feedback would help! :)

Just wondering if anybody could give me general feedback on my site
http://www.paq-land.com either nav wise, content wise, or whatever

I'm working on how it's displayed in IE before somebody tells me it
looks jacked up

~paq

paqland (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Just wondering if anybody could give me general feedback on my site
http://www.paq-land.com either nav wise, content wise, or whatever

I should probably start by admitting that I'm sure I'm not in your
target demographic. I have no idea about Japanese rap manga hip-hop
ninja blogs. This might be a perfect one of those.

I may not know much about (your preferred) art, but I know what I can't
read. And so we come to the first problem, and the related ones it
connects to. The biggest font-size appears to be 16px, most of it 12px
or even 9px, all of which is just too small. Few people over about 35
years old (maybe you don't care) will be able to make out your content,
and many younger than that will have trouble.

Theoretically, small text isn't a problem, because I just scroll up in
Firefox, but on your site, a lot of the text doesn't change at all, in
particular the nav list, which is in a thick, bold, but closely-spaced
font, served as images. The texts which _do_ upsize quickly outrun the
exact spaces you've allowed for them. In IE, the texts don't resize at
all, because you've chosen px rather than em or percent as units.

Being images, the navigation is completely invisible when one or more
images are missing or otherwise invisible. You have provided no alt
texts for that case. Furthermore, the nav and much of the content rely
on JavaScript, which many clever folks leave turned off. Some folks
might not notice anything's missing.

You might have more luck in IE if you validated your page(s), starting
with the addition of a valid doctype (aim for HTML 4.01 strict) to
invoke standards mode (rather than quirks mode, q.G.). For the HTML,
visit http://validator.w3.org/, and for the CSS, go to
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ .

Again, no comment on the content, except that it "looks" right, by which
I guess I mean, it looks like one of "that kind of site," to my old,
fuddy-duddy, unhip eyes. You might want to drop the hit counter at the
bottom, and the iconic ads down there are also a bit weird, but
otherwise, I guess it works Look-wise, for those who can see all the
content, and who might be interested in your genre in the first place.

One last thing: besides the top banner ad, the most prominent feature on
the page is the Google search, set by default to search the entire Web,
not just your own site. If I want to use Google, I can do it directly in
my browser, and not have to view the cramped darkness of your page. And
if I visit your page, it won't be to use Google, it'll be to listen to
ninja MP3s or get some rap news (or whatever your page is for; I still
don't know. N.B.: Your coding may repel search engines.).

I'm working on how it's displayed in IE before somebody tells me it
looks jacked up

I once had a car that was "jacked up," back in the 1970s. It looked
pretty boss, I thought. ;-)

HTH. GL!
--
John