[thelist] Site advice please

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Sun Dec 22 23:01:08 CST 2002


> From: Daniel Fascia <danfascia at totalise.co.uk>
[...]
> www.ecexecutivesearch.com

others have already said that validating the page would help you find
a few errors... i'm *not* looking under the hood at the source
code... mostly because IE is acting up and also because a validator
can tell you most of what i'd say...

on the home page, the first things i rolled over to see if they were
links or would do anything were the two purple boxen...

i still think 'home page' is two words, but that's just me...

on the 'about us' page, the red and green boxes, while certainly
contrasting, imply one is a "stop" and the other a "go"... dunno if
those are the best colors to use given their implied meaning...

the 'for clients' link (as well as the 'for candidate' link) has the
word 'for' receding too much... didn't see it at first... made me
expect different pages than i got...

on the 'for clients' page, the all-caps bold closing statement seems
a bit out of place on the page...

on the 'for clients' page, the red quote image needs appropriate alt
text, otherwise its useless to some...

on the 'contact us' page, the form fields recede too much for me --
especially given that you can't apply that style to the select
element for IE...

form field label text is too small...

form field labels need <label> elements...

send and clear buttons should line up with the edge of the form
fields, otherwise they're not in my visual flow... and while the
colors do convey appropriate meaning here, it causes them to be
visually disconnected from the flow...

is the in-page anchor to 'traditional methods' necessary on a page
this short? it hardly jumped for me, and i still had to search
visually...

in general...

the navigation elements should indicate which page i am currently
viewing... i didn't see the page name below the nav (my ad-banner
brain filter blocked it) and the title image recedes too much for me
to see it when scanning...

the text justification causes some unfortunate spacing...

you should put widths/heights in your image tags... prevents text
dancing as the images come down...

your dashed underlines on the hyperlinks don't work for me... in
fact, i expect them to indicate <abbr> values, thanks to the fact
that that's how i use them...

your hyperlink styles are weird -- dark red underline, red text, but
on hover, it's dark red text, red underline... it's a visual
disconnect that made me roll over them a few times before clicking...

the alt on 'automotive specialists' in the head doesn't match the
image... seems odd...

i like the images, but the one on the home page doesn't match the
other photos in style (contrast, angle, subject matter)...

not sure i like the alt attributes on those inline images...

any reason it's not liquid?

why the text version? ideally these pages should do double-duty since
they aren't very complex...

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