Can you rate my website please? Options

[kyle246]

Hello.

I am almost finished with my website (except for the about page and the links at the footer)

It is basically finished.

I wanted your opinion on my website. I personally don't really like the design that I made, but other people that I talked to says it is fine.
What are your thoughts?

http://www.thundertutorials.com

Thank You,
Kyle

[Darin McGrew]

The online tools report markup and CSS errors:
http://htmlhelp.com/cgi-bin/validate.cgi?u...mp;warnings=yes
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validat...ng=&lang=en

Don't use px for font sizes on the WWW. Instead, use 100% for body text, larger percentages for headings and the like, and (slightly) smaller percentages for legalese and similar fine print.

[crowdogs]

Visual appealing with consistent navigation. I for one like it.

[crowdogs]

Don't use px for font sizes on the WWW. Instead, use 100% for body text, larger percentages for headings and the like, and (slightly) smaller percentages for legalese and similar fine print.

Darin, I see you advise people a lot on percent vs. px for font sizes. And, I believe I understand why, though I don't myself use percent. I'd like none-the-less to hear your reasoning for this, please.

Perhaps we should start a new thread on this subject. If one doesn't already exist. I can't imagine I'm the first to question this.

[Darin McGrew]

As Todd Fahrner once wrote, "The font size chosen by the user as a comfortable default (1 em) provides more truly useful information about the rendering environment than all the resolution-sniffing, window-querying, 'open-this-wide' logic you can throw at the problem."

For a more thorough explanation, see Toby Inkster's Fonts: Default Size is Best.

[newwebseo]

Out of 10 I will give your website 5.
You website is an average as per design but speed is good.

Your website is providing tutorials related to designing. So my friend your site has to have a outstanding design.

This post has been edited by newwebseo: Mar 18 2011, 02:10 AM

[The Refiner's Fire]

Looks fine, but doesn't fit on my 1024x768.

[jimlongo]

Don't use px for font sizes on the WWW. Instead, use 100% for body text, larger percentages for headings and the like, and (slightly) smaller percentages for legalese and similar fine print.

Darin, I see you advise people a lot on percent vs. px for font sizes. And, I believe I understand why, though I don't myself use percent. I'd like none-the-less to hear your reasoning for this, please.

Perhaps we should start a new thread on this subject. If one doesn't already exist. I can't imagine I'm the first to question this.

Many people advocate using a percent setting in the body {font-size: 100%;} and then the em for individual selectors.

This post has been edited by jimlongo: Mar 18 2011, 10:28 AM

[Darin McGrew]

Many people advocate using a percent setting in the body {font-size: 100%;} and then the em for individual selectors.

That's fine. You could use em all the time, except for browser bugs. But if you specify 100% for the body element, that works around the browser bugs and you can use em everywhere else. But the important thing is to leave the font size for body text (which isn't the same as the body element) at 100% or 1.0em.

[kyle246]

Thank you for your responses so far. I was wondering if you have more of reviews of the website other than my text size.

Like how do you like the design?
It is easy to navigate in?
Is it appealing?



Thank you.
http://www.thundertutorials.com

[crowdogs]

Well as I said, I like it. The self-filling cup is really cool too!

Oh, one more thing. You might think about hyphenating 'self-filling'. Its a judgmental rule, but one that I think applies. Though I'm not an English Major, so take it for what its worth. See Compound Words: When to Hyphenate.