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| Corwin Wright 2003-12-03, 7:27 pm |
| Please comment on this, I'm trying to persuade them that it needs fixing :-)
http://www.sportdurham.com
Thanks,
Corwin
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| Eric Bohlman 2003-12-03, 7:27 pm |
| Corwin Wright <corwin.wright@durham.ac.uk> wrote in
news:bp8ltp$9qg$1@sirius.dur.ac.uk:
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> Please comment on this, I'm trying to persuade them that it needs
> fixing :-)
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> http://www.sportdurham.com
Menu items consist solely of images of (too small) text. It took over a
minute for all the images to load; before that, many of the menu items were
simply blank and therefore unusable.
Nearly all the text is too small.
Fixed-width layout, which as another poster has mentioned leads to a
horizontal scrollbar even when everything is in the viewport.
"Help" and "Site Map" look like links, but aren't.
The HTML and CSS need to be validated; before doing this, the HTML needs a
proper doctype and all the ampersands in URLs need to be properly escaped
as & (otherwise the validator will just spit out reams of complaints
about undefined entities).
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| news individual 2003-12-03, 7:28 pm |
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"Corwin Wright" <corwin.wright@durham.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:bp8ltp$9qg$1@sirius.dur.ac.uk...quote:
> Please comment on this, I'm trying to persuade them that it needs fixing
:-)quote:
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> http://www.sportdurham.com
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> Thanks,
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> Corwin
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YUK. Obviously someone thinks that anyone interested in sport at Durham
University will not need to use a large text size - especially for the menu.
And while I'm at it - what happens to anyone browsing who has java turned
off and wants to navigate the site. All this assumes the person has sat
twiddling their thumbs while they patiently wait for the image heavy page to
load.
Jools
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| Steve R. 2003-12-03, 7:28 pm |
| Corwin Wright wrote in message ...quote:
> Please comment on this, I'm trying to persuade them that it needs fixing :-)
> http://www.sportdurham.com
Took forever to load on dial-up.
Probably too many *large* file-size gifs.
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"Steve R." <stevie_ritchie(NOSPAM)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ycIub.4683$th6.40663146@news-text.cableinet.net...quote:
> Corwin Wright wrote in message ...
:-)[QUOTE][color=darkred]
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> Took forever to load on dial-up.
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> Probably too many *large* file-size gifs.
Two hundred and seven K of them.
Even the HTML file is 47K, probably because of the million occurances of
things like this:
<font color='#000066' size='1' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>Womens
Rugby<font color='#660099'>
This is a dreamweaver produced site, with the dreamweaver serial numbers
filed off :-)
Corwin, this site does not need fixing. You should scrape if off onto the
floor and start from scratch.
Cheers
Richard.
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"Corwin Wright" <corwin.wright@durham.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:bp8ltp$9qg$1@sirius.dur.ac.uk...quote:
> Please comment on this, I'm trying to persuade them that it needs fixing
:-)quote:
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> http://www.sportdurham.com
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> Thanks,
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> Corwin
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The site header image is gorgeous, but after that everything heads downhill!
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W
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| kchayka 2003-12-03, 7:28 pm |
| Steve R. wrote:quote:
> Corwin Wright wrote in message ...
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> Took forever to load on dial-up.
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> Probably too many *large* file-size gifs.
It's not only the size of the images, but also the number of them - ~70
images just on the home page, including rollovers. Each one takes an
additional server call, which adds to the load time. Caching will help
some, but not enough.
The nested layout tables add bloat as well, though the nesting isn't as
bad as I expected.
This site does need a diet, or maybe a little amputation. :)
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