Hi guys, can you please share your thoughts on this blog directory ? Constructive criticism is appreciated. Thank you for your time,
Hi, It seems like there is a lot going on. My eyes don't know where to go on the homepage. Maybe if you added some boxes around some of the text or used icon links? Just some thoughts.
Well, it starts out with the trifecta of /FAIL/ at web design -- fixed width layout, fixed metric (px) fonts, and illegible color contrasts. Toss on the goofy illegible web fonts and from a design point of view ALONE you have a laundry list of 'how not to build a website'. With no H1 or H2 it makes no sense to be using H3 or H4, resulting in broken heading navigation and nothing remotely resembling logical document structure, while the ridiculous 400+k of scripting in 9 files leaves me asking "FOR WHAT?!?" on a page that by all rights I'm not seeing ANYTHING that needs to be scripted. Worse, the ELEVEN SEPARATE stylesheets totaling just under 100k reeks of just tossing together off the shelf parts for a site that the ENTIRE THING shouldn't need more than 15k of code. Admittedly, some of that is the goofy 'google font' garbage, but given your choices in font are causing massive legibility issues, I'd axe that altogether. Even the markup is something of a wreck -- the home page doesn't even come to 1k of plaintext, there are no content images, so what the blue blazes is it wasting 17.6k of markup on?!? Peeking in, you've got endless pointless DIV for nothing, endless pointless classes for nothing, paragraphs around non-paragraph elements, presentational images in the markup, invalid/incomplete forms, pointlessly redundant title attributes, clearfix asshattery like it's still 2001, static scripting in the markup, scripttardery for christmas only knows what, no media targets on ANY of the CSS link tags, etc, etc... Though the first line of code proudly proclaims a lot of the problem -- transitional, which is to say it is in transition from 1997 to 1998 coding practices... and it shows. Laundry list of how not to build a website, and I'd suggest pitching the entire mess in the trash and starting over with semantic markup, separation of presentation from content, easing up on the endless pointless javascript that doesn't seem to actually be doing ANYTHING, and in general dragging it kicking and screaming into at LEAST the past decade... instead of a decade and a half ago. Admittedly, many of the code problems can be blamed on whatever that "PHP link directory" crap is... the design problems, not so much.
hehe thanks dude. You are better than coffee I really needed something like this to wake me up ! I was actually wondering about the design alone but you are right (as always) and i'll just go and start all over from scratch. Thread closed until updated