Web Site Feedback

Theoran · #1 December 13th, 2002, 10:52 PM

All right guys.

I just finished re-doing my site. I've made a lot of cosmetic
changes as well as code changes. Added a little css and a little
javascript.

I need some feedback. I know the page load is going to be slow
because of the Tripod banner. How is the navigation, layout, &
looks in you all's opinion?

The Ramblings of Theoran

lafave · #2 December 14th, 2002, 04:42 AM

looks good to me......easy to find information & layout is good.....loaded fast for me ( on dsl) ..

**Spider** · #3 December 14th, 2002, 05:22 AM

Other than the initial Tripod banner lag-on-load the speed is good.
Nice arrangement, easy navigation, tutes page is full of great info.

**degsy** · #4 December 14th, 2002, 02:32 PM

Definately looks good and I had no problems with download speeds.

There are a few coding errors though.
You seem to be mixing HTML & XHTML.
http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/default.asp

<br /> is XHTML, but you have nothing in your page (DTD) to indicate that your page is XHTML.

In your SideMenu you haven't closed any of the links.
You also have some unclosed font tags near the guestbook code.

Theoran · #5 December 17th, 2002, 03:54 PM

Thanks for the feedback guys.

degsy,

I have made the changes you suggested. I've got two problems
that I need help with.

This is prewritten code from bravenet. The problem is, when
viewing my home page with Opera the bravenet stuff is moved
all the way to the left instead of being centered in the table.

Code:

      <div align="center">
        <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" border="2" bordercolordark="#003399" bordercolorlight="#336699">
          <tr>
            <td align="center">
              <a href="http://www.bravenet.com/"><img src="http://images.bravenet.com/pub/sitering/main.gif" width="134" height="61" alt="Bravenet SiteRing" border="0" /></a>
            </td>
            <td align="center">
              <font size="2">The Ramblings of Theoran<br>is a proud member of the<br>
              <a href="http://pub35.bravenet.com/sitering/nav.php?usernum=2922436806&action=list&siteid=36291" target="_blank">The Amazing Techs SiteRing</a><br></font>
              <br>This site is owned by<br/><font color="#333399">Theoran Brown</font>
            </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td colspan="2" align="center">
              <a href="http://pub35.bravenet.com/sitering/nav.php?usernum=2922436806&action=prev&siteid=36291"><img src="http://images.bravenet.com/pub/sitering/prev.gif" width="69" height="25" alt="Previous Site" border="0" /></a>
              <a href="http://pub35.bravenet.com/sitering/nav.php?usernum=2922436806&action=list&siteid=36291"><img src="http://images.bravenet.com/pub/sitering/list.gif" width="69" height="25" alt="List Sites" border="0" .></a>
              <a href="http://pub35.bravenet.com/sitering/nav.php?usernum=2922436806&action=random&siteid=36291"><img src="http://images.bravenet.com/pub/sitering/random.gif" width="69" height="25" alt="Random Site" border="0" /></a>
              <a href="http://pub35.bravenet.com/sitering/nav.php?usernum=2922436806&action=join&siteid=36291"><img src="http://images.bravenet.com/pub/sitering/join.gif" width="69" height="25" alt="Join Ring" border="0" /></a>
              <a href="http://pub35.bravenet.com/sitering/nav.php?usernum=2922436806&action=next&siteid=36291"><img src="http://images.bravenet.com/pub/sitering/next.gif" width="69" height="25" alt="Next Site" border="0" /></a> 
            </td>
          </tr>
        </table>
        <a href="http://www.bravenet.com/">SiteRing by Bravenet.com</a>
      </div>

The smae applies for the search form

Code:

      <p align="center">Search this website.<br><b>(I'm still working on this)</b><br>
      <FORM name=formSear action="javascript:RunSearch()" method="POST">
      <INPUT name=searWords >&nbsp;<INPUT name=Send type=submit value=Search>
      </FORM></p>

**degsy** · #6 December 17th, 2002, 05:02 PM

The bravnet seems fine. I check it in NS4 and Opera6

Use div align="center" for the search box.

Code:

<p align="center">Search this website.<br><b>(I'm still working on this)</b><br></p>
      
<div align="center">  
<FORM name=formSear action="java script:RunSearch()" method="POST">

    <INPUT name=searWords >
    <INPUT name=Send type=submit value=Search>

</FORM>  
</div>

BadChicken · #7 December 17th, 2002, 05:29 PM

I think I might spend some more time there in the future. I know nothing about creating a web site or HTML, for what it's worth I thing it was easy to get around and looks like there is a lot of great information there. I did find one typo on the "About Me' page in the first paragraph. I copied it here.

Quote:

I have been working on computers for about seven years and have been writing web pages in HTML for a little under a year. Look below and you will see a picture of me.

Theoran · #8 December 17th, 2002, 07:41 PM

Thanks guys. Fixed the misspelled word also.

Jethro · #9 December 28th, 2002, 09:10 PM

All rightly time to get way critical

No problems with load (currently on 56k modem and it bounced up quickly with no errors).

Nice site layout, easy to navigate and informative.

Couple of points,

1. Probably just me, but think the home page could do with some spicing up ... doesn't immediatly grab attention.

2. The errors page is just way too hard to work out. Might be cause l didn't have a question or an error message to search on.

Nice work dude...

Theoran · #10 January 10th, 2003, 09:05 PM

I spiced up the home page as much as I could.

I'm not that spicey.

JoJo Gunn · #11 January 11th, 2003, 10:16 PM

Looks good to me. And it doesn't have frames!