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I need to know if this looks good or not: http://www.freewebs.com/redmagesguild/

I'm new to website making, so I don't know how good it is.

Advice, critisism, anything at all would be appreciated!

Background/layout looks pretty darned good for the type of content.

I had to use a default one, as I don't know CSS.

Neither do I. I did everything I've done with bare bones HTML. Would have helped to use CSS, but a lot of cutting and pasting works too.

It looks pretty good to me.

You made a Red Mage website, RedMage
THe colors go well together

I think it looks really good. I wouldn't suggest much. You can use horizontal rules or customised divs to separate the paragraphs instead of using hyphens but that’s up to you. On the redmage page the image floated to the left will display different in FF and Opera to EI because you haven't specified a border colour. In FF and Opera it is same color as text and IE black by default. Also I think you want margin right rather than padding right as the text is right against the border. IE doesn't really like image padding (you'll have to use a div) and that will be inside the border anyway. To have a space outside the border use margin instead.

Good idea to put some keywords and a description in the metatags. There should be a boxes for this if you can't edit the source directly. Just don't go overboard a dozen unique keywords max plain English description of about 2 sentences max. Also it is missing a character set, which is not your fault but crap on their part.

Last edited by 0_equals_true on 15 Apr 2007, 5:29 am, edited 1 time in total.

Thanks for that everyone. If I knew some HTML and that, I'd use it.

It is not to difficult to learn there are some good books and Online Corses

i would recommend HTML 4 for Dummies
I used it and it works great

I wonder if RedMage can sneak in:Maybe not. Why does somewhere like "freewebs" just ignore W3C standards? It makes it so much harder to comment on the content, when all the validator says is that it can't work out the charset.

Also, something you can do RedMage, I hope, is to remove the " |" from the title... unless that's freewebs being stupid again! A bit of both... two other sites, one has a completely "|"-free title, the other looks like it tacks a page title on after the "|".

I'd also leave the "The " off the front, as well. On my tabs, I'm curently seeing your page as "The R...". You could sneak in an icon there, as well. On the site I mention below, that's done with:I'm not sure exactly how you go about it. I'd have to have a play with setting up a site on freewebs myself.

One more thing I'd say, is to avoid using foreground/background colours that are too close. I think you're OK, but only just.

Puzzle... actually, the one that works OK is http://cs188creations.com/ which links off from the frewebs front page/tech&science, but has its own domain name, etc. It passes W3C XHTML 1.0 validation (one fail on CSS, but that's not a disaster).

I have to say, the www.freewebs.com page sets the scene... with the first of its 19 errors being:


All it takes is a little thought and the FireFox/SeaMonkey "Web Developer" extension.

FreeWebs is stupid. That | is a default thing that can't be removed.