Re: Beginner @ HTML, no CSS, Java? HA! Site for Work

On or around 8 Jul 2003 12:48:16 -0700, there was a message, possibly
from tangerine37 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com (BGW), as follows:

Hallo!

I've written this site last week, with help from my husband, google
groups, Dave's HTML tutorial, and a lot of swearing. . . any
constructive criticism would be appreciated (although my boss'll
probably veto the implementation of anything truly helpful. . .)

www.garlikovcompanies.com

There are plenty of technical problems, as others have pointed out,
but my initial impression was positive. The images downloaded fast,
the purpose is clear, and it just looks friendly.

Try changing the black boxes to have transparent backgrounds. They
make the page look too, well, boxy and broken up. The address box,
with a background the same color as the page background, works much
better.

Try killing some of the box borders, or make them 1px. The hr at the
bottom of the page isn't needed, and makes things broken up.
Similarly, kill the hr in the address box.

Allowing the browser to resize an image is usually a mistake, but
that's because people are making a large image small. The landscape
image seems to be resizing larger from a small 588x152, and works
surprisingly well, probably because of its soft colors. Now do the
same thing for the text beside the portrait!

Cheers,
m

m wrote:

On or around 8 Jul 2003 12:48:16 -0700, there was a message, possibly
from tangerine37 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com (BGW), as follows:

www.garlikovcompanies.com

The images downloaded fast,

The images do have problems - some are inappropriate image types, some
shouldn't be images at all, and there is at least one that is over 200K
(Collage7.gif). There is more optimization that could still be done.

As is, some pages are unnecessarily image-heavy and will load slowly on
dial-up. The home page alone is over 120K. Most graphics seem too
large for the page, overwhelming the content and, combined with the
logo, take up more than half the page. When a page first loads, I
barely get a glimpse of the content.

Definitely needs trimming, methinks.

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www.garlikovcompanies.com

There are plenty of technical problems, as others have pointed out,
but my initial impression was positive. The images downloaded fast,
the purpose is clear, and it just looks friendly.

Try changing the black boxes to have transparent backgrounds. They
make the page look too, well, boxy and broken up. The address box,
with a background the same color as the page background, works much
better.

Try killing some of the box borders, or make them 1px. The hr at the
bottom of the page isn't needed, and makes things broken up.
Similarly, kill the hr in the address box.

I agree, but she's fixated on the black box. I removed two of the
three hr's - and it does seem a little roomier. = ) Thank you!

Allowing the browser to resize an image is usually a mistake, but
that's because people are making a large image small. The landscape
image seems to be resizing larger from a small 588x152, and works
surprisingly well, probably because of its soft colors. Now do the
same thing for the text beside the portrait!

What should I do for the text? I'm not a huge fan of the light

writing/dark background, but my boss likes the dark blue. Would it be
more legible w/o the <b>?

Thanks so much!

Cheers,
m

On or around 9 Jul 2003 11:05:29 -0700, there was a message, possibly
from tangerine37 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com (BGW), as follows:

What should I do for the text? I'm not a huge fan of the light
writing/dark background, but my boss likes the dark blue. Would it be
more legible w/o the <b>?

It wasn't the color of it. Let it resize: If you bring your browser
in from the side so that the window is narrow, the text just
disappears behind the right edge of the window. Don't set the
text or the box to a fixed width. Use a percentage of the window
size.