http://debate-zone.com<p>Any design/UX or features tips would be great.<p>I just want to make sure there's no blatant bugs before my ad runs on reddit Thursday.<p>Some background: Built with Ruby on Rails 2.1 (upgraded to 2.3, I think), basically added small features over the course of 6 months, and I've tried to keep a minimalistic design.<p>Thanks.
This is purely design, but the site is lacking any sort of logo. In fact your page headline (and combining color scheme) almost makes the site look like one of those domain place-holder pages. I'd do up a quick logo, and then maybe hire someone to design you something better.
You can create anchor tags like this:<p>[debatezone](<a href="http://debate-zone.com" rel="nofollow">http://debate-zone.com</a>) debatezone<p>You should make it add rel="nofollow" to the generated links otherwise spammers will post items in order to gain "link juice"
XSS Proof of concept. I've injected javascript into this page:<p><a href="http://debate-zone.com/zones/15" rel="nofollow">http://debate-zone.com/zones/15</a><p>Escape your inputs properly or suffer cookie stealing and session hijacking XSS attacks.
It's comming up fine now on IE 7.0.5730.11 + FireFox 3.5.1 + Chrome 4.1.249.1045 all on XP Pro SP2 behind Zone-alarm with mobile code control off.<p>For development, you can see what browsers are in general use right now with this link:
<a href="http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp</a><p>Here is Evolt's browser archive for downloading older browser versions if you need any:
<a href="http://browsers.evolt.org/" rel="nofollow">http://browsers.evolt.org/</a>
"The easiest way to debate online – argue with people and get points."<p>I would change that to just "The easiest way to debate online" The rest seems superfluous and poorly worded.