Help needed and greatly appreciated!

Greetings to you all!

Could you please, check out my site : http://www.sunmarine.gr/site/results/?chlang=2

It's a new site (2 months old) and as I am quite ignorant I just need
any feedback you could give me on possible amendments.

It is for my travel agency and my aim was to make (well, have someone
make for me) a site comprehensive & easy to those who are not very
familiar with the internet.

Any recommendations are welcome!

Amria

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:40:12 -0700, Amria2007 wrote:

Greetings to you all!

Could you please, check out my site :
http://www.sunmarine.gr/site/results/?chlang=2

It's a new site (2 months old) and as I am quite ignorant I just need
any feedback you could give me on possible amendments.

It is for my travel agency and my aim was to make (well, have someone
make for me) a site comprehensive & easy to those who are not very
familiar with the internet.

Any recommendations are welcome!

Amria

I won't comment upon the visual aspect of the site, but its underlying
coding.

Widths are specified in px. This is rather outdated and assumes a given
screen size and font size. Except for graphics, all sizes should either
be given as 'em' or '%'

A combo of divs and tables are used for layout. Layout can be done,
often times much simpler, without the need for tables.

Why the transitional doctype for a new document? New documents should be
HTML 4.01 strict. (The use of XHTML is -not- recommended, at least not
until Internet Explorer handles it correctly.)

In English, the first entry on your drop downs is still in Greek.

Amria2007 (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Could you please, check out my site : http://www.sunmarine.gr/site/results/?chlang=2

First up, the usual issues:
Markup errors (198): http://validator.w3.org/

CSS problems (only 1 error but several warnings):
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

What Jeremy said about HTML 4.01 strict instead of XHTML or transitional.

Why light gray (or very light blue) and tiny text? Surely you want
visitors to read your content?

"Contact hours: 09:00 - 22.00 Monday - Friday"
How many hours from GMT/UTC is that? Plus or minus? It *is* the WWW.
Consider Americans' tendency to not know this stuff.

The mail contact info is given as merely,
"84700
Firostefani, Santorini"
Is that really all that has to be on the envelope? From anywhere in the
world?

That beautiful photo at the top of the page takes up a certain width,
and along with the "Vehicles" box underneath it, a lot of space is left
empty to the right of most of those hotel entries. Maybe you could
either provide more content to fill that wasted (somewhat
broken-looking) space, or find a way to change the flow of the page.

I visited with JS off, as I usually leave it off except when it's
obviously needed. Next to your logo is a large empty white space, with a
small, inexplicable "Get Adobe Flash Player" icon. I figured I was
"missing" some ad, or a video of Santorini's ocean views. But when I
turn JS on and refresh, suddenly I get... Navigation! Who knew? Maybe
you could have, as a minimum, some non-Flash and JS-dependent navigation
at the bottom of each page (in a readable color and size!).

The page at htt p:// www.sunmarine.gr/ is interesting. Do you know it's
not styled? Or are you deliberately hiding it and its content (for which
contingency I have broken the URL)?

Suppose I want to stay at Absolut Bliss. I see it's in the 4-euro-signs
class, which (I can just barely make out) is "a bit expensive". How much
is that, exactly? I want to stay one night in a single room, next
Thursday. How do I find the actual price? Availability? How do I make a
reservation? IOW, what services is your site supposed to provide?

The "Telephone" label on the contact form is not blue like its colleagues.

GL. HTH.

--
John
Me? I'm blue like my colleagues.

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<b7161a3c-c47c-4739-bd5d-a090c964dd38 (AT) x1g2000prh (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
Amria2007 (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Greetings to you all!

Could you please, check out my site :
http://www.sunmarine.gr/site/results/?chlang=2

It's a new site (2 months old) and as I am quite ignorant I just need
any feedback you could give me on possible amendments.

It is for my travel agency and my aim was to make (well, have someone
make for me) a site comprehensive & easy to those who are not very
familiar with the internet.

Any recommendations are welcome!

Have you seen what your URL looks like with the browser window at less
than 900px wide in different browsers?

--
dorayme