Constructive Criticism Wanted

Mark Parnell wrote:

Sometime around Thu, 4 Dec 2003 18:36:54 +0000 (UTC), Daniel Ruscoe is
reported to have stated:

Brucie is a long-time contributor to a few web authoring groups and is
well respected, despite his... well, we'll call them hobbies. I think
the FBI has official terms for them.

The FBI has no jurisdiction over here...

They can still talk about his hobbies. Well, they can talk about the
hobbies for which there are words to describe.

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Sometime around Thu, 04 Dec 2003 23:42:39 +0000, Toby A Inkster is reported
to have stated:

Mark Parnell wrote:

The FBI has no jurisdiction over here...

They can still talk about his hobbies. Well, they can talk about the
hobbies for which there are words to describe.

And if our PM has his way, they may well have jurisdiction here soon
enough.

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Artist, the good little Microsoft drone heard "Chuck" <nospam (AT) here (DOT) com>
say...

Let me try this again since my original post just happened to
disappear...

Could I please get some *constructive* criticism on a website?

It's temporarily located at http://www.geocities.com/my1964bug/

Yes, I realize that Geocities sucks, but the site will move to a new
home when it is completed.

Thanks...

Chuck

If this where my website I would get rid of the kids with the balloons,
and the big, times text and move the buttons/text/image of the business
up. The kids with the baloons are nice, and the graphics remind me of
kids, but they don't fit with the overall design of the page. Remember;
sometimes you have to discard your finest pieces to synergize the whole.



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Toby A Inkster wrote:

Chuck wrote:

http://www.geocities.com/my1964bug/

Not sure why you're using <h2>'s for your address, when HTML has a
perfectly good <address> element. Here is a rewrite of the top bit of
your page:
............
address><strong>Kids'R'Kids #123TX</strong><br
1234 Main Street<br
Arlington, Texas 76123<br
817-555-1234</address

Toby, what's the advantage of <address> (in terms of accessibility for
instance)?
Nico

Nico Schuyt wrote:

Toby, what's the advantage of <address> (in terms of accessibility for
instance)?

Well currently he's using headings to mark up the address:

<h1>Kids'R'Kids #123TX</h1>
<h2>1234 Main Street</h2>
<h2>Arlington, Texas 76123</h2>
<h2>817-555-1234</h2>

This is clearly a Bad Thing, as it causes problems for browsers that allow
the user to jump from heading to heading as a navigation method (such as
Opera, Amaya, Dillo, many screen readers).

Thus it should be replaced with some single block level element wrapper,
given appropriate line breaks through <br> and styled appropriately.

Candidates for the above mentioned block level element are <p>, <div> and
<address>. Apart from a few rendering issues that can be fixed with CSS,
they will all be treated the same by browsers.

Hence the most appropriate element of the three should be chosen. As this
is an address, <address>.

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O.K. The first page is looking much better.

(1) The alternative text on the last graphic: "take tour 2k" should be
"take tour" -- as that's the text that it's the alternative for.

On the next page of the tour (aboutus2.htm):
(1) I'd change the alternative text on the photo from "mattmamie3(20k)"
to something like "Photo: Matt and Mamie Dillon".
(2)The alternative text on the arrow on the bottom needs to be set to
the text that it's the alternative for -- "Next".

I'd also be inclined review the body text as one or two items don't read
as well as they could.

And on the next page of the tour (activities2.htm):
(1) "lobby2 (62k)" needs to be replaced with something like "Photo: the
lobby of <whatever>"
(2) The headings such as "General Information" and "Extra Curricular
Activities" need marking up as <H2>.
(3) Again, the alternative text on the photographs needs to be set to
something meaningful such as "Photo: <whatever>"
(4) There's a missing </body> and </html>

And I'm not sure why you keep using:
<ul> xxxxxx </ul>

e.g.
<ul>
Big Screen TV
</ul>

(If you tell us why, then we'll be able to suggest other ways of doing
it).

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Remember that people who are visually impaired are going to be visiting
your site and using 'speaking browsers' -- so it's important that the
page mark-up is correct and that photos and graphics have meaningful
alternative text.

regards.


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Jake

Toby A Inkster wrote:

Nico Schuyt wrote:

Toby, what's the advantage of <address> (in terms of accessibility
for instance)?

...................
Candidates for the above mentioned block level element are <p>, <div
and <address>. Apart from a few rendering issues that can be fixed
with CSS, they will all be treated the same by browsers.
Hence the most appropriate element of the three should be chosen. As
this is an address, <address>.

Right.
Thanks! Nico

On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 18:16:44 GMT, "Chuck" <nospam (AT) here (DOT) com> wrote:

<snip>

As far as asking, I already have. I asked for some webpages that will help
teach someone with no knowledge at all of CSS. Havent had any replies yet...
I would like to learn and use CSS...

Try:
http://www.w3schools.com/
http://www.pmob.co.uk/faqcss/tutorial1.htm

HTH

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