Website review...

[InfamousLight]

Hi

I was hoping to get a review on my website...also, just want to make sure it is working fine on different browsers and screen resolutions...

http://www.infamouslightrecordings.com

Many thanks,

Pj.

[brett7481]

Hey,


First off I would ditch the splash page, it's only keeping your visitors from viewing your content. Also just as a side note, you have optimized for Fire Fox v 7.2 on your splash page... Fire Fox is still in version 1.5.

Anyway, in my opinion the first page of actual content is pretty dull. I would try to add some more color, or something. Also it doesn't tell me anything about your comapny really, or why I would want to buy music from you. I would consider using some sort of mouse-over effect on you link images, this can be done with JAVA or CSS (my preferred method), and I would add more information about your company.

Finally, you're using a table based layout. I would switch to a CSS based layout. There is a long list of reasons for switching, but the most important in my opinion is that Search Engines rate CSS designed sites higher than table sites.

[irish515]

My friend just put a page up. I was wondering if someone could also check his page out and give some feedback. Thank you.


http://sunshinecomputers.org/

[brett7481]

irish515... tell your friend to slowly back away from the computer before he does anymore damage to his website.

I don't even know where to begin... the tiled sun, the over stretched animated gif at the top, the other 4 animated gifs. I don't really know why he disabled the right click... I can't think of a single person who would want to grab anything from the page.

BTW, after I disabled java script and viewed the source code I must say the coding is also very bad. you have no doc-type listed, you're using some tables, and out dated tags.

I think the best bet is to start over, or just download a free template from here: http://www.oswd.org

[blain]

Where to begin

The site in it's self looks ok, the design is neat and tidy.
I agree with Brett, you need to give the buttons a hover state, so that they stand out as buttons.

Then I looked at the source code.

first off

DOCTYPE is inside the HTML tags, it needs to be the first line of code in your html and outside of the HTML tags.

Think about moving all of your CSS in to your head rather than inline.
Lose all the <font> and <center> tags, this should be done with CSS.

Lose the tables for layout too, this also should be done with your CSS.