work in progress feedback

http://www.ugan.com

This is still a work in progress but please feel free to rip her apart.


All feedback is greatly apreacheated.

Thanks
Chris

Chris wrote:

http://www.ugan.com

This is still a work in progress but please feel free to rip her apart.

* http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.ugan.com/

* The title is an advert, not a title

* The images look awful - since they don't blend smoothly into the
background, but don't have a solid division either

* http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Tableless_layouts

* Margins around the text aren't large enough

* The submenu doesn't look like a submenu, it just looks wrong

* All sorts of underlined text on the right hand box ... none of which are
links

* I can't click anywhere in the horizonal menu boxes to follow a link, only
directly on the text

* You've specified the width + margins of the page to be wider then my
browser window ... no matter what width it is. Be careful with 100%.

* Your lack of Doctype pushes browsers into Quirks mode

* Your "email this to a friend" section phrase is unreadable. It isn't tied
into any code yet, but it looks very much like the end result will look
like anonymous spam to the person receiving it. (Not to mention that if I
wanted to share a page with someone, I'd just email them, I wouldn't give
their email address to a third party).

* You never tell the reader what "UGAN" stands for

* Your contact us and privacy policy links open a new windows (YUCK!) and
don't gracefull fall back if the user middle clicks or doesn't have
JavaScript available.

* Your contact us invites comments ... but not queries or any other type of
message. I hate using contact forms anyway, give me an email address any
day (my email client has a spell check, and will save copies of sent
items).

* The tiny, low contrast, italic text of the privacy policy is next to
impossible to read ... and the box you place it in is wider then the window
anyway.

* It tells the reader what UGAN does will collected email addressed, but not
which email addresses are collected - email this to a friend?

* You don't require double opt-in for joining mailing lists (Bad! Bad! BAD!)

* Cookies are not small files. They are pieces of data. Some browsers store
them as separate files, not all do.

* Your copyright notices are inconsistant

* Your footer contains four pieces of blue, non-underlined text. All four
look like they may or may not be links.

* Looking at the side bar I see you suffer from popupitus. Stop! I ended up
installing Greasemonkey to rewrite AutoTraders website on the fly this
behavior is so annoying (and I don't expect the average user is quite so
knowledgable about how to write code to fix author idiocies like this)

* Don't mess with window.status. Its so annoying that browsers tend to come
with options to let users disable that functionality without turning all of
JavaScript off.

--
David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
Home is where the ~/.bashrc is

Chris wrote:

http://www.ugan.com

This is still a work in progress but please feel free to rip her apart.

David Dorward wrote:

[a comprehensive ripping-apart]

Well, you did ask. Please don't be discouraged. At first glance, it's a
fairly attractive design with a lot of potential. It just has a "few"
problems behind the scenes.

Lose all the JS, which serves little functional purpose, and look up how
to write the site as a proper CSS layout. Search for "3 columns header
CSS" or something like that.

--
Mark.
http://tranchant.plus.com/

Oh I am not discouraged Mark. I really enjoy a good honest critique. I
will use any feedback to only better the site.


Thanks for the rip apart Dave....


I knew about the validation problems and I agree with most of what you
have written. Like I said she is a work in progress and slowly but
surly she is coming around...