My website: Any suggestions?

Rubikgenius

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Hi everyone,

As you may know, I have a website about speedcubing. I have some articles on speedcubing and blindfold cubing. Brian Yu ( byu) has also submitted some articles. Do you have any suggestions, requests, or comments?

Constructive criticism is appreciated :)

Thanks

P.S. The website link is in the signature
 
By vague, do you mean just too general?

I will try to beef them up in the summer, thanks for the suggestion though
 
Cubegeek.net said:
Orientation of the edges: Okay this the first step to solve while BLD cubing. You need to correctly orient your edges. In other words, make sure that you can solve that edge without doing an R or L move. If you need to do an R or L that means it is incorrectly flipped according to your color scheme. The most simple algo is: M U M U M U2 M' U M' U M' U2. This alg flips your front top edge and the back top edge. If you do this a while you should be able to pinpoint the misoriented edges naturally. You can use any moves to set the 2 edges up in the front up position and back up position. Just do the inverse of the moves, so like if I did R U B to set it up, I would do B' U' R' to reverse the setup.

That's ALL that you do to describe edge orientation. To me it makes sense, but to a beginner this would probably really confuse them.
 
Off the topic of your website, but your tutorial seems to restrict moves to <UDFBL2R2> and I think its easier to restrict to <UDLRF2B2>
It's easier setups, but both work fine.
 
Your website seems kind of not-filled-out for a "#1 speedcubing resource". Don't make claims like that unless you can back them up. My first impression is that you are an arrogant liar and that makes me a lot less likely to read your articles. I also get this impression from your username (Rubikgenius? you gotta be kidding).

I suggest removing the "world news" thing - it makes your website look more cluttered and doesn't have anything to do with cubing. (Maybe you could put the About Me/Links/Privacy Policy things there?) Also I strongly suggest that you add a glossary, and you might want to consider making the text column larger, because it feels cramped and tiny.

You have many many spelling/grammar mistakes - reread the articles to make sure they are as readable as possible. As far as organization, don't just put huge blocks of text - use headers of various sizes to break it up (for instance in the Fridrich section you should put "cross", "F2L", etc. as large bold text) so that people easily know what section they are reading. HTML

As for individual pages, your Notation page is just a copy of the WCA regulations without explanation. Your beginner page has an entire paragraph in bold and I think the 4x4 and 5x5 section is completely bold (NEVER HAVE A BOLD PARAGARPH, NO MATTER HOW IMPORTANT THAT PARAGRAPH IS... IT'S JUST AS ANNOYING AS TYPING IN ALL CAPS), and also very many paragraphs that just look like a wall of text without any breaks; in addition the images are of several different sizes (and you might want to learn how to make the text go around the image; it's by using the CSS "float" property). For the weekly contest it looks like you don't really know what you are doing. You only provide 3 scrambles (for what, mean of 3? who does that?) and you say "milliseconds" to mean probably hundredths of a second. Also you don't seem to have any links to past contests or anything like that, so it's not clear if the contest is even running.

Keep associated articles together. For instance, on the left hand menu, you might want to have sections such as "basics", "speedcubing", "blindfold solving", "miscellaneous". If you don't do that you should at least organize the articles so that all of the basic articles are at the top, and all of the blindfold articles are right next to each other.

Your "about me" page is on top of the header image (in case you didn't know...) and again it's just walls of text with lots of white space between paragraphs. For your records you REALLY should put averages of 12 rather than single solves... and you should also realize that your times really aren't very impressive. I mean, no offense, but if you're going to try to create a website that aims to be the best place to go for speedcubing information, you should really try to be fast enough that it seems like you are an expert. A 15 second PB single isn't "mind blowing" at all really - 474 people have gotten an official time under 15 seconds.

All in all it's cool that you've put so much work into the page, but you should really work on the presentation, because my first impression is that you're enthusiastic but don't really know what you're doing.
 
You have many many spelling/grammar mistakes - reread the articles to make sure they are as readable as possible. As far as organization, don't just put huge blocks of text
^^ this.

Your "about me" page is on top of the header image
He probably doesn't... you'd have to have really low resolution for that to happen. Not worth catering to people with resolution that low. There probably should be a min-width property on the wrapping, though.

Its nice that everything is one click away, and the design looks ok. It is a bit jumbled though, and could use better organization.
 
Speaking of what PatrickJameson said, I made two articles! So it's not ALL CONTENT made by you, my articles are "content"

Ummm... If you read what I wrote, I put "unless otherwise noted" on the footer of each page.

I appreciate all the feedback that I have gotten, thanks, I will work on it
 
Off the topic of your website, but your tutorial seems to restrict moves to <UDFBL2R2> and I think its easier to restrict to <UDLRF2B2>
It's easier setups, but both work fine.

Technically, that should be written as <U,D,F,B,L2,R2> & <U,D,L,R,F2,B2> (with commas). Without the commas, <UDLRF2B2> really means you can only use the sequence U D L R F2 B2, rather than the individual moves. <UDLRF2B2> is a cyclic group containing only 6 elements, while <U,D,L,R,F2,B2> is a large group with over 21 quadrillion elements. Commas make a big difference! :)
 
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