Please comment

[contactbill]

This is the URL to my site
any tips would be of help.

http://www.baby-babynames-babygifts.co.uk

Many Thanks

[SteveS235]

Hey contactbill,

I think your main page would be the only one I would change around a little. Your other pages look fine.

One thing I think you should definately do is link the two images to a larger image, so that someone can click on the images and see the larger one so they can make out the drawing in detail.

The only other things would be to move all your links (the red ones on the top and bottom, the top 10 names, and the links) to the purple column on the left, and then move your Memories By Design more to the right, and center it between the column on the left and the edge of the page on the right.

This is all just personal opinion of course, but you have made a great start.

[kevin]

My first impression is good. I started viewing the site at 800 x 600 (16 bit color depth) resolution. Nice color scheme through out the small website. The pale violet and blue works good, the yellow maybe could be toned down (maybe to a cream color) a little on the homepage but it looks OK. Nice layout, well balanced. Layout and colors hint at 1950s printed advertising.

Good use of different font sizes, styles and colors. There is a lot of variety without being distracting because of good spacing and a balanced presentation. Maybe use that empty paleviolet column for something like you do on other pages.

Site navigation is good, easy to get around and easy to read and understand everything.

A resolution problem.....
I shifted to 640 x 480 resolution and the layout fell to pieces. The design of your site is not resolution friendly much below 800 pixels wide. Things start to move around and get jumbled up. Then I noticed at 800 pixels wide the word BABY in "First Announcement for Baby" drops down one line when it shouldn't, at 1024 resolution it's all on one line. At 1024 res. the site looks good, and no scrolling is required. At less than 16 bit color the blue frame on the homepage does not look real good, you could maybe fix that if you wanted to, its no big deal though.

HTML coding looks good, you might be using some kind of program to help code the HTML it looks like, if not, it's good hand coding (I didn't check it in a validator). Does not look like it will display well in Netscape though, I would check it in Netscape if I were you just for comparison sake. I need to upgrade my Netscape browser, but in Netscape 4.04, your website comes apart at the seams.

Linking the images on the homepage to larger views could be done, but I see they are larger on one of the other pages, so it's a judgment call.

Overall, it's a nice website. Nicely presented for the most part, and easy to navigate. I would fix the design to look better at low resolution myself and check it in Netscape, thats the only major flaw I spotted.

Regards,
Kevin

[contactbill]

Many Thanks Kevin
The code is hand coding after a lot of hard
work.I will now look at the 640x480 resol.,
Last time I put Netscape on my set-up it all went to pot.So I reckon I will be back to you. When I view the site in Frontpage98 at 640x480 size it is fine?

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by kevin:
My first impression is good. I started viewing the site at 800 x 600 (16 bit color depth) resolution. Nice color scheme through out the small website. The pale violet and blue works good, the yellow maybe could be toned down (maybe to a cream color) a little on the homepage but it looks OK. Nice layout, well balanced. Layout and colors hint at 1950s printed advertising.

Good use of different font sizes, styles and colors. There is a lot of variety without being distracting because of good spacing and a balanced presentation. Maybe use that empty paleviolet column for something like you do on other pages.

Site navigation is good, easy to get around and easy to read and understand everything.

A resolution problem.....
I shifted to 640 x 480 resolution and the layout fell to pieces. The design of your site is not resolution friendly much below 800 pixels wide. Things start to move around and get jumbled up. Then I noticed at 800 pixels wide the word BABY in "First Announcement for Baby" drops down one line when it shouldn't, at 1024 resolution it's all on one line. At 1024 res. the site looks good, and no scrolling is required. At less than 16 bit color the blue frame on the homepage does not look real good, you could maybe fix that if you wanted to, its no big deal though.

HTML coding looks good, you might be using some kind of program to help code the HTML it looks like, if not, it's good hand coding (I didn't check it in a validator). Does not look like it will display well in Netscape though, I would check it in Netscape if I were you just for comparison sake. I need to upgrade my Netscape browser, but in Netscape 4.04, your website comes apart at the seams.

Linking the images on the homepage to larger views could be done, but I see they are larger on one of the other pages, so it's a judgment call.

Overall, it's a nice website. Nicely presented for the most part, and easy to navigate. I would fix the design to look better at low resolution myself and check it in Netscape, thats the only major flaw I spotted.

Regards,
Kevin <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

[kevin]

I now have Netscape 6 installed. Your website looks almost identical in N6 as it does in IE5. The paleviolet column on the homepage does not display in N6, add a non breaking space character into the data cell to force Netscape to display the column, seems N6 doesn't like to display an empty data cell like previous Netscape versions. In 640 x 480 resolution with IE5 here is part of what I see (homepage) http://milleneum.virtualave.net/images/baby.gif

[This message has been edited by kevin (edited 01-16-2001).]

[InternetBen]

When I view it at 1024x768, it needs to scroll sideways slightly. It doesn't seem that anyone else had this problem.

[Jacob]

I also experience a small horizontal scroll in my 1024x768 resolution. Apart from that, everything looks good!

Regards,

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Co-Founder / Web Engineer
Big Resources Network
jacob@bigresources.com
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[This message has been edited by Jacob (edited 01-17-2001).]

[contactbill]

Hello Kevin
Sorry to be stupid but what is a non breaking space character ? How do and where do I put it in the code or what ever.
Regard Bill P

[kevin]

A non breaking space character (NBSP -- it's a single white space) is used when there is a space between words or characters but you don't want the line to break and drop down to a newline. It can be very handy in certain situations. You can use nowrap in TD cells so that lines don't break but its global to all lines in the cell. If a cell is empty, (contains no data at all) you can use a NBSP character to force the cell to display in Netscape.

I don't think this board allows display of a NBSP's so I will put an underscore between the characters, remove the underscores when you use it on your webpage. Put it in data cells <td> that have no data in them eg:

<td></td>
will be <td>&_n_b_s_p_;</td>

&_n_b_s_p_;

Regards,
Kevin

[Edited by kevin on 01-20-2001 at 07:14 PM]