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Could you please critique my website?

007

2004-08-16, 7:17 pm

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.

Dave Patton

2004-08-18, 11:15 pm

Neal <neal413@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:opscr8zaiw6v6656@news.individual.net:

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

OK, I was wrong on two counts :-(
First, I shouldn't have said "required".
Secondly, the final character within this quoted
string - "http://www.example.com/" - is not a
"trailing slash". It is in fact the leading slash
of the path part of the URL.
Because a GET request needs to be of the form
'GET / HTTP/1.1', browsers will in effect add
the 'leading slash' when you use "http://www.example.com".
Having said that, it's still good practice to include
the "trailing slash", just so that it does get used
in cases where it is required.

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

Neal

2004-08-19, 4:17 am

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.

kate.simpson

2004-08-19, 7:15 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.