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Old October 16th 03, 04:08 PM
Richard C Hornberger
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Default 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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Old October 17th 03, 02:57 AM
m
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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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Old October 22nd 03, 02:25 AM
Paul
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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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Old October 27th 03, 04:23 PM
Richard C Hornberger
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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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Old October 28th 03, 05:43 AM
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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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Old October 29th 03, 04:47 PM
Richard C Hornberger
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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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Old October 30th 03, 03:03 AM
m
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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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Old November 1st 03, 06:24 AM
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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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