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recently i found this site. it's not flawless but it's kinda fun :D
your site score:
Marketing How well marketed, and popular the website is. 4.4
Design How well designed and built the website is. 7.1
Accessibility How accessible the website is, particularly to those with disabilities. 5.6
Experience How satisfying the website is likely to be. 6.2Good/Bad Points:
Warning point This website appears to be rarely visited (more detail)
Warning point This website makes no apparent use of interactivity throughout (more detail)
Warning point This website appears to be in violation of the British Disability Discrimination Act (more detail)
Excellent point A Google search for "THE MEEK'S HOMEPAGE / THE MEEK'S WEBRINGS" finds this website as #1 (more detail)
Excellent point This website is very quick to respond (more detail)My Personal Comment:
If compared to websites nowadays, yours will look "old". Like the starry background, images which is placed as is (not optimized to blend with the layout), etc... :D
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This website appears to be in violation of the British Disability Discrimination Act - woot! :D
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Laler, I don't think 99% of websites in the world comply with the british law. People don't design websites for people who are blind, can't hear, or don't have any arms or legs. And if the law requires you to design a website that makes is easier to access while driving a car then the government needs replaced.
Just for the fun of it I put in www.nascar.com for that test and it also violated british law.
I'm just looking for some feedback on my website because I want to redo alot of it and i'm out of ideas.
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Here's a few tips. Don't use Microsoft FrontPage. In fact, don't use any software apart from a text editor to create your website. It will end out for the better. See this post for some useful sites to get you started.
If you learn (X)HTML and CSS, not only will you have a much better understanding of how it all fits together and works, you will know exactly what to change when things go wrong.
When you use a WYSIWYG authoring tool, you have little or no control over the markup produced, leaving the programmer's of that software to depict how your website will really end out.
As for the accessibility and usability side of things, as long as your website makes complete sense when you disable images, cookies, Flash, Shockwave, Javascript, Java and all stylesheets, it is perfectly fine.
If you want to see an example, visit this page and disable any styles and images. (In a browser like Netscape or Firefox, this is easy. With IE, it's a bit more difficult.) You'll see the "barebones" version which usually renders in a serif font.
For your website, I would get rid of the following items: animated GIFs, hit counters, meaningless images and the unsemantic use of tables.
Animated GIFs are straight from the 90s. So too are garish "starry" backgrounds. The best combination is just plain black text on a white background or light-coloured text on a dark background. Adding "personality" in that sort of form makes it just feel tacky.
Hit counters are only ever useful for yourself. Your visitors don't want to know whether 7 or even 7 million people have visited the site. That sort of information shouldn't be shown. They want content.
When I say "unsemantical use of tables", I mean using them for layout. This is an age-old habit that makes your website less accessible. Tables are only useful for tabular data. In the current day and age, it is best to have a linear page that is styled with an external stylesheet.
For the home page, you should focus some real content on it instead of just harbouring all of the other links. So, for example, you could put an introduction to the website (not just "Welcome to my website..."), the weather and your "top 10 links" or something. Just make it unique.
Next, you should rethink your navigation. It's best to have about 5-6 "areas", in my opinion, and this is usually best situated horizontally below the header. In each of these areas, you can have sub-pages which are listed on the left side of the page. For your site, you could have these areas:
Home
Nascar
Photos
Links
Guestbook
About MeThe two webrings and the link to your parents' home page should go in the Links section/page.
I'm not trying to sound harsh or oppressive; it's just your website currently looks like all of the other rarely-visited ones. If it's unique, fresh and inspiring, people are going to visit it. Simple as that.
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hey, i said it was for fun, don't take it too seriously :D And I also put my personal comment overthere in responese #1 at the bottom :)
And btw,
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If nascar's site also in violation of disabilities discrimination act, then what a shame. Most of my sites complies, lolz... I never had any effort on this, I just try to create the site following w3c standards and there it goes complies with disabilites discrimination act too (I think).And if the law requires you to design a website that makes is easier to access while driving a car
Who knows? When things becomes more modern then maybe w3c will add an "A+++++ WCAG Compliance", for websites that can be accessed safely and easily while driving a car, lolz :D
</brag mode>- peace -
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The use of the red on blue down the bottom is not good. It looks weird because of the way the eye focuses on those two colours. Not a good mix. Some text on the homepage telling visitors what the site is about would be good. kudos on the .com address, good move.
Matt
matt@bbcomputing.co.uk
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Hi Brian,
First take a look at the legendary CSS Zen Garden. Browse all of the designs on offer; some of them are pure excellence. Obviously I don't expect you to make your site look like that, it's just for inspiration and perhaps a bit of "adaptation".
You can also check out some great CSS examples, as well as general layout techniques.
That should keep you going for a while!
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tau_titan, if your talking about the buttons on the bottom they are temparary. Just playing around with making buttons using tables. I have sat and thought about adding text for a long long time but I can't come up with anything good. I was never good at writing stuff.
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James, I would really like to keep using frontpage. Using css I would have to start my homepage over from scratch. Can frontpage make use of css?
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The text on your homepage should be about whats on your website. However dont make it a paragraph of waffle. Riddle it with keywords.
Matt
matt@bbcomputing.co.uk
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I made alot of changes and no longer in violation of British Disability Discrimination Act. All my pages except my NASCAR page is done using css (except for the use of tables) and all use the same template.
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