re-Critique please

Hi there.

I've revamped my small biz website:

www.k-techs.tzo.com

its still in infacy stage but tell me what you think. Dont be too hard,.. I
am learning.

Thanks for any assistance.

Thanks.

Rob J

"RJ" <just wondering (AT) question (DOT) net> wrote

Hi there.

I've revamped my small biz website:

www.k-techs.tzo.com

its still in infacy stage but tell me what you think. Dont be too hard,..
I
am learning.

Thanks for any assistance.

It breaks when I make my font larger. Certain bits of text overlay other
bits of text.

Allways test your page at many and varied font sizes.

Do not use pictures of text (your nav bars). Use real text. Real text can be
changed in size and can be listened to by blind viewers.

Cheers
Richard.

RJ wrote in message ...

I've revamped my small biz website:

The text overlaps.

Don't like the vertical writing !
Why do you do it as there is plenty of room for horizontal writing?

The Navigation from page-to-page doesn't work.

"RJ" <just wondering (AT) question (DOT) net> wrote

Hi there.

I've revamped my small biz website:

www.k-techs.tzo.com

its still in infacy stage but tell me what you think. Dont be too hard,..
I
am learning.

Thanks for any assistance.

Thanks.

Rob J

O.k., not too hard...
The copy needs a re-write.
The vertical menu is bad, if not terrible, or worse.
The code looks like spaghetti, but then, I know nothing of code...
Why include your CSS on the page? Is this your only page?
IT Technology--- is that redundant? like 'Information Technology
Technology'?
What is that large graphic? Is it landing, or taking off? What does it have
to do with what you're selling?
Your absolute positions and font size break (overlap) in MSIE 6 and Netscape
7 if I need to use a larger view...

But then, it is a good place to start... If you are learning, you are doing
fine.

--
Glenn

RJ wrote:

I've revamped my small biz website:
www.k-techs.tzo.com

I'm still having a lot of trouble with your server. I got the home page
displayed, then got nothing but timeouts. Why don't you get your own
domain name and move to a nice, reliable Unix server?

The graphics are still cheesy and don't look good together. What does
that disco ball in the top left corner have to do with networking or
CAD? And I can tell from the graphic name that the triangle thingy on
the far right is some autoCAD diagram, but it is too small to make out
any detail so it just looks like a blue pyramid, so... what does a
pyramid have to do with networking or CAD? I don't like the bright blue
text, either.

The copy on the home page is better than your first attempt, at least it
says something meaningful about who you are and what you do, but I
suggest not writing it all in paragraph form. People looking for
information on the web scan text rather than read it. They need
something to focus on. Consider something like:

heading (i.e. "What I do")
<a line or two intro>
* bullet list
* of services
* using primarily
* SE keywords

It will help draw the eye to your important stuff, be easier to read on
screen, and search engines will like it, too.

The code is better than your first attempt, too, but still has a lot of
cruft in it, like mixed CSS and HTML style attributes (ishy <font>
stuff) and excessive rollover junk (which should be done in CSS anyway).
You need to use an external stylesheet, not embed <style> rules on
every page, nor have a bunch of inline styles. There is much code
cleanup yet to do.

You must also make FrontPage stop absolutely positioning every element
on the page. It causes overlapping text, among other things. Better
yet, dump FP altogether, or at least disable every attempt it makes to
"help" you code. It does a horrible job.

Dont be too hard,.. I am learning.

Not as scathing as the first critique, but you you still have a ways to
go, methinks.

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Now,.. some meat that I need,... I like this review.

I didn't know about the excessive code FrontPage writes.

I like your idea on the bullets instead of paragraphing.

The others,... I will take another poke at it.

Trust kchayka,................ I want to go Linux but been indoctrinated
sooooo much into Microsoft that when I tried to make a server I just got
lost. (Suse and Redhat!!)

Thanks for your review.

Rob J

"kchayka" <kcha-un-yka (AT) sihope (DOT) com> wrote

RJ wrote:

I've revamped my small biz website:
www.k-techs.tzo.com

I'm still having a lot of trouble with your server. I got the home page
displayed, then got nothing but timeouts. Why don't you get your own
domain name and move to a nice, reliable Unix server?

The graphics are still cheesy and don't look good together. What does
that disco ball in the top left corner have to do with networking or
CAD? And I can tell from the graphic name that the triangle thingy on
the far right is some autoCAD diagram, but it is too small to make out
any detail so it just looks like a blue pyramid, so... what does a
pyramid have to do with networking or CAD? I don't like the bright blue
text, either.

The copy on the home page is better than your first attempt, at least it
says something meaningful about who you are and what you do, but I
suggest not writing it all in paragraph form. People looking for
information on the web scan text rather than read it. They need
something to focus on. Consider something like:

heading (i.e. "What I do")
a line or two intro
* bullet list
* of services
* using primarily
* SE keywords

It will help draw the eye to your important stuff, be easier to read on
screen, and search engines will like it, too.

The code is better than your first attempt, too, but still has a lot of
cruft in it, like mixed CSS and HTML style attributes (ishy <font
stuff) and excessive rollover junk (which should be done in CSS anyway).
You need to use an external stylesheet, not embed <style> rules on
every page, nor have a bunch of inline styles. There is much code
cleanup yet to do.

You must also make FrontPage stop absolutely positioning every element
on the page. It causes overlapping text, among other things. Better
yet, dump FP altogether, or at least disable every attempt it makes to
"help" you code. It does a horrible job.

Dont be too hard,.. I am learning.

Not as scathing as the first critique, but you you still have a ways to
go, methinks.

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I've revamped my small biz website:

www.k-techs.tzo.com

its still in infacy stage but tell me what you think. Dont be too hard,.. I
am learning.

Still awful. Have you tried testing in any browsers at all?

Here's a screenshot from Mozilla 1.5:

http://www.ianmiller.net/knights.gif



Ian M

RJ wrote:

www.k-techs.tzo.com

In addition of what others said: Don't resize pictures in HTML.
The acad2000box.jpg for example (96x98) is in fact 190x225 pixels.
The quality will improve if you resize in a picture editor.
Regards, Nico

Wow,... how do I control that,... make the text a pic or what?!?!?

Thanks for the pic too.

Rob J
"Ian Miller" <news (AT) ianmiller (DOT) net> wrote

I've revamped my small biz website:

www.k-techs.tzo.com

its still in infacy stage but tell me what you think. Dont be too
hard,.. I
am learning.


Still awful. Have you tried testing in any browsers at all?

Here's a screenshot from Mozilla 1.5:

http://www.ianmiller.net/knights.gif



Ian M

Thanks.

Rob J
"Nico Schuyt" <nschuyt (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

RJ wrote:
www.k-techs.tzo.com

In addition of what others said: Don't resize pictures in HTML.
The acad2000box.jpg for example (96x98) is in fact 190x225 pixels.
The quality will improve if you resize in a picture editor.
Regards, Nico