Re: FN-FORUM NEW - site, Nit Picking.

date posted 22nd January 2003 14:41

Hi,

1. It would be great if every designer had his browser default background
color set to something other than white. Then nobody will every forget to
set the bgcolor attribute in body tag.

2. You have those smiley icons here
http://www.kidzbizz.co.uk/display.php?category=Family%20Day%20Out which have
white background when the table rows are in different colors. The gifs with
transparent background will look much better.

3. Blue links on a blue background - bad. Add contrast if you want visitor
to navigate on your site - not just leave.

4. Check your site in different browsers. For example, Netscape 4.7 gives
"400 Bad Request" errors on a number of pages, cause you're using sentences
as parameter which sometimes have whitespaces in them and you are not
encoding them into the URL format. It'll work with IE, but IE is always
lying to you.
See http://www.kidzbizz.co.uk/display.php?category=Adventure Parks it should
be http://www.kidzbizz.co.uk/display.php?category=Adventure%20Parks
And I'd say there's no point of using sentences as parameters of your
scripts at all (with only exception when the sentence is a user-defined
search string), you can always use numbers, which are shorter and don't
require any encoding. Moreover you've already used that here:
http://www.kidzbizz.co.uk/displayitem.php?item=1042048797, how category
pages differ?

5. Now positive comment: I liked that your site is very lightweight, just as
informational resource should be.

HTH, Stas.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Dean" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:24 PM
Subject: FN-FORUM NEW - site, Nit Picking.


> Hi all
>
> I am new to the list and have been watching this one develop. I
> personally like dreamweaver and use MX regulary. I am putting my head on
> the block and offer this site, that I am in the process of finishing,
> though I am sorting out the backend rather than the content at the
> moment.
>
> http://www.kidzbizz.co.uk
>
> Opinions please
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Nik Whale
> Sent: 22 January 2003 12:28
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM ADS - site, Nit Picking.
>
>
> Hmm, So you are saying totally discard DW?? This little beuty cost me a
> bit of money, surely you can overide automatic HTML, in some way??
>
> Anyway, thanks for help, will look into in a while.
>
> I put the ammount I was paid in a previous posting.. but I agreed with
> 150GBP, as he was a friend.
>
>
> NiK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of hawken
> Sent: 22 January 2003 12:04
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM ADS - site, Nit Picking.
>
>
> I believe in dreamweaver 4 onwards they dropped the auto font tag thing,
> now if you want to use a font you can make a css class then highlight
> the section, click a button, it becomes , but I'd
> advise using . All the same really however. If you don't want to
> break that clump of text when starting a new paragraph, press SHIFT
> and ENTER together to make a .
>
> Although, I would seriously advise getting into writing by hand, then
> you can just define the body of the document to use a certain font,
> never worry about dreamwavers mistakes again (it is an odd prog, even
> from the days of DW1 - when its was netscape4 biased, would you believe)
>
> Honestly, fix the bg colour thing before putting online. Maybe you want
> to wipe your hands of it but its highly unprofessional to release a site
> full of -your- mistakes.
>
> And do tell us, how much were you paid? :) !!!
>
> hawken
>
> mr hawken bright-roberts
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