FreeForYou.Mobstop.com

Hi, this is my second project. I just redesigned my site
freeforyou.mobstop.com
Please critique it, reviews appreciated.

ptnator44 (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Hi, this is my second project. I just redesigned my site
freeforyou.mobstop.com
Please critique it, reviews appreciated.

pt,

Things I noticed, in the order I noticed them:

Your page does not fit on my 800 X 600 screen, even with the browser
window maximized. The horizontal scroll bar indicates that 5-10% of the
page is off screen by default.

The Name: and Email address: prompts are very difficult to read (black
text on dark green background)

The page has no title. Wait, yes it does. The title is "Untitled
Document". Odd, but creative.

I had trouble understanding what the site was about; I read the text
three times before I thought I had it. It didn't help that there were
errors in the text:
- I believe 'ebay' should be 'eBay'.
- 'ebook auctions for marketing' puzzled me. I finally concluded you
meant 'auctions of ebooks on the subject of marketing'.
- 'Im' should have an apostrophe in it.
- I think there should be a comma before 'etc.'
- In the last sentence of the second paragraph, I believe there should
be commas before and after the phrase 'if you can'.
- 'dont' should have an apostrophe in it.

I have no idea what 'AHM Traffic Generating software and Power Linker
Software' are, nor why I would want them. Perhaps this phrase should be
a link to an explanation.

Aside from the site itself, I'm a tad mystified by the concept here.
You are BUYING ebooks, then making them available for FREE. Is there a
copyright issue here?

The header text, at the top of the page, looks like it is viewed through
one of those rippled bathroom windows. That's because you've used a
..jpg, a format that is excellent for photographs, but poor for images of
text because it tends to blend the sharp edges of the text into the
background color. Also see
http://pages.prodigy.net/chris_beall...%20images.html

The background images, with rounded corners, also show .jpg artifacts
(it looks like there are gnats flying around each corner). This is
something to do with the way the images themselves were created, not
with the HTML/CSS.

At this point (21:30 EDT), I was no longer able to access the server and
could not continue the external review, so I saw only the home page. I
retried for about 30 minutes, without success.

Looking at the source code:

XHTML DOCTYPE. Why? Are you using something that requires XHTML? I
didn't see it. See http://pages.prodigy.net/chris_beall/TC/XHTML.html

Tables used for layout. See
http://pages.prodigy.net/chris_beall...%20layout.html

JavaScript used to display ads. In this case that's actually a
blessing, since those with JavaScript disabled will not have to look at
them. See http://pages.prodigy.net/chris_beall/TC/JavaScript.html

logo.jpg image tag has no alt= attribute.

You have style classes named "style1" and "style5". In 6 months you
won't remember what they were for. If you use meaningful names like
'adteaser', 'menu', 'inputprompt', etc. you will.

If you have something that is a paragraph, you should mark it up with
<p> tags. <br /> should be used to force a line break WITHIN a
paragraph. If you are using two (or more) <br />s in succession, you
are using them for layout, which is inappropriate.

If you have a header, you should use <hx> tags, not a <span> and unique
styling. The objective is to mark up the text with tags that identify
its semantic meaning. This allows user agents, including non-visual
ones, to render the site appropriately. In the case of header tags, it
also allows automatic outlining of the page.

You've mixed obsolescent HTML attribute styling with a bit of CSS. I'd
update the HTML and use CSS for ALL styling.

You've used a list for your navigation links. That's good. It will
help audio UAs to render the material in a more useful manner (so I'm
told...).

Chris Beall