Site Ratings & Reviews - Critique needed...

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Critique needed...

jon.harrell@gmail.com

2006-07-10, 11:07 pm

Anybody..... I really need a recent site critiqued.... just startting
out and looking for a few oxtra sets of eyes.... thanks. www.dlc4me.com

-jh

jon.harrellthisisbogustext@XXXXXXXXXX

Ed Mulroy

2006-07-10, 11:07 pm

In both IE6 and Firefox the pages present well and the choice of colors,
while atypical for web pages, work well for this purpose.

On this page:
http://www.dlc4me.com/inventory.php

Clicking on the "Other Locations" button does not change the page shown. If
no other locations are available, text of the effect of "no other locations
available at this time" might be appropriate.

On this page:
http://www.dlc4me.com/Neighborhood.html

Buttons on the left take you to the various communities but the map shown,
http://www.dlc4me.com/images/MapOfVisalia2.gif, does not show where the
names on the buttons are found. Neither do any of the pages shown when
clicking the buttons.

As with the previous page, clicking "Other Locations" does nothing.

> jon.harrell@XXXXXXXXXX wrote in message
> news:1149718090.813194.298950@f6g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>
> Anybody..... I really need a recent site critiqued.... just startting
> out and looking for a few oxtra sets of eyes....
> thanks. www.dlc4me.com

fred.haab@gmail.com

2006-07-10, 11:07 pm

Caveat: using Firefox.

Firefox HTML validator shows 14 warnings.

Inline javascript and style is not a very good choice... you want to
change a sitewide style you'll have to edit every page. I guess that's
a side effect of using an HTML editor instead of doing it by hand.

Thank goodness I have scripting disabled by default. Looks like you've
got annoying pop-ups.

Tsk, tsk.. using tables for layout.

Here's something you're probably more interested in: in the quest for a
fancy unresizable font for the banner, you omitted not only the text
(which you then had to repeat above, making it redundant), but you
omitted the alt tag (or, actually, left it empty). That's not very
good.

Also, I often resize text to go up one or two sizes, depending on the
website. Upsize it one time and that extraneous text on the top line
wraps over your menu bar at the top.

Don't get me wrong - I'm all full of negatives (that's why it's called
alt.html.critique and not alt.html.gush.over.my.site), but it does look
nice, the colors are fine by me, the layout is nice.

I didn't look at all the pages, but the contact page looks funny.
Monday-Friday wraps when absolutely does not have to, and then the
start of the address is just below the office hours (no empty line),
then empty line followed by city and state, then empty line followed by
phone number.

In other words:

-------

Office Hours:
7am - 3pm Monday -
Friday
P.O. Box 32557

Visalia, CA 93292

(559)625-5545

------- Wouldn't it be better like this: -------

Office Hours:
7am - 3pm Monday - Friday

P.O. Box 32557
Visalia, CA 93292
(559)625-5545

-------

Just trying to help.

Quaid

2006-07-10, 11:07 pm

there is no footer navigation
also focus on the images load time while mous over the navigation button.
here i noticed the colour is changing back slow because the page is loading
a small gif back slowly.

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<fred.haab@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote in message
news:1150162279.223183.37360@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> Caveat: using Firefox.
>
> Firefox HTML validator shows 14 warnings.
>
> Inline javascript and style is not a very good choice... you want to
> change a sitewide style you'll have to edit every page. I guess that's
> a side effect of using an HTML editor instead of doing it by hand.
>
> Thank goodness I have scripting disabled by default. Looks like you've
> got annoying pop-ups.
>
> Tsk, tsk.. using tables for layout.
>
> Here's something you're probably more interested in: in the quest for a
> fancy unresizable font for the banner, you omitted not only the text
> (which you then had to repeat above, making it redundant), but you
> omitted the alt tag (or, actually, left it empty). That's not very
> good.
>
> Also, I often resize text to go up one or two sizes, depending on the
> website. Upsize it one time and that extraneous text on the top line
> wraps over your menu bar at the top.
>
> Don't get me wrong - I'm all full of negatives (that's why it's called
> alt.html.critique and not alt.html.gush.over.my.site), but it does look
> nice, the colors are fine by me, the layout is nice.
>
> I didn't look at all the pages, but the contact page looks funny.
> Monday-Friday wraps when absolutely does not have to, and then the
> start of the address is just below the office hours (no empty line),
> then empty line followed by city and state, then empty line followed by
> phone number.
>
> In other words:
>
> -------
>
> Office Hours:
> 7am - 3pm Monday -
> Friday
> P.O. Box 32557
>
> Visalia, CA 93292
>
> (559)625-5545
>
> ------- Wouldn't it be better like this: -------
>
> Office Hours:
> 7am - 3pm Monday - Friday
>
> P.O. Box 32557
> Visalia, CA 93292
> (559)625-5545
>
> -------
>
> Just trying to help.
>