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Honor
10-19-2004, 03:55 PM
Hello All,

Iam fairly new to web design and would like some feedback on my site. I started this site about 8 months ago with entirely no idea what I was doing. Just me, Dreamwever mx and a dream. It has grown into a life of it's own, spawning forums and a webring. But in all honesty, I still do not know very much. :) The site has a sci-fi theme and is located at

http://bananiel.demon.nl/honor

Honor Empire (http://bananiel.demon.nl/honor)

All comments are welcome and thank you in advance
spufi
10-19-2004, 06:03 PM
In terms of code, you need a full Doctype becuase having a partial one means certain bbrowsers still go into quirks mode. You need to start learning CSS to help clean up your code and it will alow you to prevent things like having your huge background image from being shown more than once.

In terms of looks, the site took a lengthy time to load on my dial up connection. Not that surprising considering your background image is about 97K. This also meant I was looking around for something to click on and I saw no menu for quite some time. I would try to dut down on some of the stuff that cluters your page, and focus more on content up front. I would also look into maybe turing your background image into more of a logo so can cut down on it's size and ease the viewing of your pages for low speed connection users.
dera
10-20-2004, 09:24 AM
ok well u got the divs but u need a form of layout to go with it, the way i first learnt with dremweaver was using the css templates of sites look nice but are easy to change and easy to learn from
Honor
10-20-2004, 11:32 AM
ok, thanks for the advice

Iam not to concerned with the page load times, The average internet connection is getting faster and faster so Iam not conserned with catering to slower conections. Not trying to be rude, I just think that its a problem that will solve itself. I have basic cable connection and the load time is under 4 sec.

I know what you mean about the browsers though, in IE the background doesnt move the text does. CSS will fix that for all browsers?

What is divs? I dont understand what you mean by that dera?
LiLcRaZyFuZzY
10-20-2004, 12:50 PM
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_div.asp
"The <div> tag defines a division/section in a document."

but u shouldnt add an attribute to that tag, as it was depreciated in the html version u are declaring(Strict 4.01). so no <div align="center">

what spufi meant was that with css (repeat: no-repeat) you could have the background image not repeated, or only repeated in the direction u want (repeat: repeat-x or -y)

for the <body> tag, u use some attributes i never heard of, so they must be browser specific (IE)
bgproperties="fixed" for example.
in html strict 4.01, the body tag shouldnt have any attributes.

for the menu, u should put it on the top, and , u could actually do that in css, ask if u wanna be explained how to do that.
the background images for the menu should have a transparent background, so one doesnt see those annoying black corners.

u should have a look at the w3schools' css, http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp , and start hand-writing ur pages.

regards,
LiLcRaZyFuZzY
10-20-2004, 12:53 PM
sorry, my mistake, ur doctype is html transitionnal 4.01

but as spufi said, its incomplete, check the w3c for doctype

good luck
dera
10-21-2004, 03:12 AM
his doc type should be correct if he was using draemweaver, y dont u use the validate feature in dreamweaver?