Whereyoueat is fully Developed - Need opinion

[donttryitx]

Everybody here on WebDeveloper has helped me greatly through my venture. When I started everyone gave hints and suggestions, Well now I can say it is done or almost done - Please give your opinions of the final version...

http://www.whereyoueat.com - Please view how the Featured listing looks (Front page).
Then click on zip code 10314 and tell me how the featured listing looks over there - And if it is ok that you have to scroll down before you see the full list of restaurants.
And finally click on any Restaurant and tell opinion on how the menu pages look themselves...

I thank everyone here for helping me out and don't worry I am not dissapearing I will still be around.

[Scriptage]

Hi,

There's an awful lot that is wrong with your site so I will try and keep it as concise as possible:

1) You have a doctype of XHTML Transitional but the document is not valid XHTML Transitional, in fact it is not valid HTML 4.01: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whereyoueat.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

2) You use tables for layout, this is bad. There are numerous topics on this board discussing this; for a lazy introduction to why you shouldn't use tables have a look at http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/everything.html.

3) You use Javascript for navigation, this is bad; as of January 2008 w3schools.com's statistics showed that 5% of their users had Javascript turned off (this is a web developers site so the actual figure will presumably be much higher).

4) You use Flash for navigation, if somebody needs to download something to view your web page correctly you have failed.

5) You do not provide any alternate text for your image map, what if images are turned off or someone is using a text based browser?

This is essential reading for you: http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45105.

6) The actual site design is amateurish. You are providing a service, both your clients and your users will expect a certain level of professionalism; take a look at some good design: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2006...signs-in-2006/.

If you need any help please do not hesitate to ask.

Kind Regards

Carl

[donttryitx]

Wow you really ripped me big time...
I built the website so it is Simple to Use for the average user. If Images are turned off then they won't be able to view the Menus & Photos of the restaurants in either way. Yes the Flash map may have been a bad choice, but I still leave the oppurtinity to select a zip code from the top main navigation.

I think you are right and maybe I need to go head and hire a professional coder to build a nice script php so it can create an easy way for me to update menus...

[expat]

hahaha, all constructive am sure ;)

i think your site is great, it does what its set out to do, ie to provide information, and to do that sometimes you have to break some standards

of course you can spice up the images with a light grey borders rather than the blue ones, etc etc

[donttryitx]

Thanks expat you put some confidence back in me, I was already looking for a code on rentacoder.. Lol - I have been doing this for close to a year (Collecting all menus, getting photos) Well people are using it and are satisfied (General local public) we'll see what happens. I'll use your suggestions, maybe will help. Thanks again...