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TheLegacyLady
10-03-2002, 07:35 PM
I'm new to HTML coding as of a year ago. I found First Page a few months ago and it's been a HUGE help! I'd love some feedback on my site. I'm having trouble in Netscape getting the greenish table to be spaced properly around the text table. Could someone steer me in the correct direction?
Thanks,
Kara
www.thelegacylady.com
:)
Very well done on your website! As for the tables problem Netscape will always display a table whether its empty or full.
It is called raw html. Some place some where Netscape and the developers of Mozilla decided to keep the tabular effects of "Html 2.0 standards" It will be around for a long time as well.
The only thing I can think of at the moment is to probably change the table color border to white inside the front page. When the page loads on a 56k modem it takes roughly a minute and twenty seconds. This isn't bad due to the fact that your customers and people viewing your site probably don't have the idea of a fast loading page. Only way to reduce the load time is to parse out half of the main page. and have a URL to click through to the next part.
Again very nice website =)
I'll point it to my mother.
Oops I read that wrong... your looking for table placement.
Probably looking for something else. That problem has to do with "HTML 2.0 standards" to you might want to look into a What you see is what you get html program. I'm not sure if 1stpage-XP will support this feature in the future but I'm sure it will.
augure3
10-09-2002, 01:30 AM
Hello Kara,
i have studied your Site and i think this site has real potential, but i think there are some points wich could be disscussed:
1) What is the purpose of your website? Do you want to sell your products? distribute your papercatalouge? do you want to announce your courses or simply give your "customer" informations about your company?
Only if the purpose ist clear, and could be identified by the visitor of your page, he can decide if he/she wants to buy/get informations or further contact you.
2) What is the difference between Catalouge/Proiducts/Orderform? If you want to sell, unify the elements. Keep it simple for your customer to buy something. If he have to change from catalouge to product then, when he knows what to buy, get to your orderfrom, he will never buy anything. keep it simple and strightforward (look at amazon.com how they guide a visitor form productpresentation to complete the deal. they do a good job here).
3) Your font ist difficult to read (especially when you have bad eyes). The black font on the background is confusing.
4) Your news-topics should be more on the top of your page. remember: the normal visitor dosen't like scrollbars!!!
Look again at your page - or even better let it be testet by some none-webusers (the less they know the web the better they are) and hear what they say.
But nonetheless: you are on a goodway
greetings from germany
your augure3
Originally posted by TheLegacyLady
I'm new to HTML coding as of a year ago. I found First Page a few months ago and it's been a HUGE help! I'd love some feedback on my site. I'm having trouble in Netscape getting the greenish table to be spaced properly around the text table. Could someone steer me in the correct direction?
Thanks,
Kara
www.thelegacylady.com
:)
ThFhAtEcRiMe
11-06-2002, 02:42 PM
goodjob it was worth the click
DCElliott
11-06-2002, 06:52 PM
Very rich use of colour and texture. The sensibilities of the site come through loud and clear. I do agree with the content rearranging idea to more clearly convery - up front - what the site is for. It is a commercially oriented site - make sure people immediately know stuff is for sale.
There are some very constructive criticisms from previous posters that I won't repeat.
Now - to one of your earlier questions. Sheesh - Navigator sure is wonky with this page. I open up one time and it shrinks the main table to about 50% centered, other times it is 98% or so. If you look at in composer it is fine.
I think I have figured out your table nesting (good use of comment labelling of the structure - a lot of people could learn from your layout and proper documentation of the code) Navigator likes collapsing tables around content. If you use a <table width="98%"> it SHOULD do what its told - but obviously isn't doing it all the time. Try putting a <col width="100%"> after the table width tag to get Navigator the express the width called for. You may force the width that you want by using a transparent spacer gif in your outer table to hold the minimum width.
There are a number of places you could make more effective use of CSS. For example. For your left nav you have little flower images. You can use images for list dots and put your links in a list that automatically adds the graphic.
eg ul{list-style-image : images/teenypansytransparent.gif; direction : rtl;} would create a list with your graphic displayed on the right side
Simplifies coding. Also, I'd specify a special A.nav {text-decoration:none} or UL A {text-decoration:none} (contextual selector would not underline links if in an unordered list) for your nav links - that would clean up the nav a bit more and emphasize your flowers more.
Zero Angel
11-06-2002, 10:58 PM
Impressive. Though your a:hover attribute in your table of links looks akward, and the "close to my heart" graphic looks very pixelated. You might also want to group or use a different technique to make your links stand out more.
Great job all around! :)
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