Hi Yes, I see now what you and Taco said about this not being the best forum for such discussion.
I do appreciate the feedback, thanks very much for that. I will be fixing up the site soon, I just have my assignment to finish first and I've got an exam after next week. I'm actually a 40 year old trying to juggle part time study with a full time job as well as trying to start a business, so I already knew the site was a bit less than perfect (I just wasn't sure by how much). Thanks again for the feedback. Have fun Peter Mount [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark > Stanton > Sent: Wednesday, 12 November 2003 7:42 PM > To: CFAussie Mailing List > Subject: [cfaussie] RE: My CF web site > > > I kind of agree with what Taco was saying - we're not really able > to look at > the CF code for these sites so its very difficult to give any feedback in > that area. What we are left with is presentation stuff & html > which could be > better on the WSG list (http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/) But FWIW: > > ------- > > Hi Peter > > On the whole I really like it - mostly for its simplicity & > consistency. Ok > enough of the nice stuff lets get started picking it to pieces :) > > 1 - can the nav grow? If so by how much. I really hate navs (like > the one on > our site) that are implicitly limited. It looks like you're cool > for another > 2 or 3 items, but what then? > > 2 - Text links are good, nice one. > > 3 - I'm assuming webhomez did the graphic design for the site - > fine, but if > you have their url on the site make it a link. > > 4 - Text headings are good. Graphical headings are bad. > > 5 - Your logo should be a home button. > > > Everything ok so far..... time to view source. > > 6 - You're HTML & CSS does not validate. Not the worst thing in the world > but it could be fixed very easily. > > 7 - Presentational HTML is evil. You're using font tags, but > worse than that > you're using topmargin, height, etc.. which don't exist in the 4.01 spec. > Learn some CSS. > > 8 - > ?????? Learn > some CSS. > > 9 - <span class="heading2"> - pffft - <h2>. > > 10 - <span class="invisiblefont"><font size="1">i</font></span> - oh dear > what was that? > > 11 - <img src="gp.gif" width="1" height="1">??? The files doesn't even > exist. > > On the whole I do like the site, with a bit of CSS & HTML work it could be > tops. > > http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning= 2&uri=http %3A//www.petermount.au.com/ http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.petermount.au.com/ http://validator.w3.org/checklink?check=Check&hide_type=all&recursive=on&uri =http%3A//www.petermount.au.com/ In terms of what Steve said about it - yes content is king. If you have useful tools, put them up there. If you have useful content - ditto. Daemon are the masters at this stuff. But.... if you don't have useful tools or content don't just put crap up there (Disclaimer: I'm not implying that anyone here has crap on their sites - but we have all seen it before). In terms of making the site more personal.... this really depends on you & how you like doing business. Do a search for "Cluetrain" for some interesting reading. I agree in principle but there is a fine line there somewhere. Maybe separating personal blog style stuff from the your corporate site could be an idea. Cheers Mark ------------------ Mark Stanton Technical Director Gruden Pty Ltd Tel: 9956 6388 Mob: 0410 458 201 Fax: 9956 8433 http://www.gruden.com --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004 --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004
