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Wildchild22 · Jul 3, 2005

hey
tomorrow i am hoping to apply for the job as a web designer for a local web design firm. One of the things they request is that you have a website that they can see, to show your ability.... one of the only "professional" look websites i have is

www.ballamness.info/site2

could you please have a look and give me some comments on criticism and tips on how i could improve it.
everything from Spelling, Grammar, and typo mistakes, to bigger development errors.

thanks in advance
Wildchild

Wildchild22 · Jul 3, 2005

The shoutbox is already in an iframe, so its only actually the iframe refreshing..... but because its within the page, it shows as if the page is

also the shoutbox is one of the main things that shows my coding ability, so im not sure i should get rid of it

in addition, what do you mean by organising?

PoorDoggie · Jul 3, 2005

what are you trying to show this web design company? Your coding skills or your web design skills?

is the shoutbox page the one that makes the popup?

Wildchild22 · Jul 3, 2005

shoutbox and affiliates are the ones that cause popups on all the pages, and then the guestbook aswell

and web design capability

PoorDoggie · Jul 3, 2005

well then, the coding probably dosen't matter, although maybe you should keep one aspect.

Also, you said you code in ASP. It would be better to learn php as you more people will be hosted on php able servers than ASP.

Wildchild22 · Jul 3, 2005

yeah i know, but at the mo its a little difficult for me to learn mySQL and convert everything when i only have a few days

also, its always useful to be able to show that you can code.... its going to put me to an advantage over anybody who can't

PoorDoggie · Jul 3, 2005

Wildchild22 said:
yeah i know, but at the mo its a little difficult for me to learn mySQL and convert everything when i only have a few days

also, its always useful to be able to show that you can code.... its going to put me to an advantage over anybody who can't

Thats a good point acctually!

Well, then there is nothing really I can do. You need to find yourself an ASP server that dosen't have popup ads, and take away some of the gray. Make it a softer color, that gray is too dark, and too dull!

Good Luck by the way!

Tom

Wildchild22 · Jul 3, 2005

thanks for your help

before you do go, do you know how i can stop the text being so close to the edge when i remove the DIV frame for the content?

PoorDoggie · Jul 3, 2005

you could use css margins :p

Code:

left-margin: #px;
right-margin: #px;

(nb: if that dosen't work please look up on a site like www.w3schools.com or something. I have used margins only once before, but they were effective!

)

Wildchild22 · Jul 3, 2005

nvm, i think i sorted it

PoorDoggie · Jul 3, 2005

yep... looks good

please put this into the <body> tag of your page:

Code:

<body style="font-face: Arial, Tahoma, Serif">

It will make the text nicer. Times New Roman is the worst web font ever! lol

Wildchild22 · Jul 3, 2005

it didn't work, as a quick fix i used

<font face="Arial, Tahoma, Serif">

at the beginning of the page

PoorDoggie · Jul 3, 2005

I can't imagine why that wouldn't work, but Oh well - you seem to have sorted it now!

well done, it looks better now!

Wildchild22 · Jul 3, 2005

im off to bed now, if you (or anyone) have any more suggestions, leave them here and i'll take a look tomorrow

thanks again for your help
WildChild

PoorDoggie · Jul 3, 2005

See you later!

Bye

bhyraj · Jul 4, 2005

Very clean and professional look. best layout.

carlb007 · Jul 4, 2005

bhyraj....u post the same message to every single post!

Anyway the website...hmm. i havent read all the posts as theres too many and im feeling a bit lazy but will post a few things that i have noticed.

Firstly you thank someone for helping with your SQL and ASP....so the 2 things that require the most skill ur basically admitting you didnt do? seems a bad way to start on your front page!

secondly the images of your 'mates' section. It looks to me (from the file sizes) your using the same image for your thumb nail and the larger image when you click it. Wasted bandwidth and a poor way to do it. the image is half the size, so get it in photoshop, shrink it and save it as a dif file name that then links to the large image with a different name. that way you reduce loading times on that page with all the thumbs and show your knowledable about refining images and saving bandwidth (which IS still important even today with broadband).
Your portfolio page in my opinion is surely gonna be the most important. showing your past work etc.
Whatever youve got or done in the past STICK IT ON THERE!
prove to them you havent just rattled the website off in 2hours b4 the interview and that you have a serious interest in computing and webdesign. No matter how small anything is better than that blank page.

id brighten up the design also. Make more of the green theme your using in the main body of your pages. perhaps green borders to your images, or green bold text.

FINALLY....thanks with the 'asp' .....yet your pages are PHP?

ne way good luck with it, hope you get your job.

Carl

Wildchild22 · Jul 4, 2005

hey, i may edit or remove the bit where i give credit to stace..... she didn't do any of the coding for the site, but she did help me start learning ASP.

I'll do the images now, at the time i was just being lazy and trying to get something thrown together, i agree with your point though, and i'll do so now

Yeah i think the portfolio page is going to be one of the most important, im planning what to put on it at the moment.... most of the things i have made are graphics, i need to try and find some programs, scripts, websites, anything else i've made lol

And yeah, i'll try and get the turqoise colour into the main page a bit more, possibly for headings etc

thanks for your help

oh yeah also, the ASP stuff is hosted on another server, the shoutbox, guestbook, affiliates (because i can control the affiliates from the admin cp to make it easier to add/delete etc), are all ASP and linked to the site using Iframes. I used ASP because its a language im better at than PHP/MySQL, and at the time it seemed appropriate to make the things using ASP.
The main site pages are PHP because i have used <?PHP Include 'includes/file.inc'; ?> within the page, so that i can easily edit the site template without having to edit every page of the site, making it much easier for me to update the site.

music_man · Jul 4, 2005

Hi

Your site is not valid HTML. Look at the footer of the page where you have

Code:

</body></html>


</body>
</html>

Try to make your site valid XHTML and that would probably impress them more.

Put a title for all your links and use lowercase for your coding. Having absolute widths and heights does not allow much in the way of flexibility. If you are wanting a set width and height, I suggest having an overall table where you set the width and then all the sub parts use percentages.

Definately use more CSS for styling your text.

If the forum is there to impress then I recommend against it in its present state - i.e. very few posts.

The page http://www.ballamness.info/site2/links.php and the page http://www.ballamness.info/site2/mates.php aligns differently - there again you should have a flexible and solid layout. Maybe you could add some padding to the navigation bar? .nav {padding:5px;} or something.

I try and avoid frames if possible and the page http://www.ballamness.info/site2/mates.php I think does not need a frame.

Under construction pages are not a good look, especially for a portfolio!

Why do you have a shoutbox and a guestbook? There is a link under each of those. Are they remotely hosted free scripts?

The title of each page does not change - like "Ballams Site" is on the pages rather than "About me" or somesuch.

Your images should have the alt attribute and your shoutbox should have minimal scroll bars - especially not a side scrollbar.

Admin is a broken link and that does not look good.

Perhaps you could do some reading about css styled websites and table structuring.

On an upside you have lots of really good content

Wildchild22 · Jul 4, 2005

Yeah i know i do need to use more CSS.

The forum is there because the site is actually supposed to be my personal site, i had never got round to completing it and opening it, the forum is one of the last things i was going to finish and promote.

Im not sure what you mean about links and mates not aligning properly?

I've only used a DIV tag on the Mates page and Guestbook, as i feel the content for these could be (or become) a little extensive, and i don't want the page to become too big

I had an accident with the portfolio about a week ago, there was actually one there.... i need to re-build it though now

No they are NOT remotely hosted free scripts, they are ASP that i built myself..... yet i don't have an ASP server so i used a free one, however they keep adding that little banner thing. In addition i have them..... because i can, if i can build these things? why not....?

I agree with alt tags and scrollbars, i believe i have gotten rid of most of the scrollbars now except for the shoutbox main.

Where is the admin button a broken link? it works from all the ones i tested.

And yes, i do need to learn CSS, i didn't realise that until i had already done most of the site, its a little late now to convert it to CSS, but i will probably do so in the future

thanks
-Wildchild

music_man · Jul 4, 2005

Hi

That's great you are actively developing your site, well done - that shows a professional attitude.

http://www.ballamness.info/site2/admin.htm cannot be found and the scroll bars are still there now but I presume they will go.

I don't think it will take that long to redesign using CSS more.

If you visit the the http://www.ballamness.info/site2/links.php page and then click the "mates" link, the overall box moves. Are you going to add a copyright to the footer?

I wouldn't be that concerned about making the site too big... efficient coding can cut down the size of the site.

A tip - when you are building a site like this, perhaps make the index page really well and have comments of where things are and test it out for flexibility - validate it, then apply the same template to the other pages.

It can help either in ASP and PHP to have both a header and footer page so you don't need to redo each page if you change something in the header or footer.

Besides, having the "valid xhtml" and "valid css" links at the bottom shows you are a good coder.

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