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Please Critique www.tips-tricks-tools.com

javawizard

2007-02-04, 6:17 pm

My brand new site - completed today. Your thoughts apprecated!
- Jeff
www.tips-tricks-tools.com

Georgia

2007-02-04, 6:17 pm

On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:28:58 -0800, javawizard wrote:

> My brand new site - completed today. Your thoughts apprecated!
> - Jeff
> www.tips-tricks-tools.com

The HTML seems confused; can't tell for sure because the left frame has
absolutely no formatting. There is also no reason whatever to be using
frames on a site like this. I can tell you're sources of tutorials are
very, very old by web time. Markup looks like it is from 1995.

Suggest readings at w3.org, webstandards.org, alistapart.com,
realworldstyle.com, and throwing away the old books or tutorials you have.

Chris F.A. Johnson

2007-02-04, 6:17 pm

On 2007-02-04, javawizard wrote:
> My brand new site - completed today. Your thoughts apprecated!
> - Jeff
> www.tips-tricks-tools.com

On modern monitors, dark type on a light (but not white) background
is generally easier to read than light on dark.

Why do your pages have a link to themselves?

The colour for visited links is hard to read (did you remember to
set it, or does it use the default?).

Overall (apart from the colours), the design looks good, but why
are you using frames?

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inherited from the days of manual typewriters. In those days, a
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No, it's not true. It was designed so that people *could* type
faster, by placing frequent letter combinations away from each
other to prevent jamming. (That's the moving arms that struck the
platen, not necessarily the keys themselves.)

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Beauregard T. Shagnasty

2007-02-05, 3:15 am

Georgia wrote:

> On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:28:58 -0800, javawizard wrote:
>

Today? <lol>
[color=darkred]
>
> The HTML seems confused; can't tell for sure because the left frame has
> absolutely no formatting. There is also no reason whatever to be using
> frames on a site like this.

The frame is 'stealth' redirection for the real URL,
http://www.intellectual-playground.com/ttt/

Under that, it's a typical FrontPage site. The content is skewed to the
right side of my browser window, and there is this fairly wide empty
area on the left. There's also a huge scrollable empty area below the
minimal content, way down to the 'free counter'.

Cyan on black is hard on the eyes.

Wait. Didn't we look at this site a couple weeks ago? Yeah:
<http://groups.google.com/group/alt....166e203340bb91d>

Then it was www. bigbreakthrough. info What's up with all the
redirecting domain names, and why do you want to critique the same thing
again?

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

Berimor

2007-02-05, 6:16 pm

Its not possible to look on such colors composition longer than a minute.
Terrible gamma!

On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:28:58 +0200, javawizard <javawizard@aol.com> wrote:

> My brand new site - completed today. Your thoughts apprecated!
> - Jeff
> www.tips-tricks-tools.com
>

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Ed Seedhouse

2007-02-05, 6:16 pm

On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:14:06 +0200, Berimor <berimor@berimor.ber> wrote:

>On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:28:58 +0200, javawizard <javawizard@aol.com> wrote:
>
[color=darkred]
>Its not possible to look on such colors composition longer than a minute.
>Terrible gamma!

Agreed, in spades! What posesses people to make such terrible colour
choices? A desire to "sex up" a site that is basically just text?
Madness!

It might actually be a decent useable site with black text on a white
background, though.

javawizard

2007-02-06, 6:19 pm

Hi Folks,
Thanks for the excellent critique.
As to the colors, yes, I'll go back to conventional colors in
subsequent sites.
As to the frames - that confuses me. I'm not using frames, and
don't see any such effect in my browsers. I am forwarding the site to
a folder under another domain name via Godaddy. And, I've got Google
Adsense running on the left of most pages. Maybe something isn't
running right for some of you. I'll check into that.
- Jeff

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

2007-02-06, 6:19 pm

javawizard wrote:

> As to the frames - that confuses me. I'm not using frames, and don't
> see any such effect in my browsers.

While viewing your tips-tricks-tools.com main page, select to View
Source in your browser.

Snippet:

<frameset rows="100%,*" border="0">
<frame src="http://www.intellectual-playground.com/ttt"
frameborder="0" />
<frame frameborder="0" noresize />
</frameset>

Notice how as you click various links on this site, that the URL in the
location bar never changes. The frames cause this, disallowing visitors
to bookmark individual pages.

> I am forwarding the site to a folder under another domain name via
> Godaddy.

...which is the stealth redirecting I mentioned a couple of days ago, and
how the frames got there.

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

Andrew

2007-02-06, 10:16 pm

On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:28:58 -0800, javawizard wrote:

> My brand new site - completed today. Your thoughts apprecated!
> - Jeff
> www.tips-tricks-tools.com

Hi Jeff,

I appreciated the content of the site, Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a
subject that is heard more of these days and I know some people who have
benefited greatly from it. Good to see the word being spread!

Others have pointed out a few flaws in the html but the thing that
strikes me most is the advertisements: they are very intrusive, distort
the layout of the pages and your site would be better without them.

Do you actually make that much money from them? I believe you would be
better allowing your site to be a business card for your work courtesy of
its content than picking up a few dollars from Google ads.

All the best,

Andrew

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Georgia

2007-02-07, 3:15 am

On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:08:28 +1100, Andrew wrote:

> On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:28:58 -0800, javawizard wrote:
>
[color=darkred]
> I appreciated the content of the site, Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a
> subject that is heard more of these days and I know some people who have
> benefited greatly from it. Good to see the word being spread!

Hrm. However, before commiting, it might be advisable to read the
opposite opinion:
http://skepdic.com/neurolin.html