Site Critique

I am still have to put in CSS - but I would like some suggestions on the
look and feel of the site and what can I do to improve it

www.horizonsp.com

Kind Regards
Ria

I am still have to put in CSS - but I would like some suggestions on the
look and feel of the site and what can I do to improve it

www.horizonsp.com

Kind Regards
Ria

Looks nice but I am not sure I am a great fan of the reddish image at the
top against the rest of the blue looking pages.
Maybe you should cool the image down a bit.

There are some small errors.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...2F&verbos e=0

Simon.
http://www.schoolsofafrica.com/

"Ria Van Heerden" <K77 (AT) matrix (DOT) com> wrote

I am still have to put in CSS - but I would like some suggestions on the
look and feel of the site and what can I do to improve it

www.horizonsp.com

Did you make this with frontpage, but just remove the <meta
name="generator"...> tag?

It takes a huge crap on Mozilla -
http://www.karlcore.com/usenet/horizonsp.jpg

There's no reason for a simple site like yours to abuse tables for layout.

Remove the inline css and put it in a separate file.

Why are you using CSS for some stuff, but using HTML's presentational
attributes for others (often for the same thing)?

-Karl

In message <2g15ttF3ddinU1 (AT) uni-berlin (DOT) de>, Ria Van Heerden
<K77 (AT) matrix (DOT) com> writes

I am still have to put in CSS - but I would like some suggestions on the
look and feel of the site and what can I do to improve it

www.horizonsp.com

Kind Regards
Ria

A few initial thoughts.

(a) You need to check the text carefully and pick up all the errors

e.g. '...We offers our customers a range ... ' --> '...We offer our
customers a range ...'

and things like missing hyphens:
medium to large --> medium-to-large
state of the art --> state-of-the-art

and other things ...................................

(b) Go through each page and ensure that you have alternative text on
*all* your images.

Simple things like:
http://www.gododdin.demon.co.uk/ng/HORI1X.JPG (32k)

And very important things like a thumbnail selection system:
http://www.gododdin.demon.co.uk/ng/HORI3X.JPG (63k)

which as well as presenting problems to people with non-graphical
browsers, also makes it pretty impossible to use for users of assistive
technology (screen-readers, talking browsers, etc.):
http://www.gododdin.demon.co.uk/ng/HORI4X.JPG (47k)

(3) Think about providing a 'skip to main content' link on each page to
prevent users of assistive technologies from having to listen to the
preamble on each page:
http://www.gododdin.demon.co.uk/ng/HORI5X.JPG (53k)

(4) Think about adding some headings (<h1>, <h2>, etc.) to the pages to
help navigation for people using assistive technologies.

http://www.horizonsp.com/Winprint.html is a very long page, and although
you have styled some headings, they don't exist in the HTML.

Like I say, just a few initial thoughts.

regards.
--
Jake

Thanks I will take this into consideration

Kind Regards
Ria

"Simon" <spambucket (AT) schoolsofafrica (DOT) com> wrote

I am still have to put in CSS - but I would like some suggestions on the
look and feel of the site and what can I do to improve it

www.horizonsp.com

Kind Regards
Ria


Looks nice but I am not sure I am a great fan of the reddish image at the
top against the rest of the blue looking pages.
Maybe you should cool the image down a bit.

There are some small errors.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...2F&verbos e=0

Simon.
http://www.schoolsofafrica.com/

Thank you - I will try to make it more Mozilla friendly

Kind Regards
Ria

"Karl Groves" <karl (AT) NOSPAMkarlcore (DOT) com> wrote

"Ria Van Heerden" <K77 (AT) matrix (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:2g15ttF3ddinU1 (AT) uni-berlin (DOT) de...
I am still have to put in CSS - but I would like some suggestions on the
look and feel of the site and what can I do to improve it

www.horizonsp.com


Did you make this with frontpage, but just remove the <meta
name="generator"...> tag?

It takes a huge crap on Mozilla -
http://www.karlcore.com/usenet/horizonsp.jpg

There's no reason for a simple site like yours to abuse tables for layout.

Remove the inline css and put it in a separate file.

Why are you using CSS for some stuff, but using HTML's presentational
attributes for others (often for the same thing)?

-Karl

Thank for the pointers

Kind Regards
Ria

"jake" <jake (AT) gododdin (DOT) demon.co.uk> wrote

In message <2g15ttF3ddinU1 (AT) uni-berlin (DOT) de>, Ria Van Heerden
K77 (AT) matrix (DOT) com> writes
I am still have to put in CSS - but I would like some suggestions on the
look and feel of the site and what can I do to improve it

www.horizonsp.com

Kind Regards
Ria




A few initial thoughts.

(a) You need to check the text carefully and pick up all the errors

e.g. '...We offers our customers a range ... ' --> '...We offer our
customers a range ...'

and things like missing hyphens:
medium to large --> medium-to-large
state of the art --> state-of-the-art

and other things ...................................

(b) Go through each page and ensure that you have alternative text on
*all* your images.

Simple things like:
http://www.gododdin.demon.co.uk/ng/HORI1X.JPG (32k)

And very important things like a thumbnail selection system:
http://www.gododdin.demon.co.uk/ng/HORI3X.JPG (63k)

which as well as presenting problems to people with non-graphical
browsers, also makes it pretty impossible to use for users of assistive
technology (screen-readers, talking browsers, etc.):
http://www.gododdin.demon.co.uk/ng/HORI4X.JPG (47k)

(3) Think about providing a 'skip to main content' link on each page to
prevent users of assistive technologies from having to listen to the
preamble on each page:
http://www.gododdin.demon.co.uk/ng/HORI5X.JPG (53k)

(4) Think about adding some headings (<h1>, <h2>, etc.) to the pages to
help navigation for people using assistive technologies.

http://www.horizonsp.com/Winprint.html is a very long page, and although
you have styled some headings, they don't exist in the HTML.

Like I say, just a few initial thoughts.

regards.
--
Jake