JK89 wrote:
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JK89,
You have requested a critique from the alt.html.critique newsgroup using
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OK, here are some specific comments on your site:
- Before I actually got to the site, I received several "connection
refused" messages. I had to reload the page to get through. Once I got
to the home page, I had no further problem.
- I use a 600 X 800 pixel screen area and run my browser (Netscape 7.1)
at full-screen size. With those dimensions, about 15% of your page is
off-screen to the right and I must scroll horizontally to see it.
- Because of that, it was a while before I found the British flag and
was able to switch to English text. My Lithuanian is VERY limited :-) .
- Clicking with the right mouse button anywhere on the page results
in...nothing. Normally I could use this to display source code, obtain
image properties, etc. In Netscape, this is how you open a page in a new
tab, a feature I find very useful, but it doesn't work here. If I
disable JavaScript (easy to do) it works fine, which indicates that you
did it deliberately. That's Bad.
- When I link to another page, the URL in the Address line of my browser
does not change. I believe that would prevent me from bookmarking
anything but the home page. If I click 'Reload' on my browser, it loads
the home page (in Lithuanian) no matter what page I was on.
- I use a 56 Kb connection. It takes a VERY long time for these pages to
load. I'd resolve that by creating more pages, each with less
information. For example, one page for each Eyetrick, with an index page
that lists them by name and links to their pages. By the way, the usual
English phrase for these is 'optical illusions', although I like
Eyetricks better (and you have some great ones).
- On your Contact Us page, you encourage corrections to your English.
Good. I wish more sites would do that. English is not easy and too many
get it wrong. Here's one:
"If you want to exchange banners you must agree with JK89." should be
changed to "If you want to exchange banners, you must get prior approval
from JK89." Actually, I'm not sure that's what you wanted to say.
Obviously, nobody can get you to put their banner on your site without
your permission. And they can link to your site without permission.
Perhaps it would be better to say, "Feel free to link to our site. If
you wish to use the copyrighted banner image below, please contact me
first for permission."
- On the links page, you have a LONG list of URLs. I can deduce the
content I'll find behind some of them, but wouldn't it be more useful to
list their real names? Example: <a
href="http://www.stewartstudio.com/tips/phototip.htm">Photoshop
tutorials from Stewart Studio</a>. Of course that would require more
translation.
- The page you sent us to uses frames, but contains only a single frame
which in turn points to the real page (and does the same thing if my
browser doesn't support frames). This seems to be an odd form of
redirect. I'm not sure what you had in mind here. You would probably
have done better to have us start the critique at
http://www.freepgs.com/jk89/index%20EN.php.
- The navigation buttons on the left side are not visible when I first
display the page; I have to scroll down to see them. When I link to
another page, I have to again scroll down to see them, etc. Since there
is nothing else in this column, why not just keep them visible at all times?
- If I increase or decrease the text size, the navigation links remain
the same size. That could be a problem for some users. Because you have
specified font sizes in pixels, Internet Explorer will not resize them
at all. % values would work. (100% is the user's preferred size).
- Many pages have internal windows, i.e. separate areas that have to be
scrolled separately from the main window. I find that to be distracting.
I use a mouse wheel to scroll and those windows, combined with the need
to scroll horizontally to see everything, makes viewing each page difficult.
- There's no DOCTYPE in your pages, which probably means you haven't
validated them. See the web page I referred to at the top of this post.
- Lots of people don't like web sites to alter their scroll-bar colors.
Since Netscape doesn't support it anyway, it doesn't bother me.
- As each page loads, there's a lot of rapid flickering, with some of
the text written high, then lower, then higher again. The position of
elements on the screen should not change once they have appeared. It
jumps around for about 1 second; if you have a fast link, it may happen
too fast for you to see it.
- Many people find motion on the page to be distracting. The moths
around the light are so small they aren't a problem, but the scrolling
banners at the lower right will annoy some people.
- Although you are using some CSS, you are also using some deprecated
(obsolete) HTML keywords which could be replaced by CSS. To find them,
add a DOCTYPE for HTML 4.01 STRICT and run the pages through a validator.
- Your CSS does not need to appear on every page. Instead, you can put
it all in a page of its own and <link> to that page from each HTML page.
This will help ensure that your style is consistent throughout the site
and will be easier to maintain.
Regards,
Chris Beall
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