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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	{{I had to break this into two posts....UBB didn't like it I guess....though I've seen far larger posts here...}} Ok...let's look under the hood.... Doctype, that's a start. Encoding too, yay =) Ack! <font> tags in this day and age?? :eek: I see style sheets being imported, yet there is gross abuse of the deprecated and derelict <font> tag, and for some reason that I cannot fathom, there are inline stlye declarations for every div on there :confused: There is also a very odd and overly complex pile of divs, p's, etc taht don't have any sort of stuctural significance or any visible stylistic significance, and could be made much simpler and much more logical... . Ok, to summarize my thoughts - 1) Get rid of the pop-up. It serves absolutely no purpose, and is going to be troublesome for some users. 2) Ditch the splash page altogether. It also serves no purpose. Having the main body of information on the front page in a flexible non-javascript reliant layout would be of great benefit all around. 3) Please don't tell people they need a staggeringly high resolution. Especially when they in fact don't at all. 4) Don't take away user controls. For some particularly impressive dhtml sites and the like, pop-ups without controls are cool. For a business site that exists to pass information on to customers, it is a virtual death sentence. 5) Make the important things more prominent. For instance, delcare what exactly it is that this business does, right off the bat. Make the list of menus already visible on the front page - don't make the user look around to try to find them. 6) The menus themselves - they need some better visual heiarchy. It's just bland insignificant text now. Make the headers stand out, use hr's, use borders, etc. 7) Put some structure into your code. You have a simple list of services that should be just that - a list. But instead you have each list item in an over-styled div that actually has no....style. That's a lot of work to get a list to display as a list, especially when the W3C thoughtfully provided several varieties of lists in all of your available versions of HTML. In one case I see 3 consecutive p's with nothing but a nbsp in them.... :confused: surely there is a better way to get what you need there... I think that covers most of it. Let me compact that - * No popup. No Splash. No loss of browser control. * Visually and logically structured code. Lose the <font>'s and the bizarrely complex <div> arrangements. Put CSS in the stylesheet where it belongs. * Present the intent of the website plainly and clearly, on the first page. * Keep all the navigation visible in a side menu or top menu. Hope that helps. This site has a visual feel that is very warm and inviting. The structure or lack there of) and presentation, however, will drive users away. [This message has been edited by DL-44 (edited 08-13-2003).] Loading...
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