Re: Website review sought - comments invited

Craig Cockburn wrote:
I have recently updated a website I've set up for my wife's handmade
jewellery and for ease of access it is now available through
http://www.scotlandsilver.com and
http://www.jewelryscotland.com

Also, to save on bandwidth I'm using Flickr to host the new images of
sterling silver jewellery
http://www.flickr.com/groups/joscelin/ although the link is at the page
above.

Any suggestions on how to improve the appearance, functionality of the
site welcome.

thanks

Craig


I'll stick with the technical and leave aesthetic considerations
to others this time.

The thumbnails are not really thumbnails -- they are small displays of
full sized images (up to over 80 K) -- which defeats one of the main
purposes of thumbnails, which is a quick download time. You won't need
the flickr hack you are using after correcting this. For thumbnails,
make an actually small version of the large image with a graphics editor
(Gimp, Photoshop, or the like.)

With markup of all images you should give not only the actual width,
but also the height. Another main idea of a thumbnail is to be a
link that clicks through to a full sized image which these don't do.

This link may help:
http://www.mbstevens.com/howtothumb/index.html

After correcting the images I suggest you run each page through
http://validator.w3.org
and make the corrections that it suggests for
each page in the site. It may bring up a page with dozens of errors, but
they are easy to correct if you click on each error for an explanation.
--
Cheers, mbstevens





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