Hi,

now my site is valiated and it passed all the test I
would like to have some opinions on my site.

www.shimshon9.com

thanks,
shimshon

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Shimshon 9

The top menu's don't layout nicely in Firefox 1.0PR. From here on I'll use IE6 on WinXP.

The logo could be cleaned up the "News and Views from Israel" is quite difficult to read.

At 800x600 the right column pushes into the white content column.

For my personal taste the site has too much blue on it and I find it hard on my eyes, I'd like to see it broken up a bit.

At the bottom of your pages you have "sent articles" I think you meant "Send Article".

On some of your pages, e.g. About, the left menu disappears, but the right stays there not sure this is what you meant to happen.

The news stories are laid out clear enough.

Hope that's some use and sorry to focus on the negatives.

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I have to agree about the color.... I realize why you used that shade of blue, but it is not easy on the eye.... you should seriously consider using a darker shade.
From you "about Us" page, the link to the site map does not work

your navigation is inconsistent... you should have the same navigation on every page in your site.. whether it be the top navigation or the left or the bottom.... your visitor should be able to get to any page from any page.

Also, it is too large to view completely in 800x600... while many people are now viewing in 1024x768, there are still a great many viewing in 800x600... if they cannot read your entire site at that resolution, you've lost them.

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Hi,

The articles should be by-lined. That is if you're going to call them articles. If they're just short news pieces, you can call them 'Recent News' or something similar. But... 'Articles' is such a formal expression it needs the author's name, IMHO.

You should be more careful with layout and spacing. It really makes a difference in terms of readibility and appearance. Some people might like the rough look, I don't.

Why do you put non-breaking spaces ahead of the first letter of each story in the main column? The blue headlines show where the story starts, so the indents aren't really necessary and look a bit out of place.

Cheers,
Matt

Thanks for your comments.

What kind of color whould you suggest?

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