Please rate my homepage!

No not my personal one. It’s for a class project and I’m finally done with it. I was wondering if ya’ll would take a gander and point out some mistakes I may have made and haven’t caught or just any suggestions period. Here it is. So what do ya think? Is it informative enough? Easy to navigate? Please let me know! (and just as a side note I did all the html myself. no frontpage or easy editors.)

Really informative! I’m impressed!

I do have a few suggestions, though.

1.) Two of your second-level pages, youth.html and responsibility.html, need a few more paragraph breaks. It’s displaying as one big paragraph. I’m guessing you copy/pasted the content into your code from another application, like a word processor? That’s usually how I do it, and invariably miss at least one frickin’ page, that ends up as one big paragraph.

Now that we’re on the topic, in case you ever wanted to know (and most people don’t, but you got me started :slight_smile: ), generally paragraphs in Web content should follow the standard newspaper “rule” of short, concise paragraphs, as short as possible. Just more legible that way. Yours seem fine though, so I’m just showing off now…

2.) You should really rethink that blue background colour on responsibility.html, or at least use a brighter font colour, it’s a little hard on the eyes. My personal opinion is that you should always use a light background with black text. But really, what the hell do I know? :smiley:

3.) Hi Opal.

4.) There’s a couple of spelling mistakes, which if you hand-coded a great deal is completely understandable. But I’d give it a look-see before handing it in.

Other than those little minor things, nice work: loads fast, gets the point across, this is what a Web page is supposed to do.

I don’t think navigation will present too much of a problem. You’re not running fifteen levels deep or anything crazy like that, so a common contents page (your index) is fine. You might want to add a “back button” at the bottom of each of your content pages that links to the index, but that’s really just window dressing.

Hope this helps :slight_smile:

Why thank ya Donnie. Looking back I realize that stuff shoulda been changed. It brings out the natural Duh! reaction in me. But again thanks.

Tiki:

Looks very good. No complaints, just a couple of suggestions…

  1. Don’t forget your alt=“foo” and height/width attributes for your images. The alt gives descriptions when the images aren’t/can’t be loaded and the h/w allows the browser to go off and do other things while the image loads. Makes for a much faster page load.

  2. You’ve got two <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" id=all> tags and no </body> tags. Your title should be wrapped in <head></head> tags. Here’s a quick template for us DIY-ers.
    <html>
    <head>
    <title>My Homepage</title>
    </head>
    <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" id=all>

</body>
</html>

For more information, see the Barebones Guide to HTML - http://werbach.com/barebones/barebones.txt

Remember: Less is better.

Keep up the good work!

I don’t know how those body tags came to be mangled, but ignore the first… It was supposed to be a plain tag…

Run it through http://websitegarage.netscape.com/

Some pictures would be nice.

Try not to use phrases like this if you can:

go here
this page
click here

Instead, just make the text subject a URL.

Just a couple of things.

Center your images (when the page is mostly images). It just looks nicer.

Here’s a good site to check and clearly view your HTML: http://selfpromotion.com/prettyprint.t

Congratulations on writing your own code! Those damn WYSIWYG editors just spew out junk.

There are also sites (dunno where they are now) that you can run a page through & itll clean up your HTML for free. But since you are using Geo, its kinda pointless because they have these ad banners & such.