Re: Website for Comments and or Suggestions

One of my personal goals here in this newsgroup is to offer "constructive"
feedback and help. It takes a lot of courage to provide a link to a new
website and ask for feedback, and I admire and respect that. With that goal
in mind, I gotta say your site is pretty bad...but can be fixed.

You need to remove the background image behind the text:
http://www.plicorp.name/index_files/image4401.jpg
It makes it impossible to read the text, and after all it is the text that
is the most important part of your site. Content is king, as they say.

I have not seen anyone use semi-transparent text boxes before in a Pub web.
I kind of like the effect, but it is a print format that does not translate
to html well. It seems to work ok in IE but in FireFox all the text is
converted to images. A couple examples:
http://www.plicorp.name/index_files/image642.png
http://www.plicorp.name/index_files/image461.png
While you might live with this, it does mean that any hyperlinks in those
text boxes will not work in FF. Personally, I believe that you need to
design so your pages will work well in both IE and FF, especially since it
is a business site. If you don't have FF on your computer, I recommend that
you download and install it, so you can test your pages. It is a small
download and easy install, and you can test your html before you upload it.

Bottom line is that as "nice" as the semitransparency looks, you probably
shouldn't use it, at least in the body of the page...maybe OK in the banner.
The text in the body of your page does not show up in the code even in
IE...the search engines and webots will not be able to index you site.
Content is king...

Personally I would also get rid of the time and counter. I am sitting at my
computer...I know what time it is. The counter will not give you any good
information. Look to your host for webstats instead. Using a counter on a
page doesn't necessarily project the image I would assume you want.

Look, I am not an expert web designer, and my opinions are just that.
However, I think that many newbies and even some old pros fall into the trap
of adding "stuff" to their pages, and special effects just because they can.
And just because you can, doesn't mean you should. As you are using
Publisher, your pages should be simple anyway, so try to KISS, is my best
recommendation. The content is what is most important...not the bells and
whistles. Make your pages easy to read, easy to navigate, quick to load and
full of good content, and you will have a "good" site in my opinion.

Here are two links that might help in planning the design of your site:
http://webdesignfromscratch.com/
and no offense but:
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/

I hope this is constructive. The good news is that you did stop and ask for
opinions before you built the whole site. Take a step back and reevaluate
what your goals are for your site, and what is the content. Then design
around those things. Good luck.

DavidF

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