Yup, all very valid pointsAshley wrote:I know its better to pick one hole in yourself than a thousand in others but its always easier to spot other peoples mistakes so here are is some constructive criticism;
On the users panel, the green is very hard to read, even with anti-aliasing turned off.
An upload progress indicator could be nice. Achievable using Ajax.
On the upload form, it tells me one of the fields is too long but doesn't say which, this could be done via JavaScript validation rather than wasting time uploading a file that will go nowhere.
I like the way you use the PM system on these forums to activate accounts - however, seems a bit of a faff and what happens when this forum gets the "bandwidth exceeded" message every couple of months?
People have commented about the overall design, I personally like it however I feel it is more suited towards nerd culture as it reminds me of a command line interface. Possibly making the darker grey slightly darker and options to increase font size would be better. Not sure if you ever studied web accessibility and section 508 etc
. Feature wise (other than fixing the login bug ) an upload meter and client side form validation are both things i'd really like to have, but I just wanted to get something working first. I think once I've got the design fixed up a little bit (which a couple of people now sound interested in helping with 
), I'll work on these.For most of the time when I was writing the current desgin, I was working on a single computer with a very large monitor. I was looking at the site at the uni's computers today and was really suprised at how small the font was, and must admit to really struggling to read the text at all. This was definitely a bit of an oversight, which I'll try and fix tomorrow.
The main reason for using the PM system to create accounts was in an effort to try and limit the site (as much as is reasonably possible) to the dubstep community. I figure that compared to the rest of the site the create user page is going to get used comparatively little, so hopefully when the DSF goes down it should only affect the small numbers of people trying register during that time, and they can always PM/email me if they're really in a ghurry.
I'm really open to new ideas on the registration thing (as for the rest of the site, if anyone has any more suggestions?), but this is the best way i could figure of doing it without risking filling the site with kids and their warez.
Thank you for your comments, they are much appreciated.
Anyway, I hope the site proves useful to people, and I look forward to listening to more tunes!
