Critique my site before it goes up..
http://business.unbsj.ca/sbicworking
I asked for a critique before when it was about half done and didn't get a lot of good feedback.. here's my final effort..
I realize there are some broken links and the menu bar doesn't link, but they will once it's actually up.. Just looking for feedback on the look of the home page..
old site is smallbizinfocentre.com
The Webmistress posted this at 12:38 — 31st August 2001.
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First thing is it loaded very fast for me on adsl connection and looks good at both 800*600 and high resolutions as well. A couple of the images didn't load at all though - The ones by Leverage Your Backend with Wireless, The Culinary Adventure Company, Job Opening & IT Heroes.
I like the general layout but wouldn't bother with the 'best viewed....' bit as by the time someone gets down that far they aren't going to change their browser settings anyway.
Only other thing is I would have the blue down the right hand side the same blue that's in the very top logo part. The last but one cell in this right hand table (that has nothing in it) looks odd as the border is thinner than the others. Put a transparent gif in as a spacer to keep them all the same.
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
Megan posted this at 13:07 — 31st August 2001.
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Looks great! The only thing I have to say is that the photos across the top there look really bad. Those should definitely be replaced.
In NS 6.1 the background for the navbar isn't showing up.
Megan
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disaster-master posted this at 15:51 — 31st August 2001.
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Looks good on IE 5.0. I did notice a few things.
The left side of the nav bar is extending beyond your main table. I copied your code and headed off to Dreamweaver to see what the problem was. I did the "clean up HTML" command and it removed one empty tag and combined 8 font tags. There are */body* and */html* tags just below your dhtml menu code.
There are 3 empty close paragraph tags */p*.....one just after the News Archive, one in the stock market box just under the S&P500 1202.960 -2.86 and another -randomjoke.com in the joke of the day section.
There is an opening font command near the bottom of the page in the third table from the bottom but no closing font tag.
You have something going on with your tables. I haven't quiet figured out what it is. I am seeing two table tag errors for the first two tables that you have. And I think maybe a set of extra /td, /tr and /table at the bottom. These are the problems that Dreamweaver is showing. They may or may not cause you problems with how the site is rendering but I would want to fix these just in case.
The montage of photos at the top look stretched out width wise and I think they need a little contrast added. The stretched look may be caused by % widths that you are using...not sure.
Over all I like the site. It looks clean and organized. I looked at the old site and actually I like the blue and dark red colors that were used there but the new site looks great too.
Good job.
DM
Busy posted this at 23:46 — 31st August 2001.
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ummmm, in Netscape 4.7 all i get is:
thats the whole page, white background with very small dark blue text up top center? took a few minutes to load just that, refreshed, get the same thing.
opended it in IE 5.0, took ages to load, then displayed nice except none of the icons loaded, OK, something flashed me, have no idea what it was, looked like it came from the right side of the page maybe?
I looked at your source code in Netscape, (looked to see if the page was there) and noticed you have a </body></html> tag half way down your page (after the menu code), as well as at the bottom of the page
maybe run your site through a validator.
Keegan posted this at 01:33 — 1st September 2001.
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say that it was a very hard load. I do not know if it is your host or not, let me check.
Looks like something in your page is slowing down as the tracert looks good.
I think it is a good looking page, I agree about the people image, poor quality over here in California (But You know us!, hehehe) Good work all in all, I like the idea and the layout.
K
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