Hello, dustydune:
This is the review of your site, it includes common aspects I
usually check for all websites and some personal comments based on my
experience as developer and webdesigner. In any case, don't hesitate
to request for a clarification if you want to get more detailed info
in an specific aspect, I'm here to help you. Also, if some comments
sound rude, please, forgive me ;-)
I know you don't request it, but I think it's very important to make
first a technical analysis of your site:
W3C Compliance
I couldn't check your website for Markup compliance in the W3C Markup
Validation Service due it doesn't include character encoding labeling:
MarkUp Validation Service
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tejary.net%2Fen%2FDefault.asp&doctype=%28detect+automatically%29&charset=%28detect+automatically%29
"I was not able to extract a character encoding labeling from any of
the valid sources for such information. Without encoding information
it is impossible to validate the document. The sources I tried are:
* The HTTP Content-Type field.
* The XML Declaration.
* The HTML "META" element.
And I even tried to autodetect it using the algorithm defined in
Appendix F of the XML 1.0 Recommendation.
Since none of these sources yielded any usable information, I will not
be able to validate this document. Sorry. Please make sure you specify
the character encoding in use.
IANA maintains the list of official names for character sets"
To solve this problem, add a META element including the character set,
check out this link:
CHARACTER SETS
http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets
Browser compatibility
I have also checked your website with IE 6.0, Mozilla 1.4 and Opera 7,
all of them running in Windows XP.
-With IE 6.0 the only problem is that the Tell a friend popup window
it's too small and two scrollbars are shown
-With Mozilla 1.4 I have found some problems:
*Quick search box doesn't work at all
*Favorites doesn't work
*Make your home page doesn't work
*Tejary other services doesn't work and it would be better to be a
dynamic list of links instead a listbox
*The search button at the top it's centered, while in IE it's shown
at the left
*Tell a friend popup window too small
-With Opera 7 looks better than with Mozilla, but there are some
little problems:
*Quick search box doesn't work well, the box contents are mangled
*Favorites doesn't work
*Make your home page doesn't work
*Tell a friend popup window too small
Page size and load time
As you say, the website loads slow, take a look at this size analisys:
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/cgi-bin/wso/wso.pl?url=http://www.tejary.net/en/Default.asp
Your home page is really big, not because the images, but for the
code, check out this report:
Total HTTP Requests: 22
Total Size: 225469 bytes
HTML: 139678
Images: 79877
Javascript: 32435
CSS: 5914
Multimedia: 0
Other: 0
Connection Rate Download Time
14.4K 179.15 seconds
28.8K 91.77 seconds
33.6K 79.29 seconds
56K 49.34 seconds
ISDN 128K 18.16 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps 5.59 seconds
Take a look at this article:
Optimal Web Page Sizes
http://www.allaboutyourownwebsite.com/bestpagesize.shtml
Link checker
I have also checked your site for dead links and it's almost ok, no
big problems, check it out here:
http://validator.w3.org/checklink?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tejary.net%2Fen%2FDefault.asp%3F&hide_type=all&depth=&check=Check
First impression
Good:
-The first impression it's nice, it looks like a portal and the
information it's well distributed along the web page.
Bad:
-Graphic aspect it's not very good, for example, you have used icons
in the top from several websites/collections which don't match each
other, I suggest you to take a look to the crystal icons collection.
Crystal 0.9
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=2539
-The whole site looks like a copycat of Yahoo!, this can be good or
bad depending on your purposes.
-The search page looks awful, not only because it seems a copy of
Google search page, but because you are using a Java applet just to
provide a selection of Web, Directory and News
http://www.tejary.net/en/search/index.asp
-The post add page needs some kind of introductory text to explain
more about that service, I had to read all the page to know what was
this service about
http://www.tejary.net/en/post_ad.asp
-There is no privacy policy, this is very important, there is a
Privacy Policy text at the bottom, but there is no link to it
-In the same way, in the e-mail page, at the bottom, there is a "Go to
Other Products of tejary" text, but it's not linked to any place, if
your intention was to introduce the bottom links, change the text to
something like "Here there are another tejary products".
http://www.tejary.net/en/mail/
-There are some boxes that are grayed and some others are active, for
example, the Quick Search box title is blue, and the New Features
title is in grey color. I don't know if you want it to look that way,
but it would be better to make all boxes look the same.
-The Tejary Other services box looks confusing on how to be used, it
would be better a dynamic list of links
-As said before, the load time was too much for a home page, you
should consider reduce the size by deleting all not needed code,
including white spaces, comments, etc
Layout and navigation
The navigation it's OK, regardless the fact that you are using Yahoo!
navigation scheme, but it's simple and clear for users.
Good:
-The navigation it's very easy for novice users, most used options are
always available on the top
Bad:
-The main website logo must link to the website home page, so the user
can return back to the home in all pages
-Lack of alt texts on images/icons, etc
-There is nothing new or exciting in your navigation system, there are
millions of websites that looks like yours.
I hope this is the information you were looking for, and if not, or
you want more specific details, please, don't hesitate to request for
any clarification, I'm here to help you until you get what you want.
Regards. |
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