Another Site Review

[JoeAtRevolutionUnltd]

I have finally finished and launched my compainies new website.

http://www.subcarrier.com

Any suggestions or comments are greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Foamcow]

First thing I looked at (before I go home)

Site Roster link has a submenu. This extends past the right edge of my browser window. The browser is set to be just a little wider than your page.

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[Volk359]

...submenu. This extends past the right edge of my browser window.

Looked fine to me.

 

[Foamcow]

In Internet Explorer the submenu items are one above the other.
In Firefox they are side by side, hence the menu extends off the edge of the page.


Add

li ul li { display:block; }

and the submenu items are one below the other. Though I don't know if this is going to affect anything else on your site.



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[JoeAtRevolutionUnltd]

I think the problem is in mozilla. The items in the submenu are in a list and go out horizontally instead of vertically. i tried to fix it but it just doesnt seem to want to work.

 

[Foamcow]

Er....
I guess you didn't see the post above that one then?
lol


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[johnwm]

First 3 site photos (Arizona) are missing or have incorrect pointers. Although your site photos are .jpg (and therefore reasonable size), your pictures on the Sites for Sale are .gif and enormous (over 1 meg total) - makes for slow downloading.

The anchor links on the About Us page seem to be malformed - they seem to work in IE but not in FF or Moz

The submenu seems to work in IE but appears to be quite flaky in Moz and FF - sometimes works (even though it looks odd as horizontal) and sometimes it just vanishes

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[jazz88]

Mac/Safari: the submenu ends with "sites F" whatever that means

 

[theEclipse]

subc -

After taking a brief look @ the site, here are some things that I notice:

[ul]
[li]the "featured site" box on the front page grabs my attention right away. Probably because of the border around the image and the dark border around the entire box. Try lightening the border around the box and even turning off the image border.[/li]
[li]The combination of the blues (background, menu back, menu items, bold text) and the red thrown in with the logo makes for a somewhat pleasant combo but I think it could be better. Try playing with the colors abit and see what you get[/li]
[li]Your site in general kind of assumes that people know what to do there. Try to make it more obvious. Ex: on the about us page, title the table of contents. It was not obvious to me until I saw the "back to top" links[li]
[/ul]

Your site looks good indeed but only small steps need to be taken to finish the project. It does validate against w3c standards (congrats!) which is a step above most people that post their site.

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[ChrisHunt]

Hi Subcarrier, you've really made a good-looking job of that - the colours work nicely together and the layout works well. You've even used CSS to lay it out, for extra brownie points. There are a few glitches though...
[ul]
[li]That drop-down menu is really broken in Firefox. Not only does it fly off the right hand side of the screen, but it disappears when you try to select an item (unless you're really quick/lucky). You need to fix it.[/li]
[li]Considering it's a validating, CSS-layout site, there's some truly horrible markup in there. It's like you're proving that you can validate and still have nonsense HTML. Look at this:

<span class="blue">Leasing & Management</span><br>
The company provides its over 600 telecommunications clients with tower and building rooftop sites [... snip ...] The company continually builds and buys tower sites and adds to its list of managed rooftop and tower sites.
<br><br>
<span class="blue">Network Deployment Services</span><br>
The company is also a provider of integrated end to end solutions for wireless voice, [etc...]

Aren't those headings and paragraphs? So use the right tags:

<h2>Leasing & Management</h2>
<p>
The company provides its over 600 telecommunications clients with tower and building rooftop sites, blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda
</p>

If you don't like the default look and spacing, change them with CSS.[/li]
[li]I think I told you this once before, but I'd love to see this site using a sans-serif font. I think it looks so much better for technology-based sites.[/li]
[li]I know I've said this before - change the title of that search facility. Calling it "Site Search" implies it's gonna search the web site, not search for antenna sites. How about "Antenna Search"?[/li]
[li]OK, enough repeats. This whole site roster/search thing. Is it actually useful to anybody? It's practically the only content of your site, but I can't see what it's for. It looks like information that you have which was easy to put online, so you did. I don't see how it's going to draw in potential customers. Mind you, I confess to still not really understanding who your customers are, with only a couple of pages' marketing-speak to go on.[/li]
[li]Oh, and I'd be wary of putting all those email addresses on the contact page - why attract spam to more than one inbox?[/li]
[/ul]
I hope you don't think I'm being too harsh - I mean it in a caring way...




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