Please review my Lemon Law site

greg artim · #1 (**permalink**) 12-10-2007, 03:30 PM

Please take a look and give any critical comments, Pittsburgh PA Lemon Law Attorney I used Expression Web, which has caused the site to not pass validation. The 'Quick Contact' form on each page is what is causing the problem. Expression Web adds some proprietary markup to the code (it adds this to forms) that I cannot get rid of. Additionally, in Firefox, a small piece of my horizontal menu moves to the top of the header. Any ideas on how to fix? Of course, I would also appreciate critical comments regarding layout and design. Thanks all.

Dubbya · #2 (**permalink**) 12-10-2007, 04:49 PM

Hi Greg,

Nice improvement over your previous effort!

Couple of quick notes:

Whether or not the form causes invalid code, as long as it works, good on ya! Don't let it make you crazy.

With the form in place, your email address is redundant. Though it's probably too late for that already, I'd suggest you remove it asap to prevent spammers from harvesting it.

The <h1> and <h3> text is the same size. I'd consider making the <h1> a little larger and adding some space above it. 10-20 pixels should do nicely.

Additionally, the <blockquote> text is gold and bolded in IE but not in FireFox. Maybe you'll want to tweak that one way or the other.

Take a look at your paragraph text and consider breaking it down into two sentences per. The extra space will make it easier to read, "scannable" text is what you should be aiming for.

The extra shard of graphic in your site title is likely due to a small omission in your stylesheet. You can fix it by disallowing background images in your page title <div>.

This should work:

Code:

<div id="bannerb" style="background-image:none;">

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greg artim · #3 (**permalink**) 12-10-2007, 04:55 PM

Thanks Dubbya, I will remove the email links ASAP. Regarding the blockquote, I couldn't get it to go gold in Firefox, though that's not the biggest deal to me. Still learning! Good thoughts on the other comments as well, I will look to implement those soon.

greg artim · #4 (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 10:15 AM

Please don't try to hi-jack my thread. Please start a new one.

davebarnes · #5 (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 12:02 PM

Greg,

You need to view it using Firefox under Mac OS 10.5.1 as you won't like what you see.
Top menu takes up 2 lines.
Left menu is indented by 200+ pixels.

greg artim · #6 (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 12:42 PM

oof, that doesn't sound good. I will take a look at that. Fortunately, per my stats, that accounts for less than 2% of my traffic. That top menu is giving me problems with the header as well. Maybe I will just make a new one.

Thanks Dave

davebarnes · #7 (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 04:57 PM

OK in FireFox under Windows XP under Vmware under Mac OS 10.5.

Looks bad in Safari. Now, this strange as Firefox and Safari use completely different rendering engines.

greg artim · #8 (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 05:07 PM

I don't have the ability to check anything in Mac as I only have Windows. It looks like Windows accounts for about 96% of my traffic, and Mac about 4%. Still, I would hate to lose a lucrative case because of website/browser problems.

I will change the menu this evening, and I would appreciate if you could take a look at it again tomorrow.

Thanks Dave

flsurfkarma · #9 (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 08:10 PM

download safari for windows.... I use it to check for cross browsing.

PMcCoy · #10 (**permalink**) 12-15-2007, 12:57 PM

Hi Greg,

I am just an average Joe but I thought the site looked very professional. Easy to navigate. Good job.

Pat McCoy
SNHMC - Southern NH Medical Center Warning