I would appreciate any comments or advice you may have about my pages at: www.internationalmark.co.uk

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This site looks like the ones we've had around 15 years ago. Suggestion, look around, browse the web. We're in the next century now.

- Dump background image
- Use CSS
- Be consistent
- Have a theme throughout
- Don't use links inline or the user will click out from you page before finishing reading a sentence

There’s just too much that could be improved.

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"Web design is the area saturated by amateurs that confuse software capabilities with their own talent." ~~ me

Hiya,


there are a few good web templates out there free of charge.. you will find a lot of interesting ones to use.. although i think with the templates you need to apply alot of changes to optimise them for search engines ;)

also there are good icons and images to use free of charge which will cheer up your pages :P

good luck and come back for more reviews - we are happy to help.

one of the sites i like is: http://www.freewebtemplates.com/

for CSS tutorials:
http://www.htmlcenter.com
http://www.htmldog.com


with CSS you can add a bit of flavour to your text and make it easier to read - for example Verdana at font size 10 looks really good on the web.

thanks,
T

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[quote="lovemark"]I would appreciate any comments or advice you may have about my pages/quote]

Looks like the first website I built back in 1998! :) TBH it's hard to say anything good about it as it looks dreadful. I am guessing that this is your first website too so the best thing to say is great try but you now need to step it up a level. Don't be put off by the harsh remarks. This is a forum chock full of pro webmasters and they'll be critical of a site built like this. Seeing as you've posted looking for criticism then take the comments and learn from them.

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by the way - always make your pages consistent. Don't centralise the heading.. also all pages should have the same background colour..white is the best one and highly recommended...

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Thank you for your opinion. Obviously you can see that I am not a professional web designer.
Having looked into what you have said, I would like to make the following points:
Dump the background image: Do you mean the twain.jpg on my first page? Do you think it would look better with a colour background? I thought it gave the page a warm feeling without making it difficult to read the text.
Use CSS: I didn’t know anything about CSS, so I read about it on the Internet and if I am not mistaken it is a source code like html, but easier to write. If the result is the same, as I already have the html code in place, changing it would seem to be unnecessary hard work.
Be consistent: I think you mean that all my pages should have the same background. My site can be divided into 3 sections: 1- my first page which introduces the site with links. 2- my interactive pages which all have the same style, but the colours differ according to the subject. 3- My football pages which have the same style but the men’s ranking and women’s ranking have a different colour to make it easy for viewers to know what page they are on.
Have theme throughout: I suppose I could have several sites, but that would cost much more and I am not a pro. I want to satisfy a wider audience. This is why I have football, jokes, quotes etc.
Don’t use links inline …: I don’t know exactly what an inline link is. What kind of link should I use and how would it look different?
Hopefully you will comment on the points I have made. Thanks!

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