Could you please critique my website?

Hi there,

Could you guys please give me constructive feedback on the site I work
for? It is http://www.youwager.com

I am in charge of their online marketing, and would like to improve
things I may have overlooked. Thank you!

Ana.

Quoth the raven 007:

Hi there,

Could you guys please give me constructive feedback on the site I
work for? It is http://www.youwager.com

But... I don't gamble.

I am in charge of their online marketing, and would like to improve
things I may have overlooked. Thank you!

Start here. 102 errors.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...ouwager.com%2F

It's all jammed over in the left two-thirds of my monitor.
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign

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Ana:
Hello
Well, that sure is a lot of info. there and I didn't see any
errors/misssspellingggs, etc.
Good job!
Ginae
http://www.ginae.us

"007" <ana (AT) youwager (DOT) com> wrote

Hi there,

Could you guys please give me constructive feedback on the site I work
for? It is http://www.youwager.com

I am in charge of their online marketing, and would like to improve
things I may have overlooked. Thank you!

Ana.

In message <6582e78a.0408141553.b366994 (AT) posting (DOT) google.com>, 007
<ana (AT) youwager (DOT) com> writes

Hi there,

Could you guys please give me constructive feedback on the site I work
for? It is http://www.youwager.com

I am in charge of their online marketing, and would like to improve
things I may have overlooked. Thank you!

Ana.

Just looking at the first page it seems like many of the images have no
alternative text. It's important that they have alternative text so that
people (the visually-impaired, the dyslexic, etc.) using screen-readers,
etc. can understand and navigate their way around your site. It's
*especially* important where the image serves as a link (which some do).

Set the alternative text on images that contain no information (e.g.
used for spacing) to null i.e. ALT=""

regards.


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Jake

ana (AT) youwager (DOT) com (007) wrote in
news:6582e78a.0408141553.b366994 (AT) posting (DOT) google.com:

Hi there,

Could you guys please give me constructive feedback on the site I work
for? It is http://www.youwager.com

I am in charge of their online marketing, and would like to improve
things I may have overlooked. Thank you!

Use the trailing slash where required: http://www.youwager.com/
Fix the validation errors.
You are missing headings.
Don't use tables for layout.

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Dave Patton
Canadian Coordinator, Degree Confluence Project
http://www.confluence.org/
My website: http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 14:14:12 GMT, Dave Patton <spam (AT) trap (DOT) invalid> wrote:

Use the trailing slash where required: http://www.youwager.com/

I was recently told that, contrary to what you say here and what I
formerly believed, adding that slash is not "required". If the link were
to a subdirectory, like http://www.example.com/subdirectory/ , then the
slash IS needed to prevent the browser from looking for a document named
"subdirectory". But in the current context, the server will send a default
home page in any case.

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 02:55:01 GMT, kate.simpson
<kate.simpson (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote:

Ana:
Hello
Well, that sure is a lot of info. there and I didn't see any
errors/misssspellingggs, etc.
Good job!

May I ask what criterion you are considering when evaluating a website?
Bearing in mind the name of this ng is alt.html.critique, does it in any
way include the quality of the HTML?

If you're noting that there are no spelling errors or grammatical
problems, and that's the extent of it, that's fine, but please make it
clear that you were only considering that aspect of web authoring, and not
the HTML code itself.

ana (AT) youwager (DOT) com (007) wrote:

http://www.youwager.com

102 HTML errors. Wow.

Would you like a critique of the visual design, too?

The Doormouse

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The Doormouse wrote:

ana (AT) youwager (DOT) com (007) wrote:


http://www.youwager.com


102 HTML errors. Wow.

Would you like a critique of the visual design, too?

And the grammatics too.
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Neal <neal413 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote in
newspscr8zaiw6v6656 (AT) news (DOT) individual.net:

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 14:14:12 GMT, Dave Patton <spam (AT) trap (DOT) invalid
wrote:

Use the trailing slash where required: http://www.youwager.com/

I was recently told that, contrary to what you say here and what I
formerly believed, adding that slash is not "required". If the link
were to a subdirectory, like http://www.example.com/subdirectory/ ,
then the slash IS needed to prevent the browser from looking for a
document named "subdirectory". But in the current context, the server
will send a default home page in any case.

OK, I was wrong on two counts :-(
First, I shouldn't have said "required".
Secondly, the final character within this quoted
string - "http://www.example.com/" - is not a
"trailing slash". It is in fact the leading slash
of the path part of the URL.
Because a GET request needs to be of the form
'GET / HTTP/1.1', browsers will in effect add
the 'leading slash' when you use "http://www.example.com".
Having said that, it's still good practice to include
the "trailing slash", just so that it does get used
in cases where it is required.

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Dave Patton
Canadian Coordinator, Degree Confluence Project
http://www.confluence.org/
My website: http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/