Website Critique Required Please - Page 2

16k_zx81 · #11 06-23-2012, 10:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Martyn

And thank you for taking it the right way, some don't.

Yeah I often wonder about that, after I have posted (how it comes across I mean).

These days I just get right to what I want to say and then up to the OP to decide what to do with the information. Its never intended to be rude, just that I dont sugar coat what I want to express.. its too time consuming.

The response (or lack thereof) is always interesting, though

Also the aspects people incorporate or ignore, also, never fail to fascinate me.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lefty

our website is our "baby". We spend so much time on it and to have someone call our "baby" ugly; well, you know how that goes!

Exactly.

Ive been through this process many times myself over the years with sites I have made, and these days Im not too precious about other people's opinions. The fact is that good quality, informed opinion, is hard to find. The trick is to be able to recognise it and to be prepared to act on it when its available.

mattastechservice · #12 06-26-2012, 04:54 AM

I'll be the first to say the !DOCTYPE is incorrect:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html
  PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/strict.dtd">

Should be using:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

Or:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

Doesn't pass validation and code is not very pretty. Below is a template I created and saved, so every time I want to design a page I don't have to be annoyed by typing the same thing over and over.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
	<head>
		<title>Title Here</title>
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
	<head>
	<body>
	Insert Text Here
	</body>
</html>

I'm not trying to be harsh, just helpful. I actually bookmarked this, because once I'm done with this other web project I plan on coming back to this post to do a few things to help out

Danjack · #13 06-28-2012, 11:32 AM

I've read through all the comments, and I don't think I can add anything substantial. My first reaction was that I'm missing design, it looks almost like a word document with bullet points. My screen is 16:9 and the two sides of the page are very empty, which is a problem only because this ratio is much more common nowadays than the 4:3 one. So I'd work on that, and adding a bit of color, design to the background.

I also think it is great that you are open to constructive criticism, we are not hating, just trying to help!

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