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nuksies · #1 (**permalink**) Oct 9th, 2007, 17:52

Here is a website that I have been working on, its quite simple but thats the point, I filled it with Lipsum because, to be honest, I have no idea what I'm going to use it for though so sorry.

Dont be too harsh, I cant do CSS so i'm going to start learning over the weekend. But all i want is an idea of what you think the design is like.

simonb · #2 (**permalink**) Oct 9th, 2007, 19:43

Why Have popups

bengtec · #3 (**permalink**) Oct 9th, 2007, 22:23

oooooh. there are some problems.

1. html doesnt validate
2. css doesnt validate
3. your page starts and ends twice, inside the body of the page you have the entire contents of a page.

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<body><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
	<title>untitled</title>
	<style type="text/css">
		#sBar {text-align: center; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 5px 0px;  width: 728px; background-color: #fff; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf;}
		#sBar li {display: inline; } 
		#sBar li a, #sBar li a:visited {font: bold 11px tahoma,arial; text-decoration: underline; color: #004891; margin: 0px 15px;}
	</style>
</head>
<body>

that really isnt good.

also the text 'welcome' isnt very easy to read. some nice rollover effects would be good on the nav too, though i expect you will do that when you have learnt more about css.

also the image sizes are quite big seeing as there isnt really anything on there. try to get the file sizes down by using gifs instead of pngs provided you cant see the difference in the quality.

as reguards the content of the images i suggest you look into some web 2.0 techniques, as even if that style of site isnt what you are going for it makes the images look much more professional.

try to use a strict doctype as it ensures that you code is as neat as possible, and definately try to use divs and css to layout your page instead of tables (although you did say you were going to that)

make sure you let us know when you finish changing it to css and ill have another look. i'm sorry if all of this is quite negative but if you take it all on board the site will improve no end.

all the best

alexgeek · #4 (**permalink**) Oct 9th, 2007, 23:52

I don't mean to offend you but this really is a shambles.
Learn to Hand Code.

bengtec · #5 (**permalink**) Oct 9th, 2007, 23:54

now you see that was sort of what i was getting at, but i was trying to be a bit carefull and trying to be constructive, lol.

sadly its the truth, really do try at my suggestions. re-submit it when you have re-done it with css.

minute44 · #6 (**permalink**) Oct 10th, 2007, 09:27

Yeah... sorry mate... it's bad... but clearly it's one of your first attempts at making a website so I can't really judge you. Learn how to code valid (X)HTML and CSS. once you can do the basics in them you will start to learn at a geometric rate... like skynet.

Don't try and make this site better though. Learn the skills and start it over. You can't polish a turd.

bengtec · #7 (**permalink**) Oct 10th, 2007, 10:26

Quote:

You can't polish a turd.

brilliant! i think i might have to borrow that one sometime, lol

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