need advice about my first project!

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by donnareiswig, Mar 5, 2013.

  1. #1
    I have started my first project: www.ahaposts.com

    What do you think about my project? Is it interesting for you? Maybe you have an ideas how to make my site better. Give me advice. Thanks a lot!
     
    donnareiswig, Mar 5, 2013 IP
  2. icey7

    icey7 Well-Known Member

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    Hi

    Nice start. The first thing I noticed is you dont have any advertisements on your site, perhaps join Google Adsense, and add a banner to the sidebar.

    You could change the gray background to something more interesting. (pattern,colorful image. etc)

    Thanks
     
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    karthimx Prominent Member

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    Design and styles looks good, there are too much of social icons on top , just add important stuffs only.
     
    karthimx, Mar 6, 2013 IP
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    Galaxian Active Member

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    Here's my feedback:

    1. The brown navigation on the right needs neatening out.
    2. Spruce up and add hover effects to green navigation bar.
    3. Perhaps add a box-shadow to the css of the main white page box.
    4. Remove the random "n" from the top left of the page.
    5. Update copyright from 2012.
     
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    Maybe a better divider between post. And maybe an archive on the footer, by removing the photos. Or if you really want the photos, a nice uniformed box on the left side of each title would be great.
     
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    deathshadow Acclaimed Member

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    The inaccessible fixed width is too big for my netbook and too small for my desktop, and mated to all the px metric fonts generally makes it an accessibility train wreck. Heading navigation is also broken because there's no H2 between the H1 and H3's... meaning NONE of those should be H3.

    It is PAINFUL to watch load -- stemming from it being an ungodly FOUR MEGABYTES in disastrously unbelievable 1,182 files -- which with the agonizingly bad ping time between here and your host results in a page load time long enough for me to go start the coffee maker, relieve myself, mix up my coffee, come back, and STILL have a minute wait... since in handshaking ALONE it takes > 5 minutes here... (on a 22mbps connection) you get a really painfully slow handshaking connection or a choked out connection limit, that could take as much as 20 minutes to actually load JUST because of the unbelievable file count.

    99.99% of that problem stemming from the endless pointless javascript garbage for nothing, most all of which belongs on the cutting room floor. You've got 1,045 separate javascript files, 108 image files, 162k in 22 CSS files -- to deliver less than 8k of plaintext and two dozen or so content images.... which is to say a THOUSAND times the code necessary to the task at hand. It literally looks like you just slapped together every script you could lay your hands on for christmas only knows what.

    Which is why I'd throw that bloated slow inaccessible train wreck in the trash and start over with semantic markup, separation of presentation from content, and back the blue blazes away from the endless pointless javascript for nothing! It's a laundry list of how not to build a website.
     
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  7. VanessaMeacham

    VanessaMeacham Member

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    HI ! i like your design but you put many Social Icons on your site please put only Main Icons. you can also change your Menu. you use one main topic in which you put subtopic.
     
    VanessaMeacham, Mar 7, 2013 IP
  8. donnareiswig

    donnareiswig Greenhorn

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    thanks a lot for yours suggestions! thanks, thanks, thanks! i will try to remake something )
     
    donnareiswig, Mar 8, 2013 IP