Mytrafficsignal.com - please critique

Hi, I'm new to web design and have recently made a web site selling
very highly targeted traffic. I want to know if its promotable or not -
please check it out - www.mytrafficsignal.com and tell me what you
think.

ptnator44 (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Hi, I'm new to web design and have recently made a web site selling
very highly targeted traffic. I want to know if its promotable or not -
please check it out - www.mytrafficsignal.com and tell me what you
think.

Problems:

* Hideously ugly
* Fixed width
* Blue on blue text is not very readable
* Images suffer from blurring caused by saving as low quality JPEGs
* Centred text is hard to read
* Too many different font styles
* Comic Sans
* Header images appear to have been resized while not preserving aspect
ratio, so the text looks "wrong" (as a T in one image has different
proportions to that of another image despite being in the same font)
* The text in the menu buttons is inconsistent
* Claims to be HTML 4.01 Transitional. New documents should generally be
written in HTML 4.01 Strict.
* Doesn't conform to the HTML 4.01 Transitional DTD despite the above claim.
* Abuses tables for layout (tables which don't line up anyway)
* Useless classnames
* Font sizes specified in pixels
* alt="" is good alternative text for decorative images. It is awful
alternative text for menus.
* You underline things that are not links
* Your header images require people to read down, then across, then down,
then back up to the top.



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ptnator44 (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Hi, I'm new to web design and have recently made a web site selling
very highly targeted traffic. I want to know if its promotable or not -
please check it out - www.mytrafficsignal.com and tell me what you
think.
Yes, I agree with the others, your site does not look that good.

You should not use fixxed widths,
http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc/design-tips7.html
You also need to do something regarding your BG image, it takes ages to
load on my dial-up connection.
Which is generally bad. Your page should also validate, no matter what
DTD you choose.
--
Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc

Chaddy2222 wrote:

ptnator44 (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:
Hi, I'm new to web design and have recently made a web site selling
very highly targeted traffic. I want to know if its promotable or not -
please check it out - www.mytrafficsignal.com and tell me what you
think.
Yes, I agree with the others, your site does not look that good.
You should not use fixxed widths,
http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc/design-tips7.html
You also need to do something regarding your BG image, it takes ages to
load on my dial-up connection.
Which is generally bad. Your page should also validate, no matter what
DTD you choose.

Chad your site still has layout problems.
Your Web Design page (http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc/more-info.html) and
About Us page (http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc/about.html) have different on
screen position than other pages.

You should not use fixxed widths,
http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc/design-tips7.html

Notice the sample of your code from the link you provided:

<td style="font-family: Arial Black;"></td> <td></td>

<td style="height: 100px; width: 800px; font-family: Arial Black;
background-color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><div style="text-align:
center;"><h1><font size="+2"><strong><big>Free
Web Design Online!!</big></strong></font></h1></div><h2><font size="+2">
Welcome TO
FreeWeb Design Online!! </font></h2>
<font face="Arial"></font><h3><font face="Arial">The Idea Of Fixed
Widths, Why You Should Not Use Them!</font></h3><h3></h3><font
face="Arial">I ....

Does not look good.

Nije Nego wrote:

Chaddy2222 wrote:
ptnator44 (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:
Hi, I'm new to web design and have recently made a web site selling
very highly targeted traffic. I want to know if its promotable or not -
please check it out - www.mytrafficsignal.com and tell me what you
think.
Yes, I agree with the others, your site does not look that good.
You should not use fixxed widths,
http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc/design-tips7.html
You also need to do something regarding your BG image, it takes ages to
load on my dial-up connection.
Which is generally bad. Your page should also validate, no matter what
DTD you choose.

Chad your site still has layout problems.
Your Web Design page (http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc/more-info.html) and
About Us page (http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc/about.html) have different on
screen position than other pages.
Hmmm, that's probly the margens, i'll look in to it.

You should not use fixxed widths,
http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc/design-tips7.html

Notice the sample of your code from the link you provided:

td style="font-family: Arial Black;"></td> <td></td

td style="height: 100px; width: 800px; font-family: Arial Black;
background-color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><div style="text-align:
center;"><h1><font size="+2"><strong><big>Free
Web Design Online!!</big></strong></font></h1></div><h2><font size="+2"
Welcome TO
FreeWeb Design Online!! </font></h2
font face="Arial"></font><h3><font face="Arial">The Idea Of Fixed
Widths, Why You Should Not Use Them!</font></h3><h3></h3><font
face="Arial">I ....

Does not look good.
Ahh yes, but I can't see it that well. I actually don't think it looks

that bad anyway.
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Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc