Re: Please Critique

by Liz Bartlett <khyri(at)idyllmtn.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:31:22 -0800
To:	hwg-critique(at)hwg.org
In-Reply-To:	queensu
	todo: View Thread, Original
First off, let me say it's great HTML for a beginner! However, there's
a few slip-ups which I suspect are just mistakes, rather than not
knowing how to do it.

You have a second </HEAD> tag.

No need to have two nested tables, especially when the first one only
has one column. Just have a new row start where you currently define the
new table, and remember to add the bgcolor to all 6 cells in that row.

Always have the hexadecimal indicator # in front of your colors e.g. #000000

You might as well define the text color #000000 in your body statement as
you only use one text color throughout.

Use a different color for links - users are taught that a colored, underlined
piece of text is a link, and they get confused when it lacks color or
underlining.

No need to specify font size=3 everywhere - let the browser use its default
size, and then use the <small> and <big> tags to change the size where
necessary.

Use the same font face for the links as well as the main text.

Don't give the table columns explicit widths - let the browser define the
widths based on the contents. You don't know that the user's font sizes
are going to match up with your defined widths. If you must define widths,
have them all the same - 16.66%

Use align="center" in your <TD> tags, rather than having the center tag
inside each cell. It saves a little bit of space, and it's more
HTML 4.0 compliant.

Use the <STRONG> tag instead of <B> - it has the same effect in most
visual browsers, and works better with other browsers too.

The top image shows a marked amount of JPEG compression "wiggle". Try
saving at a slightly higher quality level.

I won't go into detail on the bio page, but I would mention that you
should make sure you use the same attributes for the <BODY> tag on
all your pages. The bio page displayed for me with my browser's
default background color (grey) which looked awful! You also have
a bunch of <LI> tags with no <UL> surrounding them (I think you
mistakenly put <BLOCKQUOTE> instead, which should only be used for
text that is actually a block quote!).

All in all, a great start for a beginner. There are things that could
be done better using CSS, but I don't think you need to move up to
that level just to do this site.

I'll let others comment on the artistic and useability aspects.

--Liz

At 08:31 PM 3/21/01 -0500, Janet Burgess wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>I'm designing a site for a friend in the real estate business and I would
>like some feedback on the general look of the page. I'm quite new at this
>so it is fairly simple design, but I don't want it to look too amateurish.
>Any advice/feedback would be most appreciated. 
> The listings link, which will go to a page maintained by the real estate
>company,  and the homes sold link do not work yet. 
>The page is temporarily located at:
>http://www.cgocable.net/~jbaynger/index.htm 
> Thanks in advance, 
>Janet
>
>
>
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