[thelist] Site Review
Burhan Khalid
burhankh at hotmail.com
Wed Dec 5 10:42:16 CST 2001
Hey Peter :
I'm on a machine with Windows 98, running IE 5.5 at 800 by 600.
General Observations :
I like the navigation scheme of your site. The links are clearly visible,
and easy to recognise. However, I would suggest that giving your sublinks
(the ones that appear when you click on a main link), an onhover action. I
had to guess to find out if they were links or not. Perhaps making them bold
would be the ticket? Also, I like the site map, but I think it would be
better if you were to provide a separate page for it. Since it floods the
bottom of your screen, there is un-necessary scrolling. I would suggest
either a separate page, or a more shrinked down version. Perhaps a text
based link bar at the bottom? I also like your picture bar, but the link at
the bottom (more pictures), appeared off margin (too much to the right) in
my screen. Also, browsing the site I found that randomly Colombia wasn't
capitalized. Might want to look into that. In addition, not all article
headings are capitalized, and some contain periods at the end. I am guessing
these are coming from a database, might want to check those table entries.
Specifics (page by page breakdown) :
Index :
Typo? : highschool
Spelling : high school
Its United Arab Emirates, not United Emirates as you state.
Also, you forgot the b in being (same article)
News (Archives) :
After this entry :
2000-08-26 Neighbors Worry About Colombian Aid - NY Times
The dates are displayed as zeros, and the list repeats itself.
Travel (things to do) :
Your bicycle article is repeated twice :
bicycle [snip]
Bicycling is maybe the best way to travel, and you can do it in [snip]
Bicycle through Colombia [snip]
Bicycling is maybe the best way to travel, and you can do it in [snip]
Travel (travel stories) :
Typos : kindof
Spelling : kind of
Typos : tripreport
Spelling : trip report
life in columbia (working, teaching English) :
These are some tips that worked for me.< <-- ?
life in columbia (culture and daily life section) :
test Betty La Fea is a wildly popular telenovela (tv soap) [snip]
Should that test be there?
Typo? : highschool
Correct : high school
Problem on your "yourpage" :
[snip] it\'s easy and free, [snip]
On your life in columbia page (visa's section) :
Typo? : burocrats
Correct Spelling : bureaucrats
Typo? : thouroughly
Correct Spelling : thoroughly
Typo? : kindof
Correct : kind of
That's about it for now. I'm sure others might find things that I might have
missed.
Hope this helps,
Burhan Khalid
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