some feedback on site

[Baldwin238]

Ok. I'm putting myself on the line here for some feedback and critique on one of my first sites.

http://golf.jbaldwin.net

Overview:
1) It is a site for my online Links2K3 golf league.
2) It is an asp site (my first stab at asp after reading SAMS Teach Yourself ASP 3.0 in 21 days)
3) I plan on laying out the brackets using CSS absolute positioning in the future (maybe)
4) The HTML is sloppy (I think). I am working on another site for a friend, with which I am working on cleaning up my html.

http://jbaldwin.net/powell/index.asp

With this one, I plan on switching to text links for the products links. As of right now, they are all images.
5) Be honest....(I think, lol)

Thanks in advance for your thoughts and ideas...
(ps..I have not tested any of these sites in anything other than IE)

 

[Baldwin238]

pps...the second site only consists of two pages so far (none of the links are active yet - will just bring you to an error), the index and a separate trial products page are at:

http://jbaldwin.net/powell/products_all.asp

and

http://jbaldwin.net/powell/index.asp

 

[jazz88]

I actually think you did a pretty good job. Everything seemed to work fine (Mac; Safari) Two very minor details: texts "username" and "password" are too close to text fields, e.g., they touch it. And I personally wouldn't apply bevel effect on the photos on the brackets page; but that's just my subjective opinion.

 

[Baldwin238]

"username" and "password" are too close to text fields, e.g., they touch it.

Would that be a resolution issue because i positioned the text boxes with CSS? I'm using 1024x768 and both are positioned approx. 1/8" below the text boxes and centered directly below each.

 

[Baldwin238]

Any other critiques or suggestions?

 

[ChrisHunt]

Well, it looks pretty nice in Firefox, though I'm not 100% sure about that grey background, and I think that fixed-width sites tend to look better centered on the screen rather than sitting on the left.

Your menu - in tiny letters, black-on-mid-green, with some options along the top and others along the bottom is not very prominent. In fact the links down the RHS are much more eyecatching than your internal navigation. Do you really want it to be easier to leave your site than to get around it?

I don't speak golf, so much of the copy inside the site is gibberish to me. That's OK, as people that get that far should know what you're talking about. The text on the front page should be more friendly - you've got a big block of jargon that goes into all kinds of details about how many players have to report after a match, but doesn't say (amongst other things):
[ul]
[li]Who/what "Greenseekers" are[/li]
[li]What particular golf game you play (at first I thought the buttons down the side were to pages of web links, rather than pages about a game called "Links")[/li]
[li]What I have to do if I want to play in your tournaments[/li]
[/ul]
And whatever you say, you need to break it up into paragraphs to make it easier to read.

How about some more pictures? It looks like a very graphically rich game, I think you could incorporate some (more) screenshots into your pages.

Under the hood it's fairly tidy, though it lacks a doctype and you've used some obsolete attributes where you could use CSS instead. It wouldn't take much effort to get it to validate.

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[Stoemp]

Hi Baldwin.

Site looks very good in FireFox. Perhaps you could think about centering the site. I don't like sites that stick to the left border of my browser window.

I have also discovered a supposed error on the 'results' page. There's &nbsp in front of every text line, but I suppose you should use   to have the effect you want.

Rest looks good. Nice job!

Steven

 

[Baldwin238]

http://jbaldwin.net/powell/index.html

Any ideas/suggestions/comments/complaints about this one? I already know about the <div> height issue in IE. (Isn't recognizing min-height in my CSS, while every other browser does) I have another post in a different forum about that.

Jeff Baldwin
(New fan of designing stuff on the web)

http://golf.jbaldwin.net

http://jbaldwin.net/powell/index.html

<--- Not Completed Yet

 

[philote]

On your golf site, it may need to be a bit smaller in the width. I resized my browser (FF) to 800x600 and it caused the horizontal scrollbar to appear.

On your archery page, again using Firefox, the form fields for the newsletter signup are wider than the column and therefore extend outside the column to the right.

Otherwise, they both look great.

 

[captlid]

the site looks nice.
Maybe its just me, but your bottom links, when they are hovered over the text size or weight changes, making the text jump around. Its a bit jarring to the eyes.

The icons look nice next to the top links.

 

[Baldwin238]

CaptLid, that was the old design. That was all images and tables layouts, I nixed that idea and went with a CSS layout instead and revamped the entire thing...(see 3 posts up for addy of new one or in my sig) Thanks for the comments and advice everyone.

Jeff Baldwin
I dislike everyone equally, that way I don't have to play favorites

http://golf.jbaldwin.net

http://jbaldwin.net/powell/index.html

<--- Almost completed !

 

[WyldGynjer]

It all looks very nice - I like it. One suggestion and this may be a little picky - but when I hover over "String & Material" on the left hand side - it said "Powell's Archery - String" - which is fine - but not consistant with everything else. All the other words have all the words - so it should read "Powell's Archery - String & Material" if you want to be consistant.

Good job though!