Posted by rf on 11/26/07 10:05

"Mika" <anon@anon.com> wrote in message
news:%vv2j.53376$c_1.5496@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> "rf" <rf@invalid.com> wrote in message
> news:F8o2j.17044$CN4.4806@news-server.bigpond.net.au...

I thought you had over and outed :-)

>> 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.
>
> One person in Australia has a load time of 6 seconds over a 0.5Mb/s
> connection, and you have 1.21 minutes. Our site is designed and focused
> for UK users who don't have this inconsistency, however if there is a way
> to reduce international server delays to our UK server please do let us
> know.

Perhaps dorayme's IPS was doing some caching. Or perhaps she had looked at
your site before and most of your images came from her cache. Who knows. For
me it was that long. Even if I simply press the refresh button I wait for
eighteen seconds.

>> I didn't bother to go any further.
>>
>> Nowhere on the page is there any indication of what the site is actually
>> about.
>
> That is because you came in via a thread that directed you past the home
> page.

Where in your original post did you mention that this was not the "home"
page?

I saw a URL containing a directory (I assumed this was a "test" thing) and a
file called index.shtml. I feel I am justified in thinking that may have
been a "home" page. And, BTW, why shtml? There is nothing on this page that
needs security.

> Try clicking the logo at the top and you'll find the home page, which

Hmmm. Bloody snowflakes. How last century. And links that leaps all over the
page when mouseovered. Egad, it just gets worser and worser.

"As bigged up by"? He he.

> explains incredibly simply what the site is about.

I am telling you that it does not. I am still as much in the dark as to what
the site is about as before.

> We did NOT ask for critiques

Welcome to usenet.

> from people in the wrong country

So because I live in Australia I am in the "wrong" country and am therefore
prohibited from your "virtual shopping"? How arrogant. I wonder if the shops
you represent know that you discriminate against shoppers from other
countries?

> landing at the wrong page.

The page you told me to land on.

>> 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.
>
> The site is designed for a mouse and would be unusable without. Sorry but
> we are catering for a majority here as it is very specific.

Sorry but if you pulled that sort of stunt in Australia your site would be
against the disabilities leglislation. That is, your site would be illegal
and I could not use a mouse then I could sue you for damages because I
cannot use your site to buy something.

>> In any case "clicking here" simply jumps the page down a couple of
>> inches. Very informative, not.

> It centres the streetscape div in the page for the best view, as testing
> showed people did not.
>

Yes, I know. I thought it would do something much better and more inovative
than that. But that's just me, expecting a link to do more than scroll the
page an inch or so.

>> 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
>
> Where is the usage guide?... It's the very obvious icon of a guidebook and
> help symbol on it. We will consider renaming the tooltip to 'See blue
> book with yellow help symbol above.

This is not obvious at all. Not at all. And even after you have told me what
it is the title (tooltip) for that book icon is "popup usage guide". I abhor
popups so why would I click on a "popup usage guide"?

Informative, not.

>> What on earth does the <title> mean? <view source> Ah, keyword stuffing.
>> The
>
> At the advice of someone here, we amended the title to 60 characters. Our
> Google hits fell through the floor. We put it back as this is a hobby to
> make money, not please programmers who are the only ones that would even
> know what <title> is.

Nothing pisses me off more than searching for stuff only to find that I
cannot even find the stuff I searched for on a page that has been "found".
Immediate back button.

>> Why is the font specified as 14 pixels?
>
> Because that is a valid option in HTML, and enlarging the font causes
> issues with a precisely designed page.

You have a lot to learn about page design then. The font size is *my*
choice, not yours. If *my* choice of font breaks your design then your
design is broken.

>> Why does my default hot pink background show through?
>
> Because you chose it. We tried changing the body tag to FFFFFF but it
> caused CSS validation errors that some text was the same colour as the
> background. If you want hot pink, have hot pink!

So, *you* want to choose my font size but you insist that I supply the
background?.

> I think we can safely say the site is not designed or aimed at you

Correct. My idea of a link farm is a list of links, not an intentionally
hard to use grossly over bloated thing such as this. Just my opinion of
course :-)

> The question was "Does it work in Firefox". Thanks for confirming it
> does.

For whatever definition of "work" you are using. For me it does not work,
not in any browser. But I think I told you that last year as well :-)

--
Richard.

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