[thelist] site check

[Maximillian Von Schwanekamp]

thelist at punterspower.co.uk wrote:

>If you have the time could you give this site a quick test drive and let
>me know what your views are, Browser and Design issues mainly? Any other
>issues you think worthy of discussion.
>
>www.milords.com
>
Andrew,

Dunno what's up with that nav bar - apparently a Dreamweaver spawn, so I 
would expect it to line up.  Tim B already posted a screenshot.  Rather 
than using old-style image rollovers imitating a list of menu options, 
how about a nice unordered list styled as menu options?[0]

In IE 6 Win XP, the logo at top-left has a gap between "Milords" and 
"International."   It does not appear to be part of the design, since 
it's 1-2px closer to page top than the underline below the "Welcome 
to..." header.

Speaking of that Welcome header.  Nix it, or at least shrink it.  Why 
devote so much real estate to a useless phrase that has little or no 
marketing power, and certainly does not give any site visitors the warm 
fuzzies.  If you must include a graphic al text header, try adding valid 
alt text.  The same goes for other content images on the page (e.g. the 
logo, the "read on" widgets, etc).

Run HTML Tidy (there's a DW Extension for it [1] ) to remove cruft like 
this line from your markup:
<><font face="arial," size="1">&nbsp; <font color="#6cc0c0">
Friday</font><font color="#6cc0c0">,</font><font 
color="#6cc0c0">August&nbsp;
</font><font color="#6cc0c0">6 , 2004</font></font>

Dreamweaver is a powerful tool, but you really have to watch that it 
doesn't get out of control.  Read one of Molly Holzschlag (sp?)'s 
books/articles [2].

[0] http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/
[1] http://url123.com/csk2p  (goes to MM exchange)
[2] http://www.dmxzone.com/showDetail.asp?TypeId=33&NewsId=6477

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