[thelist] site check please

David Dorward david at us-lot.org
Tue May 21 05:16:00 CDT 2002


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On Mon, 20 May 2002 18:31:18 -0400
"Kathlyn Tilton" <kathlyn at three.nu> wrote:

> Hi evolters!
>
> I would really appreciate it if you could take the time to do a site
> check on a site about abandoned buildings that I have been working on.
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> http://www.thederelictsensation.com/index.htm

Alt text! Alt text! Alt text!

   [projects1.gif] [projects2.gif] [projects3.gif] [projects4.gif]
   [projects5.gif] [projects6.gif] [projects7.gif] [projects8.gif]
   [projects9.gif] [projects10.gif]


Errors:  http://urlizer.com/00/608/

Medium grey on black isn't the most readable of colours.

"Click here to contribute your ideas in our Forum" - what if I don't
use a mouse, how do I click? The appearance of the link should make it
clear that it is a link, so you can shorten that to "Contribute your
ideas in our Forum".

The motion in the lower left kept dragging my eye away from the text,
this made it rather hard to keep track of my place.

You have one block of orange text that is a link, then you have
andother block of orange text (view projects) that isn't a link. If
you use colour to indicate something then BE CONSISTANT.

You have an exciting looking "+" sign in the lower left, clicking on
it turns it in to a "-" on an orange background, and nothing else (at
least on my system). This is very exciting, but perhaps you should add
some more checks so that if it doesn't do what it is supposed to do it
actually does something?

Going to an inner page I see:

<td class="txtorangelightbold">Phase One</td>

I suspect this would be more apripriately achieve with:

<td class="txtorangelightbold"><h1>Phase One</h1></td>

after all it reads like a heading to me.

(Naturally you can use css to set a font size et al that suits you for
<h1>)

The white text on light grey background for your form buttons (on the
contact page) is utterly unreadably. If you set a colour for anything
with CSS then set a sensible background colour at the same time (the
CSS validator should spit out lots of warning at you if you try to
skip this). Ah! I see the problem! You have set a background colour,
you just forgot the "#" sign at the front of your hex code. My browser
doesn't assuming a # if one is missing so it renders it with different
colours. Make sure you have a "#" sign if you use hex colour codes.

You aren't providing a list of fonts to fall back on if the user
doesn't have Verdana installed (NB: I installed in _manually_ on my
system, other people don't).
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#font-family-prop

That's everything that strikes me as obviously wrong.

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