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[Guma]

Okay, let's discuss some some aspects of your webpage that mostly get me stuck within.
Copyrights
Your so called "ProGames" copyright does not hold a real purposse of your game ownery, there's no more detailed information about what kind of copyright is it. Why you may need those?
Because you hold the same license. You hold the same game. If anyone shares a copy of it, what will you do? How we'll will you get out of the situation without a good aknowledgement on internet privacy laws, acts? As for this situation, i suggest you to use Creative Commons.
It's simply one click away to put up a picture to make people believe, popular websites and companies use the same type of protection and copyright.
Site navigation
It appears you use two diffrent websites, one for store and one for navigation right? We'll it's unproffesional. It might be hard for older browser platforms to load up one webpage and then load another one again, the link is diffrent and it gets messy. Both of the services might be messy to work with, you will have to edit from one page to other and so backwards to update both.
Can't you just put up the content in the same navigation bar?
Site service
Never use Weebly or Webs for website creation, they will never fit to company standarts (and it's always visible if the webpage use the service)
Game graphics
I am fine within the gameplay, it's all good, but what makes the games epic? GRAPHICS. It's an eye candy. You have to get it to make players enjoying the gameplay, graphics also shine the style of the game. What i see right now is a bunch of games kiddy drawen with Paint.
Game designer
Now that's all you need. Don't get too fast, getting a Game Designer is hard. The Game Designer has to understand what you wan't, and how you wan't the game to look.
He also can ask you to pay for hes job, so it might be tricky. Try to friend with designer, make a friendship and spend time with him, play hes favourite games, discuss about them, just make him to trust you, and so he might forget about payment at all?

Lastly, no need to over-helm on every criticism, we try to help!

[Jobo]

I'm gonna make this post very short, and just bring up my conclusions;

1. Never on Earth will I download let alone purchase something from a site that looks like yours - terribly unprofessional design in all ways.
2. Your "progamesstore.tk" address gives a proxy error when trying to connect.
3. I've never seen a ".tk" address before. Shows just how unused it is. Why did you pick .tk?

Keep going, someday you'll have a really great website, if you listen to all the feedback and use it

[ProGames™ Company]

The site will be worked on more, and the store with move back onto the company site hopefully soon.

Creative Commons License is for stuff that isn't commercial, and it states what you're allowed to do with that non-commercial free stuff.
I haven't seen companies use CC because it's not used for commercial, copyrighted, trademarked stuff.

Game companies put a license called a EULA in the readme of the games and softwares. That's what we did. We'll soon post it on the site as well under terms of use.

Edited by ProGamesUSA™, 11 May 2012 - 01:09 AM.

[MasterOfKings]

It's just that this forum doesn't allow excessive discussion over web design. See here:

Honestly, that seems like a bit of a stupid rule. I can understand if by "excessive" it means something like talking about the colour of one picture for 30 posts... but the whole design? If you present a website to a forum full of critics just waiting to dig their teeth in, you should expect a lot of discussion about the content and design of the website. Ways you can improve, and the like. If we're not allowed to talk much about that, what can we say?

3. I've never seen a ".tk" address before. Shows just how unused it is. Why did you pick .tk?

Speaking for myself only, because .tk is free. To me, website.tk looks better than website.host.com.

Game companies put a license called a EULA in the readme of the games and softwares. That's what we did. We'll soon post it on the site as well under terms of use.

Who reads End User License Agreements these days?

[Desert Dog]

Honestly, that seems like a bit of a stupid rule. I can understand if by "excessive" it means something like talking about the colour of one picture for 30 posts... but the whole design? If you present a website to a forum full of critics just waiting to dig their teeth in, you should expect a lot of discussion about the content and design of the website. Ways you can improve, and the like. If we're not allowed to talk much about that, what can we say?

Talk about the GM content, that's what this forum is about. That content is the sole reason these website are allowed to be posted here. Members aren't interested in webdesign.. they are interested in GM content. There are other places to discuss web design on the internet, this forum's about GM.

Your last question sums this forum up, actually. This isn't really a discussion forum. People announce their websites. Members can browse and comment. Big discussions are out of place here.

Edited by Desert Dog, 11 May 2012 - 09:46 AM.

[MasterOfKings]

.tk domains are free? Really? Huh.. A "company" with a free domain. I'm just gonna turn around and walk away slowly

Yup. I said a while back, it would be discouraged to use .tk for commercial purposes. Especially considering .tk is blacklisted a lot.

I only read the "Accept and Continue" button

You're not the only one.

[ProGames™ Company]

I haven't been on here lately, but to keep everyone up to date, the following is going on:

- Speedy the Mouse™ and Speedy the Mouse™: Sweetie Strikes Again are getting redone graphics and will be available again shortly.

- The company site is being redone from scratch and will soon be finished with a .com domain.

- GeoGames, David's company that started as a subsidiary to my company has become defunct before it started. He shut down his company because he doesn't know a whole lot of programming, so the Hooper™ and Fallo™ game series were passed on to ProGames™ and development will begin on them after Brandon's Adventures™ is released this Summer/Fall.

[ash47]

Please buy a domain name, .tk domains always look really dodgy, you get all that malware and generally bad stuff coming from .tk ....

[ProGames™ Company]

Please buy a domain name, .tk domains always look really dodgy, you get all that malware and generally bad stuff coming from .tk ....

Look a few posts up. I said I'm almost done redoing the site from scratch and it'll have a .com domain.

Btw, nice poll in your signature.

[NicroGames]

...I'm almost done redoing the site from scratch...

That's a good idea. Remember to change the color scheme though, the previous version was not nice to look at. Another font would be in place too, as the current one looks childish and un-proffesional IMO.

Edited by NicroGames, 31 May 2012 - 12:12 PM.

[JuurianChi]

A helpful tip is to always present media in a very professional manner.
While your website and games may not garner the reception you are looking for, keep at it and you will improve over time.