sp0om — Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:48:05 +0000

so are you referring to the last 6 news stories on my main page, and how they should be categorized to help the user navigate the site?

D856C — Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:35:36 +0000

I got the creative mods refer to computers. It might be better to put a tagline explaining that somewhere near the top. One way to make a shorter page would be to organize around customer objectives, not hardware.

User testing may, for instance, reveal categories such as "Performance Mods," "Style Mods," "Safety Mods." Each can have a single image, leading deeper into component parts. This helps you by not having to offer the full selection on the opening page. This helps the user by not having them cherrypick one item from hardware category "A," one from "B," two from "C."

Again this works when the objectives and words used closely match those used by customers and site users. It may require experimentation and research, where hardware based lists use industry terms.

Busy — Mon, 29 Dec 2003 04:36:05 +0000

also don't put dashes inside comment tags
= good
= bad
most browsers will forgive you for the extra dashes but some wont and some will even display the comment to the screen and mess up the following code as it tries to asign mismatched tags to eachother.

Also never nest comments (put comments inside comments)

sp0om — Mon, 29 Dec 2003 00:11:03 +0000

Quote: I like the look and the layout but it is a little slow on the load time. I would recommend you split the first page into 2 pages

im working on that right now. the content management system allows 5 days worth of news, and i want 2 or so.

Quote: The is the right way to do comments. Make sure you have spaces between the dashes and the actual comment, and they do need two dashes at start and end.

thanks. i never knew there was so much to html

Greg K — Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:55:29 +0000

You should use proper comments to help break things up instead of making a tag that doesn't exist.

Instead of <xxxxxxxxXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>' use something like '

The is the right way to do comments. Make sure you have spaces between the dashes and the actual comment, and they do need two dashes at start and end.

-Greg

teammatt3 — Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:42:30 +0000

I like the look and the layout but it is a little slow on the load time. I would recommend you split the first page into 2 pages

sp0om — Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:37:39 +0000

what can i use instead of these:

they tell me where things are split up. without them, i would be lost in a sea of html. the content manager i am using doesnt allow intenting code, and starting a new line of code displays a new line, so basically i have to cram all of the code together. i didnt ever know that this caused errors. thanks for the tip

how do i validate my code?

Thanks so much Busy

Busy — Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:05:06 +0000

I'm using a borrowed 36k modem so page loading time is slowly ticking over, looking at your source code, that could be some of your problem.
there is a horziontal scroll bar at 800x600 cutting the third column (right side) in half.
I like the colours but think you have way to much stuff on your first page, also the font is multi sized, your links are tiny, google is massive compared to the rest and your main text is in the middle

You need to fix a few tags (html) example your 'become an affiliate' link is
a mailto: tag is:
and if your using '>' for pointers use > or you can get page errors and loading errors
here is another bad bit View entire list
the end center tag should be inside the , but realy they shouldn't be there at all, add align="center" to the td tag and no need to use center, there is also a font tag (start tag) before the link on that line but no end tag, there is two end div tags after the end center tag but looks like they were never open.

clean up your code and validate it (wouldn't do it before fixing it), this will help load time and page display.

Ok, now i went back to index page and there is no scroll bar - weird (this is with mozilla firebird).

I needed your site last week, just brought whole new internals for pc, modem and vid card still to come.