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Conor
03-12-2004, 10:59 PM
Hi me and another guy are building a site. It is currently hosted where it is just for testing and i will soon be buying a domain and hosting and backing up my database and moving it over so i dont lose any forum posts/articles/news items. Right now its pretty much empty because we just finished the site tonight. We have a full news article system where we can add news articles to different sections. We also have a form for updating content on the main page.
What do you think? (http://nucleus.ih0p.com/webdevhelp.php)
buntine
03-12-2004, 11:03 PM
It looks ok. But its really bland. There is nothing there which will attract users.
It needs something, im just not sure what it is. A few images would spruce it up.
Conor
03-12-2004, 11:07 PM
yeah this is just a general starting layout i will definatley work on "spicing" it up a bit.
spufi
03-12-2004, 11:17 PM
Why am I seeing a copy of the menu code after the </html> tag?
spufi
03-12-2004, 11:23 PM
More looking over the code...
<div id="header"><span class="headertext">Welcome to the Future Home of Web Development Help</span></div>
<h1></h1>
Huh?
<div id="header"><span class="headertext">Web Development Help</span></div>
Is there some reason you aren't using a header tag when you obviously mean to?
There's some more code that needs to be cleaned up too. BTW, defining something with id means it is used once on a page. If you use something more than once, you define it with class.
Conor
03-12-2004, 11:25 PM
ok ill check that out thanks guys.
spufi
03-12-2004, 11:38 PM
Also note that I find <br> tags should rarely be used. Check out the Taming Lists link in my sig to clean up your menus.
Looking at the following...
"The Forums are now online and the aricles will soon follow. I will be buying the domain and hosting soon. The site is really on its way.
Added on March 12, 2004, 9:25 pm by Conor"
I would say mark it up like so..
<p>The Forums are now online and the aricles will soon follow. I will be buying the domain and hosting soon. The site is really on its way.</p>
<span class="date">Added on March 12, 2004, 9:25 pm by Conor</span>
And then define the date class with a negative top margin so it lines up right under the paragraph above it.
Paul Jr
03-12-2004, 11:39 PM
The code could use some cleaning up.
For the different sections, I would suggest increasing the text size of the title of the section, decreasing the white space around it, and adding some borders around everything to separate the articles and whatnot.
This has nothing to do with accessibility, as far as screen readers and whatnot, but in any case, I like the links to be easier to click. It's probably just me, but I usually prefer the links to be block-level (in CSS, that doesn't mean they're valid XML block-level, lol).
Also, you need to validate (http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//nucleus.ih0p.com/webdevhelp.php) your XML code. I could not validate the CSS code, because your XML is not valid. Once you fix the errors listed, we can work on your CSS. ;)
I'm sure we can help if you need help figuring out what the errors are, and how to fix them as well.
[J]ona
piersk
03-13-2004, 08:52 AM
*cough* (http://www.webdevfaqs.com)
Conor
03-13-2004, 11:49 AM
they dont really have articles or anything they just have simple little things my site will be different.
spufi
03-13-2004, 04:44 PM
I don't mind seeing more web development sites, but as long as it's not a case of the blind leading the blind. We have enough of that crap as it is.