Hi, anyone kind enough to critique my site?
Yes, but you might find more people willing to do it (or people more
willing to do it) at alt.html.critique.
I am a hobbiest created my 1st website for my business.
Then you've achieved a lot. The site has a good basic look. Did you use
a template to start form?
I have been slowly working on it for many months
Speaking of slow, the Number One problem about the site, if you want a
criticism, is that the pages render mind-bogglingly slowly. My PC's CPU
is not being used at particularly high levels, so I don't know what the
problem is. But any page view, be it a click on a link from one page to
another or just swapping over from, say, my newsreader, but also a
single notch of text-resizing causes a delay of about 2 seconds minimum
before there's even a sign of response.
This is all with FF2 and JS turned off.
Maybe it's the number of stylesheets (I don't know; this is just a
guess). The Home page lists eighteen (18!) stylesheet links. Of course,
a few of those are just duplications. Also, overlay1none.css,
overlay3none.css,and overlay4none.css appear to be three identical
files, just with different file and id names. You don't really need
that, do you? What are they for?
Since I'm in the source, I'll point to the use of XHTML and say bad
things (but leave it to somebody else to explain why it's an unnecessary
complication), and mention that your page (Home, at least) has some bad
div-itis. Your page header (I mean the <h1> text) is nested in divs
eight levels deep. And aha! There are those funny overlay ids again.
In addition to all those external stylesheets, there are some embedded
styles. They're wedged in the middle of the div#content block where they
don't belong. (But then there are also a bunch of inline styles, too, as
well as inline-styled spans that have no content that needs styling.)
Clean it up! (I wish I had some of those red pills for your Web site, so
you could see where your brushing was incomplete.
)
I get the impression you downloaded a template or somebody's styling
package from somewhere, but aren't really using a bunch of it. There are
many selectors with no rules, and a bunch of comments in the CSS (like
/* Chameleon CSS for RW 3.6 */) which make me wonder if you need all
this. Actually, I wonder whether you understand all of this stuff, since
you're just a hobbyist and, well, yikes, there're a lot of styles here.
What if we critique your site and suggest something, like, say, making
the nav items larger (I agree with Chris; they're too small to read by
default). How long will it take you to find the thing that needs
tweaking? I know *I* wouldn't want to have to maintain a site with all
this styling.
I suggest you start trimming both the markup and CSS. If you do it
step-wise, you'll have the added benefit of learning about the effects
of the individual items (in case you don't actually already know).
Great first steps before even asking for critiques or when trying to
solve display problems: Validate the code.
http://validator.w3.org/ for markup
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ for CSS.
The AboutUs.html has some link problems on it.
Please feel free to give comments and suggestions.
(suggestion on SEO welcome)
Well, I didn't look at the SEO aspects much. I think it's really
important to fix the other things first before worrying about SEs not
indexing you. At the current responsiveness I'm seeing, you don't *want*
people coming to your site. ;-)
Mark up paragraphs as <p>, replace <br /> elements with margin styling
in CSS, extract the inline and embedded CSS to an external stylesheet,
clean out the other extraneous markup, throw out the extraneous CSS (and
kill all references to duplicate CSS files). Consolidate the CSS, too.
Validate it all, then come back here (or alt.html.critique).
When I first saw the URL, I thought it was some Greek guy's dental site.
Who is this guy Nick Coronakids? <g>
Why does Dr. Robert get a page but Dr. Lan doesn't? They're both listed
on the AboutUs.html page. Doesn't she have any actual credentials? ;-)
GL with the site. HTH.
