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SarasotaTim
12-06-2007, 03:55 PM
Hi folks!
I've been professionally involved in the web design/development field for 11 years now, but I always like to hear comments about something I create, a project is never perfect, so :)
http://www.digiwebmedia.com
Thanks in advance!
Tim
TJ111
12-06-2007, 04:14 PM
Nice site, clean layout. I'm not trying to be nit picky, just giving some constructive criticism. A few thinks I noticed:
1. Shrink the header Nav and the picture of the dog a little bit. "One Stop Shop" and everything that follows should be the immediate focus when someone visits the site. My eye's had to do a bit of searching to find it. I would possibly try to move the dog maybe in between some paragraphs in an effort to move that text up the page.
2. Flash menus can cause some problems with Search Engine indexing methods. Put an HTML based navigation menu underneath the flash one to make it easier for the search engine spiders to crawl the page. Also submit a SiteMap if your going to stick with Flash.
3. You are using a XTHML 1.1 Transitioinal doctype, yet you are using invalid XHTML. The good amount of tags are unclosed, you have "Malformed URI References" (<a href="resources.cfm?Session.Section=White Papers" instead of <a href="resources.cfm?Session.Section=White%20Papers"). You should use HTML 4.01 Strict (or possibly transitional), instead. There's no real reason for using an XHTML doctype.
4. You repeat element id's alot throughout the page. Element ID's must be unique for each element. Change them to classes instead.
SarasotaTim
12-06-2007, 04:44 PM
Thanks for the extra eye! I really appreciate it........a couple of those items I had on my radar, but it really helps to have someone else point things out....now I've got some work to do. The xhtml spec, I wasn't aware I used that DTD (might have been a copy and paste job from another project of mine), I'll have to go back and change that, cuz yeah, my page definitely isn't XHTML compliant *LOL*
Thanks again!!
T
dtm32236
12-10-2007, 11:34 AM
I like the site a lot... it's easy to navigate and understand - it's laid out very nicely.
I just saw this, so I don't know if you took TJ111's advice about shrinking the header nav and the dog image, but i think that it looks pretty nice as is.
I would seriously consider the rest of his suggestions though... as I see you still have plenty of html errors (http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digiwebmedia.com%2Findex.cfm).
He is also VERY right about changing the FLASH navigation to HTML. Using flash for your main navigation it one of the worst things you can do (from a Google/SEO perspective).