Posted by static on 08/21/05 17:41

"Stan McCann" <me@stanmccann.us> wrote in message
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> "static" <static@aol.com> wrote in
> news:%gQNe.34477$EX.11399@twister.nyroc.rr.com:
>
> > Go ahead rip me apart or be nice.
> >
> > http://www.deanscream.com
> >
> > I started designing by hand in notepad than went to an easy jobber.
> > Web page maker. Any snipes are fine and appreciated. TIA
>
> A little of both ripping and being nice. Color scheme, look and feel;
> I think is good. You should have stuck with notepad and learned HTML
> instead of depending on a WYSINWYG generator. Although, it uses
> styling (good), all of the styling is in-line (which is bad) causing
> poor load times even on a fast connection.
>
> Something that many are going to get you on is the horizontal scolling.
> That is not a good thing, most people don't like scrolling left/right;
> it makes it hard to read things. Your quotes page has some horrible
> markeup that follows no kind of standard at all. Is that entire page
> really a heading?
>
> http://www.w3schools.com/ has some good tutorials. Go back to using a
> text editor and learn how to use HTML 4.01. Many books and tutorials
> you find will suggest/recommend using a Transitional DTD. The HTML
> 4.01 recommendation being issued in 1998 convices me that any
> "transition" time is long past. IMO, all new documents should use a
> strict doctype and follow the recommendation as closely as possible. I
> leave that "closely as possible" there for a bit of leeway; it probably
> wouldn't take a lot of convincing for a good reason to not follow the
> recommendation but you should know that you are doing it and why.
>
> --
> Stan McCann "Uncle Pirate" http://stanmccann.us/pirate.html
> Webmaster/Computer Center Manager, NMSU at Alamogordo
> http://alamo.nmsu.edu/ There are 10 kinds of people.
> Those that understand binary and those that don't.

Thanks to all for the suggestions.

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