On Nov 3, 8:48 pm, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"
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> wrote:
> 1001 Webs wrote:
> > "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote:
> >> 1001 Webs wrote:
> >>> Please, would you be so kind as to review our website?
> >>>http://www.1001webs.net
> >>> Brutally honest critiques are most welcome.
>
> >> Besides the tables nested at least five deep that Richard mentioned,
> >> why are these pages Transitional? New work should be Strict.
>
> > I recall that I did change it to Transitional in order for the pages
> > to validate some Affiliate code or some kind of external script. You
> > are right. It should be Strict.
>
> Heck, you could change it to HTML 3.2 and it would probably validate.
> But it still wouldn't be right.
Anyway, we'll probably go table-less in the near future ...
> >> ..but you don't use "the latest advances" for your own site.
>
> > We do use them when we build many of the Content Management Systems
> > advertised there, such as Drupal, Joomla, etc. But for internal
> > management we use phpCOIN, and the website is base on that system.
> > phpCOIN is a great package designed for web-hosting resellers to
> > handle clients, orders, invoices, etc.
> > Have a look here:
> >http://phpcoin.com/
>
> What I see there does not indicate that your own site needs to be
> constructed with it. It is only a tool for those not experienced enough
> to write sites by themselves.
What you see there is the front end.
What you don't see there are a load of much needed features designed
for web-hosting resellers to handle clients, orders, invoices, notes
and helpdesk, etc.
Have a look at phpCOIN features:
http://docs.phpcoin.com/index.php/Docs_Home#Features
> >> You say,
> >> body {
> >> font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
> >> font-size: 11px; ...
>
> >> ..so you need to read this:
> >>http://k75s.home.att.net/fontsize.html
>
> > That only applies to people that want to change the default size of
> > the font and to those who use IE6 -.
>
> ..or anyone else with vision difficulties. 11px penalizes everyone of
> them using IE (though if they are smart, they long ago stopped using
> it), and since you use Verdana (as explained in my link), an overly
> large font, you also penalize everyone who is using a computer without
> that font installed.
Helvetica and Arial, which I've defined as substitutes for Verdana,
are actually smaller.
> > However, by saying that you've made me realize that some people may
> > have difficulties reading the text, so I have increased the size to
> > 12px and the line height to 130%.
>
> Change the font size to: 100% instead of any pixel or point value.
I'll do some research first beacuse I have to change the whole lot,
h1, etc.
> > Perhaps it doesn't look as elegant but now it should be clear and
> > readable to everyone. Give us some feedback, please.
>
> ..except for the aforementioned IE users, impaired vision users, and
> those without Verdana.
Thank you for your valuable opinion.
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