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Xylina -> Honest Opinions please. (9/5/2005 13:35:09)

I would really appreciate some honest opinions about my website. I have never created a website before, and I have been only using Frontpage 2003 for about a month.

Thank you,

Jennifer



Mike54 -> RE: Honest Opinions please. (9/5/2005 14:13:47)

Ahem, you do have a link don't you?[;)][8D]



Xylina -> RE: Honest Opinions please. (9/5/2005 14:34:41)

Sorry [sm=ask.gif] yeah, it's http://coxandcompany.tripod.com

Can you say Duh?

Jennifer



RickP -> RE: Honest Opinions please. (9/5/2005 16:52:28)

Hi Jenifer!

It looks impressive to me for a first! - overall

I assume you're using free hosting and that is all their ads at the top? It'd be much better to pay a few quid and have your own domain and hosting without ads.[;)]

The navigation looks okay but all of that javascript and all of those images weigh heavy on the page and the transition from page to page is not as smooth as it could be.[:(]

Why have a 'guestbook' on a serious site like that? If you want to keep that feature, I'd style it "customer feedback" or "visitor feedback" etc. But... BTW, the page has problems - the navigation doesn't work on it![8|]

Re your "mailto" link. Not a good idea as it will get your email address harvested by spam-bots and you'll be swamped with nasty mail! A web-form is much more professional, more easily accessible to your visitors and, if you use the right methods, secure from spam-bots.

That's a few to be going on with, hope they help

Pretty good job so far[;)]



Tailslide -> RE: Honest Opinions please. (9/5/2005 17:25:21)

Does that Tripod ad mean that it's on Free space?



Brandon -> RE: Honest Opinions please. (9/5/2005 19:07:04)

Tailslide...yes that's Tripod's free hosting ads.....over all the site looks good....nice and clean...If this is for a business I would really consider paying for hosting....



Xylina -> RE: Honest Opinions please. (9/5/2005 19:52:35)

First of all, the tripod site is just so I can test things. Second, I was just trying out the guestbook thing to see if I could help someone else, it's already gone.

How do I do it so that email addresses cannot be harvested by bots?

Thanks for the input.

Jennifer



Tailslide -> RE: Honest Opinions please. (9/6/2005 3:07:05)

Hi Jennifer

I'm glad that the Tripod thingy won't be there on the completed site - it wouldn't lend an air of professionalism.

With E-mail addresses there are a couple of ways of hiding them from the bots - none are foolproof unfortunately but you can certainly cut down the amount of rubbish you receive.

First way is to hide the address using Javascript - there are loads of scripts out there that do this. If you go this route make sure you have an image with the e-mail address on it in <noscript> tags in case Javascript is switched off in the reader's browser (they'd get no address at all otherwise).

I tend to use e-mail obfuscation instead just to keep the amount of JS down. This basically subtitutes special ISO and Hex characters for the letters/numbers that make up the e-mail address. Most spam bots can't read this (yet). Here's a link to a site where you can plug in your email address and it will give you back the obfuscated code (it's very very long!): http://www.seowebsitepromotion.com/obfuscate_email.asp Just literally copy and paste it into the code. It will look the same on the page itself as when it was normal text.



womble -> RE: Honest Opinions please. (9/6/2005 5:47:36)

Hi Jennifer,

Nice site! I wasn't sure about the blue and beige, but it's growing on me now. I know it's a serious business site, but you could do with a few pics to liven things up a little and break the text up so it's not quite so tiring on the eye. Graphics can be expensive, but Istockphoto and stock.xchng
are good for cheap/free photos. On istockphoto in particular they seem to have a lot of business orientated photos, so you could try there.



Xylina -> RE: Honest Opinions please. (9/6/2005 22:33:47)

K, I have tried the e-mail obfuscation, and it seems to be working, could you take a look to see if I did it right?

Thanks,

Jennifer



Tailslide -> RE: Honest Opinions please. (9/7/2005 2:52:41)

Hi Jennifer

Almost there. You need to take this bit of "visible" code out: 

<a href="mailto:


as the long line of gibberish actually includes that so you'd be repeating it leaving it in.



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