First timer nearing the end

[aeetes]

After a very long haul, I finaly feel that my website is nearing an end. Its my first website and it's pretty much all been learning by doing. It's alot of trials by error, but it teaches you. Content is still needed in some sections, never felt right writting them as long as I dident feel happy about the way webpage worked. But hopefully I'll get the time to do that now. Graphics are made by myself as well.

Facts:
- Validates html 4.01 Strict. Front page anyway. (Still a few of the sub pages that don't, weeding those out slowly, its usualy minor things, align and borders that need fixing).
- Validates CSS

And as fare as I have been told looks right in: IE, FireFix, Safari, MacIE.

I hope your all going to be brutally honest, and tell me what needs to be fixed and what would help.

In advance I like to thank Jona especialy for the help many of his notes on this forum have been, and also for his excellent "Tips for Reviews & Requests" that tops this topic. Helped me help myself to fix a large number of mistakes. And also a great big thanks goes out to who ever started this place, (sorry dont know who you are) it been a comfort on many late nights.

- Aeetes

PS: Also have a look at the forum if you like, it's power by phpBB 2.0.11, and the skin is a Mdesign creation modified by myself.

http://www.amitoune.com

[the tree]

Not bad at all especialy for a begginer. Personaly I'd say that you should have the content in white so that it doesn't get overwhelmed by the decor.

Your markup may be valid but it's not eniterly sematic.<p class="innavheader">Welcome to Amitoune</p> Why not use a styled <h1> tag?

Also your horizontal navigation list is just one big picture, and an entirely new big picture for every page. Why not have the green image as a backdrop for list items to majorly save on bandwidth file space and make things more accesable? It doesn't make sense at all without images enabled.

The design and graphics are great though, well done and good luck for the future!

[aeetes]

Originally posted by the tree
Why not use a styled <h1> tag?Perfect example of inhereting the problem as the page develops. I started by doing the <p class...> and it just stuck. Ofcourse I should be using <h#> to do it. Even remember reading now that some search engines might weigh text in <h#>'s heavier. Not to mention saving x numbers of characters across the webpage.

Same thing goes for the top navigation, inheritied from an earlier version of the page. Obvious fixes come to mind once someone tells you its not the best of way of doing it. And I had such a pain trying to get all the divs to align right cause I had to add in that image. :rolleyes:

Not sure I understand what you mean by, "It doesn't make sense at all without images enabled."?

Thanks alot for pointing these things out to me that I have been staring blindly at for so long. Nice to have a 2nd pair of eyes.

[the tree]

Without images enabled, all I see for the navigation is an outline of where your naviagation was. I have too guess where to click. Changing it for a list will solve that.