Rate My Site design !!!

[alamal]

This is my new site ..
I want change its design soon
but I want your opinion :rolleyes:

http://www.thetruth1.com/

thank you ..

alamal

[Keelz]

it looks good but it would look better if you center your page and put a nice bg at the back

[mark87]

It looks ridiculous at 1280x1024 because it's all squashed into the top left hand corner, and the rest of the page is white.

You have a splash page for no reason.

No Doctype.

Table-based layout.

It's not valid (http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetruth1.com%2Fmain_1%2Fm.html).

[BroChris]

I think you've got a good start, but needs a lot of improvement. Are you keeping the same basic design and tweaking it, or starting over completely?

The graphics are nice, but like mark said, it's all squished into the top left corner. Try to keep in mind that a lot of people use larger resolutions now. I myself use 1600x1200.

Get rid of the splash page.

Try to make some of the text into actual text. Images can't be seen with non-visual browsers. Since your images don't even have alt attributes, these users would not gain anything by visiting your site. Google won't see anything either, so people likely woudn't find you through search engines.

Provide some kind of link back to the main page from the sub pages. As it is, I had to click the back button about 15-20 times after looking at several of the graphics. Not very user friendly.

Ignore all of this if you're just starting over, but keep it in mind so you don't make the same mistakes this time around.

[harbingerOTV]

The size issue yes.

What Chris said and if you want to do the fixed size layout like that maybe center the whole thing?

and you r splash page says 800x600. When I drop down to 800x600 the page doesn't ft. the splash page is too small and the main page is too big.

[alamal]

hello guys..

Keelz
mark
BroChris
harbingerOTV

thank you very much ..

I will remember your observation
but I do not know how can I design the page in order to suit all resolutions ..
can any one tell me , please ?
I will be very thankful
sorry but this is my first time to built a site and hope learn more from you

BroChris
I link the sub pages with the main by this image
http://www.thetruth1.com/know_cards/image/cards_06.jpg
it is on all sub pages ..
maybe the idea not very clear ,, but I think it is new ..
thank you I like your noticing

alamal

[mark87]

Well the main problem is you've designed in Photoshop (probably?) and let it handle the coding.

The key to making a fluid layout is using percentages and repeating background etc which cannot be done if the site is just made up of images like yours.

It may not look as bad if it were centered and the body background black though so you could give that a try.

Also the coding is very out of date (probably not your fault though if Photoshop did it for you), so I suggest you start learning from the beginning.

http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

[BroChris]

Few, if any, would be able to figure out that those images link back to the main page. There's no indication that that they would. You need some kind of text saying "Home" or "Main."

Like I said before, graphics look nice, things just need to be tweaked.

[alamal]

hello..

mark
thanks ,,
My big brother said there are many rules you should know it in sites building
I am trying learn more and more :)
I am really thankful for you


BroChris
thanks ..
your advice improve me ..
I will shown you my site when me edit it

[PcMan]

My school blocked your site...lol...I dunno why.

[mark87]

mark
thanks ,,
My big brother said there are many rules you should know it in sites building
I am trying learn more and more :)
I am really thankful for

Well you did a good move of joining this forum - If you stay around I'm sure you'll begin learning quite quickly!

Less than a year a go I didn't even know what CSS was! I was still building table layouts with Frontpage... in design view! Now mainly thanks to the forums I would say I know most of what there is to know about (X)HTML and CSS, and can code by hand *shudders at the thought of FrontPage*. So keep learning. :)