Hi All,

Although it's not finished yet, I'm interested to hear your thoughts / feedback on the website.

Please vote and comment.

Cheers,

5tarLine

"Ending time: August 29, 2016 - 00:59" LOL, did you pick this youself??

I voted "It's OK", because the TODO list is full of nice features that will be added in the future and will make the website better.

But for example, it's nice that we can add BBCode by selecting text and pressing the relative button, or that the caret is in the middle of the generated BBCode tags, if you just add them using the buttons.

Smileys are supported ( ), but they don't have a panel where you can browse them or select them somehow.

If it's not on the ToDo list, then it's a suggestion!

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EDIT: Oh yeah, I just noticed the link to the smileys.
But you should think about changing the background color of these tables!
http://www.lost-soldiers.org/code.php
http://www.lost-soldiers.org/code.php
(Cause right now it makes them hard to read, especially the BBCode one).

It looks like its coming along nicely. This is my area of expertise so if you need help just let me know (maybe I can start to repay you for your help! Karma bank and all )

Thank-you

I may take you up on that as there are a few things I'm struggling with currently, although I'm not sure I've done THAT much to help you yet! I must say I liked your website too, I think it's my second favourite BF2 site. Obviously this one is #1 as I designed it myself and have rewritten/modified a hell of a lot of the backend code so I'm heavily biased...

May I ask if there is anything which you feel stands out here that you like? Or anything that annoyed you/that sucks so far or you think needs to be changed/fixed?

Which languages do you know and what are your design skills? Did you build your site from the ground up?

Cheers,

5tarLine

I like the flash video on the main page. It is a point of difference. Also like the dogtag login area. I also like your stats page that is a neat idea and something I hadnt thought about.

I find the text a little to small but that isnt a big thing. I also am a bit ocd when it comes to gaps on pages ( amongst many other things ) - the content area on the home page mainly but that will fill as more content is added, so again not a big deal.

We started with a stock template and then modified it to suit our needs. My line of work is based around Website Design and Development, SEO/SEM and Graphic Design. Varying platforms. If there is something Im not sure of there is usually someone close by that understands it! Unfortunately I only know English - and a tiny bit of german

Thanks for the feedback again, appreciate it. Yes I was quite proud when I finished making the dog-tag login. The video is in fact HTML 5 ready and available in mp4, ogg & webm to make sure a wide variety of platforms and browsers are covered from Macs with Safari, to some smart-phone browsers and of course Windows browsers. I filmed the video myself from a BattleRecorder Demo which was from an old server I setup, (in fact I am featured in it blowing up a jet and destroying some infantry despite being outnumbered!) then went to work with my very limited video-editing / software skills Tweaking the colours, speed and various other things and adding the Lost-Soldiers logo which I designed in Photoshop.

May I ask which text you are referring to, is it all? And which gaps?

That's interesting. SEO has basically been my proper career up until now along with Social, Content and a bit of editorial. The Web-Dev stuff is largely on the side although I have designed a few sites for cash and used some of those skills for SEO too. When it comes to languages, I was referring to coding languages

Cheers,

5tarLine

BBCode & Smileys Popup Windows Fixed - You should be able to read them now

Also, to everyone - please give more feedback. If there is something you don't like, think I should change or could be improved, speak up.

How to use smileys in the shout box ?

You must type the code manually for the shoutbox

the code In this list in the "tag" column: http://www.lost-soldiers.org/smileys.php

For example or will give you my favourite smiley:

Also, you can just try normal smiley codes like:



This will give you the blue colour smileys:



These aren't listed on the smileys page but I will add them at some point.