Topic: My new site...

Hi!
I've made a new site, and i want some feedback. http://home.no.net/pzion
I'm sorry, but the language is Norwegian, but can't you guys who doesn't know norwegian just take a look at the graphic and everything except the content?

Greetings NoLimit and welcome to our looney place! If you haven't allready done so stop by our while the nurses fetch your straight jackets and pills

Get rid of the splash page. It serves no purpose and only makes me click one more time to get to your page. The fact that the splash page says that the page on can be viewed in IE3+ when it works in Mozilla 1.2.1 is also kind of stupid. There are some visual differences, but it works fine in Mozilla...

You should make the menu more apparent. As it is now it is too much like the background. The idea is fine, but increase the contrast. There is also no reason why you should use images for the navigation. You can create the same effect using only CSS.

I like the colors you have used, but might considering adding one color. It is orange now. Maybe add a different colors to the links? That way they will stand out more from the overall text and the page will look less monotone... You might want to check out ZOX's color page from some information about the different color etc.

The bottom padding/margin should be increased a little bit. It looks to me like the Copyright text is a little bit to close to the bottom of the browser.

There are also a couple of things I noticed when I browsed through your code. You should move the scripts to a seperate file to increase readability. It isn't a very big deal right now since you don't have a lot of code, but it is good to get used to the practise. You've also used tables for the whole layout. That is bad! You should instead use CSS and divs to position the different elements of your page. http://www.bluerobot.com/ has some very good tutorials about this. The menu should also be configured as a list, see this article for more info...

I think that is about it for now...

[edit]Just one more thing; thou shall not use the font tag! [/edit]
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[This message has been edited by Veneficuz (edited 01-01-2003).]

You make me feel like a big looser! :P
I start from bottom of your message....

"Not use the font tag"
Well, i didn't knew i was, but okey, i will remove it if i can find it.

"You should move the scripts to a seperate file"
You mean tha Javascripts to the Rollover menu? I don't know how to do include that inside the page again, but if i learn that, i promise you to do that

"You've also used tables for the whole layout. That is bad!"
CSS? Well, i use CSS on my page, but i doesn't know how to use CSS to make the WHOLE layout... but maybe i will tech one day.

"The bottom padding/margin should be increased a little bit"
Affirmative! I'll do that...

"Maybe add a different colors to the links?"
I'll do that too....

"You should make the menu more apparent."
Maybe, but i wont promise anything... And i don't manage to make that menu in CSS. (I thought i could a lot CSS, but i was wrong )

"Get rid of the splash page."
I like it, are you really so lazy that you doesn't want to click again??
Well, okey...maybe i will remove it...


Your critic is like a really hard punch in my face....
No no, it wans't that bad... thanks for checking it out

Nice webpage
I like the colors and the layout! very nice! I agree with Veneficuz when he says that you should make your menu a little more apparent... Now it kind of blends in (in a non positive way), and it's hard to spot...

I really like it! keep up the good work

the orange is over done in my opinion. A LOT of orange is fine by me but I think an accent color would break up the monotony, it's so same same ame same same same

Jason

Yah, I'm with Jason on the colours.

The splash page (while being rather pointless) actually had me hyped about the colours and layout inside (did I mention I love the colour orange?) but when I finally got there it was just too... eh. Too small a range of orange across too large an expanse with a contrast that was a little too contrasting.

Although I think if you play with it some more you could get it look'n real fine.

Appart from that I don't see why I'd need broadband to access the site. I'm on dialup and all the pages loaded fairly fast. I'm also not fond of the IE only bit... It makes me nervious when a web designer sees fit to only designer for one browser. Having an "IE only" clause says one of two things to me:

1) You couldn't design your way out of a paper bad and supporting browsers other than IE makes you cry and run home to your mom.

2) You could design for other browsers but for this site you just couldn't be bothered so you designed for the one that let's you make the most mistakes but still work.

Weather or not either of these two things are true, this is pertty much what I think every time I see an "IE only" notice on a webpage. In any case, It makes me want to close the browser window rather than click the "enter" link.

[This message has been edited by Dracusis (edited 01-03-2003).]

Well, thanks...
I think i take these replies as advices only, to my next page.
I'm working on a new page right now

One, two, three - In the place to be

Yup, I'll have to agree with may things that have been said so far.

In particular - the color. Well, I love a good orange site too, but yes it is *begging* for something more than just the orange.

Also, the splash page - no, I'm not too lazy to click an extra time if there is a purpose for clicking an extra time. Making a splash page that is almost exactly the same thing is your actual page is pointless. Especially when the splash page tells me I need a braodband connection, internet explorer, and 800x600 resoultion....none of which are actually needed!

To link to an external script, save the script as whatever type of file it is - if it's javascript, save it as "script.js", wihtout the <script></script> tags of course.

Then in your page (in the head usually) add this -

<script type="text/javascript" src="path/to/script.js"></script>

For a style sheet, it works a little diferent - again, save the CSS as "style.css" (substitute your own name, of course) and this -

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" rel="nofollow" href="path/to/style.css" />

For some good info on using CSS, check out the Gurus Network Tutorials. Briggl and Phil have some very useful ones there.

Also, don't be afraid of critiques like you've gotten here, and don't be discouraged. It's how you learn best! And you've come to one of the best places around toget quality critiques and information.

The norwegian people has done two good things. Your homepage and
'Tomtar på loftet' ('nisserna på lovded' I suck at norweign). =D

Thanks OlsonE!!!

NB! It's "Nissene på låven"

One, two, three - In the place to be

So, are there any updates planned?

Well... yes, but be patient :P

One, two, three - In the place to be