Request for Site Review

Hello,

This is the site of the firm I work for, we currently have a team
working on web page development. But we would like to get opinions of
web page analysis experts. Could you please go through the site and
inform me of the changes or improvements required.

Website URL: http://www.mwti.net


Thanking you,
Sujay Shinde

Sujay wrote:

Hello,

This is the site of the firm I work for, we currently have a team
working on web page development. But we would like to get opinions of
web page analysis experts. Could you please go through the site and
inform me of the changes or improvements required.

Website URL: http://www.mwti.net

Your (lack of) doctype invites quirks mode.

Even as THML 4.01 Transitional, the markup has validation errors. Visit
http://validator.w3.org/ for checking markup, validate your CSS at
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ .

Don't do this: letter-spacing: -1pt !important;. It scrunches up the
text horizontally making it hard to read.

What's with all the !important; anyway?

The standard photo of the guy with his arms in the air looks so standard
as to be boring and non-informative. If I read the text for an
explanation, I see that eScan bags the VB100% Award eScan [for Win Vista
x64], which is a bit redundant, and since I don't know what an eScan is,
it doesn't tell me anything.

The "We add confidence to computing" in the header doesn't need to be
confined to such a narrow space. Let its container (it's a div in a td)
be wider so that the text extends horizontally on text upsizing.

Now is a fine time to stop using tables for layout, especially on new
pages, especially if you "have a team working on web page development."
Table-nesting seven levels deep is a sign of trouble. And since we're in
the 21st Century, drop <font color="#FFFFFF">; use CSS instead.

Why do this:

<map name="Map">
<area shape="rect" coords="0,1,179,18"
href="/support/microworld_support.asp">
</map>

instead of <a href="/support/microworld_support.asp"><img ...></a> ?

Your nav bar is unclear. It's somewhat too long, for one thing. (Nobody
needs a link to bookmark your page, and with that few events, all in the
past, you ought to drop the Events menu item.) Also, the "AntiVirus,
AntiSpyware, AntiSpam Products for" lead-in to the other links looks
like a link itself. I can't tell where I am from the nav bar; it looks
like I'm in the sub-area of "AntiVirus, AntiSpyware, AntiSpam Products
for" because of the different colors, but, well, I'm not.

On the "Download Center" page:
"Home » Form" makes a poor breadcrumb trail.
"Please Fill Up the Following Details" -- I would say "fill in",
although I think some say "fill out".
"**Furnish your correct information..." is a footnote up at the top.
"An intimation would be sent to you..." I think you mean "invitation" or
"announcement".
You don't say what the red asterisks mean.
"Do you want us to get in touch with you": Now (default) or Later. Ha
ha! Where's the "Never" choice? All I want to do is download something.
Good news: I don't have to fill in even a single field, I can just click
Submit and I go to a page where I can download...some stuff. Okay, that
only worked because I had JavaScript off.

Specify a generic font for those users who don't have the fonts you
specify. Try font-family:Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;, e.g. (and read
about the trouble with Verdana http://k75s.home.att.net/fontsize.html ).

Extra credit: Find out what Lynx is and test your page with it. ;-)


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Sujay wrote:

This is the site of the firm I work for, we currently have a team
working on web page development. But we would like to get opinions of
web page analysis experts. Could you please go through the site and
inform me of the changes or improvements required.

Website URL: http://www.mwti.net

- No DTD (doctype) provided. Should use HTML 4.01 Strict. (The actual HTML

code appears to be HTML 3.2).
- No character set specified.
- Loads of validation errors even for HTML Transitional
<http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mwti.net%2F>

- Apparently no one there knows what a Markup Language is.
- Using div+CSS to replace standard HTML elements like h1, h2, h3, etc.,
with classes like ".title_sub3".
- Ancient 1995 HTML coding method using tables for layout, inline elements
for styling, etc.
- Fixed width layout that is too wide to fit in my preferred 800px window.
- Context text size is smaller than I prefer.
- Use of "pt"s for font sizing. Points are for print layouts. Browsers
have no way to determine how 1/72 inch relates to a pixel.
- Text cannot be resized in IE when px or pt is specified. Use ems or %.
- The product list in the left menu has text too small to read.

- Muddled message: What is your product? I guessed it from the various
bits of description.
- What is VB100%? Where is the link so I can find out more?
- There are no links to find out more about eScan and MailScan.
- What is NILP? That is the only thing that seems to separate your product
form others and I am left clueless.
- Because SPAM and NILP (both capitalized) are in the same sentence, I
wondered if SPAM was an acronym as well.


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On Sep 21, 10:48 pm, Sujay <sujay... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Hello,

This is the site of the firm I work for, we currently have a team
working on web page development. But we would like to get opinions of
web page analysis experts. Could you please go through the site and
inform me of the changes or improvements required.

Website URL:http://www.mwti.net

Thanking you,
Sujay Shinde

is it intentional your microworld site reminds me of old microsoft
blue corporate-themed website?

On 21 Sep 2007 in alt.html.critique, Sujay said:

Hello,

This is the site of the firm I work for, we currently have a team
working on web page development. But we would like to get opinions of
web page analysis experts. Could you please go through the site and
inform me of the changes or improvements required.

Website URL: http://www.mwti.net


Thanking you,
Sujay Shinde

There is indeed something mildly reminiscent of old microsoft sites here.
I'm sorry but the logo is terrible, and the graphics are not optimised,
look how "grainy" they are. Find someone who can do a competent graphics
job.

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