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dtorrent

11-24-2003, 09:20 AM

Hi!

I have done my personal website www.davidtorrent.com (http://www.davidtorrent.com) and I would be very glad if you do a little review about it.
Just see the page and say what do you think about design, navigation...
I think if people do the same we could learn a lot. The page has an english version.

thanks.

David

dtorrent

11-24-2003, 09:54 AM

Sorry Moderator I didn't see this forum.
Thanks for moving the post.

David

DCElliott

11-24-2003, 10:03 AM

No problem - that's what we're here for ;-)



To see the page in Catalan
<a class="vinclemenu" href="index.html">Click here</a>


 






To see the page in





Spanish
<a class="vinclemenu" href="indexcast.html">Click here</a>









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</tr>David, what program did you code this in? In some places you have 4 font tags changing fonts back and forth. While you may be an excellent software writer, this page would not win you any praise for its HTML. Anyone writing web pages today should be using XHTML and CSS and not using tables for layout. Your layout is actually fairly simple and could be accomodated in a centered <div>. Use of some styled headings would handle the major portion of your markup. (for example - you could make each of the Subject:... as <h2> headings)

Now that I've spoiled your day, I must say it is visually a very clean design, well balanced on the page. the faint <hr /> are subtle and add a bit of graphic interest. If you would like help upgrading to XHTML - just give a shout - there's lots of us who would roll up our sleeves and lend a hand.

Daybreak_0

11-24-2003, 11:21 AM

Agree with David on layout - is good.

The only thing I would criticise is the font size - it is very small.

There seems to be a tendency by many to go towards quite small fonts. It might look great but it makes it hard for people to read the text especially on a monitor. When presented with a lot of small text I usually don't bother.

Regards
Day

dtorrent

11-24-2003, 12:19 PM

Hello!

First of all thank you for the review :)

David I use DW 4. I did the page as wswyg/code mode. I forget to clean a little the code, that's the reason why you see some font tags.
XHTML? this is new for me but I will get information to see what can I do with it .

Daybreak_0 yes, I like the small fonts. I know they're not so readable, so I would make a change.

Thanks

David

DCElliott

11-24-2003, 12:40 PM

Thank heavens you can't code your java with a wysiwyg editor! Who knows what would happen?

For a beginning list of XHTML links - look at http://www.thefixor.com/code_xhtml.php and for CSS links - look at:
http://www.thefixor.com/code_css.php#tutor .

With your own code, you would need to get rid of every in the whole document and build everything into your stylesheet which has only one selector in it at the present.

DE

dtorrent

11-24-2003, 02:07 PM

Hi!

I'll take a look at XHTML docs

thanks :)

David