Re: first timer
by "Sebastian de Raadt" <sderaadt(at)clear.net.nz>
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Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:04:12 +1200 |
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"Andrew Johnson" <ajohnson(at)mail.on.rogers.wave.ca>,
"critique" <hwg-critique(at)hwg.org> |
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Hi Andrew and the list
I visited you business site:
>Our company page is at http://www.shepmark.com
and have made several comments. Remember all these comments are IMHO.
1. In you menu rollover, you can preload the 'rollover' images, the ones
that appear when the mouse rolls over. As it is, it loads it when the mouse
is over it, and this may confuse the visitor, as the indicator in the top
corner begins animating. It is also neater when it is preloaded and just
pops up.
Use something like this to preload:
<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript" LANGUAGE="javascript">
<!--
if (document.images) {
image1on = new Image();
image1on.src = "first-image.jpg";
image1off = new Image();
image1off.src = "first-image-off.jpg";
image2on = new Image();
image2on.src = "second-image.jpg";
image2off = new Image();
image2off.src = "second-image-off.jpg";
// and so on...
}
// -->
</script>
put this in the <head></head> section. If you want more help with this, ask
the members on the hwg-languages list.
2. You server was a little slow. If it is an ISP, then do some
window-shopping. If it is in-house, then get some more bandwidth (there
probably other things to change too.).
You can get a good report on your server performance by going to NetMechanic
[1].
3. There was no doctype in your code. A doctype states the version of HTML
used in the file. For information about doctypes and the right one for you,
go to the w3 website [2].
4. The rest looked well coded, though there is huge amounts of whitespace in
the code! This doesn't affect the display, but it does affect download a
bit, and
editing would be easier.
5. An errant tag I found in several pages: </pre>. It is right
at the bottom, and no <pre> could be found anywhere in the file.
I also found this:
<FONT size ="4" COLOR="#1839FF" FACE ="Arial"><strong></strong></FONT>
in what.htm .
I'm guessing you used an editor, and recommend cleaning the code up by hand
to get best performance.
6. The graphics were fairly reasonable, though could be smaller. In
particular, the top/heading graphic in several sub-pages could have been
broken up, and several parts common to all used again, and all put back
together with a table. For reducing graphic file sizes, I recommend Ulead
SmartSaver, available from Ulead [3].
7. You have left the main text font default, which renders as Times Roman in
most systems. Certainly not, IMHO, very professional or clean-looking. I
would set it to verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif.
Nonetheless, you site overall is nice and clean, not cluttered with icons
and logos. It was easy to navigate, logocal in layout, and consistent over
the whole site.
Well done!
Cheers
Sebastian
Win95
MSIE4
600x800 with 32-bit colour
28.8 dialup from New Zealand
[1] http://www.netmechanic.com
[2] http://www.w3.org
[3] http://www.ulead.com
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Sebastian de Raadt sderaadt(at)clear.net.nz
http://www.rh.steiner.school.nz/sebastian
"Atheism is a non-prophet organisation"
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