First website job ever.... Can you please critique my work!

[danielr]

This is my first website that I have ever built and would really like to have you guys beat me up over it so I can learn how to make it better.

The forms all work but I administer them if you would like to fill them out to test.

Also I have noticed that my search page does not work http://community.discountasp.net/emoticons/mad.gif I don't know why!
This site was created using FP 2003.

I am a sponge so let me have it!

http://www.missamericanbeauty.com

Thanks,

P.S. The site is not totally finished so be prepared for more changes daily.

[bruce]

FrontPage Search function has been deprecated by Microsoft since the release of Windows 2003.

1 thing i noticed is that the height of the black section on top of the page (News Flash / webmail ...) changes with different pages. For example, in the 'How to Participate' page, the black bar is much thinner than other pages.

Bruce

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[danielr]

Thanks, Bruce.

Is there any other function that I can put in place for a search page in place of Frontpage search.

You did not find anything else wrong with the site?

Thanks again,
DCSNB

[mjp]

The main image on the index page is almost 350k - that's still a big download for most people. Even with a broadband connection, that image is going to slow down the loading of your first page. The total size of images on your index page is almost 470k - again, makes for a slow introduction. Try this analysis and see the numbers for yourself:


http://www.doctor-html.com/RxHTML/cgi-bin/single.cgi


The scrolling "Thank you for visiting the site" line is kind of annoying, but that's a matter of taste. Some people like to see a lot of things moving around on a site, some don't. Generally speaking though, a lot of animation tends to give an amateurish feel...






mjp
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