Posted by frederick on 04/17/06 15:44

sorry.no.email@post_NG.com wrote:
> I am keen to benefit from criticism / suggestions etc before
> completing the site, incorporating any suggestions from this group and
> moving it to its final home. Section mostly complete is the Strongs of
> Ulster, Ireland:
>
> http://people.aapt.net.au/~adjlstrong/strongs

Random thoughts and comments, based on the above page:

Nice to see a page that validates straight off the shelf! The W3C CSS
Validator's warnings, mainly the usual about color and background-color
not having been defined, look like they can be ignored, although you
might want to pick through the list just to be thorough:
<http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpeople.aapt.net.au%2F~adjlstrong%2Fstrongs%2F>

Personally, I'd think about your navigation and "chapter" structure.
If this page is anything to go by, each chapter's page will be quite
long, and there doesn't seem to be any navigation available to easily
navigate to or between sections. I'd also make the menu for the
chapters smaller in relation to the left-hand menu, and I'd lose the
centering. There might be an argument for splitting the chapter
sections to a web page each?

I know this has been done to death, but since you appear to be serving
the pages as text/html, is there anything to be gained by coding to
XHTML 1.0 Strict?

The JavaScript seems rather redundant.

Although you have a stylesheet for printing, there should be an
explicit link to seeing the page formatted for printing; at the moment,
a browser's print preview will show something different to what the
user had just seen in their window, which breaks expectations for the
average user. I'd also have the printable version make better use of
the page, as there's a large stretch of unnecessary white space along
the left-hand side. Possibly you might consider suppressing link
formatting in the print version, too, although there's pro's and cons
either way.

I'd use <h1> for "The Strong Family Web Site", and then <h2> for the
chapter name.


Mental note:
It's really about time I put my family history research up on the 'net!
This guy's making me jealous!

--
AGw.

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