Website critique

Oh man! Ad-blocking software has been detected! :'(

This website is run by the community, for the community... and it needs advertisements in order to keep running. Blocking our ads means your killing our stats!
Please disable your ad-block, or become a premium member to hide all advertisements and this notice.

I'd recommend to use CSS in order to change the fonts to something which is more compfrtable to read like Verdana or something..

 

Oh man! Ad-blocking software has been detected! :'(

This website is run by the community, for the community... and it needs advertisements in order to keep running. Blocking our ads means your killing our stats!
Please disable your ad-block, or become a premium member to hide all advertisements and this notice.

Thanks Lonny, I've really fallen behind with this one. I'm also in the process of learning CSS too as you can see here at www.greg.cole.name.

 

Looks good to me Nugget

Only critisism from me is that the pics don't load progessively, you have to wait and stare at a blank box until the entire pic has downloaded. Painful over my 28k dialup. Also, it would be nice if there was some kind of subtle mouse over effect on your navigation icons. Oh and maybe an English translation for us dumb ones?

Otherwise, it is good!!

Pete

PS Stll no metatags at this point in time

 

one way to get the hit counter to stop changing is simply to place the bottom bar in a frame. that way the frame is loaded once then doesnt change. whats happening at the mo is that you seem to have a link for the counter within every page, so every time you click a link, you are loading all the data again, and therefore querying the counter again, which will count as a new hit! placing the bottom bar in a frame (and possibly the header area if it doesnt change, and again with the nav menu) would solve this (you would only be querying once per visit!). and it might also cut down on load times a little too.

just be careful if you do though. frames can look really clumsy if not done right (dont ask me HOW to do them well, i havent done any HTML in years, and even when i did the frames were clumsy, lol).

Fergal

 

Thanks for the feedback guys. As I mentioned to Lonny (above) I've fallen way behind in the improvements for the site. Fergal, I used to have the site done in frames but it was a PITA to work with, so I changed to using tables. As for the counter I think I will remove it, although it does look good going up all the time .

There just seems to be not enough hours in the day, but I think everyone here knows all about this phenomenon.

 

i hear you
my new years resolution is to add 10 hours to the day so that i might find som time for sleep!!

I like the css based site, very nice
and i hate frames too, they are pretty lame from an age before CSS
looking good mate
well done
good luck finding more time lol

 

Does anyone have a decent link or whatever to some web based resource that explains how to use CSS (cascading style sheets) in a simple to understand manner? I want to re-vamp my own personal site, which *does* use frames and I totally agree they are olde fashioned nowadays! Also, search engine robots/spiders have trouble indexing sites that use frames and I think that is one of the reasons most real webmasters steer clear of them.

Pete

 

What are you using for your pages Pete? As you can see I use Dreamweaver hence the DW heavy sites.

Where should I start;

www.macromedia.com article devnet
www.projectseven.com
www.wellstyled.com
www.dwfaq.com

and don't forget www.w3c.org

I hope these help but if not then give me a shout.

Greg