hi everyone,

I just design this website but will like the house to give rating and opinions on graphics, functionality, color blend, usability, browser compatibiity and others
thanks for you time.

www.ymcabauchi.org

very neat and simple; though i havent gone through all the links

Sam:

Wat is the point of a review if you don't click around? 

My review:
1) http://www.ymcabauchi.org/team.php - I selected a department and filled out all other fields, yet I get an error asking me to select a department 

2) I start typing on page above then a weird number appears to the bottom right.  I wonder what it is then figure out it is telling me characters I have typed but I see no correlation b/w that and what I am typing.  Might I suggest:1
a) You style a box around the number so that it is noticeable
b) Indicate to the user how many characters they have to type, either min or max

3) Header: YMCA in red is not readable to me. Neither is the white text

4) http://www.ymcabauchi.org/allnews.php - is the news being pulled from a db? If not, I pity whoever will be updating the page.  If yes, never mind

5) http://www.ymcabauchi.org/supportYmca.php - I select Nicaragua, hit enter and I get a lightbox-type popup telling me there is no content.  Fair enough.  What pissed me off is that, there was no way for me to get rid of the modal window.  Crashed my browser man (I use FF).  What if I don't want to speak with your team? 

6) I see that you are using jquery which is cool but unless I am not hitting the right pages, I don't see you using it that much.  Hopefully you didn't download 55KB of code for just a thing or 2.

7) The gray bar: Left side says YMCA bauchi.  Right said says news.  I would probably demarcate b/w the 2 as to me, one color denotes they are related.

8 ) A lot of your code is just fluff.  If you used CSS layout, you could reduce download times significantly.  Check out what I found on this page: http://www.ymcabauchi.org/supportYmca.php#sup

<tr>
                <td width="123" height="16"></td>
                        <td width="10"></td>
                        <td width="20"></td>
                        <td width="71"></td>

                        <td width="8"></td>
                        <td width="21"></td>
                        <td width="91"></td>
                        <td width="21"></td>
                        <td width="4"></td>
                        <td width="84"></td>
                        <td width="48"></td>
                        <td width="11"></td>
                </tr>
9) Each page just seems similar - white content area to the left with the same images in the header and to the right.  Maybe you could use jquery to do a fading in/out show every 10 seconds or so so the pages don't look so "text-y"

10) Long pages should have a "back to top".  Jquery has a cool plugin called jtinyscrolling.  Use it

11) Pages with breadcrumbs like: http://www.ymcabauchi.org/ymcaSchools.php - not cool how the items wrap.  Maybe you should consider reducing the number of characters or the actual font size.

This is just a 30,000-foot view.  Sorry for the long post but I wanted to show how to go about an actual review - nothing negative or discouraging but plenty of stuff to learn from.

Good luck!

<span class="style1">Bauchi YMCA Ongoing Projects</span> for the index page and <td height="34" align="left" valign="middle" class="topred">Fill the form below to Support Us @ Ymca Bauchii</td> for the support YMCA page doesn't look good with brown image on the background ill advise u to try another color probably a diff shade of blue.

5) http://www.ymcabauchi.org/supportYmca.php - I select Nicaragua, hit enter and I get a lightbox-type popup telling me there is no content. Fair enough. What pissed me off is that, there was no way for me to get rid of the modal window. Crashed my browser man (I use FF). What if I don't want to speak with your team?

Try using Grey box instead its lightweight and cute here is the download link http://orangoo.com/labs/GreyBox/Download/

http://www.ymcabauchi.org/allnews.php


Warning: mysql_free_result(): 3 is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/content/t/e/n/tengpro/html/ymcabauchi.org/allnews.php on line 221

yawa-ti-de:

4) http://www.ymcabauchi.org/allnews.php - is the news being pulled from a db? If not, I pity whoever will be updating the page.  If yes, never mind

The content is coming from a database. And there is an error on the page.

I love myself for one thing - I always give myself some wiggle room. Good thing I said, "if yes, never mind" cos I suspected that it might be coming from a db

thanks a lot , i really appreciate this.

Sam Milla:

very neat and simple; though i havent gone through all the links

thanks.

yawa-ti-de:


My review:
1) http://www.ymcabauchi.org/team.php - I selected a department and filled out all other

fields, yet I get an error asking me to select a department 

will work on it before tomorrow. thanks

yawa-ti-de:


2) I start typing on page above then a weird number appears to the bottom right.  I wonder

what it is then figure out it is telling me characters I have typed but I see no correlation

b/w that and what I am typing.  Might I suggest:1
a) You style a box around the number so that it is noticeable
b) Indicate to the user how many characters they have to type, either min or max

bad me, i will get rid of that immediately

yawa-ti-de:


3) Header: YMCA in red is not readable to me.  Neither is the white text

just kidding

yawa-ti-de:


4) http://www.ymcabauchi.org/allnews.php - is the news being pulled from a db? If not, I

pity whoever will be updating the page.  If yes, never mind

can't imagine it not being pulled from db.

yawa-ti-de:


5) http://www.ymcabauchi.org/supportYmca.php - I select Nicaragua, hit enter and I get a

lightbox-type popup telling me there is no content.  Fair enough.  What pissed me off is

that, there was no way for me to get rid of the modal window.  Crashed my browser man (I use

FF).  What if I don't want to speak with your team?  Angry Angry

you dont mean it.
the client want visitors to be forced to contact their team but i think base on this i need

to speak with my client again.

yawa-ti-de:


6) I see that you are using jquery which is cool but unless I am not hitting the right

pages, I don't see you using it that much.  Hopefully you didn't download 55KB of code for

just a thing or 2.

i did not use the entire 55kb. just pick one or two things from it.

yawa-ti-de:

7) The gray bar: Left side says YMCA bauchi.  Right said says news.  I would probably

demarcate b/w the 2 as to me, one color denotes they are related.

tried that but was not looking good. i will do a change ( during my free time ).

thanks

yawa-ti-de:

8 ) A lot of your code is just fluff.  If you used CSS layout, you could reduce download

times significantly.  Check out what I found on this page:

http://www.ymcabauchi.org/supportYmca.php#sup

<tr>
                <td width="123" height="16"></td>
                        <td width="10"></td>
                        <td width="20"></td>
                        <td width="71"></td>

                        <td width="8"></td>
                        <td width="21"></td>
                        <td width="91"></td>
                        <td width="21"></td>
                        <td width="4"></td>
                        <td width="84"></td>
                        <td width="48"></td>
                        <td width="11"></td>
                </tr>

am working on CSS, i just need time to eat and digest CSS 

yawa-ti-de:

10) Long pages should have a "back to top".  Jquery has a cool plugin called jtinyscrolling.

Use it

lazy me can't implement that now but i will keep that in mind.

yawa-ti-de:

11) Pages with breadcrumbs like: http://www.ymcabauchi.org/ymcaSchools.php - not cool how

the items wrap.  Maybe you should consider reducing the number of characters or the actual

font size.

i will reduce the font size.

inf8nity:

<span class="style1">Bauchi YMCA Ongoing Projects</span> for the index page and <td height="34" align="left" valign="middle" class="topred">Fill the form below to Support Us @ Ymca Bauchii</td> for the support YMCA page doesn't look good with brown image on the background ill advise u to try another color probably a diff shade of blue.

Try using Grey box instead its lightweight and cute here is the download link http://orangoo.com/labs/GreyBox/Download/

checking out grey box

Afam:

http://www.ymcabauchi.org/allnews.php


Warning: mysql_free_result(): 3 is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/content/t/e/n/tengpro/html/ymcabauchi.org/allnews.php on line 221


The content is coming from a database. And there is an error on the page.

Afam, how did u get that i tried id that does not exist but did not get any error. i really need to suppress that error.

poster:
I didn't get the error either which is why I had asked if it was coming from a db (by the way, it isn't mandatory that you pull news from a db, though it is the most efficient way )

To suppress errors, consider try/catch or using the suppress symbol (@ - read up on it)

You take instructions well. I look forward to the final product. Good luck!

changes have been made, pls more comment

the website : www.ymcabauchi.org

Afam, i still want to know how you got that error from the site cos i don't see how that is possible.

Tech Pros:

Afam, i still want to know how you got that error from the site cos i don't see how that is possible.

The error is on the same page http://www.ymcabauchi.org/allnews.php

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will see it.

I was even surprised to see the error just as I was responding to this post just to be sure it was since there since you have not noticed it so could not have rectified it.

Warning: mysql_free_result(): 3 is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/content/t/e/n/tengpro/html/ymcabauchi.org/allnews.php on line 222

@yawatide,

Please, pardon me for being off-topic. I will like to make a request for your e-book on CSS that you gave out sometimes.

My hard disk crashed and I lost the copy. Please, my email is yankeegee@yahoo.com. Once again, sorry for the distraction

thanks afam, i will fix that before night. i did not notice it but still wondering where that is coming from, i will check my code.

@ everyone
have made some changes, pls visit and make comment.
www.ymcabauchi.org

@ cactus
where are u ? come and say something. am waiting for your comment.

your code are, i agree with ya wa!! 95%

It's getting there.

One thing you might want to do for that right column is to make sure it's width lines up with the width of the white box, above the gray horizontal bar, for balance. Speaking ofwhich, I still think there is a color you could use to make it different from the gray to the left.

Nice lightbox, albeit with only one photo

@ smartsoft
na me and u dey use table before o but becos u don sabi CSS, you no want let me. no worry me ma don vex, just give me one or two months 

you and who lol well i must tell you when i read My2cent tutorial on CSS, my mindset change so i started using CSS it must interest you that i still use Table but 10% of it, i can remember when i use CSS for an HOTEL website for Sheraton. all my jobs are DIVs blah blah CSS blah blah.

For some ppl who want WOW job graphical huh u can knock me for that.

MT send me email at yawatide at yahoo dot com and I will definitely hook you up. As smartsoft can attest, your eyes go open