aciferno's personal site

[aciferno]

Hey everybody! I would like some feedback on my website, I would also like your opinions on personal sites, what interests you the most about people? What do you guys like to see on personal sites? What makes them interesting? What would make you bookmark them?

thanks!

[spufi]

Well, any site that doesn't have the letters AC in real large font size placed pretty much on top of some text so that way I can't read the text below would be a good thing. :)

[Paul Jr]

1) I agree with Spufi, either change the color of the AC, or the text to make it a bit more readable.

2) What are you using for that little tag board you have up there?


Other than that, I like it a lot. Graphics are nice, color scheme works too. :D

[spufi]

Ok, I'm sure this is a reference way beyond the age of almost everyone on the board besides the "old" posters. There once was a show called "Name That Tune." Now, the idea of the show was to outbid the other person in the number of notes you could guess a tune. Obviously the lower the better. Ladies and gentlemen, I can code that site in half the code, at worst. :p

As said before, you really need to move the AC thing. I'm not 100% sure what the upside down "C" is doing either, but anyway.

I'll blame much of your code overkill on the tag board thing, but you really need to understand when and where CSS should be used. Defining a style within a tag is borderline pointless. All the more so since you use the id attribute in a number of your tags. What you need to do is define it in a external style sheet and then link to the external style sheet. You are setting yourself up perfectly to use external CSS, but yet you do it in the complete opposite of what you really want.

Understand what tags mean and do. One of the most important and yet misused tags is the header tags, <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, etc...

You did this...

<p align="left">non-breaking space</p>
<p align="center" class="style3">Hobbies, Interests, and anything else I want to share. </p>
<p align="left">non-breaking space</p>

When all you need is something like...

<h3>Hobbies, Interests, and anything else I want to share.</h3>

You need to define a layout, and stick with it on all of your pages. Your menu shouldn't be on your home page and then not be on the rest of your pages. You are forcing people to use their back button. Don't do that!

Seperate your "Hobbies" and "Photos" page. Two different topics shouldn't be on the same page. Each of them take up enough space to warrant their own page. Also, the first time I tried to load the page it came out really funky. Was I surprised to see a heavy use of tables? Nope.

In what is going to become my new mantra, pick up, digest, bookmark, "Designing with Web Standards" by Jeffery Zeldman. You won't believe how different you will code afterwards.

[aciferno]

spufi, you are extremely helpful, i just printed out your post and i intent to fix everything you mentioned, thanks a lot! You too paul thanks for the reply.

[spufi]

I was rereading what I wrote and I want to add to the where and when to use CSS. You also obviously need to add how. Go to the link below for some basics.

http://www.webdevfaqs.com/css.php

Just as an example of how to use the id attribute, take something like this...

<div id="blah" style="a bunch of styles defined">Yada yada yada</div>

You then change it to this...

<div id="blah">Yada yada yada</div>

And then add this code in your external CSS file.

#blah { a bunch of styles defined }

The # is used whenever you are tying your CSS to a name in a id attribute. If you want to use the class attribute, do it like this...

.blah { a bunch of styles defined }

id vs. class.

Class is used to define something that is used more than once like a blog entry. id is used for something that is only used once like a header section.