arneman Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 I was just looking for some tips on improving my website. I know it still lacks content, but I'm working on it The site is: http://www.cubevision.eu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 It's not terrible, but it's not exactly good. It seems to lack any proper style and just have a very simple gray and white table layout. When you first log on you have absolutely no idea what it's for, where did the name "Cubevision" come from? Why is there a sphere logo next to the text cube? what does "Cubevision" have to do with HTML / CSS / JS tutorials and scripts? It's things like that leave you slightly confused. And I don't want to be harsh but, the tutorial content from what I've read so far isn't very good quality, not to mention it seems to be quite similar to that of w3schools.com. Personally I'd scrap the tutorials for now if you can't describe them properly and completely in your own words. Coming back to your site. The navigation is very poor, during a tutorial there's no easy / obvious way to view the next chapter, plus whilst viewing "projects" you feel lost in a world of 'sub-directory' links. I think a thumbnail strip would be ideal in these situations... The HTML behind your site as I'm sure someone will point out in greater deal, is written poorly. It's not optimized for search engines and it doesn't even validate - which begs the question, why are you writing a tutorial on HTML if you can't even write valid HTML yourself? If I were you I'd try to create a more interesting design, with completely re-written (X)HTML using DIVS and CSS for layout as apposed to tables. Re-do the logo to something that has some kind of resemblance to the name, or the company image. Ditch the tutorials. To be honest there's not much point in writing a HTML tutorial anyway, type "HTML tutorial" into Google there's over 27 million results, what's point in trying to compete? Find something unique, perhaps concentrate on producing scripts or promoting your own software more? Sorry if I sounded harsh at any point, though you did ask for critique... Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arneman Posted July 10, 2009 Author Share Posted July 10, 2009 not a problem at all, it's exactly what I need. I'll try to improve according to this review Thanks Arne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsschmitt Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 I won't lie... i only checked a few pages. But I would recommend cookie crumbing on your site. I hate having to use the back button, and I hate having to re-navigate to where I was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arneman Posted July 12, 2009 Author Share Posted July 12, 2009 Thanks for the review Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 The small text kind of gives it a 90s feel. It's not totally bad, but it's just not anything special. You should change the link typography for the :hover and :active pseudo-classes though. It's a bit annoying that they don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arneman Posted July 12, 2009 Author Share Posted July 12, 2009 how do you mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILMV Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 He means, when you hover over a link, like this, it's decoration should change, see how it changes from a normal blue piece of text, to one with an underline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Validate your url parameters and use 404 pages if not valid i.e. http://www.cubevision.eu/tutorials.php?dir=sdfasdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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