Please provide me with critique and guidance

[davew1981]

Hi,

To save our charitable organisation some money I have tried to produce a website which is useful to both professionals and service users.

As I am new to html - self-taught! - I would be very grateful for any reviews on 1) how the site generally looks to an outsider, 2) anything that is crap and really needs altering and 3) any tips on layout of content etc.

The website is located here (http://www.startupcitywide.org) .

Many thanks in advance and I will take advice on board to improve!

Dave.

[mirvel]

On a first impression i like the design as it is not so loaded. especially the picture of the team on the start page looks inviting.

you should think of reworking the following:

a) the list of centres is not so well structured

b) when you visit the page with a higher resolution there are fragments of other empty boxes beneath the top box.

[bldstr]

I think it looks good.

My two major problems with the design are the placement of the navigation and the fonts used.

- People expect navigation to be on the right or at the top - I certainly did.

- I recommend you use a sans-serif font such as Verdana, Arial or Georgia. Serif fonts are more difficult to read from a screen.

As mentioned above, I saw a block at the bottom when viewing at 1280x1024.

[pixel-illusions]

Just give your outer <table> a width smaller than 100% , say 760px and that should make things a little more tidy. Experiment with the width, remember if in any case you need to be usable with lower resolutions for example 800x600 go for a maximum of 780px! Thanks for listening to my opinion!

[bldstr]

I always go for 770px as a maximum to allow for any vertical scrollbars and some padding from the screen edges.