Feedback On My Site Please

#1

I started my website a few months ago and I've gone through a few
design changes and will probably go through another one soon. Anyways,
I was wondering if you could please take a look at my website and let
me know how I can make it better.

Thanks a bunch everyone

~Terry

www.terhumphrey.com

#2

your menu is pretty weak on the left.
either make them standard a links ( blue and underline ) so that people
recognise them or style it up a bit to differ from your regular content
text.

i like the sketch by the way at the top - not quite sure what it is but
its funky.
Also the advertisement on the right hand side - the text is not clear
at all maybe try another font and again spruce up with some color/theme
in general.

keep it up ! i can see you will have a rich content site which is great
just would help users enjoy their experience if it is visually
appealing. its not all fancy graphics but if it can complement the
website then your doing something right : )

good luck. keep us posted.

allshadowsfled (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Quote:

I started my website a few months ago and I've gone through a few
design changes and will probably go through another one soon. Anyways,
I was wondering if you could please take a look at my website and let
me know how I can make it better.

Thanks a bunch everyone

~Terry

www.terhumphrey.com

#3

allshadowsfled (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Quote:

I started my website a few months ago and I've gone through a few
design changes and will probably go through another one soon. Anyways,
I was wondering if you could please take a look at my website and let
me know how I can make it better.

[http://www.terhumphrey.com/]

Hi, Terry

Let me point out some places where your source code needs cleaning up.

You've got a <table> in your <head>, for starters. Firefox does its best
to sort that out, but don't expect solid, identical results from every UA.
Since you're styling, you don't need <h1 align="center">.
Your nav links could be an unordered list, rapther than paragraphs.
I'm not sure what a UA is supposed to do with <p > anyway.

Consider this markup:
<div id="articlehead">
<p>
<b>Featured Software</b>
</p>

</div

Quote:

div id=articlepic> [...]

If you made "Featured Software" a heading, which it seems to be, it's
automatically bold in most graphical UAs, and you can style it otherwise
if you want. Then your div, p, and b can become a single h2.

What's this stuff at the end (intervening spaces removed for NG)?
<div id="body">
<p>
<br />
<br />
</p>
</div>

I don't know why you're using XHTML for this page/site; <snide>do
you?</snide> ;-)

Why is it transitional? What legacy code are you transitioning from?

The page doesn't validate at all, so maybe there are other problems I
haven't noticed.

Your <title> looks nice and functional, but your <h1> might not be as
useful, without any textual content. I don't know enough about this.

I'm confused about the Forum link, and how it relates to you.

The green background color on hovered links is a mite too dark for the
black foreground text color.

The tables on the Free Software page might not be the best way to group
the links. Maybe <ul>'s of various lengths would be better than assorted
empty table cells.

You specify body {background-color:white} but FG color only for links.

Beyond what BTS said, when you *do* specify font-family: Comic Sans MS,
you'll need to put quotes around names-with-spaces. e.g."Comic Sans MS".
As it is now, I see another font (I'm not complaining about that!)

Simple, clean look Terry, but I have a sense of wasted (horizontal)
space. Maybe some resizing or reorganizing the blocks?

HTH. GL with the site.
--
John

#4

Thanks for the Feedback everyone. As soon as I get time (hopefully this
Sunday or while I'm bored on Christmas) I can start making some of
these changes as they look like they could be very helpful.

To answer a few of the questions:

I created this site for a class and part of the assignment was for it
to be in XHTML format or I failed. Thus I decided to stick with it. I
made it Transitional because Strict is way too picky. Most of the
coding errors come from lack of understanding of this whole thing. It's
a learning process I guess.

The forum was something I sort of inherited from a friend. It's
basically a chat board, but I'm redoing it to have sections that
actually relate to my site. I figure I've got a board already started,
it will have a better user base than a brand new one. I'm working on
the code still before I push it out to have the new sections.

The free software was originally done as unordered lists and it looked
terrible. I changed it to its current format after recieving complaints
from almost everyone who used it.

The onestatfree.com, I don't like it, but it's the only way I can keep
an eye on my traffic because of how I am hosting the site. I don't know
if anyone has any better suggestions for it that are free (cause I'm
flat broke) maybe a file I can upload via FTP that I can use to keep an
eye on it?

I'm thinking of redoing the header so it is slightly more colorful and
includes a search bar. Think that will help it?

Thanks a bunch everyone

~Terry

#5

Speedy wrote:

Quote:

I created this site for a class and part of the assignment was for it
to be in XHTML format or I failed. Thus I decided to stick with it. I
made it Transitional because Strict is way too picky. Most of the
coding errors come from lack of understanding of this whole thing. It's
a learning process I guess.

<response class="Marge_Simpson_Noise">Mmhmrhnhnh</response>

Quote:

The onestatfree.com, I don't like it, but it's the only way I can keep
an eye on my traffic because of how I am hosting the site. I don't know
if anyone has any better suggestions for it that are free (cause I'm
flat broke) maybe a file I can upload via FTP that I can use to keep an
eye on it?

My *former* host provided lame-o free counters and when we moved the
site to a different host, I , uh, forgot to replace them in the HTML.
They were free (originally) though; the counters, once created, always
exist; and the usage of that site is so small that the bandwidth load is
miniscule. (Currently redesigning that site, and the counters probably
won't make the cut for the new look. I'll get looking at the log files
myself instead.)

But whatever you do, even if you stay with onestatfree, why not move it
down to the bottom of the page(s), as small as possible?

Quote:

I'm thinking of redoing the header so it is slightly more colorful and
includes a search bar. Think that will help it?

Maybe, but maybe not. I'm more interested in seeing (immediately) (1)
what the site is about; (2) what kinds of info/content is there (i.e., I
want to feel that there is some good content there somewhere); and (3)
that I can locate and get to the swell content that's supposed to be there.

Quote:

Thanks a bunch everyone

You're welcome. Happy holidays!
--
John

#6

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

Quote:

allshadowsfled (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

www.terhumphrey.com

3. no fallback fonts. "Comic Sans" used, ugh.

No problem for me - I uninstalled Comic Sans from my PC long ago. 8-)

Try it, you'll like it.

--
Berg

#7

allshadowsfled (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Quote:

www.terhumphrey.com

You must make links a different color than regular text, at least for
links in the content area. Making the user move the mouse around the
screen to find the links is a bit rude.

BTW, I read your article about Windows Vista with great interest. I've
been hanging onto Win2K because there didn't seem to be any great
advantage in upgrading to XP, but now it looks like there is even less
reason to go to Vista. :-\

--
Berg

#8

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:50:51 GMT, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"
<a.nony.mous (AT) example (DOT) invalid> wrote:

Quote:

Speedy wrote:

I created this site for a class and part of the assignment was for it
to be in XHTML format or I failed. Thus I decided to stick with it. I
made it Transitional because Strict is way too picky. ...

Transitional is for .. well .. transitioning old legacy pages, where you
don't have the time or the bother to update to modern code.

Use Strict and write proper code.

And it's actually easier to learn and use, IMO, because you don't have
to worry about remembering the old depreciated stuff.

#9

Okay, I've updated my site and I think fixed most if not all the
things you suggested. What do you all think?

Thanks,

~Terry

www.terhumphrey.com

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