My sites layout!

[sail3005]

Hey, my friend and i have been building a new website, and we have come to the point where we would like some input from others. So could ou guys give us the input?

Note: None of the links work, this is strickly the layout.

Feel free to criticize anything, we are open to it!

http://www.linkprojects.net/

Thanks everyone

[chrismitchell]

I think that its nice... Though I think that in the end product, avoid letting the screen scroll... At the bottom of the page it says "Stuff will go here".. I would use some sort of scrolling Dhtml text box or something like that to avoid making the whole screen have to scroll.

[adeelahmed]

Hi

Ur site is not compatible with Netscape 4.7

the style sheet is not working.

but looks good in IE Explorer.

i m also very much irritated with Netscape
if you visit my web site
www.webstar.4mg.com

the Active X work gr8 in IE Explorer but
you can't view my site in Netscape navigator.

anyways.

keep trying.

[sail3005]

Thanks for the input. The site was meant to comply with the standards. Currently only Netscape 6, and IE 5.5 comply with them, so, we have not put forth any effort to make the website work with non-standards-compliant browsers.

I have done this many times in the past, and found that it is only a waste of time...i can make the site muck more efficent if i stick to the standards.

Thanks for the input guys!

Anyone else?

[Psyrus]

Nice job Sail

Although the Site Map looks out of place.
The links would look better in the Menu.
This space, used by the Site Map, could be used for current news and updates.


Chris

[sail3005]

alright thanks, i'll take that into consideration. The main thing for the side bar though is like featured items and such...hmmm....what can i do?

[ines]

Are you still gonna check on the language, I'll give you a hand (sorry, studied linguistics in some ancient past)

'that we were faced with'
'standard compliant browsers'

apart from that, no other comments than the ones made before.

good luck!!

[scoutt]

nice site, but I think that menu looks very familiar, hmmm where have I seen that before ??? ???

I agree with chris. don't put anything in the "stuff will go here" section. just keep it to that page and link from there. it will load faster the shorter it is so that is a good way to keep visitors. besides it is nice on the eyes too.

but, you will lose visitors if you don't comply with NS4.x. that is still a very popular browser ( as much as it does suck ) and I get a lot of visitors with this browser to my page. NS6 is not very popular as of yet.

you talk about standards, well IE5.0 and NS4.x is still a big part of that standard. what fun is it to do a webpage that nobody will vivsit.

you have misspellings on the front page as well
"standards compliand "
try standards compliant

here is my hits percentage to my site just his year

Netscape

Mozilla/2.xx        65      0.5 % 
Mozilla/3.xx       494      4.1 % 
Mozilla/4.xx     11215     94.2 % 
Mozilla/5.xx       120        1 % 

and IE

MSIE/1.xx     
MSIE/2.xx          30       0 % 
MSIE/3.xx         179      0.2 % 
MSIE/4.xx        4169      6.6 % 
MSIE/5.xx       57828     92.6 % 
MSIE/6.xx         207      0.3 % 

all others

WebTV browser             166    0.2 % 
LibWWW                     13     0 % 
EmailSiphon                 1     0 % 
Lotus Notes web client      1     0 % 
Lynx                        1     0 %

remember that is only this year.

[progeix]

I know this is sorta old.. but i had to add..

Moz. 5 would be Netscape 5. which was very buggy they say, so they skipped over 5 ;0)

lol

[scoutt]

right progeix, but I think NS6 goes in that catagory.

[progeix]

oh does it?


I think nobody wants NS6, because it's slow and .. who needs skins?

I personally like NS4.7, but i have N6 installed ;0()
but i use IE

the only reason why i would have more Browsers, would be for website compatibility

btw. i heard they are no longer making Netscape anymore

[scoutt]

I have all those installed just like you. compatiblity. I heard that they weren't making anymore after 4.7 but they turned out 6, so who knows. I like 4.7 as well but it messup sometimes and I switch to IE. oh well maybe one of these times they could get it right.

[progeix]

Well, I think they stopped making Netscape after 6..

i heard that, then i heard about AOL making their own OS..
which means MSFT is probably gonna sue them cuz AOL doesn't have a hotmail icon on the desktop

:sigh:

[JungleMan]

Originally posted by progeix
Well, I think they stopped making Netscape after 6..

i heard that, then i heard about AOL making their own OS..
which means MSFT is probably gonna sue them cuz AOL doesn't have a hotmail icon on the desktop

:sigh:

It's really a sick sick battle...MY GOD they are battling over a little icon. If that's what their business model is, some complete dumbass clicking on an icon, then it's a wonder they make any money.

Anyone who uses the ISP that is closest to their mouse cursor is too lazy to own a computer. And then they complain when AOL disconnects them

[vincentwansink]

Mostly looks pretty good. Look professional, not too flashy, not boring, easy to read.

However, the login/logout is so close to the search input that it almost looks like a username input or something. After looking at it for a few moments it became obvious ofcourse, but initially it was a little unclear what was happening there.

Also, the link should say "login" if I am not yet logged in and it should say "logout" if I am already logged in. It should not say both, that is bad gui.

The problem with Netscape users is they don't know what they're missing. Although six is a huge improvement it still does not work quite as well as IE5. Check for the browser type and version when loading and display a warning if it's not N4.7 compatible. If they see that kind of thing often enough maybe they'll smarten up and upgrade or better yet switch to IE.

[Radames]

Some search engines such as yahoo are not listing websites that are not compatible with Netscape.

[vincentwansink]

I don't believe that for a second. The search engines can't be smart enough to know that. Besides, how do you define "compatible" and how would the search engines define it?

[progeix]

now, technically, they COULD find which are not compatible with netscape, many sites will tell you certain commands that will not work in netscape, etc.

thus, they search for those.

but defining what is NOT-COMPATIBLE..they just say.. this one has 10 things not compatible with netscape.. WE CAN'T LOAD IT

etc.

but i doubt they'd do that

[Radames]

Has mr. new member made a page not compatible with Netscape and tried to submit it to yahoo? Guess not.