Web site review: inc-corporation.co.uk

"alansmith" <alansmith.12pdcz (AT) mail (DOT) forum4designers.com> wrote

I have just knocked up a website for my friends company.

http://www.inc-corporation.co.uk/

I have been concentrating mainly on content and have created some quite
useful resource center. What does everyone think of the website as a
whole? I only hosted it a couple of days ago yet and am waiting for the
first google hits.

waaaaaay too many images
waaaaaay too much wasted screen space at the top of the screen
text headings are almost painful to read (red on blue?)
too many links on the right menu
fixed layout wastes about 40% of my monitor
since you posted to alt.html.critique, fix the 90+ html errors

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Karl Groves
http://www.karlcore.com

alansmith wrote in message ...

http://www.inc-corporation.co.uk/
What does everyone think of the website as a whole?

If I was one of your potential customers you've already lost me. Around 60%
or more folks are still on dial-ups and just won't be bothered to wait for
your first page to load.

Ideally the first page should be around 35K or less.

Yours has 341K of images alone, including this gif at 75K as being one of
the worst ...
http://www.drgadget.co.uk/shopimages..._125x125_1.gif

I have just knocked up a website for my friends company.

http://www.inc-corporation.co.uk/

I have been concentrating mainly on content and have created some quit
useful resource center. What does everyone think of the website as
whole? I only hosted it a couple of days ago yet and am waiting for th
first google hits


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I have just knocked up a website for my friends company.

http://www.inc-corporation.co.uk/

I have been concentrating mainly on content and have created some quite
useful resource center. What does everyone think of the website as a
whole? I only hosted it a couple of days ago yet and am waiting for the
first google hits.


waaaaaay too many images
waaaaaay too much wasted screen space at the top of the screen
text headings are almost painful to read (red on blue?)
too many links on the right menu
fixed layout wastes about 40% of my monitor
since you posted to alt.html.critique, fix the 90+ html errors

I agree with much of what has been said there.

Its pretty but you have to remember that most web users don't have the
patience to wait for the site to download, or scan through the many
navigation links (which don't appear on the first screenful).

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"alansmith" <alansmith.12pdcz (AT) mail (DOT) forum4designers.com> wrote

I have just knocked up a website for my friends company.

http://www.inc-corporation.co.uk/

I have been concentrating mainly on content and have created some quite
useful resource center. What does everyone think of the website as a
whole? I only hosted it a couple of days ago yet and am waiting for the
first google hits.

looks like a template site which somehow went wrong, its just not as subtle or of high graphical
quality as some of the better template designs out there. top graphic is MASSIVE both in dimensions
and in kb. red headings on blue not only looks bad but is hard to read, the same goes for the grey
text. u have alot of work ahead of u, good luck.
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In message <alansmith.12pdcz (AT) mail (DOT) forum4designers.com>, alansmith
<alansmith.12pdcz (AT) mail (DOT) forum4designers.com> writes

I have just knocked up a website for my friends company.

http://www.inc-corporation.co.uk/

I have been concentrating mainly on content and have created some quite
useful resource center. What does everyone think of the website as a
whole? I only hosted it a couple of days ago yet and am waiting for the
first google hits.

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Ok, you've got a number of problems (which apply to your other site as
well).

(a) Your text is too small for me and I can't re-size it (MSIE); set the
body text to 100% -- that way it will seen as the user (your visitor)
wants to see it.

font-size:100%;

(b) You do not appear to have any alternative text assigned to your
images (that's the ALT= on the <img> tag). You need to go through your
entire site(s) and ensure that each <img> tag contains alternative text.
The alternative text will be in one of three forms:
i. The exact same as the text the image is replacing e.g. your menu
entries 'PROFILE' 'INVENTIONS'
ii. A short description of the image e.g. ALT="XYZ logo"
iii. a 'null' entry i.e. ALT="" when the image has no visual
significance e.g. 'spacer.gif'.

Without alternative text, your main navigation is invisible to:
(a) Users of screen-readers, talking browsers, and similar UAs
(b) non-graphic (e.g. text) browsers
(c) Users of standard browsers who have disabled image down load to
speed up the page loading.

You can find them all by going here and submitting the url of your site:

http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html

The output will look something like this: (47k)

http://www.gododdin.demon.co.uk/ng/INC2.JPG

(c) You have headers that are visually styled on the page, but do not
exist in the HTML mark-up. i.e. no <H1> <H2> <H3> etc.; headers are used
by assistive technology UAs for navigation. Put them in and use CSS to
style them accordingly.

(d) You have at least one pop-up window ('Information Required' that
requires javascript to work. Many people have javascript turned off, so
you should provide an alternative to allow that data to be read/entered.

Also, you should announce the fact that you're going to open a pop-up
window in advance of the user activating it.

(Personally, I can't see why you want it.)

There are other issues, but it would be an idea to sort these out first
and them come back for another review.

regards.



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Jake

"alansmith" <alansmith.12pdcz (AT) mail (DOT) forum4designers.com> schreef in bericht
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I have just knocked up a website for my friends company.

http://www.inc-corporation.co.uk/

I have been concentrating mainly on content and have created some quite
useful resource center. What does everyone think of the website as a
whole? I only hosted it a couple of days ago yet and am waiting for the
first google hits.

Don't change my browser's scrollbar colors
Use ALT tags for the images.

Just some advise:
First learn HTML and after that learn CSS.

Regards,
Samuël

"alansmith" <alansmith.12pdcz (AT) mail (DOT) forum4designers.com> wrote

I have just knocked up a website for my friends company.

http://www.inc-corporation.co.uk/

I'm on dial-up.

I didn't get to see your site. When I gave up, there were still 22 items
remaining.

Malcolm