Re: Check out my site please

At 12:38 AM 4/4/98 -0600, you wrote: 

>>>>

<excerpt><smaller>Greetings all. I would invite any of the members of the
HWG to check out my website, which is devoted to the online computer game
Diablo. The Dragon Warriors are an anti Player Killer(PK), anti cheating
guild. The site can be found at: 
<<http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Lair/9359>http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Lair/9359
. Please sign the guest book and let me know what you think, or send me
an email at
<<mailto:Tom-Ali-Stanley(at)worldnet.att.net>Tom-Ali-Stanley(at)worldnet.att.net
. Thanks again.

</smaller>  

<smaller>Thomas Stanley

</smaller>

</excerpt><<<<<<<<


viewed in netscape gold 3.04 /win 95  connected at 28.8 with resolution
of 1024x768 @16bit color


First thing: Frames. Personally I don't care if a site has them , as long
as they are used decently.


The ones on yours, well, if you are using frames for menu, i believe in
making them so that all the menu choices are viewable from resolutions
640x480 up to (and nowadays with the larger monitors, even past)
1024x768.


On my screen, the menu width wise takes up about 1/4 the width of the
screen, and requires scroll bars to be used to get down past the line
with VIEW GUESTBOOK. to me, having to scroll the menu eliminates the
usefulness of having it in a frame which normally makes it so the full
menu is always available all the time. I haven't' looked at the code yet,
however I would suggest placing the menu in a table and setting the width
by a percentage, so at least at a larger resolution the menu is spread
out farther taking up less vertical space.


Ok, I looked at the code now. Don't forget to use the ALT HEIGHT and
WIDTH attributes of the <<IMG SRC to define the images better.


Next: the bottom frame. 1st off, cheers for including the geocities
banner that appears to be in fact pure HTML code, and a java applet that
takes forever to load, or even worse, which causes me to exit geocities
pages immediately, a new browser window being popped up.


in your BODY line, if you are going to set one color, be sure to set them
all. What if for my default browser colors i have my links set to an
extremely dark color because my background is bright? This means I'd get
a nearly invisible link, which BTW, i found the default netscape blue
(which mine is actually set at) had on the eyes against a black
background with red writing. (why mention the story of different colors
if i have the netscape defaults?? Bad page color setup FORCED me to use
the netscape colors)


the rest of the page, down below, don't forget all the IMG attributes
mentioned above. As i went through, many pages had this problem. during
prime time of the net, geocities can slow down load times and having to
wait to find out the height and widths can slow up your page content. a
big minus for the site.

The counter (which also i don't mind on non com sites) came up as a
missing image.


Warrior Division:


The image at the top of the page is left justified, while the rest of the
information if centered, really noticeable at higher resolutions.


The other two divisions, same comments.


the join page, how about using a table to line up the form to make it
look more organized. put the form titles on the left side right justified
and the actual form inputs on the right side of the table left
justified.


On the news page, especially for the longer entries, you may want to make
these left justified to make it easier reading on the eyes.


lastly the Character updates, same suggestion as the join page.


All other pages looked ok, I didn't get time to check out the html code
of them all though.


Looks pretty good though, As far as content, not sure, as I'm not into
the subject, but layout seems good if you act upon the above
suggestions.


Hope these help and always remember, they are just one person's
suggestions, and he'll be dead one day ;-)


-Greg

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