My Radio Website, help with development.

[pg.security]

hey can check out my radio website, suggestions and praises if possible. It's kind of new so it is still in development.

Advanced Player: http://media.streamads.com/playersdk...171&relayID=-1
Basic Player: http://www.elicon.org/mediaplayer-5.4-viral/readme.html
Main Site (Temp until new one is finished): http://elicon.org

There are also some apps for browsers and social networks.
Web Browser App(powered by conduit): http://apps.conduit.com/habbforall-E...7-a081d06fc562
Facebook App: http://apps.facebook.com/eliconradio
Google Chrome Webstore App(coming soon)

Fan Pages
Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Elicon...96388177040063
Facebook App Page: http://www.facebook.com/apps/applica...d=291778958181

Edited by Luke (Forum Moderator): Thread moved from "Show off", better suited here

[Mark]

I really like the advanced player! In terms of the normal player I think you need something else on the page because it looks a little empty. The main site is looking very good, I would suggest working on it a little more though as I feel there is something missing but I can't quite put my finger on it Also, on the main site, I'm not to keen on the kind of black board and chalk thing, if you want to be professional get a nice looking player.

Overall very nice site, goodluck!

[pg.security]

I really like the advanced player! In terms of the normal player I think you need something else on the page because it looks a little empty. The main site is looking very good, I would suggest working on it a little more though as I feel there is something missing but I can't quite put my finger on it Also, on the main site, I'm not to keen on the kind of black board and chalk thing, if you want to be professional get a nice looking player.

Overall very nice site, goodluck!

Thanks, I know the player on the main site is a little wack but that whole page is temporary there will be a new site radio.elicon.org released as soon as possible and it will be a completely flash site. And I will see about getting some more things added to the basic player page like chat boxes and artist info. thanks for you input.

[Trinity]

it will be a completely flash site.

No. No no no no no. Completely flash sites are the work of the devil. This link covers it quite nicely, but there are still many more reasons not to use a completely flash based site - http://flashsucks.org/

[pg.security]

No. No no no no no. Completely flash sites are the work of the devil. This link covers it quite nicely, but there are still many more reasons not to use a completely flash based site - http://flashsucks.org/

That site had very good reasons not to use flash, but some where kind of stupid, like

Sites that can only be navigated with Flash require the visitor to have functioning eyes and hands.

I think and website flash or not requires the user to have functioning hands and eyes to enjoy the experience unless it is a completely sound website.

[Trinity]

That site had very good reasons not to use flash, but some where kind of stupid, like


I think and website flash or not requires the user to have functioning hands and eyes to enjoy the experience unless it is a completely sound website.

There's nothing stupid about that. Some internet users have difficulty seeing or are completely blind, so they use things like screen reading software that converts the text on the page to speech. As flash pages don't have proper text on there, you completely cut out and potentially offend those users.
Other users don't have completely functioning hands, so they can't use a mouse and navigate the page with other methods, such as using the tab key to select links and stuff, which is impossible on a flash website (I think, I'm not 100% sure on that one).

Every website should be usable (to some extent) by the types of users mentioned above. It increases your potential userbase and is just a nice thing to do for the types of users that probably have enough difficulties to deal with without having to struggle to use the internet too.

[pg.security]

There's nothing stupid about that. Some internet users have difficulty seeing or are completely blind, so they use things like screen reading software that converts the text on the page to speech. As flash pages don't have proper text on there, you completely cut out and potentially offend those users.
Other users don't have completely functioning hands, so they can't use a mouse and navigate the page with other methods, such as using the tab key to select links and stuff, which is impossible on a flash website (I think, I'm not 100% sure on that one).

Every website should be usable (to some extent) by the types of users mentioned above. It increases your potential userbase and is just a nice thing to do for the types of users that probably have enough difficulties to deal with without having to struggle to use the internet too.

Well put, but either way the site will be nothing but a flash player with song info and exc. but if they find difficulty than there are multiple listening methods as listed above and will be listed on the website (in text form), there will also be a script that will ask if a user would like to use a different page due to connection spped or other problems and redirect a user based on there connection speed to the page that best fits them.