website audit www.crottaz.com

Hi !

My new website www.crottaz.com is online ! Please post your comments !

Lionel

PS: it's in french, but the english version should be ready soon!

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 16:07:10 +0200, Lionel Crottaz wrote:

My new website www.crottaz.com is online ! Please post your comments !

Please post URL's fully, as in..
<http://www.crottaz.com/> ..some browsers
will not presume the http://

What? You wanted cooments on the *site*?

OK..

Looks OK in IE, though it produces horizontal
scrollbars in IE 6 at 800x600, which is a bit
silly given you squandered some screen acreage
on the left for your cool blue ..'space'.

Validate it..
<http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.crottaz.com/>

Font resize is broken in IE due to
fixed size fonts(?). Moz. 1.3 can
fix that, but your design begins to
look odd, while Opera can also fix that ,
but then the page becomes extraordinarily
wide as you zoom the font size up.

HTH

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On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 16:07:10 +0200, Lionel Crottaz wrote:

Please post your comments !

Oh, and I forgot to mention. I suggest you
remove about 1500 of the 1713 characters you
use for keywords, otherwise you risk getting
your site black-listed by search engines..

[ I've noticed you have a distinct liking for
the '!' character as well.. What's with that? ]

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Andrew Thompson
http://www.PhySci.org/ Open-source software suite
http://www.PhySci.org/codes/ Web & IT Help
http://www.1point1C.org/ Science & Technology

Lionel Crottaz wrote:

My new website www.crottaz.com is online ! Please post your comments !

The overall look is appealing.

The font size is too small. 10px and 11px are almost unreadable here on
a 17" (43 cm) monitor at 1400x1050 resolution. Use em or % for font sizing.
Using full justification on such narrow columns looks awkward with all
the extra spacing between words. This is especially true for the bulleted
items when the view is resized.
The layout adapts very poorly to zooming to 150%, for example, mainly
because of the full text justification. For those using IE, resizing is
not even an option.
Verdana should not be the first choice for fonts. Its large x-height
makes the tiny text look almost readable for those with Verdana. If
Verdana is not available, the text becomes a blur and your audience goes
elsewhere.
You are very excitable! !! All those floating exclamation points !!! !
Here ! There ! Wow!
I'm curious: are you Canadian? That would explain the english/french
versions, and the dollar signs in the lower right. (Or maybe CHF should
have been a hint?)

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nice site...what software are you using?

Lionel Crottaz wrote:
My new website www.crottaz.com is online ! Please post your comments !