Hi, I am the webmaster and executive producer for a television program called Breaking News.

Our new website is up, and I wanted to get criticism from the Massassians.

http://www.nttvbreakingnews.com/

Thanks in advance

The entire site looks very nice. A lot better than before. My only complaint in the logo looks a bit compressed or .GIF'D! or something. Even that isn't too bad. Good work.

yeah, I'm going to res up the logo and go back to the original as soon as I'm fixed with all the coding. All the graphics can use a little work, as some of them have the dark navy blue in them, instead of transparent pixels. That means, on a few elements, it looks funny. But that's really at another level right now.

I'm mainly trying to get everything working with the registration system and forums.

I got the RSS up, and I'd love for people to try it in as many readers as possible.

I'll also have the downloadable episodes up as soon as I figure out the right format to dual cast, in Podcast in iTunes, and the downloadable. I'm just a bit away from figuring out the video podcast format for iTunes, and then, I'll encode the episodes in the right structure.

It looks .gif'd because it is a .gif (use .png, man).
Why are you using frames, though?

if you use a png, remember to strip the gamma data out of the file

A. You are using PHPNuke, which is even MORE insecure than PHPBB, which it is based off of. Not to mention you get all the security vulnerabilities from it.
B. Fix the logo. If you use PNG, only use an alpha channel if you have the IE hack installed for your webserver.
C. You are using frames for no discernable reason.
D. The main site does not validate at all. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nttvbreakingnews.com%2F
Fix everything listed there (it's all to do with the frames page)
E. In addition, the ACTUAL main page has MASSIVE issues with validation (many probably to do with the fact you hardly use CSS, and rely on PHPNuke too much) http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2F66.171.165.85%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline
F. The forums are borked.
G. The RSS feed is borked due to your crazy use of frames. It only appears for me in Firefox when I browse the actual page instead of the frames page.
H. It is not EXXXTREME enough.

But yeah, got a lot to do.

That's really odd. There shouldn't be any frames, which really bugs me. Is it just the logo and header portion?

Further on, while I understand the security risks and the fact that PHP Nuke, for the most part, shows the world I have no skillz, it allows me to have the most important feature, news posts that show up. I can't understand the PHP scheme just yet to load a news post from another document, and I'm still just playing hit and run to modify the theme to use my graphics to make it look decent.

I feel it's a lot better than my original site, with better functionality, and not made in Frontpage, but I understand there are many small elements that bring the site down.

Any more help is apprechiated.

[UPDATE]

I found out why there is a frames page. My domain server, for whatever reason, uses a frames page to link nttvbreakingnews.com to 66.171.165.85 which is the server IP.

That should help...uh...a lot!

They don't bring the site down. I think it's a solid start, and the design looks nice, too. Just keep working on it. And don't take any criticism you get on Massassi too seriously. People are used to very high standards here. And they sometimes forget to put their comments into proportion. But you should know this already.

Alright, so far, I've taken care of:

A. PHPNuke is what I'm using. I've patched it with the latest PHPNuke patch to improve the security issues. Overall, I'm not overly worried about security.
B. The Logo has been fixed. It's still a Gif, but it came directly from the source picture. It's a lot better.
C. Frames are gone. My "web forwarding" was setup incorrectly, and I found out my nameservers hadn't actually used my ip to name correctly. It's now COMPLETELY fixed.
D. Main site still does not "validate" correctly, but as it's not the frames page i can move on to the next point....
E. I don't know half of the code they've got in the Nuke, and, while I'm learning, and while I learned enough to modify the theme into working really well for me, I doubt I'll be able to fix 146 errors. In the meantime to me fixing that, I'll drop the links to the validation sites. I know that's "cheating" a little, but it's an informational site for a college television station's broadcast.
F. Forums are still borked like a mother. I'm working on why that is....
G. RSS is fixed and works in every reader I've tried it in. Working on getting the episodes up on podcast, now.
H. Using Burning Heat is violating copyright. Sorry.