Web Site Almost Complete New Format

Hello,

I am almost finished redoing my web site
http://www.internetsecurity101.net using a new format. I would really
appreciate feedback. In particular, I am wondering if the site is too
bland, simple looking. Thanks in advance.

Chris H.

"Chris H." <chrisindcbc (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

Hello,

I am almost finished redoing my web site
http://www.internetsecurity101.net using a new format. I would really
appreciate feedback. In particular, I am wondering if the site is too
bland, simple looking. Thanks in advance.

Chris H.

Hey. I think you have a nice site, but there are a few things you might
address.

First, you resize your header picture with CSS. The result is that you are
loading 38kb of picture when, if you would resize the graphic to the desired
size in Irfanview or some other graphics program, you could be loading ~8kb
of picture.

Also, IMO your text header size does not go with the size of the pic. I
would suggest reducing the size of the picture even more (in a graphics
program) and/or increasing the size of the header text. Furthermore, I
would suggest putting the picture and header text in a block of green
matching the sidebar and dropcap green you use on the site.

Finally, the pinkish-purple rollover background for your menu of links is
.... startling. I would suggest making the background the same green of the
sidebar (with the text as white) or keeping the background white but
changing the gray text to the green.

You also have some empty containers - divs, strongs, etc.

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David

On 2006-08-18, Chris H. wrote:

Hello,

I am almost finished redoing my web site
http://www.internetsecurity101.net using a new format. I would really
appreciate feedback. In particular, I am wondering if the site is too
bland, simple looking. Thanks in advance.

font-size: 22pt;

Don't use pt (or px). 22pt may be little or no bigger than my
default text size. Use em (e.g., 1.75em. Or it may be
grotesquely big.


width: 700px;

Why? It breaks the page at any other width and prevent scaling:

<http://cfaj.freeshell.org/web/examples/isec.jpg>

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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 18 Aug 2006 02:29:52 -0700, "Chris H." <chrisindcbc (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Hello,

I am almost finished redoing my web site
http://www.internetsecurity101.net using a new format. I would really
appreciate feedback. In particular, I am wondering if the site is too
bland, simple looking. Thanks in advance.

Chris H.

Your site looks good. On a quick look at the home page, I did notice one
thing you should change.


You should change this: "(c) 2006 internetsecurity101.net"

to this: "Copyright © 2006 internetsecurity101.net"

As I understand it, some jurisdictions can get sticky about the outmoded
"(c)". In any case, using the HTML entity (&copy or its decimal equivalent
(©) is the modern way, and the numeric version is preferred because it
works in more browsers.