View Full Version : Please review our first site!
PcMan
04-12-2005, 07:11 PM
Hi, me and my friend made our first .com site and we would like your feedback on it. You can view it at www.optamumpc.com. Thanks a lot for your feedbacks!
JamieR
04-12-2005, 07:28 PM
The blue "recent updates" bar looks out of place and is too far right and near to the content. The PicoSearch bar looks like it is a floating iceberg. Centering the main content would be a good idea. Dont use times new roman as it is a unsafe web font which is too widely used.
Tables are used for layout rather than CSS. Also, your HTML isn't valid. http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.optamumpc.com/
Jamie.
webmasterzone
04-18-2005, 05:15 PM
Your main page looks semi amaturish, looks like someone made it on yahoo page builder. Try to find a better template and a better color scheme. Good Luck!
Badman3k
04-18-2005, 05:49 PM
I think the template is great, but the rest of the content hasn't been styled properly, however there is potential.
Your source isn't semantic, for instance a list of links should be contained in the list tags
<ul>
<li>Link1</li>
<li>Link2</li>
[...]
</ul>
Start thinking about what it is that you're displaying and then think which tags are the best to use.
The next step for you would be to take all styling out and use CSS to style it i.e. split content and style into seperate documents.
Try not to use tables to layout your page, it's bad semantics. Use div's to layout a page and then style them using CSS.
Make sure that all pages are formatted the same, so that the site has a sense of continuity, it's the worst thing browsing a site and thinking you've left the site you thought you were on, but all that's happened is that the style's different.
With regards to the JavaScript, you're only using it to extend the functionality of your page, which is great. Make sure your site doesn't depend on JS to work, as this makes it difficult for users with older/non-js browsers. However you've got multiple versions of the same rollover javascript, look into creating one and then have the function calls determine which image to 'rollover' i.e.
function swapon(what, to)
{
document.getElementByID(what).src="img/"+to;
}
function swapoff(what, to)
{
document.getElementById(what).src="img/"+to;
}
[...]
<a href="#" onMouseOver="JavaScript: swapon('img1','nav1r.gif');" onMouseOut="JavaScript: swapoff('img1','nav1.gif');"><img src="nav1.gif" id="img1"></a> [...]
[NB: Don't count on the above code working exactly, that's just off the top of my head ;)]
So in a nutshell, the site needs improving, but it's pretty good for a first site.
Crake
04-18-2005, 07:00 PM
looks pretty darn good but in ie it does look as if the font it is currently looks hhmm not very good.....also try using a better background that might look more proffetional :thumbsup: :D
JamieR
04-18-2005, 08:22 PM
I still don't like it honestly - bad semantic, inconsistent design etc.
Sell it to me, c'mon - it doesn't really make me want to stay on the site. Sorry, but I'm being honest.
Jamie.
Badman3k
04-18-2005, 10:09 PM
Sorry for an extra blank comment. I should have read a bit further up ;)
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