Site Critique

We just recently put up this site -- www.tpcahome.biz and would
appreciate any comments and/or pointers you could give me.

Thanks much.

IC

We just recently put up this site -- www.tpcahome.biz and would
appreciate any comments and/or pointers you could give me.

Why frames? All it does is load and display a site from another
location. Frames require some content in the "noframes" area to get SEO,
along with other problems.

The site was slow to load. I assume this is due to the server at
"mynet11.tripod.com" or some such?

Set your styles in a stylesheet.

The page/site that loads in the frame has many W3C errors;

You are using absolute sizing in your tables. This prevents the page
from resizing for different browser resolutions. In my 800x600 screen,
the pages is too big to fit and has a bottom scroll bar. In a 1600
resolution, there will be larger borders around the outside of the small
content. fonts will be small and probably not resize well.

You have a lot of unescaped "&" character. Replace them with & so
that they will validate.

marquee is a proprietary thing and will not validate. They can also be
annoying to the viewer.

Some of the images have proprietary settings also. They might display
right in Internet Explorer, but not in other browsers.

Add "alt" tags to your images.

Regards,
Frank

On Jul 17, 1:52 pm, "icclea... (AT) mindspring (DOT) com"
<icclea... (AT) mindspring (DOT) com> wrote:

We just recently put up this site --www.tpcahome.bizand would
appreciate any comments and/or pointers you could give me.

Thanks much.

IC

i am not fond of the scrolling text at the bottom - i keep expecting
to see stock prices go up and down..its exciting but annoying in
relation to actually using your site.

do not use frames...you can do the same thing using tables or better
yet CSS divs.

the menu buttons also can be done using CSS hover, and it saves
loading an image ( extra size ) and search engines prefer standard
html Ahref / anchor links with title, etc

good luck ol chap.

On Jul 16, 8:52 pm, "icclea... (AT) mindspring (DOT) com"
<icclea... (AT) mindspring (DOT) com> wrote:

We just recently put up this site --www.tpcahome.bizand would
appreciate any comments and/or pointers you could give me.

Thanks much.

IC

Hey, thanks for all of the posts! Some good suggestions and will get
to work on them. Especially the slow load part.

IC

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"icclearly (AT) mindspring (DOT) com" <icclearly (AT) mindspring (DOT) com> writes

We just recently put up this site -- www.tpcahome.biz and would
appreciate any comments and/or pointers you could give me.

At the bottom left of the home page, there is a missing image (I think
it is meant to be a hit counter).

The menu items along the top all work, but only some of the items light
up when I hover on them.

The marquee text near the bottom of the home page is irritating. If you
want people to read it, present it as normal text, and make it easy for
them; if you don't, get rid of it.

The use of frames makes it impossible to bookmark any part of the site.

But all in all, the site works, and is nicely presented.

Nick
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Nick Wedd nick (AT) maproom (DOT) co.uk