update on my site

timmothy · 30 Jan 2010 at 21:18

Well i took in all the pointers you guys gave me last time and I finished my site. Forgot to upload it onto here and show you, still not handed it in yet so if you have anymore suggestions please let me know.

Also let me know what you think of the site overall and if you think its easy and quick to use.

http://www.ichunes.co.uk/home.html

Thanks again to those that helped last time.

xb8browney · 30 Jan 2010 at 21:22

Error on the contact e-mail.

timmothy · 30 Jan 2010 at 21:32

xb8browney said:
Error on the contact e-mail.

Forgot to say this is a college project not my business!

ya cheers for that, did not want to do it properly as i dont want spam bots contacting me, not learnt how to overcome that yet so just made the link so it brings up an error before going to the email..

timmothy · 31 Jan 2010 at 18:45

please someone give me some feedback, i am handing it in for first atempt tomorrow and would really like some other opinions

Mr^B · 31 Jan 2010 at 19:37

1. Pick a nice sans-serif font and stick with it. There are too many fonts at too many different sizes and makes it visually unappealing.

2. The header is too big, you don't really need a massive "Welcome to the Pack-It Group" there, just the logo.

3. There's some odd things at the edge of images, shading not matching up, and a single pixel horizontal stripe at the top of the left/right bars.

4. Staff button "Staff" text isn't centered properly.

5. Staff images are all different sizes and crops

It just looks a bit "dis-jointed", each page looks like it was designed by someone different, you use different fonts, weights and sizes for each page.

That Guy · 31 Jan 2010 at 20:31

The home title is just called "Home" where really you should change to the company name for example have the following page titles:

Pack-IT Group - Home

Pack-IT Group - Services

Pack-IT Group - Staff

Pack-IT Group - Offers

Pack-IT Group - Contact Us

Hope this helps

timmothy · 31 Jan 2010 at 22:48

thanks guys, thats the kind of thing i was after,
with regards to the font i was told to use ariel rather than any other type :confused:

That Guy · 31 Jan 2010 at 23:09

As long as you use browser safe fonts you should be ok. The fonts listed below should be available on all Windows and Mac Machines (probably linux too)

Arial
Book Antiqua/Palatino
Comic Sans
Courier New
Georgia
Lucida Console
Tahoma
Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Verdana

This means the website should look the same on any computer.

That Guy · 31 Jan 2010 at 23:12

Just to extend a little more if you used this in you style sheet:

font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif;

It will use Verdana but if the user doesn't have it installed I'll settle for Arial - and if they don't have Arial installed I'll let the browser pick the closest thing to an "arial-type" font, that is, sans-serif.

timmothy · 31 Jan 2010 at 23:18

That Guy said:
Just to extend a little more if you used this in you style sheet:

font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif;

It will use Verdana but if the user doesn't have it installed I'll settle for Arial - and if they don't have Arial installed I'll let the browser pick the closest thing to an "arial-type" font, that is, sans-serif.

thanks for the info that guy, i am aware of this, but surely you have to stick with a certain family?

That Guy · 1 Feb 2010 at 01:11

No not as far as I know. You can use any combination you like.

timmothy · 1 Feb 2010 at 22:30

Well we did not hand in today but will be doing it tomorrow. Just want to thank you guys, I have made all the changes you suggested and a few of my own and feel the site is better.
So thanks guys and here is the final product-
http://www.ichunes.co.uk/home.html

That Guy · 1 Feb 2010 at 22:37

The XHTML button has an image border and the CSS one does not.

timmothy · 1 Feb 2010 at 22:41

That Guy said:
The XHTML button has an image border and the CSS one does not.

was hoping no one would notice

, i cant figure out how to ruddy well remove it :confused:

That Guy · 1 Feb 2010 at 22:50

Change:

Code:

<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10-blue" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional" width="88" height="31">

to this:

Code:

<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10-blue" border="0" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional" width="88" height="31">

Should Work

decmatt · 2 Feb 2010 at 01:13

What's your marking criteria for this? Is it just develop a website or do you have to take web usability into account?