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Wullie

Wullie

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Mar 17, 2001
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Hi,

I have just published a community site and would really appreciate if as many people as possible could review it for me as it is due for launch.

I would appreciate any comments, good or bad.

Due to the nature of the site, no cache is stored so load speed is a little higher.

Please could you tell me:-

Browser used.
Connection.
Approximate page loading speed.
Any problems encountered.(Display or otherwise)
Any other comments you may have.

Thanks in advance

Wullie


 
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Hi Wullie,

I checked your site in IE 4.0 (page loading speed 28 sec, but our connectionspeed is verry different day by day, because we have more users at the same connection)

1) The yellow sentence below "This page was last .." is verry bad for my eyes at a white background. So choose an other color please. I saw on other pages also sentences with the same yelow color. Please change :) At another page the yellow color looks good to me because the background is purple there.

2) About the colors. You use a lot of different colors for text at each page. To me it feels a little bit like an "amature" and annoying. (It's only my opinion). I suggest to use less colors, probably you can choose one color for each subject.

3) Why don't you start the link " in another a new browser with "target=_new" . So users don't loose focus on your site.

4) You start your external links in a new browser. And clicking on a link in that new browser you stay in that browser. Users are now forced to click "back" to see the second link. I suggest to start the link "external links" in your navigation bar in your own browser (it's still a part of your site, isn't it?) and than start each external link in a different browser so users can switch between these and still keeps focus on your site in the parent browser.

5) Your code looks like you want some effects when users move the mouse over your links [function highlightie5()] in the left navigation bar, but nothing happens in IE 4.0

6)I also checked your site with netscape navigator 4.73 and I'm sorry to say but: IT DOESN'T WORK !
I only see the top-advertising-banner and the rest of your site is black. Te only thing I see is the left background image of the navigation bar. I don't have time to study your code but here some quick remarks I saw:

a) you start with <ILAYER> name ...... hide</LAYER>. Shouldn't it be both ILAYER or LAYER ?

b) You end with a second <HEAD>...</HEAD> tag! Looks strange to me. I think you should have only one at the start.

c) I see you code 2 times <BODY>
Code: 
<BODY BGCOLOR=&quot;000000&quot; TEXT=&quot;White&quot; LINK=&quot;Silver&quot; VLINK=&quot;Silver&quot; Marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 leftmargin=0 topmargin=0 BACKGROUND=&quot;template2/bg.gif&quot;>
<BODY OnLoad=&quot;checkCount()&quot;>
I think it should be:
Code: 
<BODY OnLoad=&quot;checkCount()&quot; BGCOLOR=&quot;000000&quot; TEXT=&quot;White&quot; LINK=&quot;Silver&quot; VLINK=&quot;Silver&quot; Marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 leftmargin=0 topmargin=0 BACKGROUND=&quot;template2/bg.gif&quot;>

7) I like the idea verry much that you made this site about this subject.

Good luck in the future with your site,
Erik
 
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Erik, Thanks a lot for you time and comments.

1) Firstly, you mention the yellow text on a white background.
This should not be as the background picture for most of the pages is black. Some are different colors but none are white. I will check that out.

2) I am in the process of changing the text colours and also the font throughout the site.

3) I don`t totally understand your comments about the humanclick link. If you mean take off the image and add a text link, this is not really what i want as this image updates to tell the user when i am online and also offline.
I appreciate your comments anyway.

4) I am changing the external links code, this was i problem i encountered with a program last night, i tried a find/replace function and it went crazy.
I`ve been at work all day, so not been able to fix the problem, will do so now.

5) The fuction code is for the right click menu.
I was lead to beleive that this was shown on IE4 and will check that.

6) I do not know where you saw the <ILAYER> code as i have no knowledge of that being there.
The only thing i can think of is that it is inserted in the banner that the site provider uses. I will look into that.

7) As for netscape, i am trying to fix that problem, don`t know where to start though. Have got someone who is going to check the code for me. Hopefully that will be sorted soon.

8) Thanks for alerting me about the <BODY> tags.
Would you beleive out of about 20 people to test the site you are the only one who noticed that.

9) And lastly, the <head> tags at the bottom were recommended by microsoft. This is a bug in the NO-CACHE code as internet explorer caches half of the document before it looks for the no-cache tags. If the tags are at the bottom as well, the browser realises the tag and removes any cache that was previously stored.

Once again thank you for all your time and comments

Wullie.

 
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wullie,

for point 3) i think erikl meant target the link to a new browser window using <A HREF=&quot; TARGET=&quot;_new&quot;><IMG SRC=&quot;image.gif&quot;></A>. this will open the page in a new window, so that your site will stay where it is, like the links to external sites from this forum.
 
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SECRETSQUIRREL

Thanks for that, but if you read my post you will see that i don`t want to add a text link.

It is a live support link that opens a chat applet.
The image updates to tell the user if I am online or ofline so a text link is not really what i want.

Thanks anyway

Wullie

 
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I think you're mis-understanding the recommendation. You will not be adding a text link at all. All you have to do is add an attribute to the existing link to cause it to open your applet in its own browser instance. Whatever you have between the <A> and </A> tags can remain unchanged. <A HREF=&quot; TARGET=&quot;_new&quot;><IMG SRC=&quot;image.gif&quot;></A> where the target attribute is the only change you make to your link.
 
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Sorry, I did misunderstand that but the reason i thought that was that the applet already opens seperat5e from the site, the user is still on the site and the applet pops up.

Thanks anyway

Wullie

 
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