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hzarabet -> My once a decade new website! Please review. (7/22/2007 1:27:58)

Hi all...

Well, once a decade I am blessed with an idea for a new website, so this is my second site!

http://www.RoBILIA.com

One thing I would appreciated you checking is the "Register" page. Someone else who tested it said they kept getting bounced back to the home page (using IE7) but I still cannot duplicate this issue.

All comments/critiques appreciated!!!



Tailslide -> RE: My once a decade new website! Please review. (7/22/2007 4:20:22)

Can't recreate the IE7 issue from here either...

One thing I've noticed is that you've got a lot of <p /> tags which is incorrect. Paragraph tags can't be self closing as they contain stuff (unlike say a break tag or a horizontal rule). They must have <p> and </p>.

Other thing is that the ad at the top of the page for is really big - their logos overshadow your own - maybe make your own logo larger or more prominent somehow?

I'd also ensure all photos are resized properly rather than via the HTML as you're getting jaggy edges and distortion where that happens.

When you go to the community page there's no easy way back (apart from hitting the back button).

Finally - the nav bar breaks at one font-size increase - maybe could do with more room to allow growth.

I'd be tempted personally to have a full width nav bar at the top of the page with your logo under it and then followed by the ads or possibly the logo at the top with the full width nav bar under that?

Just basically that the most important thing on the page is your logo and the navigation.



d a v e -> RE: My once a decade new website! Please review. (7/22/2007 4:26:16)

and don't forget your alt text on your images



Larry M. -> RE: My once a decade new website! Please review. (7/22/2007 13:15:56)

quote:

One thing I would appreciated you checking is the "Register" page. Someone else who tested it said they kept getting bounced back to the home page (using IE7)


Links OK for me with IE7.



hzarabet -> RE: My once a decade new website! Please review. (7/22/2007 14:00:03)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Tailslide

One thing I've noticed is that you've got a lot of <p /> tags which is incorrect. Paragraph tags can't be self closing as they contain stuff (unlike say a break tag or a horizontal rule). They must have <p> and </p>.



Am I mistaken or is a self closing <p /> preferred using
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

I took your advice on using thumbnails.

As for the logo, I will most likely use your advice, BUT, take off your webmaster hat and put on a marketing hat. Which would be more desirable for an advertiser?



Tailslide -> RE: My once a decade new website! Please review. (7/22/2007 14:16:23)

Hi again

With XHTML 1.0 either Trans or Strict you need to have both opening and closing tags for paragraphs.

Far as I can work out the thing that makes the difference as to whether a tag can be self closing or not is whether it's a single instance of itself which cannot contain anything else - so a line break tag can't have any content within it, neither can a horizontal rule tag or even an image tag - they're self-containing items that only ever contain themselves. A paragraph has content within it plus it can logically have a start and an end.

Does that make any sense at all? It made sense in my head but that's not always a good sign! [:D]

As far as the logo thing goes... an advertiser will want to get the most possible out of you BUT I think that by having your brand logo as the most prominent thing you build your own brand awareness which should in theory get people coming back which should (again in theory) be more appealing to the advertiser. As far as having the ads big to entice people to click on them - yes having them big helps but I think again that building your own brand for the site will help return custom which should increase the chances that they might with any luck click on one of those ads!!

edit: I think, on reflection that in proper XML you could probably have either an opening and closing p tag (if it has content within it) or a self-closing p tag if it's empty. However that doesn't apply to XHTML 1.0.



Nicole -> RE: My once a decade new website! Please review. (7/22/2007 16:28:08)

Hi,

I agree with what Tail said in her first response. In fact it took me a few seconds to find your navigation.

The whole top part of the pages look like an ad so I didn't look there for the navigation.



treetopsranch -> RE: My once a decade new website! Please review. (7/22/2007 21:18:28)

The baseball photos are squished. A true collector would want round baseballs in his collection. [;)]



d a v e -> RE: My once a decade new website! Please review. (7/23/2007 1:14:04)

yep - you don't want squashed balls ;)



treetopsranch -> RE: My once a decade new website! Please review. (7/23/2007 19:50:45)

[sm=laughing4.gif]



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