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Old March 11th, 2004, 05:13 PM
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New Site

Let me know what you think of my site:

www.folio-port.co.uk

It allows artists and designers to upload their portfolio.

I'm quite happy with it but would like to hear any criticisms.

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Old March 11th, 2004, 05:56 PM
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Looks pretty clean and easy-to-navigate... good usage of browser window size.

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Old March 11th, 2004, 06:13 PM
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First impressions, it looks good. A little bland but I guess it would improve.

What is this?

Code:
<input name='noChache' type='hidden' value='868078'>
<html>


No HTML before well, <HTML>.

I see you, like many use nocache meta tags. Is there any reason that you prefer that pages takes twice longer to load, your bandwidth increased by x2 or x3?

Nocache headers/meta could be used in RARE situations. To be honest, I have not yet come across one those RARE situations.

DOCTYPE: Always use an appropriate DOCTYPE.

I guess you put charset twice, just in case it is missed.
Code:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="PRAGMA" content="NO-CACHE">
<meta http-equiv="CACHE-CONTROL" content="NO-CACHE">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">


CSS:
Always put down the font generic family, so computers that do not have the font, can find a similar
Code:
font-family: Verdana;
change to:
font-family: verdana,sans-serif;


These are not vaild class names
Code:
.-1 {


background-color: #efeeec;
}
.1 {
}


Frames should be avoided at all times. There are always other ways of getting the same results.

Tables are generally overused in web designed. The more nested tables thee are, the worse the design.

You are using images for element where text would do just fine. It simply increase the size of page and thus loading time, and bandwidth.

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I thought it looked great.
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I think the logo emboss effect is too subtle, doesn't look whole, just too fussy.

The '<---search--->' label is unnesesary and confusing.

If you want the navigation to stand out more, consider making the dark grey bar below it either thinner or weaker, so it doesn't compete visually.

You might consider sticking them together also, so that the maroon navigation sits on top of the dark grey color and is viewed as one whole piece.

cheers!

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