Alexander Burton <mrbur...@callnet0800.com> wrote: > I have been slaving over a hot keyboard for a number of weeks now and would > appreciate some thoughts on my two sites.
As a preface I wanna say that I may appear harsh, but please know its meant to help you, and not in anyway to offend :)
I took a quick look around and these are some things I noticed:
first link (ancient places)
1. counter - needs out 2. enter button - same 3. the body font size is fixed in size and not changeable, the rest is not. 4. pop-up, no-no. 5. header "Ancient places" looks bad imho. 6. different bg on the varius pages, consider "harmonizing".
second link (Whiteburn...)
1. script error line 69 on entry (im using IE5.0) 2. Same enter button - same comment. 3. same problem with font sizing. 4. background makes it somewhat difficult to read, though you did choose the best font for that situation. 5. counter - still a passe idea. 6. frames? why? do you realize that search engines will pass you by? 7. nice flow and layout, the nav bar is nice.
thats about it, hope I could help.
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 02:57:40 +0100, "Alexander Burton"
<mrbur...@callnet0800.com> wrote: >I have been slaving over a hot keyboard for a number of weeks now and would >appreciate some thoughts on my two sites.
> I have been slaving over a hot keyboard for a number of weeks now and would > appreciate some thoughts on my two sites.
> TIA > -- > Sandy > - > Sandy Burton > Whitburn,West Lothian, UK > Web sites: http://www.aburton.freeserve.co.uk > o Ancient Places - unique photographs of ancient Scottish and Cornish > monuments
The site looks very plain. Although I like plain sites, this is a bit too much.
The pages for the different monuments, and everything beyond the index page have a not so good-looking bg coulour.
The content, all in all is well documented and photographed, jut not presented in a way that it appears well.
Take a look at www.lokigames.com, although it's a games site, your logo could look similar, just with a pic of Scotland in it and a Scottish rune.
All in all the content is great, but you'll need to improve the overall design a bit, it's not fancy enough at my opinion, and you should change the bg coulour.
Well, a junior football team and TONS of text are not something that should be there. Less text, more fun at my opinion. Pics of matches, a little history here and there.
The bg is well chosen, but should not be used everywhere I think, make a translation from left (background image) to the plain colour in the right frame.
I think the use of Time-Roman isn't good. It looks well printed out, but doesn't look so hot on-screen. Using Times-Roman on the web (and a lot of big name places do) is akin to watching a 1970's documentary on photosynthesis --- honest enough representation of life, but oh-so boring. Leave the world of your grandma behind, and embrace the New World (had to stick an Americanism in there somewhere!) -- use arial, verdana, or helvetica.
> I have been slaving over a hot keyboard for a number of weeks now and would > appreciate some thoughts on my two sites.
> TIA > -- > Sandy > - > Sandy Burton > Whitburn,West Lothian, UK > Web sites: http://www.aburton.freeserve.co.uk > o Ancient Places - unique photographs of ancient Scottish and Cornish > monuments > http://www.whitburnjuniors.fsnet.co.uk > o Whitburn Junior FC - News and information about the team.
Thanks for the interesting point re the choice of font. I originally used Comic sans, but found that it didn't render properly with some browser/platform combinations. Thought that Times was pretty standard, but again there are other standard fonts. I'll look into it....
Thanks, Sandy
Robert Adams <webmas...@egoz.org> wrote in message
> I think the use of Time-Roman isn't good. It looks well printed out, but > doesn't look so hot on-screen. Using Times-Roman on the web (and a lot of > big name places do) is akin to watching a 1970's documentary on > photosynthesis --- honest enough representation of life, but oh-so > boring. Leave the world of your grandma behind, and embrace the New World > (had to stick an Americanism in there somewhere!) -- use arial, verdana, > or helvetica.
> > I have been slaving over a hot keyboard for a number of weeks now and > would > > appreciate some thoughts on my two sites.
> > TIA > > -- > > Sandy > > - > > Sandy Burton > > Whitburn,West Lothian, UK > > Web sites: http://www.aburton.freeserve.co.uk > > o Ancient Places - unique photographs of ancient Scottish and Cornish > > monuments > > http://www.whitburnjuniors.fsnet.co.uk > > o Whitburn Junior FC - News and information about the team.
Alexander Burton wrote in message <394e4...@eeyore.callnetuk.com>... >Thanks for the interesting point re the choice of font. I originally used >Comic sans, but found that it didn't render properly with some >browser/platform combinations. Thought that Times was pretty standard, but >again there are other standard fonts.
In case you're not aware, you can ask for a list of fonts in decreasing preference. In CSS:
font-family: "comic sans ms", verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
This asks for Comic Sans if available, otherwise Verdana, then Arial (Windows "standard" sans-serif font), then Helvetica (standard sans font on many other platforms), and as a last resort, use some system-defined sans-serif font.
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 00:32:32 +0100, "Alexander Burton"
<mrbur...@callnet0800.com> wrote: >Thanks for the interesting point re the choice of font. I originally used >Comic sans, but found that it didn't render properly with some >browser/platform combinations. Thought that Times was pretty standard, but >again there are other standard fonts. >I'll look into it....
If the font you use isn't that important to you, why specify it at all?
To all of you who have taken the time and the trouble to reply to my request, I thank you for the varied comments. I have taken on board the advice and will action some of the points. As you will have gathered, these are sites of interest to me and I would like to make them as informative and 'professional' as possible - if I can improve their look and appeal then so much the better. Unfortunately graphic design is not my forte, but I will work on them.
I used frames btw as an exercise, without any regard to SE (as I was ignorant of this at the time). Having taken advice, the structure of the site is supposed to be more SE friendly. The other site is not framed. I'll keep both approaches active I think.
On the background to the Arch site, it should appear on all pages since I am using a style sheet. I have had cross browser problems with this before - thought I had solved them, maybe not.
BTW Stylewriter comments that he is not inclined to do detective work to find the addresses - although I didn't explicitly say that they were in the sig, I'm not sure that they were that hard to find.
