Review Needed

[Cell-Freedom]

Hi this is my first official post here

I need a review for http://cell-freedom.com/

I did some research in the forum before I posted and I went to the validation site to check for errors. I had 39 and failed they were all javascript errors though. And I don't understand why they are errors either so if someone could plug my site in there and tell me that would be much appreciated. Thamls in advance to the reviewer(s)

[spufi]

Take that ever long list of CSS and put it into a external file and link to it that way. I scolled about halfway down the page before I got past your CSS. Ugh. Once it's there, change things like...

border-top: 1px solid #C0CFE0;
border-left: 1px solid #C0CFE0;
border-bottom: 1px solid #C0CFE0;
border-right: 1px solid #C0CFE0;

to...

border: 1px solid #C0CFE0;

This...

padding-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;

to...

padding-top: 6px;

or at worst...

padding: 6px 0 0 0;

If you are using that much CSS, why on Earth are you using it inside of your tags? You nav area is a perfect example. All you need in your external CSS is ...

#navlist a {
define CSS
}

and you are good to go.

More stuff to overhaul.

<span class="style30 style53 style7"><font color="#FF0000">Unique Services:</font></span>

Is really...

<h3>Unique Services:</h3>

All that CSS, all those <font> tags. Huh? Isn't CSS suppose to help get rid of those evil things?

If what you have is in reality a faily basic page and yet your code includes a class name of style54, you took a major wrong turn somewhere early on.

Besides putting the CSS in a external file, do the same for the JavaScript. It wouls make your page all the more easier to weed through, and the added benefit that the user doesn't have to dowmload that code everytime they look at one of your pages.

[LJK]

Hi -
Right now it's hard to know where to begin navigation of your site.
Those six evenly-spaced and sized text blocks all have an equal
'importance', visually. Choose some to be a lead-in to the site: who
you are, what's offered, what's unique, etc. Then maybe the others
could serve as a left nav More Information or something...let the user
know right away what's important - then lead them into more.

Consider slapping a cell phone image in the header - or better yet,
getting a logo that would incorporate will into a complete header image.

Have fun,
El

[Cell-Freedom]

thank you very much I will fix up then resubmit

Great points from both of you guys again thx

[ray326]

Keep in mind that page backgrounds aren't automatically white.

[Ubik]

The first thing I noticed is that the header seems too tall. Also, the ads on your site should be marked as such, for example, put a border around it with 'Advertisement', like you see on cnn.com.

Your company name is too small, it should be at least as big as the navigation tabs, or your navigation tabs are too big.

Your nav tabs have a light-blue border, which I don't like - it looks like an image is loading and I keep waiting for 'Shop Now' to turn into a button of some sort. I know it's not, but I am speaking as if I were a general user.

The right-sidebar has styles that are not consistent, 'The Proud sellers of' is not the same style as 'Our 5 Cellphone Secrets' and it is hard to distinguish where one section begins and ends.

The right sidebar img of all fo the 'Proud Sellers' do not have the correct width and height, making them look squished and grainy.

Put a few more pixels between 'directorya.gif' and 'Unique Services:' and between 'directoryb.jpg' and 'Why Online:'

Put a space between your partial paragraph and '...read on'

The white space in your layout isn't consistent, making the overall page look a bit sloppy.

[bokeh]

I think the biggest problem with the site is not html validation or where your CSS is located but the first step before any of these. Your site has no design. Go back to the drawing board and come up with a proper design. Make a large image of how the you hope the finished site will look. If you lack the creativity yourself go to see a designer and pay for a design. Is this really how you wish to project yourself.

[mat1979]

i don't really like the design either, but a good design is no easy thing!

what constructive thing could i say? i don't really like the font you're using, i find it too...different!