RE: Site Review

by =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gerhard_Sch=F6ning?= <gerhard.schoening(at)talknet.de>

Date:	Sat, 10 Jun 2000 09:14:27 +0200
To:	"HWG Critique" <hwg-critique(at)hwg.org>
Cc:	<smiley(at)sja.net>
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Dave,

Half a dozen of critiques already appeared in the list commenting your
site - which I like very much, too - reporting almost everything, good or
bad. I have just a few items to add:

Home: image of aeroplane lacks ALT text.

Company Profile: image is good but ALT text should tell something about the
expression of trust and honesty that is shown by shaking hands... just MHO.

All pages: why use an image (although it's small) for plain light gray
background?
I tried
<body bgcolor="#E0E0E0" background="">
<table summary="" align="center" border="1" width="580">
and it worked fine.
BTW: when you use the "color" property of CSS it's recommended to also
define the "background" property for consistency of display if the user
changes styles with his/her own custom CSS!

Navigation: I prefer to have the page I'm just on to be indicated in
navigation (bar, field, menu...) as "non-link" amongst the real links.

Title: I think you don't want ALL your pages to show up in search engines
under all the same page title :-)

As to search engines: you don't have ANY meta tags... and search engines are
VERY old-fashioned in how they look at your site. In your case, they'd just
go through a few hundred characters of javascript, and stop before they
reach your content... after all, I don't think somebody needs this clock :-)

HTH, and keep the good work!

IE 5.0, WIN 98, PII 350, 256 MB
21", 32-bit colors, 1280x1024
Cookies: off
Javascript: on
ActiveX etc.: on request

Gerhard Sch�ning
gerhard(at)schoening-online.com

Web Design for Universal Accessibility
http://www.schoening-online.com/

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