Re: Website for Comments and or Suggestions

You forgot to mention; kill the bgsound ! Especially for a business site!




--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression





"DavidF" <Nope@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uO%23a2ePdIHA.1164@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| 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
|
| "Administrator" <administrator@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:OxoXQAOdIHA.5416@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| >I have just posted 3 pages out of 15. I would like to hear your inputs
| >before I finish my work. Check out www.plicorp.name Thanks!
|
|


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Website for Comments and or Suggestions
    ... | design so your pages will work well in both IE and FF, ... | download and easy install, and you can test your html before you upload ... | Look, I am not an expert web designer, and my opinions are just that. ... | what your goals are for your site, ...
    (microsoft.public.publisher.webdesign)
  • Re: Website for Comments and or Suggestions
    ... One of my personal goals here in this newsgroup is to offer "constructive" ... website and ask for feedback, and I admire and respect that. ... Look, I am not an expert web designer, and my opinions are just that. ... Here are two links that might help in planning the design of your site: ...
    (microsoft.public.publisher.webdesign)
  • Re: coriolis force and air currents in an ONeil colony
    ... But it's a very *very* different situation in terms of goals. ... silly to state the design is unreasonable, ... very small fraction of which ends up as stored energy in plants... ... a PV array efficiency of 30% (a bit on the high side... ...
    (rec.arts.sf.science)
  • Re: Design Hardware for Embedded Systems
    ... I would like to know how can I design the hardware of my embedded ... Jack has also reviewed a number of books ... Be specific about your goals and questions and we may be able ...
    (comp.arch.embedded)
  • Re: DesignCAD
    ... John Flatley wrote: ... opinions or thoughts, positive or negative? ... Not here I'm afraid, but while I don't know your goals for the program, might I also suggest Google's Sketchup: ...
    (rec.woodworking)