On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 01:35:40 +0000 (UTC), Darin McGrew
<mc****@stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
www.Search24-7.com <Se*******@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: I am working on a project site. The url is www.search24-7.com. I am
looking for feedback (both negative and positive).
Why are you using <font>? Especially since you're already using CSS.
Agreed. Remove the transitional HTML and you can drastically reduce the
file size / download time.
You shouldn't use px to specify font sizes:
http://css.nu/faq/ciwas-aFAQ.html#QA02
(FWIW, your specified font sizes are smaller than the minimum font size
enforced by my browser.)
Why are you using a bajillion <br> tags instead of lists?
The online tools report a number of basic problems that you should fix:
http://www.htmlhelp.com/cgi-bin/vali...F&warnings=yes
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/v...usermedium=all
In addition:
- the right-hand column doesn't appear with Javascript disabled. JS
would appear to be unnecessary for this.
- if you do use JS, put it in an external file so that people don't have
to download it unnecessarily.
- don't try to make visited links the same colour as non-visited. The
colour difference is there for a reason. Particularly in such a long
list of links, it helps the reader to know what he's already visited.
- you can simplify the CSS quite a bit, by using the cascade. For
example you don't need to keep specifying font-family all the time.
- similarly
BORDER-RIGHT: #0060a6;
BORDER-TOP: #0060a6;
BORDER-LEFT: #0060a6;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #0060a6;
reduces to: border-color: #0060a6;
- remove the Verdana.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html
On the positive side: when I first saw it I thought "yet another fixed
layout" but that turned out not to be the case. The columns adjust to
the window width - good.
My checklist may help:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/checklist.html
--
Stephen Poley
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/