Website Review Www.ymca: - Tech Pros

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

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!

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


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

thanks a lot , i really appreciate this.


thanks.

will work on it before tomorrow. thanks


  bad me, i will get rid of that immediately


  just kidding


  can't imagine it not being pulled from db.


  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.


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


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

thanks


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


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


i will reduce the font size.


checking out grey box


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.

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.

@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

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

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

@ 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 

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