Critique

#1

If you have a moment - please take a look at www.PennyLane Auction.com. Any
suggestions - criticisms are welcome.

#2

r1chx (AT) opt-nospam-online (DOT) net wrote:

Quote:

If you have a moment - please take a look at www.PennyLane Auction.com. Any
suggestions - criticisms are welcome.

Page lay-out looks good with a window of 800x600 (FB).
However there is a white area below the red line. This is coused by the
last table with a spacer image.

You have also 5 same style sheets, Why?

Convert the style attributes of the tables into the style sheet. With
other words make more use of the style sheet.

I also noticed you have links to a style sheet which aren't
precent/available.

IMHO make use of an external javascript file and put a link between the
<head> in the html file like <link rel="javascript" href="xxx.js"
type="text/javascript">

Don't use fixed font sizes, let the visitors deceid with kind of font
size they like best to read with there browser settings. So use
percentage or "em" for font size instead of e.g. "2" (2 what?).

Use tables only for tabular data like calendar. So try to convert your
page with block element like div's in combination with style sheet.

When finished validate the pages with a valirdator.
- html validator http://validator.w3.org/ or http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/
- css validator http://www.w3.org/Jigsaw/ or
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/csscheck/
--
Edwin van der Vaart
http://www.semi-conductor.nl/ Links to Semiconductors sites
http://www.evandervaart.nl/ Under construction

#3

r1chx wrote in message ...

Quote:

If you have a moment - please take a look at www.PennyLane Auction.com

I think you meant www.PennyLaneAuction.com

#4

Steve R. wrote:

Quote:

r1chx wrote in message ...

If you have a moment - please take a look at www.PennyLane Auction.com

I think you meant www.PennyLaneAuction.com

D'uh. I reviewed http://www.PennyLane.com/
--
Edwin van der Vaart
http://www.semi-conductor.nl/ Links to Semiconductors sites
http://www.evandervaart.nl/ Under construction

#5

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 20:44:42 GMT, r1chx (AT) opt-nospam-online (DOT) net declared
in alt.html.critique:

Quote:

If you have a moment - please take a look at www.PennyLane Auction.com. Any
suggestions - criticisms are welcome.

Presumably you mean http://www.pennylaneauction.com ?

Hmmm....let's see.

*Lots* of deprecated markup. Doesn't even come close to validating. :-(
http://validator.w3.org

No CSS at all. :-(

Fixed-width table-based layout. :-(
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Tableless_layouts

Use a proper doctype that will trigger so-called "standards-compliant"
mode. You should be using HTML4.01, not HTML4. And you really should be
using Strict for a new page, not Transitional.

It needs more colour - something to offset the yellow.

A hover on the links would be nice.

--
Mark Parnell
http://www.clarkecomputers.com.au

#6

<r1chx (AT) opt-nospam-online (DOT) net> wrote

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If you have a moment - please take a look at www.PennyLane Auction.com.

Didn't you like the answers you got over in alt.www.webmaster yesterday?

Quote:

Any
suggestions - criticisms are welcome.

Don't put a space in your URL.

Choose a better subject line. My newsreader lumped your post into a thread
that died a week ago.

Looks, well, cluttered.

HTML. Well, deprecated stuff all over the place, especially <font>.

Tables for layout.

Not a bit of CSS anywhere.

A transitional doctype. Strict should be used for new designs. The doctype
is missing a url, putting some browsers into quirks mode.

The clincher: <META content="MSHTML 6.00 ...

Learn some HTML and CSS and ditch the WYSINWOPS. That is where all the bad
code is coming from.

Cheers
Richard.

#7

"rf" <making.it.up (AT) the (DOT) time> wrote:

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Didn't you like the answers you got over in alt.www.webmaster yesterday?

Obviously he wants to shop around. =)

--
Farlo, the Urban Fey Dragon

#8

"picayunish" <e_vdvaart (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote

Quote:

Steve R. wrote:
r1chx wrote in message ...

If you have a moment - please take a look at www.PennyLane Auction.com

I think you meant www.PennyLaneAuction.com

D'uh. I reviewed http://www.PennyLane.com/

Which breaks apart when I make my font larger :-)

I was beginning to wonder what you were looking at in that other post picky.

Cheers
Richard.

#9

rf wrote:

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"picayunish" <e_vdvaart (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message
news:rWjMb.740$tK2.1779 (AT) amstwist00 (DOT) ..

Steve R. wrote:

r1chx wrote in message ...

If you have a moment - please take a look at www.PennyLane Auction.com

I think you meant www.PennyLaneAuction.com

D'uh. I reviewed http://www.PennyLane.com/

Which breaks apart when I make my font larger :-)

I was beginning to wonder what you were looking at in that other post picky.

Which, where other post :-?
--
Edwin van der Vaart
http://www.semi-conductor.nl/ Links to Semiconductors sites
http://www.evandervaart.nl/ Under construction

#10

"picayunish" <e_vdvaart (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote

Quote:

rf wrote:

"picayunish" <e_vdvaart (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message
news:rWjMb.740$tK2.1779 (AT) amstwist00 (DOT) ..

Steve R. wrote:

r1chx wrote in message ...

If you have a moment - please take a look at www.PennyLane Auction.com

I think you meant www.PennyLaneAuction.com

D'uh. I reviewed http://www.PennyLane.com/

Which breaks apart when I make my font larger :-)

I was beginning to wonder what you were looking at in that other post
picky.

Which, where other post :-?

Er, the one where you reviewed http://www.PennyLane.com/

Cheers
Richard.