I have had this site up and running for just two days and I am currently trying to get feedback on it. I found the tips on this forum quite useful and I am in the process of trying to use the online tools suggested to check my site. In the mean time I would be grateful for all constructive comments and criticisms.

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That "Explain That" background is annoyingly busy and distracting. In fact, it's almost as annoying as the navigation jumping around when I scroll.

You'd get a lot more credibility with the Dev crowd if your code was well written and validating.

Ditch this section-- "This site has been designed to be viewed on screens offering a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels or better. Nevertheless, we have gone to great lengths to ensure that pages on this site are useable at a screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels. On the odd occasion this has been at the expense of putting in unnecessary spaces in preformatted, <pre>...</pre>, text in order to ensure that it wraps." Nobody wants to read why the page might not look wonderful for them.

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I hate the background. Sorry. BJ is correct. On this page, en/css/syntax.shtml, there is dead space at the bottom that goes on forever.

I have to keep going back to menu/css.shtml to get the menu of the rest of the CSS topics. Not good.

I do not like that is no header with some graphics etc. But that might be me and what I sell on my site. You need to punch it up a little.

Good luck,

Michael

Nice examples.

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Yes, the background has to go ... it's not just the late hour; I couldn't read it in the morning with a copy of tea ...

And how do you get back to the home page?

I am sure the concept is good; execution needs work.

Best wishes with it.

MJ

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Thank you, all!

Once you visit your test page, which opens in a new browser window, attempting to return puts you in "frame hell" -- the right frame remains and the link you click on fits into the left frame. It looks pretty bad when you fit your entire frameset into the left frame. You should not use the site content as is for the left window. Since the test page leaves your original browser window open, you shouldn't allow this. Alter the left frame content, or put in a "close window" link.

Well I have just tested it out and the main problem i have found is that of missing files where a link within your site points to them, broken links appears to be around 19% of the files within your website, our webspider found the following bad links

Statistics

Category Total Percent Internal External
All links 226 - 201 25
Internal 201 89 %
External 25 11 %
Good links 179 79 % 156 23
Broken links 43 19 % 43 -
404 Not found 43 100 % 43 -
Redirected links 26 12 % 23 3
Non-verified links 1 < 1 % - 1
Aborted links 1 < 1 % - 1
Unsupported links 3 1 %
Pages processed 137 61 %
Old pages - -
New pages - -
Small pages 3 2 %
Deep pages - -
Protocols
http 226 100 % 201 25
Found in HTML tags
<A> 147 65 % 123 24
<IMG> 19 8 % 19 -
<LINK> 5 2 % 5 -
<AREA> 2 1 % 2 -
<FRAME> 2 1 % 2 -
<SCRIPT> 5 2 % 5 -
<OPTION> 42 19 % 42 -
<FORM> 3 1 % 2 1
Filename extensions 185 82 % 176 9
[no extension] 41 18 % 25 16
asp 1 < 1 % - 1
aspx 1 < 1 % - 1
css 4 2 % 4 -
html 4 2 % - 4
ico 1 < 1 % 1 -
pdf 2 1 % 1 1
php 3 1 % 2 1
shtml 156 69 % 155 1
zip 13 6 % 13 -
File groups
Web documents 166 73 % 159 7
- Static web documents 160 71 % 155 5
- Dynamic web documents 2 1 % - 2
- Cascading style sheets (CSS) 4 2 % 4 -
- Text files - - - -
Web graphics 1 < 1 % 1 -
- Macromedia Flash - - - -
Archive files 13 6 % 13 -
Sounds & music - - - -
Videos

I hope this helps you out, what you need to do is run a link checking program around your website and then it will have some really good content..

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