Website Project

[Tvan]

It's been a long time since I've posted here regularly, but you might remember me as the guy that started the obscenely long "This Is Pictures" thread.

I had to make a website for my intro web building class, and decided to make it informational about e30's. I got source content from r3v, which due to time constraints ended up being little more than copy/pasta...

The gallery page is horrible (had to do at least one page in frames). But other than that I thought it turned out well. The site should work in Firefox, IE, Safari, and Camino (i think), although Safari doesn't handle the left roll-in too well.

Let me know what you think.

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~tvannort

[nando]

it's not too bad - but I'd suggest a lighter color for the main body. It probably looks ok on a newer monitor, but other people with old shitty laptops and less than perfect vision might have trouble with the medium-gray BG and dark blue text. ;)

[eric (^__^)]

what no 90-91 318i?

boooo00000OOOOO

[scabzzzz]

Never use Times New Roman. Rarely looks good on a web page. Calibri or Tahoma always

[george graves]

Needs mets tags, and I'd change "index" to "home"

[Tvan]

Needs mets tags, and I'd change "index" to "home"

Yea, the home page had to be Index.html, but for some reason when I made the navigation bar that would like back home I didn't think to make it say home instead of index.

Never use Times New Roman. Rarely looks good on a web page. Calibri or Tahoma always

You mean for the headers, right? Because the body text is Verdana.


Unfortunately this project has already been graded so it's too late to make changes. I'm starting my second website project soon though, so I really appreciate the feedback.

[Ral]

on the "gallery" page-

for your pictures of 'verts, I would find pictures of 'verts with the top down. not a hardtop. Also, you picture of the "Mtech" car has iX flares and no Mtec parts.

[DCColegrove]

I like the overall look pretty clean.

Leave the meta tags out except for:

<meta name="description" content=" your description of the page" />

Do not use the same description for every page, google will ding you for that and if the description is too short or too long.

Make sure that you have: a site map , a privacy statement and a terms of use pages (all of the search engines love that)

[BBY1104]

I like the flywheel mod section, very informational

[GotCone?]

clean and simple... I think your left nav could use something more... also it would be cripser if your whole site was centered rather than left aligned, could do some nice bg tricks then too.

Not bad though. Good for your first time really. I've seen much worse from experienced people. I like your logo/header.

[dude8383]

I like the overall look pretty clean.

Leave the meta tags out except for:

<meta name="description" content=" your description of the page" />

Do not use the same description for every page, google will ding you for that and if the description is too short or too long.

Make sure that you have: a site map , a privacy statement and a terms of use pages (all of the search engines love that)

wow, great advice!

i was going to mention site maps because search engines love that stuff :)

[Tvan]

on the "gallery" page-

for your pictures of 'verts, I would find pictures of 'verts with the top down. not a hardtop. Also, you picture of the "Mtech" car has iX flares and no Mtec parts.

Finding the gallery pictures was kind of a last-minute thing, given more time I would have asked some users to host their best pics. Did you mean the red coupe under Mtech 1? I had never seen that front end before, and wasn't sure what it was exactly.

I like the overall look pretty clean.

Leave the meta tags out except for:

<meta name="description" content=" your description of the page" />

Do not use the same description for every page, google will ding you for that and if the description is too short or too long.

Make sure that you have: a site map , a privacy statement and a terms of use pages (all of the search engines love that)

Thanks! I'll keep that in mind when I get around to permanently hosting my sites.