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Lakshmipathi · 09-21-2008

Here is my first web site.

First I thought about 'drupal' for website.But later changed my mind,created a simple
HTML based website.This will have user guide and other docs related to linux projects.

I'm a very pathetic web designer

so I welcome suggestions(color,font,design) to improve this site.

Site Home Page: www.giis.co.in

PellRoja · 09-21-2008

the icons is very good, and the structure is oderly

but the colors, i put light colors.

schwim · 09-21-2008

I think it's looking fine and is an awesome first attempt.

I would consider using your head tags so you can add a title to your page as well as keywords and descriptions for any site indexes that use them. Also, as you progress, you'll need the head area to store any javascript, css, etc.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Site title</title>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="EXPIRES" CONTENT="0">
<META NAME="RESOURCE-TYPE" CONTENT="DOCUMENT">
<META NAME="DISTRIBUTION" CONTENT="GLOBAL">
<META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="You">
<META NAME="COPYRIGHT" CONTENT="Copyright (c) by You">
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="keywords, that, pertain, to, what, your, site, is, about">
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="Brief description concerninng your site">
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW">
<META NAME="REVISIT-AFTER" CONTENT="1 DAYS">
<META NAME="RATING" CONTENT="GENERAL">
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Gedit">

<link rel="/home/site/public_html/includes/css/styles.css"  TYPE="text/css" />
</head>
<body>

Also, at the bottom of your page, you've got some text sitting outside of your body.

Have fun with it!

thanks,
json

Lakshmipathi · 09-22-2008

thanks guyz

@PellRoja,
light colors like? can please give more info. about good background/foreground colors?

@schwim,
I'll change the head tags and bottom line as specified by you.

*Cabhan* · 09-22-2008

I'm not sure that meta tags are so necessary (certainly no modern search engines rely on them), but they do provide a bit more info if someone wants to delve into your page.

I noticed that your page is not standards-compliant:
[Invalid] Markup Validation of http://www.giis.co.in/ - W3C Markup Validator

Being standards-compliant is just about ensuring that anyone on any browser can correctly view your page.

Also, as a guide to moving forward, the current trend in web design is towards a separation of style and semantics by not putting any display information in the HTML, but rather putting it into a separate stylesheet. A guide that explains why can be found at:
learn web standards :: css guide - introduction

Having said that, if this is your first website, well done! It's always exciting to finally have something out there that you've made. Hopefully this will be your first step into an exciting journey of web design.

schwim · 09-22-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cabhan

I'm not sure that meta tags are so necessary (certainly no modern search engines rely on them),

Quote:

Originally Posted by Me

I would consider using your head tags so you can add a title to your page as well as keywords and descriptions for any site indexes that use them.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cabhan

but they do provide a bit more info if someone wants to delve into your page.

Quote:

Originally Posted by W3C

The lang attribute can be used with META to specify the language for the value of the content attribute. This enables speech synthesizers to apply language dependent pronunciation rules.

Quote:

Originally Posted by W3C

The http-equiv attribute can be used in place of the name attribute and has a special significance when documents are retrieved via the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). HTTP servers may use the property name specified by the http-equiv attribute to create an [RFC822]-style header in the HTTP response. Please see the HTTP specification ([RFC2616]) for details on valid HTTP headers.

Quote:

Originally Posted by W3C

The META element may be used to specify the default information for a document in the following instances:

In my opinion, there's a few more reasons to use the meta attributes than just for those wanting to delve further into the page.

I would surely work on them prior to concerning myself with the separation of style and content.

thanks,
json

JeffNetSite · 09-23-2008

Meta is very important specially in search engines. Anyways Drupal is a good CMS why you not continue?

Lakshmipathi · 09-23-2008

Thanks Cabhan For the CSS link

JeffNetSite..
I changed my mind since it's a simple HTML site

JeffNetSite · 09-28-2008

Ah ok I see.

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