Thanks for the reviews (you can also give more any time you like if you wanted) You did ok on the reviews. The idea is to give your view as a viewer, like some of your reviews you mentioned font to small, colours to bright ... doesn't matter how small the thing it could be an oversight from the site creator. It is also good to have opinions from people that create web sites of all levels, complete beginners, seaseoned pros, pros and anyone inbetween. What may look good to one may not to another. anyway, on to your review ...
For a sitebuilder site it's not to bad. Some pages thou you have no logo and dont use the full width of the page (gen info ) and some other pages (super stock rules) is really long, you need a link back to the top or even better a set of page links across the bottom. Also your font size changes between pages, keep one size and look to every page. That background repeats on long pages so ideally you need to fix the background so it doesn't, problem is its a lil dark up top left, so lighten it a lil first or people will have a problem reading it.
I think your index page needs more of a description about the site, about the sport even. I love cars and even used to race them but we don't have the same classes as you do, some of the names are the same (mini stock, stock, modified etc) but our stock cars is a contact sport. Also the location, I've heard of Twincities before but can't place it without looking on a map, so maybe offer some location details.
Ideally learning HTML/XHTML and CSS can't be beat, but some people perfer editors.
If you're limited in what your editor can do, look for something else. Dreamweaver is one that seems to be well recommended around here. At least your not using Front Page
It comes down to personal choice what you use, but for a site your only limited to your imagination, but some editors limit this. Look around at other sites with similar topic to yours (even just racing - horse racing, dogs, cars, trucks, drag racing ... same theme different topic) to get some ideas. Your layout isn't bad it just needs to be more consistent and a little bit of eyecandy wouldn't hurt (eyecandy = images).
Just don't be pulled into the "just because you can" trap.
More often than not simple is better - again, personal choice.
thanks,
what kind of eye candy would you do i tried to make it load up as fast as possable
also i am reading your site on writing html looks to be very imforatave
The flag background is a good idea, just hard to read over it, so maybe mute it a bit more, fix it (so it doesn't repeat).
On most pages you have your logo really small in both corners, make it into a banner across the top, and/or even just use the flag in the banner background and not the page itself.
Even thou the link buttons you have on the index look ok, you don't use them on every page, so either use them on all pages or get rid of them replacing them with text or some other type of button. You also have different type of buttons on other pages (across the top). The 'rules' page actually causes a horizontal scrol at 800x600, take off the end 'home page' button would fix it, you dont need that link as you already have one on the vertical links.
If you do use the ones you have, you need to preload the rollover images as the green ones aren't showing on mouseover.
Some of your images (photos) are quite big (over 30kb), get yourself a program called Irfanview from irfanview.com its freeware and with it you can lighten, crop, resize etc with it, just lightening an image can drop the file size a lot.
A tip, seperate your photo pages, make a seperate page called "track" or something and put the photos of the track, and vip booth and even some of the pits if you have them on there. As well as a write up about the track. I'm sure people would be interested how big the track is, what type of surface you race on (dirt/clay etc), whether the pits are sealed, any up and coming improvements for the grounds etc (also helps for fundraising etc)
wow thanks a bunch you are very helpful looks like i just need some tweaking?
If you do use the ones you have, you need to preload the rollover images as the green ones aren't showing on mouseover.
how do i pre load dont understand they work on my comp just takes a little longer than i woud like
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The Webmistress posted this at 16:36 — 15th May 2004.
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Can you please review some of the others sites first please, as per the Posting Agreement
Thanks
schaefer posted this at 16:38 — 16th May 2004.
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ok i have reveiwed a few sites i hope onough only reason i didnt is i realy dont know what i would be looking for to reveiw i hope i did ok
Busy posted this at 21:59 — 16th May 2004.
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Thanks for the reviews (you can also give more any time you like if you wanted) You did ok on the reviews. The idea is to give your view as a viewer, like some of your reviews you mentioned font to small, colours to bright ... doesn't matter how small the thing it could be an oversight from the site creator. It is also good to have opinions from people that create web sites of all levels, complete beginners, seaseoned pros, pros and anyone inbetween. What may look good to one may not to another. anyway, on to your review ...
For a sitebuilder site it's not to bad. Some pages thou you have no logo and dont use the full width of the page (gen info ) and some other pages (super stock rules) is really long, you need a link back to the top or even better a set of page links across the bottom. Also your font size changes between pages, keep one size and look to every page. That background repeats on long pages so ideally you need to fix the background so it doesn't, problem is its a lil dark up top left, so lighten it a lil first or people will have a problem reading it.
I think your index page needs more of a description about the site, about the sport even. I love cars and even used to race them but we don't have the same classes as you do, some of the names are the same (mini stock, stock, modified etc) but our stock cars is a contact sport. Also the location, I've heard of Twincities before but can't place it without looking on a map, so maybe offer some location details.
schaefer posted this at 23:50 — 16th May 2004.
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thanks i will lok into some of that stuff other than site builder what could i use and what benifent will i have with it
Busy posted this at 00:04 — 17th May 2004.
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Joined: May 2001
Ideally learning HTML/XHTML and CSS can't be beat, but some people perfer editors.
If you're limited in what your editor can do, look for something else. Dreamweaver is one that seems to be well recommended around here. At least your not using Front Page
It comes down to personal choice what you use, but for a site your only limited to your imagination, but some editors limit this. Look around at other sites with similar topic to yours (even just racing - horse racing, dogs, cars, trucks, drag racing ... same theme different topic) to get some ideas. Your layout isn't bad it just needs to be more consistent and a little bit of eyecandy wouldn't hurt (eyecandy = images).
Just don't be pulled into the "just because you can" trap.
More often than not simple is better - again, personal choice.
schaefer posted this at 00:11 — 17th May 2004.
He has: 12 posts
Joined: May 2004
thanks,
what kind of eye candy would you do i tried to make it load up as fast as possable
also i am reading your site on writing html looks to be very imforatave
Busy posted this at 04:51 — 17th May 2004.
He has: 6,151 posts
Joined: May 2001
The flag background is a good idea, just hard to read over it, so maybe mute it a bit more, fix it (so it doesn't repeat).
On most pages you have your logo really small in both corners, make it into a banner across the top, and/or even just use the flag in the banner background and not the page itself.
Even thou the link buttons you have on the index look ok, you don't use them on every page, so either use them on all pages or get rid of them replacing them with text or some other type of button. You also have different type of buttons on other pages (across the top). The 'rules' page actually causes a horizontal scrol at 800x600, take off the end 'home page' button would fix it, you dont need that link as you already have one on the vertical links.
If you do use the ones you have, you need to preload the rollover images as the green ones aren't showing on mouseover.
Some of your images (photos) are quite big (over 30kb), get yourself a program called Irfanview from irfanview.com its freeware and with it you can lighten, crop, resize etc with it, just lightening an image can drop the file size a lot.
A tip, seperate your photo pages, make a seperate page called "track" or something and put the photos of the track, and vip booth and even some of the pits if you have them on there. As well as a write up about the track. I'm sure people would be interested how big the track is, what type of surface you race on (dirt/clay etc), whether the pits are sealed, any up and coming improvements for the grounds etc (also helps for fundraising etc)
schaefer posted this at 02:06 — 18th May 2004.
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Joined: May 2004
wow thanks a bunch you are very helpful looks like i just need some tweaking?
If you do use the ones you have, you need to preload the rollover images as the green ones aren't showing on mouseover.
how do i pre load dont understand they work on my comp just takes a little longer than i woud like
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