Website review

[Gavin L.]

There isn't much content at the moment, but the layout is what I would like comments and suggestions on. There are a few pages there to browse.

It uses HTML 4.01 Strict, CSS and PHP.

[andyshep]

the dark blue links are not to my liking too dark and hard to see,
also the grey text is difficult to read
apart from that nice.

andy

[Gavin L.]

Yeah, I'd been thinking about changing that gray text under the links for a while... It's still gray, but I made it a bit lighter... it was rgb(85,85,85), now it's rgb(145,145,145).

I might make it lighter still... I just don't want that text to be white.

[andyshep]

how about rgb(0,153,153) it hink it will fit quite well with the color scheme

[LJK]

Hi -
Yes, there's not much to go on yet at present...

I think the site links should be physically or visually separated from the rest, and you'll probably want to add a 'top of pg.' anchor since the content can get quite long.

Other than that, the header is great and I agree that the blue just isn't working too well.

Good start,
El

[Gavin L.]

I think the site links should be physically or visually separated from the rest, you'll probably want to add a 'top of pg.' anchor
How do you mean?


the blue just isn't working too well.
I assume you're talking about the blue links? I'm not sure what's so bad about it, what color would you recommend?

[dera]

should be also available to support 800*600

[Vladdy]

Good:
- No tables for layout

Bad:
- Not much of semantical markup either - page is suffering from "divitis": could not find header elements; menu should be a LIST of links (usually put below the content, or "skip navigation" link is provided); <br>s are used for layout...

- Page also suffers from "classitis":

<div>
<div class="someClass"></div>
<div class="someClass"></div>
<div class="someClass"></div>
<div class="someClass"></div>
</div>
<style type="text/css">
.someClass{/* style definitions */
</style>

should be

<div class="someClass">
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
</div>
<style type="text/css">
.someClass div{/* style definitions */
</style>

(that is as far as using class attribute and styling is concerned. From HTML standpoint, as I already mentioned, it should be a list)

- Fixed Width layout

- Microfonts - if 100% font looks too big to you change the setting in YOUR browser. At least the layout does fall apart completely, when I increase them

- This type of color scheme is appropriate for some online gaming community, if you want to come across as a professional site make it "dark on light".

- Having a date of news posting is fine, but putting time is a waste of real estate

[LJK]

Hi -

#1 Okay, The Blue: I happen to hate it - reminds me of links with no styles added/default. The blue chosen for the rest of the color accents goes well with the grey-silver-black thing you've got going on, but the links hurt the eyes, & are hard to read.

#2 An anchor link is just an internal link to part of your site. Those who are too lazy to hit the 'home' key for quickly getting to the top of a page like to have one of these things available.

#3 In regards to visually or phys. separating your site's links from the others - well, some space, a background or the use of a different color would help them from getting 'lost' in that list on the left.

Hope that helps to clarify,
El

[iamlucky13]

I missed the navigation menu at first because it looked too much like Google ads. I think adding some sort of subtle border and perhaps taking away the underline from the links in the menu or adding a simple hover effect would help. Play around with it a little and see if you like what you get.

It's seldom a problem anymore, but people with 800 x 600 screen resolution have to scroll sideways to see the whole page. You might consider letting the width flow according the width of the browser window. Of course then you would have to contend with things getting uncomfortably wide for those with 1600 x 1200. Like I said, seldom a problem.

I like the overall color scheme.

[spufi]

<div id="menu1_title">abderian menu</div>

Really should be something like...

<h3 id="main_menu">abderian menu</h3>

A title/header within your <body> tag should be defined by a header tag. I think I could also argue that your menu links would be better off being done via the <dl>, <dt>, and <dd> tags vs. <ul> and <li> ones.