Martial Arts Site

[tforce]

Hi there,

I would very much appreciate your comments. Please tell me what you think is missing or how the content could be better presented.

Many thanks,

tforce

Link: http://www.wteast.co.uk

[transmothra]

extremely sw@nk menu (though a little hard to read)! i love it!

it's a little tall, though (at least in Mozilla), and the colors are a bit loud for my personal taste.

[lionscub613]

awesome style Wing Tsun, good for learning trapping, good centerline theory.
i like the idea of gates to very interesting.

nice Kanji pieces on the side to:)

the menu is pretty cool the dropdown, i think the regular links would kick ass with some rollovers added to them.

nice website.

i wish i could find Wing Tsun in my area.

[RonBurk]

HTML:

The site degrades ungracefully for users who do not have ActiveX enabled (which includes many people behind corporate firewalls). In that case, not only is the fancy menu doodad unavailable, it is replaced by a big ugly empty box that overlaps part of the main page content.

The home page HTML does contain a DOCTYPE element, but it does not refer to a DTD. See this article (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/doctype/) for information on how to really get that DOCTYPE declaration right. The HTML has errors ranging from the usual didn't-really-insert-JavaScript-in-a-conformant-way problems to flat-out mismatched tags.

Download speed:

wget figured the home page required downloading over 150KB distributed across 7 files. Clearly, if you had to use this site yourself via a dialup connection, you would quickly get enthusiastic about trimming some of the fat. For example, I was able to shrink pain.jpg from 67KB to about 16KB with little noticeable degradation in image quality and about 30 seconds of effort in the PaintShop Pro JPEG exporter.

Your home page appeared to contain a broken reference to "../ajlib.js". If that is so, might as well eliminate it to keep browsers from asking about it (and have you been seeing 404s on it all this time, or just not watching the weblogs?)

Your server, which claims to be: Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a PHP/4.1.2 mod_perl/1.24
does not transmit Expires: headers. If you were to place infrequently-changing items (like javascript and images) in a directory and then use Apache's mod_expires on them, the server could inform clients that they could safely cache these items for a reasonable period of time (e.g., 24 hours). Without doing this, the clients must issue HTTP requests to confirm that things like your logo bitmap have not changed since the last time they were fetched. Google for mod_expires (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=mod%5Fexpires) or consult your local Apache expert if you're interested in this optimization.

[RonBurk]

Ooops, forgot the most important thing!

Looks like your home page contains a crude attempt at search engine spamming by cramming a bunch of repetitive keywords into hidden text. Don't be surprised if Google bans you (or keeps you pegged at page rank 0) for this particular trick. Another lovely outcome is when a competitor notices you've started to score well in Google searches, finds the little spam trick in your HTML, and turns you into Google to get you banned. The only thing worse than going from high traffic to no traffic in a single day is realizing it will be faster to build a whole new site than to clean up the current one and wait months for Google to respond to your pleas for reinstatement.