# Please rate my website. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 7, 2005, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781 "2005-02-07T07:17:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781/1 "2005-02-07T07:17:03Z")
I started from scratch at 9:00 this morning and just put the final finishing touches on it. And by “from scratch,” I mean by _“from scratch”_ – everything was created today: the graphics, layout, text, etc. The only thing I can’t take credit for is the datestamp at the top (though I did fiddle with that a little to get it to my liking). Anyway, it looks slightly better on Mozilla/Firefox than on MSIE, but if you’re still using MSIE, then you’ve got a long way to go in fighting ignorance. 😉 I welcome both compliments and criticisms, as long as either is constructive. But above all else, please be kind. Thanks! Adam ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781/2 "2005-02-07T07:18:21Z")
Guess it would help if I included a link. :smack: Here ya go: [http://home.comcast.net/~afreitag](http://home.comcast.net/~afreitag) Adam ---
**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781/3 "2005-02-07T07:26:41Z")
It’s pretty good, given it was a one day effort. As a personal site, it’s fine, though were it to be for buisness, I wouldn’t give it a passing grade, but those are two entirely different things. I do have one question though, if you know CSS (as mentioned on your “What have I done” page), why the hell are you using an Iframe for you site’s content, huh? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781/4 "2005-02-07T07:39:43Z")
Looks good to me! OS X, Camino browser (one of the Mozilla browsers). Excellent job! ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781/5 "2005-02-07T07:45:53Z")
> [@Duderdude2](#): > > I do have one question though, if you know CSS (as mentioned on your “What have I done” page), why the hell are you using an Iframe for you site’s content, huh? 😉 I got lazy on that part and didn’t research how to write text to a table cell. 😛 Thanks, **yosemite**! Adam ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781/6 "2005-02-07T07:58:18Z")
Looks good. Needs more content. Especially on the first page which shouldn’t be empty. Also, three copies of your resume (html, doc, text) seem excessive; I’d put them all on the “What I’ve done” page. The “Best viewed with Netscape” bit sounds amateurish, especially to the 95% of the market that doesn’t use Netscape. You didn’t ask, but in your resume… Summary items #1 should be lower on the list, and #2 and #3 should be dropped. Unfortunately, those first 3 lines on the resume are real killers. You focus too much on your job descriptions(I did X). Instead focus on accomplishments (i.e. more like your $55k in four months rate). As you want to pursue coding or web design, add any sorts of things you’ve done in that area. If you’ve had “exhuastive and extensive experience,” I’m assuming you’ve done it once or twice for friends or neighbors or a small contract job here and there; put those in. ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781/7 "2005-02-07T11:06:45Z")
- - - Instead of a regular-text mailto link, use a png image of lettering of your email address, and _don’t_ use the image as a mailto link. … Spambots recognize email address strings, in both plain text and in mailto links. Anyone interested in hiring you will not mind typing out a simple email address one time. ~ ---
**Author:** ![Ponster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponster/32/17081_2.png) [@Ponster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponster)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781/8 "2005-02-07T11:23:39Z")
Firefox 1.0 here (1024 x 768) and it’s not vorrectly formatting the : last updated: monday, feb 07, 2005 Best viewed with Netscape/Mozilla 1.7 at 1024x768 resolution. It appears over the contact me button. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781/9 "2005-02-07T12:18:58Z")
> [@DougC](#): > > - > - > - Instead of a regular-text mailto link, use a png image of lettering of your email address, and _don’t_ use the image as a mailto link. > … > Spambots recognize email address strings, in both plain text and in mailto links. > Anyone interested in hiring you will not mind typing out a simple email address one time. > ~ 😕 Why would I use an image instead of text, and not make it linkable? The current image is _not_ a link. ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781/10 "2005-02-07T12:21:05Z")
Same as what **Ponster** said. The last update text is splurged all over the contact bit. The use of the lowercase i, as in “i’ve” doesn’t do you any favours. The sketchy grid thing in the background is a bit lame and messy. And the ‘best viewed by Netscape/Firefox’ is a mistake. Techy recruiters will probably understand what you’re getting at, but anyone else might think you’re not up to scratch on IE. Put your browser missionary work aside for the moment. But not too shabby, over all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mcms\_cricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@mcms\_cricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcms_cricket)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781/11 "2005-02-07T16:02:24Z")
Not to nit-pick, but I’d expect that someone with an “extensive knowledge of HTML” would have a Web page that validates. This page is not valid HTML ([http://validator.w3.org/](http://validator.w3.org/) . No doctype definition, no alt tags, etc. If you take the time to create valid pages, then you shouldn’t ever have to have “best viewed with X” statements on your page. Just my opinion -don’t mean to seem snarky but I’m a great believer in standards-based web pages. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781/12 "2005-02-07T16:36:55Z")
Very Nice! I got a laugh out of the “not actual size” disclaimer under your pic. BTW, did I ever tell you you’re hot? Because you are. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781/13 "2005-02-07T18:14:56Z")
> [@](#): > > …Why would I use an image instead of text, and not make it linkable? The current image is not a link. - - - No–the current mailto link is plaintext, and so your email is revealed twice. - Email-harvesting spambots can pick out email addresses both from normal text in web pages, and from mailto links in web pages. So you said you didn’t want spam, but it’s not a person that goes around harvesting email addresses, see? It’s programs that do it, automatically. They wander online and scan personal pages for recognizable strings of characters that appear to be email addresses, in the form of “_[something@somewhere.com](mailto:something@somewhere.com)_ or _-.net_”. And in the case of your page now, those programs will pick up your email address twice: once from the plaintext that you used to _display_ it in, and once from the mailto link you embedded the plaintext as. …So if you want to post an email address online but don’t want to attract spam, then you write the email address into an image (such as PNG) and then post that on the page as a regular image, without a mailto link on it. Because real people can still read the email address easily, but address-harvesting spambots typically do not include the ability to “ocr” the text that is displayed inside the image. Get it? ~ ---
**Author:** ![RainGrowsBrite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@RainGrowsBrite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RainGrowsBrite)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781/14 "2005-02-07T18:26:19Z")
I like it, although, I may be bias because we have the same birthday… although you are 2 years older. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781/15 "2005-02-07T19:37:15Z")
> [@mcms\_cricket](#): > > Not to nit-pick, but I’d expect that someone with an “extensive knowledge of HTML” would have a Web page that validates. This page is not valid HTML ([http://validator.w3.org/](http://validator.w3.org/) . No doctype definition, no alt tags, etc. If you take the time to create valid pages, then you shouldn’t ever have to have “best viewed with X” statements on your page. > > Just my opinion -don’t mean to seem snarky but I’m a great believer in standards-based web pages. I knew I forgot something! Thanks! I’m working on the validation now. I’ve also made **Bill H.**'s recommended changes to my resume, and re-uploaded them. And as for you, **Amazon Floozy Goddess** … How _you_ doin’? 😃 Actually, we did exchange emails when you requested I post my pic last year. Thanks for the re-complement. 😉 Adam ---
**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781/16 "2005-02-07T22:27:54Z")
> [@mcms\_cricket](#): > > No doctype definition… I don’t mean to hijack, but I never did quite understand this doctype definition thing. Why, exactly, do websites need it? Also, how do I know which one to put on my website? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781/17 "2005-02-07T23:00:42Z")
Not bad for a one-day effort. But to add to the comments, I also think the typography on the “who am i,” “what i’ve done,” etc., buttons looks very amateurish. And the buttons themselves could benefit from a little bit more understatement. They’re way too big and obnoxious as they are now. You could leave the same amount of space to your menu items, but make the blue buttons a bit smaller. They throw the balance off the page. Speaking of balance, the blank index page needs to be have something filling that white space. Also, the “online resume for adam…” etc., needs to be pulled in a little bit. It doesn’t look exactly right in that place. At the very least, I’d pull it over to the left a little more, and probably nudge it a few pixels down. I’d want the “g” of “freitag” to line up with the scrollbar, rather than being to the right of it as it is now. It looks a bit careless to my eye. Also, that blue arrow you have as a graphical element pointing back to the menu buttons is unnecessary and distracting. Don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten that the buttons are still there. Really, axe it. Otherwise, I honestly think it’s a very good and relatively neat first effort. ---
**Author:** ![Mithril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mithril/32/3517_2.png) [@Mithril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithril)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781/18 "2005-02-07T23:09:32Z")
If you’re using this website as a way to get hired somewhere, you might want to remove the picture of you. Not that it’s not smashing and all, but some companies automatically throw out any resumes that come with pictures to remove any thought pf discriminatory hiring practices. “My family moved to rural Davidsonville, Maryland when I was six years old, and lived there until I graduated from Queen Anne School in 1998 and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force as a tactical aircraft maintenance technician and vehicle operator.” This sounds a little bit run-on, even though I think it’s grammatically correct. Maybe you should split it into two sentences? Seasoned typist is not as good to lead off with as all the software you are competent with, if you want an IT job. Do you think it’s wise to tell a future employer that you are planning on changing fields to pre-med? Also, on the objectives page, you might be able to take out a carriage return or two so that the viewer doesn’t have to scroll. “Ability to learn any office machine or product within two hours” comes off as a little cocky. Something like “Mechanically inclined” or the like sounds more modest. That said, I really like the design of the website. Nice colors, and not too much on a page. It’s well organized, with the important bits available on the menu. Good work! ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781/19 "2005-02-07T23:27:57Z")
Firefox here, I don’t see the “last updated” problem. Maybe he fixed it by now? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781/20 "2005-02-07T23:36:58Z")
Ditch those big-ass buttons. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-rate-my-website/288781.md?page=2)