My site

[demon62787]

This is my first site. I wanted to know what everyone thought about it. I know there's prob lots of invalid code and all, but ive only been doing html for about 3 months, and i did the whole thing in Notepad. its like 11 pages. Would like someone's opinion. Thanks. http://demon_62787.tripod.com

[fredmv]

I actually can't read the content on any page due to it being the same color as your background (experienced under: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8). Moreover, note the marquee with some of your navigation links in it most users will find very annoying if they're trying to read something else. I realize that you are new, but things like these are common pitfalls to newbies in which should not be made a habit; rather, completely avoided and good practices should be learned.

I'd really suggest learning Web standards and using them to your advantage.

[PeOfEo]

flameing text repulses me :(

[fredmv]

That's another common pitfall. Animated GIFs or otherwise animated text (i.e., marquees) as aforementioned. It may seem cool at first, but remember: the key thing about your site is the content, and if people cannot read it, what good is it? The animated stuff takes away from it because it will distract the user.

[ray326]

My browser had a couple of gripes with the javascript.

Error: xwin has no properties
Source File: http://www.popuptraffic.com/assign.php?l=levik&mode=behind
Line: 62

Error: popupWin has no properties
Source File: http://demon_62787.tripod.com/
Line: 112

And it blocked a popup there; don't know if it was yours or tripod's.

It's ok for a first time personal home page but if you want to really learn to do it right then I'd recommend you read Jeffery Zeldman's "designing with web standards" and his "how-to" site called A List Apart.

[chriz]

The marquee text runs the wrong way! if you change it to this <marquee direction="left"> then people might be able to read it more easily

The text with red background shading is way to much i think, you can hardly read it.!

But the mouse is pretty good (Although simple) and i would also prefer a bit of a brighter text colour to suit your background
Also i think the images could be resized so it looks a lot neater and professional
and the guestbook takes me to a page about creating a guestbook!?!?!?!!?!?!?!!?! whats all that about!?

any how APart from that - it seems alright

[Paul Jr]

Get rid of the no right-click script. It's useless and very annoying.

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by Paul Jr
Get rid of the no right-click script. It's useless and very annoying. lol... I did not even see a no right click script... guess I forgot to turn my js on! Now that I look at the source I see another problem... this site is entirely too dependent on java script... I should have noticed it when js was off but I did not try to navigate the site. Those background effects that use java script could have been done much mor easily with css.

[fredmv]

Interestingly enough, the message for your "no right-click" script is "you're wasting your time" — in reality, you're actually wasting your time by putting it there. ;)

[PeOfEo]

lol... we have been saying this since... well forever.... Since this forum opened we have said no right-click scripts are useless. Its a sticky in the js forum... it should be a sticky in general and in html too come to think if it.

[steelersfan88]

as should the message posting guidelines, in my opinion

[Vladdy]

You got my nomination for the "Most Repulsive Site of the Month" award.
Delete everything you got and write down what you want to say about yourself on your site. Then try to add as little HTML around it at possible.

[demon62787]

I dont know anything about CSS or anything other than html. I made the site to where it was ok looking in my internet explorer. I never really gave it any thought to what it would look like on any other browsers. I'll look into some css and try to figure out how to do it. thanks for your opinions.

[fredmv]

Originally posted by demon62787
I dont know anything about CSS or anything other than html.Then I'd recommend you start learning. Check my post here (http://forums.webdeveloper.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24366#post126749) for a few excellent resources.Originally posted by demon62787
I made the site to where it was ok looking in my internet explorer.Which simply isn't enough. Test your sites in real browsers too (i.e., Mozilla). Also note your site should not only be accessible in all commonly available browsers (text-only ones such as Lynx as well), but to any device that may be able to access the content.

[spufi]

Just for the kick of it, here's a somewhat cropped screenshot of how I see your site in Firefox 0.8 using a 1400X1050 resolution.

http://www.matts-website.net/images/ss.gif

Can we say, d'oh? :)

[Vladdy]

Originally posted by spufi
Just for the kick of it, here's a somewhat cropped screenshot of how I see your site in Firefox 0.8 using a 1400X1050 resolution.
<snip />
You are the first person I come across who browses with a browser window 1400px wide ;) :D
*wonders how his site looks at THAT width*:D :D

[demon62787]

If i used CSS to make my hit counter invisible, will it still count how many people have been to my site?

[fredmv]

Originally posted by demon62787
If i used CSS to make my hit counter invisible, will it still count how many people have been to my site? Absolutely; see this thread (http://forums.webdeveloper.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28966) for more information. Though, you should first ask yourself if you really need the counter on the page in the first place...

[Vladdy]

Originally posted by demon62787
If i used CSS to make my hit counter invisible, will it still count how many people have been to my site?
... Do you also have a counter that counts how many people quickly left???
.... Go to the General forum and check the HTML Hell Page thread - a must read for anyone who thinks about creatiing a web page...

[PeOfEo]

counting how many hits you have tells you nothing. Get something that counts what browsers people are on when they visit, who has js disabled (i did the first time I went to your site, which made it look horrid... not that i think it is a spring chicken with js), and resolution. www.extreme-dm.com is a good free one.

[demon62787]

How do i change the color of text in a < TEXTAREA > box?

[fredmv]

I understand you're new, but asking all of these basic questions is veering away from the original topic of this thread which was to review your site. The answer to your question is to use CSS and set the color property of the element:<textarea style="color: green;"></textarea>If you check the link I first posted I've linked to several excellent resources in which you could then learn from.

[PeOfEo]

www.w3schools.com <-- probably been posted by someone already, but it cant hurt to post it again. Look here before asking questions :p

[chriz]

Listening to all the others opinions, this site souonds twice as bad as mine!!!! Lol:D :D :D :D :D


besides, when said they didn't have javascript enabled, you can still go from View at the top and choose view source too -
:( you also seem to use a lot of

<style type="text/css"> tags, at least 5 pairs of them. Did you actually use HTML or just use a template from Tripod.com and just add a couplr of features?

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by chriz
Listening to all the others opinions, this site souonds twice as bad as mine!!!! Lol:D :D :D :D :D


besides, when said they didn't have javascript enabled, you can still go from View at the top and choose view source too -
:( you also seem to use a lot of

<style type="text/css"> tags, at least 5 pairs of them. Did you actually use HTML or just use a template from Tripod.com and just add a couplr of features? your little background flash is might annoying :rolleyes: What if I told you you are making your site very inaccessable to those with epilepsy? Lol :D

[chriz]

Are you refering to my (Chriz) site or Demonds ?:D

[PeOfEo]

http://www.freewebs.com/chrisa2003/

[chriz]

Well, it's not that bad (As b4)!:D But that other one does go a bit over the top - with text shadow i think it makes the text hard to read.

[nshiell]

not bad I like the cursor although it shold be a different color to the text.


you -- can combine all the style data

into 1 style tag
and get rid of the cloding style tags that are followed by another opening style tag
e.g this can be removed:-
</style>
<style type="text/css">

Also you can use relative file names so
http://demon_62787.tripod.com/johnperfect.JPG
can be
johnperfect.JPG