Art site critique request...
Denis Gervais
SAZ
says...
Your code is a mess.
Horizontal scroll bar in 800 x 600 caused by your use of fixed widths.
The site is too busy, with everything crammed together. All these varying
fonts and images are distracting. Your columns don't line up.
Not a very user-friendly or attractive site.
Sorry, but you need to start over.
Bryan Anderson
I think I said this last time, but for an art site, there's an awful
lot of text on the page. Granted it's good for search engines and
soon, but your site ought to be showing off the artwork much more.
At 800x600 there isn't even a painting on show "above the fold",
which isn't good for those viewers who make snap decisions on whether
to stay with a site or not based on the first page they see.
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Bryan Anderson <use...@bryananderson.co.uk | www.bryananderson.co.uk>
jake
<de...@northnet.org> writes
It's a very interesting site, but I wonder whether you might like to
check the spelling and the grammar once again?
Each page seems to contain a number of errors which you would probably
want to correct.
Sometimes it's difficult to see 'the wood for the trees' and you might
want to let a 3rd party cast their eyes over the text.
(Sometimes, running the text through a spell-checker/grammar-checker can
help.)
e.g. On the Home page:
".....and think they are way to expensive." [to] should be [too]
"....visit and then charges ridiculous prices." [charges] should be
[charge]
".....authentic hand painted oil painting can provide." [hand painted]
should be [hand-painted]
"....has oil painting at a price that everyone can afford." [oil
painting] should be [oil paintings]
"....that have been produce in the past 30 years.." [produce] should
be [produced]
"....and by keeping our costs low we can pas these tremendous.." [pas]
should be [pass]
".....from this sight for any purpose." [sight] should be [site]
"....We also offer portrait, custom services paintings, mid-quality
reproductions and original art but excel and are specialist of
museum-quality art reproduction." [ .... suggest that this needs
re-wording ... ]
"....by assuring them work..." [..by assuring them of work] or maybe
[..by guaranteeing them work...]
."...To protect the copyright's of Artists..." [copyright's] should be
[copyrights] (but 'copyright' is probably better)
.... and so on.
regards.
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Jake
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Jake
Denis Gervais
My code is a mess ??? I look at my site in 800x600. (by the way, only 26% of
the people visiting my site have this resolution) What I see is that it is a
bit wider then what it is suppose to be then when viewed at a higher
resolution ... and you have to use the scroll bar at the bottom to see the
full screen... and varying fonts ??? The whole page is done with "Arial" as
far as I know...
My columns don't line up... again I don't see that ...
The site is not "friendly"... I have made the site as elementary as
possible, I thought...
Tell me what in your opinion can be done to correct those problems and make
it "attractive"...
"SAZ" <saz...@nospammersexcite.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.189147b5d...@news.core.com...
Denis Gervais
frenchman and using english as a second language is sometimes difficult. I
will have the site reviewed for the proper wording.
Thanks for your comments ....
"jake" <ja...@gododdin.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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Duende
"Denis Gervais" <de...@northnet.org> wrote in message news:3e28...@shaggy.noc.westelcom.com...
> Thanks for your comments but I don't get it!
> My code is a mess ??? I look at my site in 800x600. (by the way, only 26% of
> the people visiting my site have this resolution) What I see is that it is a
> bit wider then what it is suppose to be then when viewed at a higher
> resolution ... and you have to use the scroll bar at the bottom to see the
> full screen... and varying fonts ??? The whole page is done with "Arial" as
> far as I know...
> My columns don't line up... again I don't see that ...
http://www.duende.bigmoron.com/art.htm
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D
What a hobby for a grown Troll with my IQ...
jake
the site for you.
regards.
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Jake
SAZ
says...
> Thanks for your comments but I don't get it!
> My code is a mess ??? I look at my site in 800x600. (by the way, only 26% of
> the people visiting my site have this resolution) What I see is that it is a
> bit wider then what it is suppose to be then when viewed at a higher
> resolution ... and you have to use the scroll bar at the bottom to see the
> full screen... and varying fonts ??? The whole page is done with "Arial" as
> far as I know...
> My columns don't line up... again I don't see that ...
> The site is not "friendly"... I have made the site as elementary as
> possible, I thought...
> Tell me what in your opinion can be done to correct those problems and make
> it "attractive"...
>
your site. For an e-commerce site, that number is unacceptable.
Remove the fixed widths. Use percentages. Line up your columns. Remove
the "art liquidation" images in the text, they are distracting. Stop
changing the fonts into bold, and then back again.
When I said "your code is a mess", I mean it doesn't even come close to
validating, and you have many open tags. That will also cause you
scrollbar and column alignment problems.
IMO, the site is too busy and uninviting.