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Bead website...
Hello,
Im looking for people to help critique a new website that I have created to sell crafts for my mom... http://www.beadnit.com I have been posting in several newsgroups and gotten some great feedback and I have been implementing changes around the clock... Please feel free to post any feedback you may have... Please do not take this as SPAM or advertising... Im really just looking for feedback.... Dont believe me, search your groups and look at the changes I have already implemented that have been recommended... Thank you for your time, Rich |
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Richard C Hornberger wrote:
Hello, Im looking for people to help critique a new website that I have created to sell crafts for my mom... http://www.beadnit.com I have been posting in several newsgroups and gotten some great feedback and I have been implementing changes around the clock... Please feel free to post any feedback you may have... Please do not take this as SPAM or advertising... Im really just looking for feedback.... Dont believe me, search your groups and look at the changes I have already implemented that have been recommended... Thank you for your time, Rich It actually looks fine, but there are some technical problems: Kill the 'splash page' with 'Enter Our Site' on it. It lowers usability. Do some reading at http://www.usit.com Here's the address to validate you first real page at validator.w3.org: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...com%2Fstore%2F ....it's throwing 63 errors, and is not valid HTML 4.01 as declared. You'll learn a lot correcting these errors. A graphic paypal button would be better than the long explanation, or at least in addition to it so that the visitor can skip the paragraph at a glance if desired. Bringing up thumbnails in a new window is not very accessible, and won't work for anyone who is visiting with JavaScript turned off (more visitors than you think!). Here's a page giving some better alternatives: http://www.mbstevens.com/howtothumb/ Also try posting it at *one* of the following: alt.html.critique alt.webmaster alt.html ....where you'll get more technical help. -- Cheers, m at http://www.mbstevens.com/ ....via Tux and Ice: 0% GatesBloat. |
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I agree with the previous post that the "splash" page adds no value --
but provides one more opportunity to lose your visitor. Overall, I'd try to get away from all the text. For a jewelry site your focus should be on your work and not on words. Take a look at my site (http://www.izm.com) and look at the words-to-pictures ratio -- and see which approach find more engaging. IMO Javascript is not a problem. All the largest web retailers (including Dell and Amazon) use it extensively. All that aside, congrats on getting a commerce site up and running - no small task. - Paul m wrote in message . .. Richard C Hornberger wrote: Hello, Im looking for people to help critique a new website that I have created to sell crafts for my mom... http://www.beadnit.com I have been posting in several newsgroups and gotten some great feedback and I have been implementing changes around the clock... Please feel free to post any feedback you may have... Please do not take this as SPAM or advertising... Im really just looking for feedback.... Dont believe me, search your groups and look at the changes I have already implemented that have been recommended... Thank you for your time, Rich It actually looks fine, but there are some technical problems: Kill the 'splash page' with 'Enter Our Site' on it. It lowers usability. Do some reading at http://www.usit.com Here's the address to validate you first real page at validator.w3.org: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...com%2Fstore%2F ...it's throwing 63 errors, and is not valid HTML 4.01 as declared. You'll learn a lot correcting these errors. A graphic paypal button would be better than the long explanation, or at least in addition to it so that the visitor can skip the paragraph at a glance if desired. Bringing up thumbnails in a new window is not very accessible, and won't work for anyone who is visiting with JavaScript turned off (more visitors than you think!). Here's a page giving some better alternatives: http://www.mbstevens.com/howtothumb/ Also try posting it at *one* of the following: alt.html.critique alt.webmaster alt.html ...where you'll get more technical help. |
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I appreciate the comments but, I took away the text for some time and
I recieved many many complaints... And to the previous comments about the HTML 4.01 of course it is going to read back errors because it isnt written in HTML... LOL!!! Some of the code is also protected which will provide errors in order to provide a certain level of site security... Well, I just finished adding better descriptions to what I could on the site... It took about a week but I have been rather under the weather so to say... Feel free to signup for the newsletter as I dont get much time to check the boards... It will allow me to let everyone know about changes much faster... Rich |
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Richard C Hornberger wrote:
And to the previous comments about the HTML 4.01 of course it is going to read back errors because it isnt written in HTML... LOL!!! From your site's opening page's very first line: !doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" html dir="LTR" lang="en" If you use a doctype, markup should validate to that doctype. Otherwise, you shouldn't bother to use one. Some of the code is also protected which will provide errors in order to provide a certain level of site security... Can't be done. See: http://www.aww-faq.org/ http://www.html-faq.com/webdesign/?stealingimages .......and most particularly: http://www.vortex-webdesign.com/help/hidesource.htm -- Cheers, m at http://www.mbstevens.com ....via Tux and Ice -- 0% GatesBloat |
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Can't be done. See: http://www.aww-faq.org/ http://www.html-faq.com/webdesign/?stealingimages ......and most particularly: http://www.vortex-webdesign.com/help/hidesource.htm Have you ever heard of planting code in a MySql DB... Or even variables that allow that code to do its job in the DB... ? Its one way that most webmasters keep their data secure.... LOL |
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Richard C Hornberger wrote:
Can't be done. See: http://www.aww-faq.org/ http://www.html-faq.com/webdesign/?stealingimages ......and most particularly: http://www.vortex-webdesign.com/help/hidesource.htm Have you ever heard of planting code in a MySql DB... Or even variables that allow that code to do its job in the DB... ? Its one way that most webmasters keep their data secure.... LOL Huge confusion: Your pages *are* HTML; the program that generates your pages might be anything, and of course would not be visible to surfers. And, no, there is no way of hiding code on any HTML page, whether it is generated or just served up. The source HTML can always be accessed by the viewer, as the sites I linked to explaned. What you said was: of course it is going to read back errors because it isnt written in HTML... LOL!!! One is not excused from writing valid markup because it is generated on the fly. See http://www.mbstevens.com/bc.html ....off of which you will find several hundred generated pages that validate. The articles I sited are *clearly* talking about hiding markup on the pages that visitors can visit. How the pages get there is not even considered. We're getting OT -- why don't you post your site over at alt.html.critique and see what you get there? |
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While its true that you can't hide HTML, some of the methods out there
obfuscate the HTML enough so that anyone with the skills to get it back to looking like normal HTML probably wouldn't be "stealing" the code in the first place. This all assumes that one cares about someone copying their HTML -- which I never understood. - Paul |
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