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Posted by Montgomery BOO...URNS on 08/15/05 05:55
"Andy Dingley" <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:37:18 -0700, "Montgomery BOO...URNS"
> <solitude439@rcn.com> wrote:
>
>>http://www.shobersmachine.com
>>
>>First off, I'm sure I'll get some criticism as to what's wrong with this
>>website and that's what I'm looking for.
>
> Looks OK, but technically the coding sucks.
>
> As a rough guess, you fired up some design package like Frontpig or
> Dreamweaver, pressed a few buttons and it spat this mess out. The code
> is ugly - no human would write this mess,.
>
> First off, it's all based on absolute positioning and pixel sizes. This
> is bad - the web is about content, not desktop publishing.
>
> Secondly, there's an ugly mixture of layout tables and CSS. Do one or
> the other, don't mix them like this - that's throwing away all the
> advantages and getting twice the drawbacks.
>
> Thirdly there's a lot of graphic images involved in building this page,
> yet it's visually pretty boring and isn't a graphically intensive
> design. It's dog slow to load, which I think is because there are
> repeated identical images to draw the background, each of which is too
> big anyway.
>
> Fourthly you should look at accessibility. The nav menus could barely
> work harder to more inaccessible.
>
> Fifth I think the server config is broken. There's something funny about
> the redirects it serves and it confuses the hell out of
> http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
>
>
> Go read a decent text on accessibility - try Joe Clark's "Building
> Accessible Websites", which you can read on-line for free at
> http://www.joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/
>
>
> Any half-decent web geek could fix this site up in no time.
Actually the program used to develop this page was, of all
programs --cough--, QuarkXpress. This is, by far, THE WORST program for
WYSIWYG web design and layout. I only used it because I'm very familiar
print-wise the power that Quark has. As for designing web pages - it's
terrible!! In fact, I have shamed the web coding community for using this
program for such a task and I should have my hands smacked 10 times with a
wooden ruler. This is the reason for the mulititudes of absolute
positioning and pixel resizing that's so unhuman it's not funny!
Thanks for the tip on the eBook. I will read it thoroughly!
Thanks again!
D
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