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New Website, Your Critics by smartsoft(m): 8:47pm On Feb 19, 2008
ehen abeg what do you think ? www.smartsoftngr.com/smsnaija/
Re: New Website, Your Critics by webguru(m): 2:25pm On Feb 20, 2008
it is cool and ok

i just dont feel the font i.e. the one that's bold
Re: New Website, Your Critics by jeshurun07: 5:39pm On Feb 20, 2008
the font is too small, try to work on it

nice layout though, and i like the simplicity

change the font and u have got it
Re: New Website, Your Critics by juintade(m): 12:18pm On Feb 21, 2008
@poster

Nice layout thumbs up, keep it up. I definitely agree with the last to posters, I have an issue with the font as well, especially the latest update part of the site.

I am assuming this is just a prototype site/layout!

I see you are using a mix of gif and jpeg - for photographic images

Mixing your CSS and X(HTML) on the same page not really a good idea

But credit to you for the good design. waiting for the finish product
Re: New Website, Your Critics by my2cents(m): 4:17pm On Feb 21, 2008
I know this is probably still in prototype phase but as I tell pple, if you are a tennis player and each time you serve in practice, u go off target and rather than improve you keep saying, "this is practice, y bother? I will get it during the actual game", sooner or later you will lose focus and in the end be worse off for it. I say all that to say the following:

1) You shouldn't have inline CSS except for that one-off situation. In general, be it PHP, javascript or whatever, if you use one thing more than once, it is definitely a candidate for encapsulation

2) Some of your tags are uppercase and some are lowercase. For XHTML purposes, make them all lowercase.

3) Rather than use proprietary attributes in your body tag (leftmargin for instance), use CSS (body { margin: 0; padding: 0; } )

4) I would get rid of one of the images on the home page. When I first got to the site, I was debating which made more sense and which to click on as to me, they are saying the same thing. I would probably get rid of the one with the girls as they don't convey any business meaning.

5) You have logos for home, site map and contact us at the top and have links for home and contact us in the blue bar. I actually prefer them in the blue bar as those logos are too small for me (and perhaps others) to notice not to mention, they might mean different things to different people (for instance, the site map logo looks more like an org chart)

6) I am beginning to see a lot of "proudly Nigerian" on sites to the point that I am wondering if someone should come up with an official logo. This is where the webmaster association as discussed earlier would come in handy. Right now, each developer puts up his own version. Inconsistency isn't good.

7) I like the logo. Having said that, in addition to increasing text font, increase the font of the 2nd line of the logo as I (and perhaps others) can't read it.

Overall, I will say good job. Sorry for being picky but I am only judging your site based on how my professional work has been judged over the course of 8 years. Some things just get ingrained in you to the point where it comes out and you don't even know you said what you said wink

I hope the above help.
Re: New Website, Your Critics by georgen2u(m): 11:13pm On Feb 21, 2008
the web site is very cute i guess its still in development i may suggest if you can get some scripts and link it properly so that it will be vry active
Keep it on
Soon our Naija Boyz will be ahead of others interms of Digitalism
Re: New Website, Your Critics by uspry1(f): 12:44am On Feb 22, 2008
Your site is simpility but hard to read small font on web content. Make font bigger!
Re: New Website, Your Critics by timmy(m): 1:31pm On Feb 22, 2008
Uche! i really dont like it when yu do this your picture grabing acts angry
Re: New Website, Your Critics by Horus(m): 1:48am On Feb 23, 2008
I like this website,everything is ok,you immediatly find what you want easily on the site,it's clear,simple and the choice of pictures is perfect.Exellent!! wink
Re: New Website, Your Critics by OmniPotens(m): 4:47am On Feb 23, 2008
9ce job Uche. Keep it up.

1) Though the "Proudly Nigerian" has not be decided upon if that logo that appear on some websites is a standard I still think you should make some considerations there. Well, until this is decided upon, you can try if it works. The coloration matches with the website.

2) The menu at the top is the same with that below. Why not try making that on the blue table (topmenu) buttons? I think that will look good. At least have some mouse over effect of them. It would make it look nice.

3) You have inline styles displayed in a good number of places viewing your source. Can you still try encapsulating them into the .css file you called at the header section and now call them using your "class" this will make your source look cool.

4) The girls (image) don't really have anything to do to portray the kind of business you are running so consider a change there.

5) The _icon_home, mail and map might not be easily noticed. I personally didn't notice it until I went through your source. I guess it might be due to my sight defect. It was too tiny for me to notice. You can try making that bolder.

6) The fonts of the write-up below the "LATEST UPDATES" is tiny and requires to be made bolder.

Men, you have done a nice job shaa. You have a good layout. Keep it up.

You are PROUDLY NIGERIAN!
Re: New Website, Your Critics by bakenda(m): 9:05am On Feb 23, 2008
Nice job.Why dont you host it on a seperate domain.
Re: New Website, Your Critics by smartsoft(m): 8:00pm On Feb 24, 2008
well well well @timmy ha if that hurst sorry ooo but it was just a keyword i typed on GETTYIMAGES that brought out those pix.

@everyone thanks for your input.

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