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Posted by rf on 11/26/07 00:09
"Mika" <anon@anon.com> wrote in message
news:d2S1j.52361$c_1.21339@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> Hi all, if you could kindly test this W3C validated page specifically in
> Firefox only and advise if you see the streetscape appear. (Designed for
> broadband):
>
> http://tinyurl.com/35mwxr
I have purposely avoided looking at this until now. The main reason being
the reports of huge size and slow load time. I just changed my mind.
Huge size is correct. Three megabytes. I don't load flash so I can't comment
on that.
Slow load time is correct. 1.21 minutes. This is simply stupid and no, I
don't have a slow connection, it is a 10 megabit per second cable
connection.
Now, the initial impact: Google ads all over the place. What look like ads
elsewhere, especially in the very important banner area. A bunch of images
of what look like shops. Ah, the "streetscape" that has been mentioned. The
first "shop" takes me four scroll right's to get past and the "image" is so
repetitive that it looks like a bad job of copy/paste. I didn't bother to go
any further.
Nowhere on the page is there any indication of what the site is actually
about. I tried reading the fine print (which looks just like another add)
until I came across a "click here" directive. Apart from being silly, what
if I don't use a mouse? Tab never gets to that link. Accessibility problem.
In any case "clicking here" simply jumps the page down a couple of inches.
Very informative, not.
Ok, hover over one of the images. A tooltip appears: "See street usage guide
above". Alright, scroll back up... What "street usage guide". I see nothing
at all with a heading of "street usage guide". I see an IKEA advertisement.
Is that what you mean? Or perhaps that fineprint I have already read?
Other things:
What on earth does the <title> mean? <view source> Ah, keyword stuffing. The
title is supposed to be just that, a title. You know, when I look across at
the windows task bar I see a browser icon and the title of the page that
browser instance is currently displaying.
Lots of keyword stuffing elsewhere. Do you realise this is why search
engines no longer look at meta elements?
Why is the font specified as 14 pixels?
Why does the copyright stuff (Imagery (c) 2007) sit right over the top of
the, sometimes white, images so I can't read it? An unreadable copyright
notice is not a copyright notice at all.
Why does my default hot pink background show through?
The <squint> "designed for" </squing> stuff at the bottom is illegible, as
is the <squint> "welcome to..." </squing> stuff at the top. 9 pixels is
not a font size for use on computer screens.
Ah, is that illegible stuff at the top telling me what the site is about?
<Ctrl mouse wheel *several* times>... Ah, I see it just might be. But now
that I have enlarged my font size sufficiently to view this the rest of the
page totally breaks. The font size is not horrendously large and the google
ads, apart from being unreadable because they now escape their box (and are
largely invisible) overlap the rest of your content, including the
navigation bar at the bottom of the screen.
You have a javascript error. Use firebug to find it.
Final impression: Hit the back button and go to somewhere that makes it easy
for me to shop online.
I hope you are doing this for yourself and not a consortium of those shops.
If this page were offered up to me as a solution to my needs I would simply
not pay.
--
Richard.
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