Re: UKNM: Having some fun! Advice, tips comments

[Sam Carrington]

First impression - ditch the comic sans font and the bevelled buttons.

The font is really difficult to read, and looks cheap and amateur, even

if the intention was to look fun. The text on the buttons is also hard

to read, and doesn't appear to be aligned well. Put proper <TITLE> info

on your home page (make that every page, which are all 'Untitled

Document' at the moment - what I call the 'Dreamweaver disease') , and

some META tags might be good too. Employ a design agency who can make

sites without relying on dreamweaver, and know how to optimise HTML. On

the up side though, its good to see you have got your alt tags sorted.

Oh and its also good to see you're using PHP.


If a piece of text says 'click here' you should be able to click on

it...


Oh and did I say ditch comic sans?


Surely you would need a massive user base to stand any chance of users

being successful in their searches at all, even if you take into account

the 6 degrees of seperation hypothesis that everyone on the planet is

only siz aquaintances away from everyone else (i.e. I know someone who

knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who

knows where you live ;->).


Just because Alice is looking for Bob does not mean that Bob is aware of

the site, or that Alice is looking for him. Bob's friend Claire may not

know enough about him to know about Alice, and Claire is therefore

unable to inform Bob of Alice's search even if Claire does subscribe to

the site.


It might also be an idea to include a binding privacy statement along

with the extensive terms and conditions (does point 8 sort of

acknowledge a large flaw in your proposition?).


Sorry if that was more harsh than you expected, and good luck with the

site.

-- 

    sam carrington  //  senior web developer  //  sensei.co.uk


William Robb wrote:

> 

> All comments advice welcome even if harsh!!!

> 

> Thanks

> 

> Bill


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