Website Review and Suggestions

**a.hugh1** · 07:49 PM

My site is dreamsinthesun.com. I have been working on the site for some time now. I have finally finished and believe it's now ready for a relaunch. Please tell us what you think; any advice would be appreciated.

**Kibeth** · 03-16-2007, 04:19 PM

I think you need to change the side menu so that it matches the rest of the site. Otherwise - all good.

**a.hugh1** · 03-16-2007, 07:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kibeth

I think you need to change the side menu so that it matches the rest of the site. Otherwise - all good.

You think i should make them all blue? I wanted to make the site nice and colourful.

**travelagent** · 03-16-2007, 07:37 PM

...sigh... I hate it when someone doesn't bother to include their WEBSITE URL -- ***HINT!!!***

**a.hugh1** · 03-16-2007, 07:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by travelagent

...sigh... I hate it when someone doesn't bother to include their WEBSITE URL -- ***HINT!!!***

Check the title mate

**jyoz22** · 03-16-2007, 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by a.hugh1

Check the title mate

still u should have a link in ur post to make the reviewers job as easy as possible, otherwise they might be inclined not to want to review ur site...

by the way... i would change the background of the area where all ur content is... to white since that is the bg of the big "welcome..." image...

also ur site doesn't validate (98 errors)

**a.hugh1** · 03-17-2007, 09:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jyoz22

still u should have a link in ur post to make the reviewers job as easy as possible, otherwise they might be inclined not to want to review ur site...

by the way... i would change the background of the area where all ur content is... to white since that is the bg of the big "welcome..." image...

also ur site doesn't validate (98 errors)

You serious? mate if you can't spot that in the title then it's just plain laziness.

The background is white. What browser are you using?

**wdwp** · 03-17-2007, 11:35 AM

The logo image quality in the Flash banner leaves much to be desired.
The background of your site is not white in Firefox. It's off-white, as prescribed in the body tag
<body bgcolor="#F1EFE2" ...

**a.hugh1** · 03-17-2007, 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wdwp

The logo image quality in the Flash banner leaves much to be desired.
The background of your site is not white in Firefox. It's off-white, as prescribed in the body tag
<body bgcolor="#F1EFE2" ...

I agree with you about my logo quality. I never done the flash header only the rest of the site. I have tried contacting the guy who did design it, regarding this, but he refuses to answer.

It puzzles me why people use firefox? every site i view in here looks poor. What's wrong with IE? IE7 is class.

**a.hugh1** · 03-17-2007, 12:54 PM

Does anyone know why when you search for properties on my site on firefox (i.e.) for sale - Country Homes / Farmhouses looks out of place, but on IE it doesn't
http://www.dreamsinthesun.com/search...ver_waterfront=

**travelagent** · 03-17-2007, 01:20 PM

Okay; I finally got around to your site - not sure if I care about the bouncing header when it first loads up ... nothing wrong with your NavMenu, as the colors are a nice way of keeping items separate!

However, you have the following 253 code warnings, of which the very first item you need in your HTML code is the mandatory <!DOCTYPE Declaration> ... here's the code warnings:

Code:

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**jyoz22** · 03-17-2007, 03:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by a.hugh1

It puzzles me why people use firefox? every site i view in here looks poor. What's wrong with IE? IE7 is class.

well... some people use FF b/c their operating system doesn't come with INTERNET EXPLORER.... some people use it because it is still safer than IE 7... and also u shouldn't make a site that just works on IE7 b/c people use other browsers...

Browser Statistics for February of 2007:
- IE 6: 39.8%
- FF : 31.2%
- IE 7: 16.4%
(http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp)