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Re: Could you please critique my website?

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

2004-08-15, 7:16 am

Quoth the raven 007:

> Hi there,
>
> Could you guys please give me constructive feedback on the site I
> work for? It is http://www.youwager.com

But... I don't gamble.

> I am in charge of their online marketing, and would like to improve
> things I may have overlooked. Thank you! :)

Start here. 102 errors.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=h...youwager.com%2F

It's all jammed over in the left two-thirds of my monitor.
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign

--
-bts
-This space intentionally left blank.

kate.simpson

2004-08-15, 7:16 am

Ana:
Hello :)
Well, that sure is a lot of info. there and I didn't see any
errors/misssspellingggs, etc.
Good job!
Ginae
http://www.ginae.us

"007" <ana@youwager.com> wrote in message
news:6582e78a.0408141553.b366994@posting.google.com...
> Hi there,
>
> Could you guys please give me constructive feedback on the site I work
> for? It is http://www.youwager.com
>
> I am in charge of their online marketing, and would like to improve
> things I may have overlooked. Thank you! :)
>
> Ana.

jake

2004-08-15, 7:16 am

In message <6582e78a.0408141553.b366994@posting.google.com>, 007
<ana@youwager.com> writes
>Hi there,
>
>Could you guys please give me constructive feedback on the site I work
>for? It is http://www.youwager.com
>
>I am in charge of their online marketing, and would like to improve
>things I may have overlooked. Thank you! :)
>
>Ana.

Just looking at the first page it seems like many of the images have no
alternative text. It's important that they have alternative text so that
people (the visually-impaired, the dyslexic, etc.) using screen-readers,
etc. can understand and navigate their way around your site. It's
*especially* important where the image serves as a link (which some do).

Set the alternative text on images that contain no information (e.g.
used for spacing) to null i.e. ALT=""

regards.

--
Jake

Dave Patton

2004-08-15, 12:17 pm

ana@youwager.com (007) wrote in
news:6582e78a.0408141553.b366994@posting.google.com:

> Hi there,
>
> Could you guys please give me constructive feedback on the site I work
> for? It is http://www.youwager.com
>
> I am in charge of their online marketing, and would like to improve
> things I may have overlooked. Thank you! :)

Use the trailing slash where required: http://www.youwager.com/
Fix the validation errors.
You are missing headings.
Don't use tables for layout.

--
Dave Patton
Canadian Coordinator, Degree Confluence Project
http://www.confluence.org/
My website: http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/

Neal

2004-08-15, 7:16 pm

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 02:55:01 GMT, kate.simpson
<kate.simpson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Ana:
> Hello :)
> Well, that sure is a lot of info. there and I didn't see any
> errors/misssspellingggs, etc.
> Good job!

May I ask what criterion you are considering when evaluating a website?
Bearing in mind the name of this ng is alt.html.critique, does it in any
way include the quality of the HTML?

If you're noting that there are no spelling errors or grammatical
problems, and that's the extent of it, that's fine, but please make it
clear that you were only considering that aspect of web authoring, and not
the HTML code itself.

Neal

2004-08-16, 12:17 pm

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 14:14:12 GMT, Dave Patton <spam@trap.invalid> wrote:

> Use the trailing slash where required: http://www.youwager.com/

I was recently told that, contrary to what you say here and what I
formerly believed, adding that slash is not "required". If the link were
to a subdirectory, like http://www.example.com/subdirectory/ , then the
slash IS needed to prevent the browser from looking for a document named
"subdirectory". But in the current context, the server will send a default
home page in any case.

Neal

2004-08-16, 7:17 pm