Please review www.housewaresandbeyond.com

samy · #1 (**permalink**) 06-09-2005, 04:19 PM

Hi all,
I've worked as a programmer for a company for years now, but this is the first time I did a web site all on my own, both the programming and the designing. I'm especially wondering how my design is, I was hesitating a lot about the colors.
So please if anyone can be so kind and give me their opinion on it, I would greatly appreciate it.

http://www.housewaresandbeyond.com

any comments are welcomed.

premtech · #2 (**permalink**) 06-09-2005, 04:43 PM

The layout is quite acceptable in that it is easy to navigate and for an online store the pages are not filled with affiliate links or promotional crap....KISS is the way to go with site design and layout I believe. Maybe you could try adding a little content to the front page, I like to have the "About Us' page content (or some of it)on the front page. This usually is keword rich content and it tells people straight away what you are all about. Also I did notice that when I tried to validate you site at http://validator.w3.org it came up with 165 errors. The first thing you need to do is to add a DOCTYPE Declaration. I don't want to go into the details here but some good sites to visit are:
http://www.sitepoint.com
http://www.w3schools.com
Here is the link also to the W3C Validator. I have found by validating your sites is a great way to learn to code especially XHTML and CSS
http://validator.w3.org/

cheers

N30 · #3 (**permalink**) 06-10-2005, 08:52 AM

Personally I would dump the adaptive width & set the main table width.

Unfortunately the site doesn't fit into 800x600 without scroll bars. This isn't the big deal it used to be but there are still a fair few people using that resolution.

Otherwise it's a good starting point to make something wonderful ;)

samy · #4 (**permalink**) 06-10-2005, 12:33 PM

Warren: You're right, I do have to add something to the home page, it's very empty. I was thinking to put up there featured products, or something like that. About the doctype, I don't know what to write, because I don't really know what version of HTML I use, since I don't know the difference between them. I just code standard html. I wonder how important this is? perhaps I'll have to do some research when I have time (and patience…)

N30: About the adaptive width, I thought it was nice to have the page within a designed frame. I guess you don't like it, and that's ok, that's what I wanted to hear (other peoples opinions). And you're right about the 800x600 resolution. I'll be putting some thought into that.

Again thank you very much, for being so kind, and reviewing my site, I really appreciate it.

premtech · #5 (**permalink**) 06-11-2005, 12:05 AM

slot this into your code as your html looks like html 4.01 transitional. It the safest bet.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>

<head><title>Housewares And Beyond</title>

<meta name="Description" content="your description">

<script language="JavaScript" src="source code" type="text/javascript"></script>

<link href="csslink" rel="stylesheet">
		
</head>

cheers
Warren

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