Need a critique on this one

Just need some opinions on this one. This is a colorful one!

http://www.cytozyme.com/new

Thanks so much in advance.
Michael

On 2006-09-09, Michael Mishler wrote:

Just need some opinions on this one. This is a colorful one!

http://www.cytozyme.com/new

The links across the top and bottom are almost illegible due to
the colours; if I used a higher resolution screen they would be
too small to read, even with better colours. Do not use images for
text.

The page takes up only a small portion of my browser window,
leaving the rest blank. By default, HTML will fill the window; why
mess with it?

The code? 69K for a page that should need no more than 2 or 3K.
Then a whole bunch of unnecesary images on top. On a dial-up
connection, that is going to be horribly slow.

Note that MS Office does not produce web pages; it produces
documents rendered with HTML. A check with the W3C validator shows
62 errors.

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Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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Author:
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

Ok, but if the size of the html was fixed, how about the cosmetics?

thanks


Michael Mishler wrote:

Just need some opinions on this one. This is a colorful one!

http://www.cytozyme.com/new

Thanks so much in advance.
Michael

You did that with Microsoft Word, correct?

No offense, but please start over with .. a text editor? That one page
is 64KB of Word stuff, and a few images. Have you looked at the source?

If you think you really need a WYSIWYG editor, try NVu.
http://nvu.com/
(It's a stand-alone version of the Mozilla Composer.)

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-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck.

Michael Mishler wrote:

Just need some opinions on this one. This is a colorful one!

http://www.cytozyme.com/new

Thanks so much in advance.
Michael
Michael,

So, um, can I make payments with PayPal? :-)

As others have pointed out, these are not web pages. They are print
pages squished into HTML so they can, minimally, be displayed on the
web. To some users. With certain computer configurations.

Go to http://pages.prodigy.net/chris_beall/TC/index.html. Read
everything. Contemplate it. Reread "You don't know" and any other
sections that seem applicable to your situation. This will get you
started on the right track.

Others here have their own sets of
information-every-web-site-designer-should-know. Perhaps they will post
pointers to them. Read that too.

Then start over.

Chris Beall

Ok, but how about the rest of the page. There's a lot you haven't seen yet.

On 2006-09-09, Michael Mishler wrote:

Ok, but how about the rest of the page.

The rest of what page? If you mean the rest of the site, what site?

Please include context when you reply to a Usenet article.

There's a lot you haven't seen yet.

No doubt; where is it?

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Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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Author:
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

On 2006-09-09, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
....

Why file names like: Page316.htm
instead of the more informative: plen-t-gro.html ?
Remember, you are going to have to maintain this site. Tell me in six
months what is on Page309.htm ?

It's hard enough to tell what's on Page316.htm even with it open in
front of you: <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/testing/cytozome.jpg>.


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Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
================================================== =================
Author:
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

Michael Mishler wrote:

Just need some opinions on this one. This is a colorful one!

http://www.cytozyme.com/new

Thanks so much in advance.
Michael

Hi,

I agree with most other things said here. The file sizes are way to big
for what they are presenting. Really, don't use MS Word to create web
pages. At least 90% of that code has nothing to do with html...

I had a bit of time to kill today so I spent it on rebuilding your
"About us" page with proper html/css. It took me about 10 or 15 minutes
to create this page. It's just over 3000 bytes in size. And your text
will not disappear underneath the images like it does with my browser
settings...

Here it is. Use it to build on if you like.
http://users.skynet.be/fb536819/page666.html

Michael Mishler wrote:

Just need some opinions on this one. This is a colorful one!

http://www.cytozyme.com/new

Thanks so much in advance.
Michael
MS Word should not be used as a HTML editor, learne Valid HTML and CSS

and re-build the site.
With a good text editor, or use NVU as has been already suggested.
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Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc