Hi Trevor,
Good answer!
As for critiquing your website, that's kind of hard to do, but I can give
you a few pointers.
Fortunately for me (and you I would think) it's a personal web site, which
means that it has 2 basic purposes: 1. To provide you with a public platform
for anything you want to make public, tell people about yourself, etc., and
2. To provide you with a fun HTML project to do, to learn about HTML and
web-related technology, etc. What this means is that there are no "rules"
about developing it. Nothing is going to make it fulfill the requirements
any better or worse. And a personal web site is an excellent first project,
because there is nothing important depending on its success, like a job, for
example.
It looks like you have had fun working on it, and have learned quite a bit.
All good. That said, I do have 1 or 2 suggestions:
1. You have labels on things that are hard to read. This is due to a busy
background or the color of the text in the labels, or both. There are
several things you can do to remedy this. You can make the background a
solid color, or just the background of the label a solid color. You can use
a color for the text that contrasts well with what is behind it. And using a
sans-serif font makes anything easier to read. The most popular
(widely-supported) sans-serif font is Arial.
2. You have a page that has buttons on it, which, when clicked, pop up an
alert box showing a URL. I'm not sure what this is supposed to be for, but
if you want people to be able to visit these URLs, and you don't want them
to lose their place, you may consider a couple of alternatives. One is to
have a link that launches in a new window (target=_blank). Another is to put
the link into some object like a text box or a div, from which it can be
easily copied.
Enjoy!
--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
If you push something hard enough,
it will fall over.
- Fudd's First Law of Opposition
Could you post one or two links of some fancy websites that you know
where done using Front Page?
I am a beginner myself, but as Thomas has said FP and ASP.net are two
different animals.
I know zero, zilch, nought, nothing about ASP.net but I doubt that it is
necessary to build a good website.
What is needed is good design and FP won't give you that. As has been quoted
many times in this NG, having the best hammer in the world doesn't make you
a good carpenter.
I started to create a website (just a small family one) with FP when I found
that it was included with a bundle that I owned (Office XP, I guess). But
when I realised that FP was just an interface to create HTML, I started
writing the HTML myself, and researching on the web about how to write HTML
(and JS and CSS).
By writing "just an interface", I am not downplaying its importance. It is a
great interface and very useful for getting a website up and running. It is
however helpful to know what it is doing, which can be done by looking at
the HTML or Code view.
As for how to design a good website, I guess it is an art. As an
ex-programmer, I am more interested in the "how" but I really need to get
more insight into the "what" i.e. the presentational aspects, which involves
a whole new set of skills - artistic, even psychological, not just logical
which is a programmer's major skill
)
P.S. If anyone cares to critique my site from a presenational viewpoint,
please feel free to give me feedback (via email if you wish)
