I would like your comments on a site I am currently developing for a client, this is what they have at the moment, and have asked me to redevelop it. Please could you all give an opinion as to its immediete faults
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webwiz posted this at 01:51—12th May 2008.
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I didn't get far. The home page displays this message:
An old version of the Flash plugin was detected. Please upgrade your Flash plugin.
Actually, I had Flash turned off (after having had my ears blasted off by another site). However, you might ask your client - How is a visitor supposed to do that if they are visiting from work, school, an Internet cafe, or public library? To say nothing of devices that do not run Flash (such as the iPhone).
I don't think I'm alone in turning off Flash. The Flashblock plug-in for Firefox gets over 23,000 downloads a week.
Also note that all that absolute positioning creates tremendous problems with other than "normal" text sizes. My laptop ships with a 120 DPI setting that gives IE a 25% larger text. So lots of the content gets hidden.
Try increasing the text size to see what I mean.
Finally, it's good you are redesigning this. All that inline CSS and JavaScript must be an absolute nightmare to maintain.
Good luck.
Cordially, David
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"Old web developers don't die, they degrade gracefully..."
mfdc posted this at 09:57—12th May 2008.
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Hey
Bless you for taking the time out to reply. Im grateful. Yes I did notice some of your points, and bar the 'usual' improvements, I was keen in hearing everyone elses opinion!
Thanks again
Mario
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shamcdona3 posted this at 02:13—13th May 2008.
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I am a college student and one of my assignments was to choose a site to critique. I have choosen your site and hope that what I found will be useful. I am not usually a critic so bear with me. I found this site very easy to read, navigate, and understand. All the links work properly and upload fairly quickly. This site also complies with the three-click rule for easy navigation. One thing that I noticed right away was the flames at the top of the home page. I felt like they were out of place with the very blocked link pictures and the rest of the page. In the words written below it said "...we remain on the cutting edge". The flames don't give the image of a cutting edge company. When entering the link I found that the words appeared before the background pictures and when they came into focus I would be reading and then I would lose my place. I think that you should use either the background picture or the smaller pictures, but not both of them together. Very distracting. One last thing I noticed was under the link about us the word organization is spelt wrong. I hope this has been useful, and earns me a good grade.