I've been here for a while, so I don't intend this to be spam.. The site has been twerked around the HTML soo much, I want to get your input on it!! http://www.101baseballnews.com What do you think? pros and cons, and what should i fix? thanks!
It looks good man, I don't think any bad over there. I like the theme, logo. Simple, professional and nice.
I like the design and content. One issue that I noticed is that the footer isn't entirely dynamic, there seems to be some white space under it on some pages. (If this is intentional, just ignore me )
as for BaseBall NEWS, it looks impressive My review for your site is A+ , nice work my friend, for the footer i agree should be more dynamic. also i guess there is a small type mistake check picture, a Small "r" on top left
Gets a thumbs up for clean consistent layout and color choices, but the inaccessible fixed width and inaccessible fixed metric (px) fonts throw anything resembling accessibility out the window. The gibberish use of numbered headings doesn't help matters from a navigation standpoint, much less the relative lack of semantics. Takes it's sweet time loading too -- hardly a shock with the massively bloated 147k of markup to deliver a mere 5.4k of plaintext and maybe a dozen content images -- making the markup some ten to fifteen times larger than what should be used. Much of that can be blamed on crap like static style and static scripting in the markup, but the endless pointless DIV and classes for NOTHING certainly aren't helping matters. Literally about 130k of what's being sent in the markup belongs outside the markup or on the cutting room floor. Likewise the completely ridiculous 196 files totaling over two megabytes explains the minute plus it takes to download here -- especially since it's over 3mb once decompressed. Handshaking ALONE can run anywhere from 19 seconds to 196 seconds (real world guesstimate/average being 38 seconds) on a first-load. (and here it looks like ~40 seconds is what I'm getting).... and since that's handshaking that's REGARDLESS of connection 'speed'. (case in point I allegedly now have a 25mbps connection). Even sadder most of that waste can be blamed on "gee ain't it neat" scripting and fatass garbage libraries like jQuery... making this a poster child for everything wrong with building sites using those techniques, frameworks and other nonsense that as you'll find I keep saying, has no malfing business on a website in the first place! 26 separate javascript files totalling over 1.9 megabytes on top of the 40+k of scripting in the markup only leaves one asking "FOR WHAT?!?" The 225k of CSS in 7 files is also head scratching easily being ten times what a site this simple needs... but both the scripts and endless pointless style for nothign are just telltales of slapping together off the shelf solutions any old way; part of why I don't advocate that approach to development. Basically you've got a good concept, it's just mated to poor execution.
deathshadow gave a lot of good input, so not much to say other than it looks nice, but it's not responsive. As well as helping accessibility, this will help your visitors are you are sure to get a lot of tablet and smartphone traffic. I would recommend that you do a re-design, but under the hood to reduce to excessive amount of code and make the site responsive, so it works properly and looks good on different screen sizes. All the best.
I like the overall site design. The title "IOI" is odd to me. 101 vs IOI you could say is style but perhaps find a different 101 font. I would put half of the header navigation tabs in a footer navigation. Also get some advertising to put in the box "your ad here" or leave blank until you get some. I know that we are all doing it for the money but let's pretend otherwise.
You have built it nicely; however, one thing that I have noted is that you have left wide spaces in the left and right margin also in the footer, which looks a little weird. Otherwise, your site scores 10 out of 10 points.