RE: FN-FORUM: Advice and help please

date posted 15th January 2005 17:12

Thanks Guys;

You may not believe it; but there is a company selling three and four
page sites worse than this page; I know that for fact. So now it=92s the
dreaded css for me, at the moment anyway, I just hate css. Nothing goes;
or ever stays' where I put it. Probably because I don=92t put it there =
to
begin with; only think I do. Anyway once again thanks for stopping me;
make a fool of myself.

Kind Regards


D.G

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> From: Andy Macnaughton-Jones [EMAIL REMOVED]
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> Phew, where to begin...
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> Javascript in main body rather than external script files
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> Table Based Layout
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> Javascript Driven Menus
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> Very inaccessibile
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> I'm not a designer so I shant comment aboutthing like that as=20
> I'd probably come up with no better, but it looks very dated IMHO.
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> Hope this helps !
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> Cheers
> Andy

+1

And - mouseovers that change font size, strange font choices, numerous
amateur features like js data and time, right click image 'protection'
(I am not too pleased to be told I don't have 'permission' to click my
own right mouse button). I appreciate that with no back-end, javascript
is the only dynamic technology you have at your disposal but it does not
mean you should use every javascript sample you can find, I suggest
sticking to what is appropriate.

Search engines will probably lose interest by the time they get to any
content in your page past the javascript.

Again I am no designer but even to me the overlapping blocks and wierd
sized borders are strange at best.

I would humbly suggest that if this is going to be a showcase rather
than try to jam in as many bells and whistles as you can, you sit back
and pretend to be a real site owner then write a 'requirements document'
for what you want from your website. Then put you web developer hat
back on and try to deliver that and only that. A site that looks like
it fulfills business requirements and is appropriate will get you much
more work than a page full of things that you think are clever.
Just my 2p

Dai

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