I've recently completed the 2008 website for my high school's baseball team:
http://www.riverhill.org/baseball/2008/select.htm
I'm looking for some [constructive] criticism, so if anyone has any comments on the site (design, layout, colors, etc.), please post them here. Please keep in mind I'm in high school, and don't have all the time and resources that I want.
Looks like a pretty good site alot better than the first work that i did for my school this past year (www.isd2190.org), what program did you use to make it?
Only suggestion i have for you is on the left side where the links such as "home" and "schedual" are, maybe get rid of the cut off bats, looks a little cluttered. the links alone would be sufficient enough. Looks like a pretty good site though.
Over all - not bad. Good use of XHTL with minimal tables. There are a couple of things that you should look at closely.
1) Images - use an image editor like Photoshop or Fireworks to optimize your images. The page load times are enormous. If in Photoshop, use the save for web option. If you do not have Photoshop, use something like GIMP to save out the images optimized. Let me know if you need more guidance there.
2) I would consider abandoning all of the absolutely positioned elements. This is likely a result of slicing your design in a program like Photoshop or illustrator but in the end you will be a better coder/designer if you learn to save out your assets and then place each element separately. It also results in having cleaner code. Many of the css styles in your pages are inline which is considered a bad coding practice.
3) Use Firefox to browse if you are not already and use the Firebug and the Web Developer toolbar extensions for code checking, page load time checking and other developer related functions.
I think you really need to optimise your images they are way to large anyone with dial up would probably time out, I think the site looks ok and works well with your theme. As said you can easily reduce the file size of your images and they will still hold the same quality just not make your site so heavy. Hope this helps
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