critique please

Hi, all:

Please take a look at http://textfairy.com/

I would like input about the navigation, if you know what this is for when
you first see it, if it sells itself, if you know what to do once on the
site.. things like that.

All comments welcome. I'm just trying to see if there are any obvious things
I've missed before making it live.

Thanx in Advance

Mike wrote:

Hi, all:

Please take a look at http://textfairy.com/

I would like input about the navigation, if you know what this is for
when you first see it, if it sells itself, if you know what to do
once on the site.. things like that.

Navigation? Do you mean the links that all seem to go to a subdomain?
"[ParkingSquad.com] is dedicated to..." They are ordinary text links.
If you mean those icons scattered around, they don't do anything.

All comments welcome. I'm just trying to see if there are any obvious
things I've missed before making it live.

53 errors.
<http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//textfairy.com/>

Massive table abuse...

"Select a tool to sign-up for from below." Unusual grammar.

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

Mike wrote:

Hi, all:

Please take a look at http://textfairy.com/

I would like input about the navigation, if you know what this is for when
you first see it, if it sells itself, if you know what to do once on the
site.. things like that.

All comments welcome. I'm just trying to see if there are any obvious things
I've missed before making it live.

Thanx in Advance

Mike,

You have missed some things. If they had been obvious to you, you would
not have missed them.

If you read everything you find at
http://pages.prodigy.net/chris_beall/TC/index.html some of those things
will become obvious to you.

But how did you miss these things? We see a lot of sites here where the
owner has missed things that are obvious to us, but we don't know how
that happened. Perhaps you can help. What books, web sites, tools,
etc. did you use when learning HTML? It's clear that you got some bad
info. If we knew where it came from, we might be able to protect others
from the same fate.

Chris Beall

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:40:59 GMT, "Mike" <cigarmikeBAND (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net>
wrote:

Please take a look at http://textfairy.com/

I would like input about the navigation, if you know what this is for when
you first see it, if it sells itself, if you know what to do once on the
site.. things like that.

All comments welcome. I'm just trying to see if there are any obvious things
I've missed before making it live.

One picture is worth a thousand words:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/misc/textfairy.jpg

And when I see things like this in your source, I'm afraid I honestly
think it's time to throw it away and start again:

<td width="16" height="42" colspan="2"></td>
<td width="211" height="42" colspan="10"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="451" height="6" colspan="15"></td>
<td width="211" height="6" colspan="10"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="511" height="6" colspan="20"></td>
<td width="211" height="6" colspan="10"></td>
</tr>


--
Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/

"Stephen Poley" <sbpoleySpicedHamTrap (AT) xs4all (DOT) nl> wrote

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:40:59 GMT, "Mike" <cigarmikeBAND (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net
wrote:

Please take a look at http://textfairy.com/

I would like input about the navigation, if you know what this is for
when
you first see it, if it sells itself, if you know what to do once on the
site.. things like that.

All comments welcome. I'm just trying to see if there are any obvious
things
I've missed before making it live.

One picture is worth a thousand words:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/misc/textfairy.jpg

And when I see things like this in your source, I'm afraid I honestly
think it's time to throw it away and start again:

td width="16" height="42" colspan="2"></td
td width="211" height="42" colspan="10"></td
/tr
tr
td width="451" height="6" colspan="15"></td
td width="211" height="6" colspan="10"></td
/tr
tr
td width="511" height="6" colspan="20"></td
td width="211" height="6" colspan="10"></td
/tr


--
Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/

All of the comments so far are much appreciated. I have to ask.. do you all
write your html by hand, or use an editor. If an editor, which ?

Thanx

Mike

Mike wrote:

All of the comments so far are much appreciated. I have to ask.. do
you all write your html by hand, or use an editor. If an editor,
which ?

I use an editor, usually Crimson Editor. It's free.
http://crimsoneditor.com/

(brucie uses dirt and a pointy stick)

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

Mike wrote:

Hi, all:

Please take a look at http://textfairy.com/

I would like input about the navigation, if you know what this is for when
you first see it, if it sells itself, if you know what to do once on the
site.. things like that.

All comments welcome. I'm just trying to see if there are any obvious things
I've missed before making it live.
Take a look at:

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/s...nalyze/wso.php
Also, make sure you validate your HTML code and add quality alt text
to all of your images.

Thanx in Advance
That's fine.

--
Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc

All of the comments so far are much appreciated. I have to ask.. do you all
write your html by hand, or use an editor. If an editor, which ?
I currently use NVU, Free and can be downloaded from:

http://www.nvu.com
I also like HTML-Kit which is a very powerfull text editor and comes
with HTML Tidy built in.

Thanx
NP.

--
Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc/design-tips.html

Mike

Mike wrote:

All of the comments so far are much appreciated. I have to ask.. do you all
write your html by hand, or use an editor. If an editor, which ?

I use Slickedit programmer's editor <http://www.slickedit.com/>. Not

cheap and well worth the money.