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Ray

2006-07-10, 11:07 pm

My first ever, brand new web site is www.anxietyandstressrelief.net I
would appreciate a review with feedback a computer novice can
understand (hopefully, if not I'll pass on the technojargon to my web
site designer). My readings tell me that I should get feedback before
listing my site on directories.

Ray Lightstone, Psy.D.
www.anxietyandstressrelief.net

Paul Watt

2006-07-10, 11:07 pm

"Ray" <raypsyd@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:1151595247.688919.74770@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> My first ever, brand new web site is www.anxietyandstressrelief.net I
> would appreciate a review with feedback a computer novice can
> understand (hopefully, if not I'll pass on the technojargon to my web
> site designer). My readings tell me that I should get feedback before
> listing my site on directories.
>
> Ray Lightstone, Psy.D.
> www.anxietyandstressrelief.net
>

Hi,
On first glance it looks good. Nice simple layout. Then you look at the
code. Hmmmm. I see your using Front Page. This "editor" produces truly
horrible code such as the in-line css utelised.you should look into external
CSS files. Your layout could easily be produced using css, google 3 col
layout + css. The tables (ab)used for this layout is sooo 1995 :)

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Cheers

Paul

http://www.paulwatt.info

mbstevens

2006-07-10, 11:07 pm

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:34:07 -0700, Ray wrote:

> My first ever, brand new web site is www.anxietyandstressrelief.net I
> would appreciate a review with feedback

Waiting for the 85k head-shot to load makes me extremely anxious. ;)
Pull it into your image editor. You'll find that you can lower
the 'quality' a lot without lowering the visual quality to a human
viewer. I think you should be able to get a shot that size down to
about 15-20K tops.

The page as a whole is a slow loader over dial-up, too.
It's been a couple of months since I've seen FrontPage generated
code. The version you've got is generating code that looks over
a decade old. I'd dump the generator and learn a bit of
[X]HTML / CSS by searching out a good web standards
template to modify.

Jim Moe

2006-07-10, 11:07 pm

Ray wrote:
> My first ever, brand new web site is www.anxietyandstressrelief.net I
> would appreciate a review with feedback a computer novice can
> understand (hopefully, if not I'll pass on the technojargon to my web
> site designer). My readings tell me that I should get feedback before
> listing my site on directories.
>
- Find a designer who knows something about modern HTML and CSS coding
practices.

- Lots of HTML validation errors.
<http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=h...trict&verbose=1>

- The main text size is too small. I am not sure how many pixels that 9pt
becomes (it looks about 75%), but it is less than my preferred reading size.
Also the size is in pt (points). Font sizing in both points and pixels
is not resizeable in Internet Explorer. So many of your visitors will have
to squint to read the text. Especially those that do not have the Verdana
font.

- The rose image pushes your main title off the right side of the
browser's viewport. I have to scroll right to read it. An unnecessary
annoyance.
If you want both images, the rose image should be on the right.
The two images are the main header. They should be marked up with an
<h1> element, and given "alt" attributes to have search engines more
pleased with your site.

- The logo in the Contact page is different from the one in the main title.

- The contact column is a waste of space. Especially since there is a
separate menu item, Contact, that lists mostly the same information.
Removing that column allows more space for your actual content in the
center. And the font is so small not many people can read it any way.

- The center column should not scroll. What is the point of limiting the
height since I have to scroll down to where I have to scroll down again?
It is a completely unnecessary annoyance factor.

- The links on the left: Those are lists of links. Use a list element,
<ul>, as markup. Line wrap then looks much cleaner as well. And the column
can be narrowed to give more room for real content.

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JDS

2006-07-10, 11:07 pm

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:34:07 -0700, Ray wrote:

> My readings tell me that I should get feedback before
> listing my site on directories.

As far as "feedback-prior-to-listing" is concerned, maybe, maybe not. Is
your site content-complete? You may want to start listing yourself anyway,
as the WWW is a very fluid publishing medium and you can make corrections
and updates continuously, in a way that printed media would not allow.

Lots of good, well written, focused, organized CONTENT. Kudos!

I like the color theme. Appropriately relaxing for the content matter.

I like the bare simplicity of the layout.

I *don't* like the use of frames. A much better choice would be a
set of templated HTML pages. Frames are much easier for the non-web
developer to implement, but they are severly flawed. look it up on google.

Your code does not validate AT ALL.

There are some problems with character sets and improper characters. This
problem is actually quite common, and it is, IMO, the fault of Microsoft.
See this:
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbo...f.net%2Foc.html

"Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 43, 63, 90
it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other
words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character
Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character
encoding indication."

Actually, I think you can fix that problem by declaring a character
encoding.

The page is really really really extra extra loooooooong. Lots of extra
whitespace after the text ends. What gives?

That's all for now! later...

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Stan McCann

2006-07-10, 11:07 pm

"Ray" <raypsyd@verizon.net> wrote in
news:1151595247.688919.74770@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:

> My first ever, brand new web site is www.anxietyandstressrelief.net
> I would appreciate a review with feedback a computer novice can
> understand (hopefully, if not I'll pass on the technojargon to my
> web site designer). My readings tell me that I should get feedback
> before listing my site on directories.

If you paid someone for that work, get your money back; they do not
know what they are doing. That site might have been just fine 10
years ago, but not for today. Ask your "designer" why there is no
doctype. If he asks what that is, run away! The "designer" did not
specify backgrounds for all areas, so I see an ugly purple in these
areas. Some of the menus wrap poorly. Four "pages" of nothing before
finding the footer? What's with the scroll bar at the bottom of the
center column? The coding is a nightmare to look at; Frontpage, eek!
Run away, run away!

Overall, it is a nice looking layout, it is just implemented poorly.
As I have been under a lot of stress lately, I will be looking more
closely at the content.

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