number and i'll call you around 11:45 to see how can you tighten it.

[Zeeb]

just check out my site. studiozdesigns.com Email me.

[kennyboi]

email you. you know what I want now... what will I tell you in my email? probably the same thing now, what do we need to do to tighten it up. if you only communicate via email, then nevermind... thanks tho.

[Zeeb]

No... My cell phone just broke in half yesterday. So for now thats all I have :boobies:

[quickdodge®]

so here's a question

WHAT WILL MAKE IT BETTER????????

Lolol. Later, QD.