Review my first website

[php_beginner_83]

Hi All

 

I'd be really grateful if you could have a look at my website and tell me what you think.  And perhaps offer some suggestions on anything you think could be done better..which I'm sure there's plenty.

This was my first ever website so please be gentle..   

I've tried it out in firefox and IE6.  Firefox should be fine..a couple of links are a bit higher than they should be in IE but I can't get them perfect.

www.pictiuirshannagh.5gigs.net

 

Thanks

[thewooleymammoth]

your breadcrumbs should go left to right and you should make them more obvious (since they are the only form of nav)

 

Pretty damn good for a first site

[php_beginner_83]

your breadcrumbs should go left to right and you should make them more obvious (since they are the only form of nav)

 

Pretty damn good for a first site

 

Thanks for your feedback.  What do you mean my breadcrumbs should go left to right?

[thewooleymammoth]

on the top right, as im going through your pictures it gives me some sort of nav. I would call that a bit of a breadcrumb because it tells me i started at home then went to an album then to another. The links appear as i go through each page.

 

Perhaps thats not what you were going for. However it appears that your link system is a little broken. Im testing it using firefox. This site might help you

http://spoon.net/browsers/

 

Also you should have a page title in the header.

 

There also appears to be some html tag closing errors

(im assuming that its due to improper echos during loops)

here is a link to your page validation. There are tons of errors. Fixing these will help with browser compatibility.

 

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pictiuirshannagh.5gigs.net%2FpolaroidPhotos.php%3FID%3D17%26place%3D7&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

 

Also you might consider some kind of constant nav that doesnt change from page to page.

[JonnoTheDev]

LOL, every time you click on a photo you first see a picture of a dog asleep on your floor.

This website is also incredibly slow and the hover effect you have on your homepage is very jittery.

[php_beginner_83]

Thanks fellas.  I'll get working on those. 

I think the pic of the dog is gone.  My brother told me about it.  I thought  I had it fixed before but it's hard for me to tell coz when I view the webpage the pics load pretty quickly but I'm gonna work on trying to make it faster.

 

Thanks again.  I really appreciate you taking the time to have a look and give me feedback

[thewooleymammoth]

if you are using firefox hold down shift while pressing refresh and it will reload the images, you can see what its like for people coming on the first time.