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Please Critique Site.

2005-07-15, 10:16 am

Just got thru with this site, would everyone please give me some feedback.

http://www.sdsportventures.com

Thank you,
Craig Murray
CSM Consulting,LLC
http://www.csmconsulting.com

Barbara de Zoete

2005-07-15, 10:16 am

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:46:30 -0500, <craig@themurrays.org> wrote:

> Just got thru with this site, would everyone please give me some feedback.
>
> http://www.sdsportventures.com
>

Although it looks like it could have some potential (although the font size is
too small), under the hood it's a mess:

“What an individual can
be, he must be. He must be true
to his own nature.

????

<http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=h...lt.asp%3FID%3D2>
for 33 errors in your starting page. Didn't bother to check the rest.

Try to get some basic knowledge on how to structure an html document.

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Beauregard T. Shagnasty

2005-07-15, 10:16 am

craig@themurrays.org wrote:
> Just got thru with this site, would everyone please give me some
> feedback.
>
> http://www.sdsportventures.com

I agree with Barbara, especially about the font size. Those without
Verdana will be unable to read the page, unless they know how to
increase their font sizes. Better you adjust your own browser and give
us our desired font-size: 100%; in your style sheets.

FONT-SIZE: 68.75%; is flyspecks.

In your CSS, you don't need to repeat font-family; use it once in the
body { }.

Google for why Verdana is not a good idea. For example:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html

Somewhere at Google, they say that URLs with "ID=something" are not
spidered, so none of your related links will be indexed.

<URL:http://validator.w3.org/check?verbo...lt.asp%3FID%3D2>
<URL:http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/...lt.asp%3FID%3D2>

> http://www.csmconsulting.com

Same comments apply to this site.

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jake

2005-07-15, 10:16 am

In message <eVuBe.44611$B_3.31937@fe05.lga>, craig@themurrays.org writes
>Just got thru with this site, would everyone please give me some feedback.
>
>http://www.sdsportventures.com
>
>
>Thank you,
>Craig Murray
>CSM Consulting,LLC
>http://www.csmconsulting.com
>
>
For about 85% of your audience it's quite adequate (although the HTML
won't win any prizes).

i.e. Internet Explorer 6 users with good eyesight, javascript and Flash
enabled.

(Although, if the IE users needs to increase the size of the font, the
menu will not enlarge. If the user then overrides the menu font size,
you have problems as the menu width does not increase to cater for the
enlarged text.)

There are some layout problems with Opera and Firefox, so check your
pages in as many browsers as you can.

Some obvious things to attend to:
(a) mark up all headings as headings (H1, H2, etc)
(b) ensure all images have suitable ALT text
(c) If javascript is disabled, clicking on the thumbnails in the gallery
won't produce an enlarged version in a new window.
(d) On your links page, provide a description of the sites you're
linking to.
(e) On each page, disable the link in the menu that points to itself
e.g. On the Contact Info page, disable the Contact Info link.
(f) read up on HTML, CSS and flexible design (not forgetting to find out
what a <!DOCTYPE entry does).
(g) Then check out your pages again in multiple browsers, with optional
components (javascript, flash) disabled and see if it all hangs
together.

Pages that validate are always a bonus ;-)

regards.

--
Jake
(jake@gododdin.demon.co.uk .... just a spam trap.)

DJ Craig

2005-07-15, 11:28 pm

Looks great in IE, but it's a mess in Firefox. That's unusual, it's
usually the other way around. You must have done all of your testing
in IE and never any other browser. Always test in as many browsers as
you can. If you can't get your layout to work in all browsers, then
simplify the layout. Heres how your site looks in Firefox:
http://www.DJTricities.com/site.jpg

Tzvook55

2005-07-17, 2:21 am

quote:
Looks great in IE, but it's a mess in Firefox. That's unusual, it's

Yep, the right red box is not in place in FireFox
one more thing: about 20 pixels horizonal scroll in both IE and FireFox...
Other then that ... a nice clean & simple design