Hello,

I'd need feedback about the new version of my website :
http://toogame.free.fr

Any comment is appreciated, but I'd like to know especially about the navigation from one game to another.
Before, people were looking only at one game and then leaving the site. My main goal with this new version is to incite them to look at both games.

Thanks for ur thoughts ! :)

I'm browsing full-screen in 1600x1200 and your page uses the full screen width, so each item on your website has much more room and isn't filling up the space as you probably intended. There's a lot of empty space.

The graphical frame that surrounds the animation at the head of each page doesn't fit together properly. I seems dependent on text size, because when I shrink my text size the frame looks right.

In the left-hand menu, I'd try adding a blank line above 'BALLOONrain' to separate it.

Originally posted by Wayward
I'm browsing full-screen in 1600x1200 and your page uses the full screen width, so each item on your website has much more room and isn't filling up the space as you probably intended. There's a lot of empty space.
No no, I meant it that way. Anyway, my pages don't need so much horyzontal room, so I think it's nicer to leave the blank space in the background color. Am I wrong ?

The graphical frame that surrounds the animation at the head of each page doesn't fit together properly.

Fixed (there was a damn &nbsp forgotten ... :-S )

In the left-hand menu, I'd try adding a blank line above 'BALLOONrain' to separate it.

Done... With my IE 6.0 browser, the space was added automatically, but now, I put it by myself in the code... :)

Thanks Wayward, u're always there for feedback ! :)

Much better than the previous one.

next step is to buy a domain name i guess :)

where are you located in the south of france ?

pat.

I'm getting a page not found. Maybe a bit of pro hosting with that domain name?

It's looking better. I remember you posting about Tennis Elbow a while back :)

My main complaint now is the tooGame logo. I don't really like the logo, but the placing is also fairly annoying. If you get rid of it (move it to top left, between left nav and top nav?) you can bump the screenshots of your games higher up, where they are more likely to be the first thing noticed when someone visits your site. Even at 1024x768, you have to scroll down to fully see the shots.

I do like the game screenshots themselves and the left navigation menu. Top navigation is okay but the orange doesn't go with that gradient background.

The long, thin kind-of-TV-screen thing at the top doesn't make any sense to me. It doesn't say anything - why is it there ? The screenshots look great though :)

@ Patrox :
thanks...! :)
place = Valence, a small city at 100km south of Lyon.

About the domain name, I'm thinking about it, but I'd like to avoid to pay for a complete hosting. I'd like just to have URL rewriting to show transparently my pages from Free.fr .
If someone knows a good place to buy such thing, I'd like to know it ! :)

@ sybixsus:
u can't see my website ..?

@ Lizardsoft:
u have good memory ! :)
About the logo, humm, it's not too present, just 3 pages (and 2 are pretty secondary). But I'll give a try for a new one!

you can bump the screenshots of your games higher up
right & done :)

@ Jason:
yup, it's a non-sense bar ... :p
It was in the template I used. If I was able to do Flash, I'll put a scrolling "TOOgame" inside, or something like that, but I'm not... :-S
So I just let that there, it gives a bit of animation, and it gives a bit of game spirit to the site, I guess... :)

Your games look nice!
But the website is weird because it mixes different styles too
much.. your buttons are 3d, your menu is sharp and flat and the
content area is fussy.. make up your mind. Also I don't see the
point of the flash thing at the top, that's in yet another style.
There is a little too much empty space in the site I think

About the domain name, I'm thinking about it, but I'd like to avoid to pay for a complete hosting. I'd like just to have URL rewriting to show transparently my pages from Free.fr .
If someone knows a good place to buy such thing, I'd like to know it ! :)


check www.ovh.com they have cheap hosting ( starting at 1 euro a year )

www.joker.com for the domain name with redirection.

pat.

I'm 30 km east of Lyon...

I think OVH is the cheaper in france for domain names. I also think they do redirects or stuff like that.. I haven't tried though. My website is hosted by them (not completely ready yet, I have the newsletter thing to take care of.. though I could open the site without it, I guess)

BTW toogame's web page looks ok to me. It works on my browser ;-). Maybe you could add an input box in the left menu to subscribe to the newsletter, with a link to the newsletter page just below it for example.

I looked at OVH .

Their hit limit is pretty low ! :-S
With the GP60, it's 30'000 per day => 1500 pages / day => only 600 visits ...
The Pack90 is almost ok, with 100'000 hits/day, (but probably not enough for a successful site, on big announcement day), but offer only 30 MB of website space ( + 30 MB of FTP space), and it's a bit too expensive...

If I pick one, it'll be ww.online.net, it's cheaper, bigger, and it doesn't seem to have hit limits.

I took the 90pack (54 euros for hosting+domain name per year). It's far from perfect but it's relatively cheap. You can use the 30 MB of the "Real" server to store big files... The annoying thing is that server doesn't log access stats, so I have to play with a redirect and htaccess to count downloads.
They are going to remove the hits limitation soon and replace it with a bandwidth limitation. No idea what kind of bandwidth...

A few friends strongly advised me NOT to use online.net for hosting.

doh ! :eek:
what's wrong with Online.net ..?

:mad:

manutoo! Aren't you too annoying in last days? :D

OK.

ipowerweb.com
powweb.com

choose one of them and order it today! - Now! :)
(one free year of any domain name, marketing support, statistics, emails - All included)

7.95$/month - less than you spend on every your dinner.

If you will not like them you will ask full refund in 30 days. Domain name will stay yours by anyway.

Additional questions after your order... :D

Good luck manutoogames.com! ;)

@ WildSnake:

thanks for the 2 advices ! :)
I picked http://www.powweb.com for their huge traffic, and their cheap price.
(ok, I'm lying, it's just I never known how to resist to a beautiful asian lady ... :o )
But my VISA doesn't work in USA (pfff), so I have to wait a few days before my bank activates it.
By the way, with 7.95$ I can eat for more than 1 day! :p
But with the 2 extra-month, it gives 6.66$/month (humm, I hope this 3 "6" are not a bad presage :confused: ), so half a sell / month will be dedicated to my hosting... :)

Powweb has already 40'000+ users... When I think that Ovh.com was pride of their 200 users who already trusted them... :D

@ Stan :

Ok, I found many people saying many bad things about Online.net (on hardware.fr, for example)

... good boy... :D

... and the site name? - just for sure ;)

Good luck you buddy!

And don't forget later (when you will be looking to sponsor somebody) that old Andy was the first one who said you something good about your games. - I'm kidding! We are OK. And I wish you the same.

Sure, Andy ! :)
Actually, I already tried to refer u to Powweb, but as u're not using them, they didn't want to hear about u ! ;)

For the website name, I picked managames.com . It's a bit too much "a", but written in this way "Mana Games", I think it's alright, and easy to remember !
(I explained my reason to not pick manutoogames.com in the other topic)

We are using them (powweb.com) last three months with our another newcoming brand. So, I know what I'm talking about.

Speaking about no referring - this is not any problem at all :D

I'm sure OVH has more than 200 clients :-). They are hosting nearly 75000 web sites (not counting dedicated servers).

oops :)
I think I did a little mix between "customers", and "partners", and maybe I read this on another host website, too ... :o