@Scummerz: I've scoured this thread no less than 4 times.
I still can't find a link to your site, which automatically means my review will NOT be higher than 8/10 for the hassle of having to look through your post history to discover it is
http://scummerz.com/ (if it's not, ignore my review).
Ok, first and foremost, what is with that animated fireworks graphic for a background? Am I supposed to want to close the page as soon as I open it, cause that's about what it's doing for me.
As for the frames, I've got nothing against them other than that I have never seen a site actually use them efficiently. Yours is included in that group.
Top frame: Extremely bland. Standard size banner that does absolutely nothing but link to the homepage - I'm all for linking to the home page, but why is it that this frame doesn't even appear to be from the same site? It's got almost nothing in common with the other 3 frames other than it saying scummerz in it. And just cause I'm a grammer nazi, Scummerz should be capitalized in that banner.
Left frame: Now here's a spot I actually DON'T have a complaint about. It looks good, and works quite well. It'd be better if it matched the rest of the site, and I found out why it doesn't. It appears to be the slashdot menu code (for anyone curious, view the source of that frame - flat out says: )
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* Slashdot Menu script- By DimX
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(along with where to get it for your own site)
Main frame: I've already said my piece about that fireworks graphic, so I'll just continue on past it.
It seems your site has some "content confusion" - says right at the top it's about soccer, and yet I've got old-skool flash games running on the front page (Galaga, Pacman, Donkey Kong, and Space Invaders, in the order that my browser asked me to load them).
To say it best, I'll use a 3 letter chat-speak abbreviation: WTF. If I wanted to play games, I wouldn't be going to a site about a soccer team I've never heard of. I'd be on coffeebreakarcade, or shockwave's homepage, or newgrounds, but not on a site that apparently is supposed to be about a soccer team.
Bottom frame: Another interesting one. I'm browsing in 1280x1024; the image that's set as a background in the bottom frame tiles because of this. I guess the REALLY bad part is the image has someones name, phone, mobile (?), email, and physical address WRITTEN RIGHT ON IT! Over the top is some text that has your email and your name. Gotta admit - it looks horrible on that image. Add to the fact that the image doesn't have YOUR name on it, and I'm not even positive who really designed the site anymore.
Short version:
Graphics: 2/10. Fireworks are distracting, the banner's got issues, the left frame doesn't match ANYTHING on the site, and the bottom frame has an image that doesn't really appear to belong.
Sound: -10/10. You're officially the first site I've reviewed anywhere that actually got a negative number - the reason for this one's simple - Donkey Kong started playing on its own. Soccer site with donkey kong music? Nuh uh. Ain't going there.
Layout: 2/10. Frames are good if done well, and like I mentioned earlier, I have NEVER seen them done well - your site is using them for organization, but it's really falling flat since everything on the site itself seems extremely dis-organized.
Content: 0/10. Content confusion, and on the front page I've got just a sentence or two about what the "Scummerz" are, but then absolutely nothing else - I've got 4 crappy flash games and an unrelated movie instead.
Overall: 2/10 cause I'm feeling overly critical and didn't bother to go into any of the other pages on the site. Theres a good chance some of the other pages were put together better than the front one.
However there's a problem - most users won't stick around after seeing something that dis-organized. That includes even me when I'm trying to do as constructive a review as I can.
As for changing the volume on an embedded flash game, I don't believe thats possible without editing the source to the flash game itself. I might be mistaken on that, but none of the games are loading from your webpage - if I'm right, your only option is to move them off of that page so people don't immediately click close as soon as Donkey Kong starts up.
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