Redesigned the Home Page at www.Odd-Info.com - What Do You Think?

If you have any constructive thoughts about the home page at
www.odd-info.com, or any of the pages at the site for that matter, please
let me know.
Thanks,
- Jeff

"Jeff" <javawizard (AT) aol (DOT) com> wrote

If you have any constructive thoughts about the home page at
www.odd-info.com, or any of the pages at the site for that matter, please
let me know.
Thanks,
- Jeff

HI Jeff,

Well first things first the page is boring! Its hard to tell where the
google ads end and the page proper begins. I would have categorised the
links into different sections. A bit of colour here and there wouldn't hurt
either.

On to the technical side of things. Please,please,please ditch Front Plague.
It produces horrible code. If I were you I'd spend a bit of time learning
how to code html by hand and also definatly learn at least the basics of
CSS. Your code was fine in 1995 but is now hopelesly outdated. Theres some
great sites just google html tutorials (http://www.w3schools.com/ is a great
place to start)

Good luck!

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Paul
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If you have any constructive thoughts about the home page at
www.odd-info.com, or any of the pages at the site for that matter,
please let me know.
Thanks,
- Jeff



HI Jeff,

Well first things first the page is boring! Its hard to tell where
the google ads end and the page proper begins. I would have
categorised the links into different sections. A bit of colour here
and there wouldn't hurt either.

On to the technical side of things. Please,please,please ditch Front
Plague. It produces horrible code. If I were you I'd spend a bit of
time learning how to code html by hand and also definatly learn at
least the basics of CSS. Your code was fine in 1995 but is now
hopelesly outdated. Theres some great sites just google html
tutorials (http://www.w3schools.com/ is a great place to start)

Everything Paul said. For the google, make the input narrower and
after your heading. I'd float it to the right. Then you need some
content on that first page. Use a paragraph or two to tell what the
odd Info site is about. A page full of nothing but links is a big no
no in my book (although I've got a couple like that still hanging
around).

The idea is great. You just need to work on you HTML/CSS skills and
add some design. As Paul said, the page is boring as is. Good luck.

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Jeff wrote:

If you have any constructive thoughts about the home page at
www.odd-info.com, or any of the pages at the site for that matter, please
let me know.

- Make the Google search default to your site, not the web. Sheesh.

- Missing a DTD declaration.
- Lots of HTML validation errors:
<http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.odd-info.com%2F>
- There is no <img></img> or <input></input>. Only <img> and <input>.
- Table-based layout. Ugh. Search for "two column CSS".
- The horizontal alphabetizing is annoying. Ordering vertically much
easier to follow.
- These are lists of links. Use a list element, <ul>, for markup.
- No evidence of using HTML as a markup language. For instance, no <Hx>
elements for headers.
- "conversationist" should be "conversationalist".
- Bold font for body text. Why? That is only slightly less annoying than
all caps.

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On 2006-07-03, Jim Moe wrote:

- "conversationist" should be "conversationalist".

Both are correct.

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Jeff wrote:

"Jeff" <javawizard (AT) aol (DOT) com> wrote

If you have any constructive thoughts about the home page at
www.odd-info.com, or any of the pages at the site for that matter, please
let me know.
Thanks,
- Jeff

Loose the "bookmark this page" crap and the visitor counter. Those are very
amateurish. Users know how to bookmark and they don't give shit about how
many people have come before you. This site is crying out for an
interesting cartoon or logo to be in the header space. Move your copyright
and contact info to a footer. Find a good CSS template to use and lose the
Frontpage construction. This was out of date 10 years ago - and still is!

I also agree with the other comments that your first page should not be full
of links - especially when you are including three sets of Google ads.
Makes your site look like a link farm - which it might be. Hurts you with
the search engines and gives you zero credibility with potential clients.

Start over from scratch...

JH