Anybody feel like having a look?

Critiques appreciated.

http://stevegibons.com/home.html

thanks,

steve

ChicagoZouave wrote:

Critiques appreciated.

http://stevegibons.com/home.html

Red on black is very difficult to read

Top level menus link nowhere

Impossible to navigate using the keyboard

Menu overlaps photo

Interesting choice of Doctype - why not use the official one for HTML 4.01
Transitional? Why use Transitional for that matter?

The markup don't conform to the specified DTD either.
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos...%2 Fhome.html

Font size specified in pixels ignores user preferences and makes things very
difficult for IE users if the font size you picked isn't large enough.

alt="<br><br>Welcome to Steve Gibons dot com"?! The alt attribute contains
text, not markup (not that a double line break makes sense there (or
anywhere). That isn't equivalent text to the image anyway.

<li><a href="#"><br>Info<br><br></a> - more really odd linebreaks. It looks
pretty stupid when CSS is disabled too ...

*
Home
*
News
+ Romania
+ Gypsy Rhythm Project

The design can't cope with an increate in font size. Things overlap very
quickly.

It would probably benefit from some text serving as an introduction.

--
David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
Home is where the ~/.bashrc is

ChicagoZouave wrote:

Critiques appreciated.

http://stevegibons.com/home.html

1. New documents should be HTML 4.01 Strict rather than Transitional

2. CSS should be in one external file, called by each page.

3. As on the bio page, lose the scrollbar; mousewheel doesn't work. The
paragraphs should be .. <p>paragraphs</p>, and not lines of text
separated by <br>.

4. Move all the presentation into the CSS. <font>, align, <br> etc.

5. Eschew Verdana (google for why) and use percentages to assign font
sizes, not pixels or points, and notably 100%.

6. Above you have 'home.html'. What is the purpose of 'index.html'? Will
that be going away? (I would use the home.html as the main page.)

Nice music. Quite good.

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

David Dorward wrote:

Menu overlaps photo

Thanks. I'll do some research and have another go at the code. As far as
the menu overlapping the photo, I think it looks good. Is there other
reason why you pointed it out?

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

1. New documents should be HTML 4.01 Strict rather than Transitional
see above. R & D.

2. CSS [...]

3. As on the bio page, [...] <p>paragraphs</p>,[...]

4. Move [...] CSS.


5. Eschew Verdana [...]

Thanks for taking me to school on this.

6. Above you have 'home.html'. What is the purpose of 'index.html'? Will
that be going away? (I would use the home.html as the main page.)

index.html is the old site, it'll be gone as soon as all the content is
on the new, and home will become index.

Nice music. Quite good.

Thanks! It's what I do best.

Steve

Steve Gibons wrote:

David Dorward wrote:

Menu overlaps photo

Thanks. I'll do some research and have another go at the code. As far as
the menu overlapping the photo, I think it looks good. Is there other
reason why you pointed it out?

It didn't look intentional.

--
David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
Home is where the ~/.bashrc is

I've incorporated the suggestions here, and have made a few other
improvements. Have a(nother)look if you are so inclined.

Thanks.

Steve


Steve Gibons wrote:

David Dorward wrote:


Menu overlaps photo


Thanks. I'll do some research and have another go at the code. As far as
the menu overlapping the photo, I think it looks good. Is there other
reason why you pointed it out?

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

1. New documents should be HTML 4.01 Strict rather than Transitional
see above. R & D.

2. CSS [...]

3. As on the bio page, [...] <p>paragraphs</p>,[...]

4. Move [...] CSS.


5. Eschew Verdana [...]

Thanks for taking me to school on this.

6. Above you have 'home.html'. What is the purpose of 'index.html'? Will
that be going away? (I would use the home.html as the main page.)

index.html is the old site, it'll be gone as soon as all the content is
on the new, and home will become index.

Nice music. Quite good.

Thanks! It's what I do best.

Steve

Steve Gibons wrote:

I've incorporated the suggestions here, and have made a few other
improvements. Have a(nother)look if you are so inclined.

Still at: http://stevegibons.com/home.html ?
which is a 404 now.

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

Oh. My. God.

http://stevegibons.com/blacksite/index.html

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

Steve Gibons wrote:

I've incorporated the suggestions here, and have made a few other
improvements. Have a(nother)look if you are so inclined.

Still at: http://stevegibons.com/home.html ?
which is a 404 now.

Steve Gibons wrote:

Oh. My. God.

&deity; <g>

http://stevegibons.com/blacksite/index.html

Ah. New set.

Technically, it looks pretty good to me.

1. the "photo credit" is about a mile south of the rest of the page.
2. you should investigate the warnings from the CSS validator. Missing
background colors could jump up and bite some of your visitors,
especially since you have non-common foreground colors.
3. you should look into adding a contact form for those visitors that
don't have a default email client... internet cafe ... using work
computer ...

That's about all I can come up with at the moment. Nice job.

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

I was wondering what happened to that photo credit!

I have a problem with the background colors, the text on the photo ends
up looking bad. Hm. I suppose I could add a class without bg colors for
text and links on the photo, and add bg colors to all the others.

By the way it's accessible in plain text

sg

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

Steve Gibons wrote:

Oh. My. God.

&deity; <g

http://stevegibons.com/blacksite/index.html

Ah. New set.

Technically, it looks pretty good to me.

1. the "photo credit" is about a mile south of the rest of the page.
2. you should investigate the warnings from the CSS validator. Missing
background colors could jump up and bite some of your visitors,
especially since you have non-common foreground colors.
3. you should look into adding a contact form for those visitors that
don't have a default email client... internet cafe ... using work
computer ...

That's about all I can come up with at the moment. Nice job.