Well I am not "selling" anything quite yet - long way to go - am a believer in open source to a degree however. My hosting provider us currently refusing to receive any communication - let alone criticism - so any Oz companies that can raise the bar for CMFX 6.1 hosting?
Peter Tilbrook ColdFusion Applications Developer ColdGen Internet Solutions Manager, ACT and Region ColdFusion Users Group 4/73 Tharwa Road Queanbeyan, NSW, 2620 AUSTRALIA Telephone: +61-2-6284-2727 Mobile: +61-0439-401-823 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] World Wide Web: http:/www.coldgen.com/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Stanton Sent: Wednesday, 12 November 2003 8:42 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
