nuk3 — Thu, 06 Jun 2002 05:46:57 +0000

Yes it would. It would make it easier for the browser to read the html if it didn't have a whole bunch of unessecerry tags.

It would also decrease the file size of the page.

pennyshares — Thu, 06 Jun 2002 05:31:55 +0000

nuke, Thanks a Lot !!!

Would fixing that problem reduce the load time ? maybe I'll get someone do it for me.

nuk3 — Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:50:32 +0000

The layout and colours look great to me, You've done a very good job on your site. The only problem is the load time. If you could improve it by a few seconds that would be great.

I know you said you weren't great with html, but there are some errors I found in your code.. The common thing I found was missing font tags or empty font tags. You should fix these up..

pennyshares — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 17:55:59 +0000

yeah ... i'd appreciate a screenshot !

Megan — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 15:42:47 +0000

I mean aligning things to center rather than using the default left alignment. Most of the headers and many of the content elements, particularly on the right side of your front page are centered.

Leaving things left aligned generally creates a sleeker, more organized look to things. Think about vertical and horizontal lines dividing your page into boxes. The edge of each element creates line across the page. If you did this, you'd notice that your page has a lot of lines drawn across it. This is because things aren't lining up with each other. If you try to simplify that, and reduce the number of alignment "lines" you'd get a more sophisticated look.

I'll try to demonstrate this with a screenshot later.

pennyshares — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 15:08:52 +0000

megan,

thanks. what do u mean by "centering so many elements" ?

Megan — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 13:25:45 +0000

It looks okay at this point, but I feel that it could still use some improvement. First of all, try to avoid centering so many of your elements. It really just makes things look unprofessional. Another thing you should do is refine your colour scheme a little bit. If you look at the headers on the first page, some of them are red, some are dark blue, and some are the dusty blue you've used for the page background. I feel that this should be more consistent. The other pages do tend to look better in this respect.

disaster-master — Wed, 29 May 2002 07:52:22 +0000

Oh yes! That is much, much better without all the pennies.

pennyshares — Wed, 29 May 2002 07:46:12 +0000

Busy, Jack, Sonia, Julia,

Thank you all for taking the time.
I have tried to implement all your suggestions, except for the HTML part, I am very bad with HTML, and especially with meta tags. But anyway, please take a look now, and let me know what you think, and if the homepage is still heavy and takes too much time to download.

The Webmistress — Mon, 27 May 2002 08:17:26 +0000

I agree with what's been said before and would add that I think you need a graphical logo as the one you have now in large text doesn't look so good and IMO it should go at the top, above the links to give the site an identity/branding.