Please have a look at my site

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nelly-knowall

After being misdiagnosed with serious form of tb and found it extremely
difficult but eventually found the info I need to dispute my diagnosis and
save myself from serious lung surgery.
I decided to set up a website that people looking for information on tb
would find easy to navigate and find the information they needed: (In
particular not well educated or non English speaking.)
The site is still in progress with some links still needed to be added as I
search the internet for relevant info.

I KNOW the site has a very naive look but that is limited because my hmtl
skills are limited and as I learn the site looks better.
Believe me it has looked worse than this.

I would however be grateful for any tips which may improve my site.
Thanks in advance
 
N

Neredbojias

With neither quill nor qualm, nelly-knowall quothed:

....
I decided to set up a website that people looking for information on tb
would find easy to navigate and find the information they needed: (In
particular not well educated or non English speaking.)
The site is still in progress with some links still needed to be added as I
search the internet for relevant info.

I KNOW the site has a very naive look but that is limited because my hmtl
skills are limited and as I learn the site looks better.
Believe me it has looked worse than this.

I would however be grateful for any tips which may improve my site.
Thanks in advance
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Hmm, not too bad. I do agree with Josh: font-size is too small, but at
least it resizes (in IE et al). It also seems as too much content is
squeezed into an unnecessarily small space so you may want to consider a
"roomier" and more fluid layout.

The relationship between flags and language is tenuous.

Why not strict 4.01 dtd?

Tables for layout - ugh. I could perhaps understand one table but...

Why do you capitalize <HEAD></HEAD> and not <body></body>?

....In general, there could be improvement in methodology and detail, as
well as technique. But I have to go now because teen Kelly is going to
show her birthmark tonight.
 
T

TreatmentPlant

nelly-knowall said:
After being misdiagnosed with serious form of tb and found it extremely
difficult but eventually found the info I need to dispute my diagnosis and
save myself from serious lung surgery.
I decided to set up a website that people looking for information on tb
would find easy to navigate and find the information they needed: (In
particular not well educated or non English speaking.)
The site is still in progress with some links still needed to be added as I
search the internet for relevant info.

I KNOW the site has a very naive look but that is limited because my hmtl
skills are limited and as I learn the site looks better.
Believe me it has looked worse than this.

I would however be grateful for any tips which may improve my site.
Thanks in advance
Click to expand...
Screen displays correctly for me in IE, but requires horizontal
scrolling in FF 1.0.7 Tables = yuk! Use CSS layout instead.

Other than that, I agree with the previous comments about font size.

I would get rid of the scrolling banner. The information there is not
that important that it needs to continuously catch your eye, and becomes
distracting after a while. Same goes for the animated gif.


Hope this helps.
 
D

dorayme

Neredbojias said:
The relationship between flags and language is tenuous.
Click to expand...

You mean like when one clicks on the Italian flag, the site is
translated into Italian?
 
M

Mark Parnell

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, dorayme
You mean like when one clicks on the Italian flag, the site is
translated into Italian?
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Or the American flag and it's translated into English? Or the Brazilian
flag and it's translated into Portuguese? :)
 
D

dorayme

nelly-knowall said:
I KNOW the site has a very naive look
Click to expand...

How do you know this? It is not so obviously "naive". It looks
quite knowing and tricky actually. To be frank, I would prefer
naiver, less flashy and 3 columny (2 would be easier for everyone
on this site, including yourself)
I would however be grateful for any tips which may improve my site.
Thanks in advance
Click to expand...

I suggest the following for improvement.

Top priority is to get rid of the moving banner and flashing
looping gif, these are really quite irritating. This is a serious
subject and distracting enough without these provocations.

Do these things re translation stuff:

Either

(1) Lose all the language translation stuff. Forget about it.
Leave it to users to figure. English is the main language and
most other people will know how to translate via web services or
their inbuilt facilities....

(2) Just put one simple link to point folk to a web translation
service and leave it at that.

(3) Have a link to hive off the translation stuff you have to a
separate page of yours (if you must).

This then clears the main page(s) of all the flags and some links
to give you more room. The page will then load faster (it is a
bit slow on dialup). You can then make the fonts a normal size -
there are people with less than optimal eyesight as well as with
lungs that are worrisome!

On the home page, in the main content, there is some grace in the
padding, fine. But in the links like "transmission, you jam up
the subheadings against the left border of the content and indent
the paras. I'd say to not indent, and give more padding (as on
home page). You will get more in and it will look more graceful.

There is all sorts of trouble but where to stop? (When I click on
left link of Tranmission of TB on home page, it goes fine. But
when there, the same link is broken.) You need to check all your
links, the paths.

Simplify everything and you will sort things better. Ask all the
time, what are the most important things for folk to know about
this condition and just concentrate on this. Content! Lose
everything else. Serbo-Croat, Quiz for every occasion, Hypocratic
oath indeed! Give the users a real break and cut all this stuff
out!
 
A

Alan J. Flavell

Or the American flag and it's translated into English? Or the
Brazilian flag and it's translated into Portuguese? :)
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Even better, tell me what language would be signified by the Indian
flag?
 
N

Neredbojias

With neither quill nor qualm, dorayme quothed:
You mean like when one clicks on the Italian flag, the site is
translated into Italian?
Click to expand...

I believe it was Jukka Korpela who pointed out the pitfalls of using
flags for language-selection, and I quite agree.
 
D

dorayme

Alan J. Flavell said:
Even better, tell me what language would be signified by the Indian
flag?
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Indian of course... what else?

:)

(things are looking up eh? ....)
 
D

dorayme

You mean like when one clicks on the Italian flag, the site is
translated into Italian?
Click to expand...

I believe it was Jukka Korpela who pointed out the pitfalls of using
flags for language-selection, and I quite agree.[/QUOTE]

Yes, yes... I read his stuff, and was nodding my head too...

This particular OP only had a few flags. Were they on the whole
misleading or unhelpful in respect to correspondence? ie. if one
wanted to click a flag on her site, would anyone get into trouble
re getting the right language? I have not investigated it, seeing
nothing untoward in this respect and confining myself to pulling
your chain Boji (something that cheers me up on a regular basis)

I take it that you, the cheering Mr. Flavell and Mr. Parnell
have. And have concluded that the Korpela points (good as they
are in general) particularly apply to this site.

You will have seen by now that I hated the flags and all that
Luigi like stuff about translation - for what it is worth. I had
quite other misgivings about these features...

I want that you should all relax, have a nice day and reflect on
the beauty of freedom both in general and in particular.
 
J

Jose

This particular OP only had a few flags. Were they on the whole
misleading or unhelpful in respect to correspondence?
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It requires the viewer to recognize the flags. At the very least the
flag of countries related to his language, which probably isn't hard in
most cases. But text reigns supreme, IMHO.

Jose
 
D

dorayme

This particular OP only had a few flags. Were they on the whole
misleading or unhelpful in respect to correspondence?
Click to expand...

It requires the viewer to recognize the flags. At the very least the
flag of countries related to his language, which probably isn't hard in
most cases. But text reigns supreme, IMHO.

Jose[/QUOTE]

OP did have text as well, if I recall, down right side.. The
point is that to tell her that the relationship between flags and
language is "tenuous" (as was the response I gently mocked) and
leave it at that, might greatly puzzle her. She will not be so
puzzled now and if she is, then let me recommend here to go to
Google, bring up Google Groups, enter "alt.html", enter "flags
languages korpela", into the search this group and take it from
there. (Where is she, btw? Not another hit and run I hope?)

Jose, just a small point, do not confuse the ability of people to
pair flags and languages in general. Few Americans, for example,
would be able to recognise the Australian flag[1], few
Australians, the Nigerian one, but most people have little
trouble with their own flags.

If you do not understand this latter, Boji, let me help with an
analogy: a lottery winner would have no trouble collecting his
winnings, the average ticket holder would fail miserably nearly
every time. (See, Travis, how helpful analogies can be?)
 
J

Jose

Jose, just a small point, do not confuse the ability of people to
pair flags and languages in general. Few Americans, for example,
would be able to recognise the Australian flag[1], few
Australians, the Nigerian one, but most people have little
trouble with their own flags.
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True (and not something I missed). But why would the Austrailian flag
not be as good an icon for English as the American one? I believe
that's a point you've made too.

Jose
 

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