Hello, This is my first post, I have been reading on here for awhile. Anyway, I want to get some feedback on the website I have been working on. It's a subdomain, I did not want to start paying for hosting while I was still learning the basics and until I got the website mostly done. I don't know HTML, I'm using an interface to build it. Here is the link to my site, please look at it and give me some constructive inputs. Thanks in advance! wwwdotwesternflyco.webstarts.com
Sorry, I'm not asking how to learn HTML, I just was stating that becasue I used the interface that the host site provides. I'm just asking for people to look at my site and give me some ideas on what to improve. Its very basic right now, I just want to get people who are well versed in web design to look at it and see if there are any glaring mistakes or things I should avoid doing. The URL works, www.westernflyco.webstarts.com
Unfortunately the 'glaring mistake' you should avoid doing is using a WYSIWYG (what you are calling an 'interface') to build a website. The output from them is inaccessible rubbish that rarely if ever works cross browser. As a resuly you've been saddled with endless absolute positioning for no reason, nothing remotely resembling semantic markup, CSS inlined in the markup, presentational images in the markup, no MEDIA types on your external CSS, tables for layout... and in general somewhere around 13k of HTML doing 5k worth of code's job -- the hallmarks of everything wrong with using some goofy "I can haz internets?" drag and drop and/or type on the page 'interface'. Even your meta's are bad. I keep telling people this -- it's called keyWORDS. Not keyphrases, not keysentences, keyWORDS -- seven to 8 words that exist inside your document body you want to add some weight to, preferably totaling under 96 bytes. Likewise your description meta is massive, when it should be one or two short sentences to quickly describe the site -- totaling under 128 bytes -- to provide the text shown under your title on the SERP. In terms of JUST the design, you've got a crappy fixed width instead of dynamic/fluid width, undersized fixed metric (px) fonts, serif fonts at small sizes causing legibility issues... It's a laundry list of how not to build a website, which is why the first responders suggested learning HTML. You can't just slap stuff into a visual editor and expect to have a good website -- that's the road to failure and why things like Frontpage and Dreamweaver are little more than nube predation. It tricks people into thinking they can build websites when the end result is... less than desirable.
Deathshadow, Thanks for the input, sadly, I probably only understood 10% of what you said, which is why the site looks so bad. I guess I'm going to head down the path of learning HTML.
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