Hello poeple,
I'd love you guys to critique this site http://on.nigautoguide.com/index.php
Its my first "professional" job and I'd like to know what you think.
Will greatly appreciate if you make a point and tell me a better way to achieve whatever "error" on the project.
Am always open and eager to learn from better heads.

PS: Special thanks to Dual core, I_want_to, yawatide for their invaluable inputs wenever d thing hook me. You guys are doing a great work. God bless you.

Thanks.

Nice try since you say it's your "first professional job".

-Your DOCTYPE show's you're working on HTML4. I'd suggest to step up at least to XHTML. Might not look so important but really it is.
-The div containing your logo, don't you think it's taking up some good spaces. Try reduce the size as well as the logo size too. Content of the website is what matters most other than the logo.
-Try align your navigation menu to center
-The div below the navigation menu, what actually is it for? Is not serving any purpose, consider removing entirely or reduce the size.
-The div containing the animations, why not try reduce size a little bit. Point is you can have an almost a no scroll web page there. All your contents are just delivered on one page.
------ Those are from your index page

For the other pages that contain images and text, why not try and implement the same image placement technique you used for the pages under "http://on.nigautoguide.com/programmes/" section. It will help you save up more spaces and your work more presently.

Your contact page is still missing. Try fix it up. I'm hoping you won't miss you contact form there as well.


Great job. Keep it coming. Good morning!

@OmniPotens, greatly appreciate your points.
The div below nav, am still considering if a search/log in box will be there. that depends on the client.
On contact, still waiting for the info.
Thanks for the compliments

Disable directory listing.

http://on.nigautoguide.com/programmes/
http://on.nigautoguide.com/images/
http://on.nigautoguide.com/focus/

My Observations

1. There's no need to list your site as http://on.nigautoguide.com/index.php. Simply list it as http://on.nigautoguide.com/ and it will take people to the same page. It is cleaner and good for SEO. And you should put the canonical link element in the head section of your homepage to tell the search engines and the browsers that this is your prefered way of listing your address.

2. The images inside your sub contents are distorted. The width="Xpx" and height="Ypx" properties are missing in your image tags. Include these and the values should match the actual dimensions of the image. This will make your site look more professional.

3. You may consider applying a small left margin property to your box1 div so that it will push everything towards the right. In IE the boxes look left aligned (as the shadow effect you applied to your container div is not visible) but in Firefox, it looks a bit better because the shadow effect is visible. So applying the left margin will create a good display in both browsers , I hope this makes sense.

4. One last tiny bit. Do you really want to use dark and hues (colours) for the site? Adding one warm colour may make the site more inviting (IMO). Maybe use a warm color for the background of the javascript images?

Overall, very good work for a first pro site! Welldone

Dual Core:

Disable directory listing.

http://on.nigautoguide.com/programmes/
http://on.nigautoguide.com/images/
http://on.nigautoguide.com/focus/

@dualCore. Don't get you. Can you xplain wot u mean pls? Tho am yet to link some pages. And you of all ppl never tell me how I rated

@mplusp, I so much appreciate your taking time out to make observations.
am yet to receive the domain name for the site so i decided to host on a sub.
ok. on the box1 div, 1px more and it pushes out in IE (And I can't seem to get my nice shadow effect to work on the friggin browser!!)
The image tag values, some1 said it'll add unnecessary bytes to the markup, i dunno. If not, then am adding them like u said.
On the colors, I feel safer with them dark hues, anything outside I'll feel g.a.y unless u have a suggestion I can try out.
And thanks soo much for the compliment! And oh, i just bookmarked tpcreate,

See this http://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/Directory-Listing.htm

I had nothing to say about your site other than what was said by omni cuz I share same opinion with omni. So i  just have to  include('omni'); echo $omnis_post; //Great job. Keep it coming. Good morning!

Dual Core:

See this http://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/Directory-Listing.htm

I had nothing to say about your site other than what was said by omni cuz I share same opinion with omni. So i  just have to  include('omni'); echo $omnis_post; //Great job. Keep it coming. Good morning!

Ehen, I feel like I belong now. Thanks. Am going thru the link.

You are welcome

1. I was not referring to the subdomain, I meant removing the index.php when listing your webpage (sub or main). If you named it something like mywebpage.php then you should include it but when named index.php or index.html, it is not necessary cos browsers automatically pick up such files anyway.

2. I can see some space to the right of box2 div. I checked your CSS briefly and everything adds up width-wise. You actually have 6px to spare if my calc is right, so I am not sure why it is spilling over when you add 1px. Anyway, don't worry too much about it!

In the process I found something in your CSS   Instead of #myslides img you have #mylides img (the first s in myslides is missing, can this be an error?)

3. I don't know what the person means by adding unneccesary bytes? As in adding to the file size therefore increasing the load time of the page? Actually, including the width and height properties will improve your load time especially for people with slow internet connection. This is because the browser can assign a space for the image using the dimensions, then load the text on the page, and load the image when available.

And don't be too hard on yourself, shadow does not work in all IEs up to IE8 because it is CSS3. Works only in IE9 and I checked ur site, the shadow is displayed in IE9, so that's sorted!

Thanks for the bookmark.

As for the colors, may I suggest pink? Now that's what will make you g.a.y  

feel_me:

@dualCore. Don't get you. Can you xplain wot u mean pls? Tho am yet to link some pages. And you of all ppl never tell me how I rated

@mplusp, I so much appreciate your taking time out to make observations.
am yet to receive the domain name for the site so i decided to host on a sub.
ok. on the box1 div, 1px more and it pushes out in IE (And I can't seem to get my nice shadow effect to work on the friggin browser!!)
The image tag values, some1 said it'll add unnecessary bytes to the markup, i dunno. If not, then am adding them like u said.
On the colors, I feel safer with them dark hues, anything outside I'll feel g.a.y unless u have a suggestion I can try out.
And thanks soo much for the compliment! And oh, i just bookmarked tpcreate,

mplusp:

In the process I found something in your CSS   Instead of #myslides img you have #mylides img (the first s in myslides is missing, can this be an error?)

WOW!. that WAS  error. thanks a mill. corrected it. And I added few px to the box1 and they look much better than before. Will put those values on the images. read it up and it actually will help load the pages faster. You are right. Keep hitting me. Am learning and its such a wonderful xperience.

And umm, thanks for the color. Am black!

Dual Core:

Disable directory listing.

http://on.nigautoguide.com/programmes/
http://on.nigautoguide.com/images/
http://on.nigautoguide.com/focus/

NLers are becoming more security conscious. .iLike dis.

@OP,

Create a file in your home directory and name it .htaccess

Copy & paste this in the file

ServerSignature Off
Options -Indexes
IndexIgnore *
ErrorDocument 404 http://on.nigautoguide.com/
ErrorDocument 403 http://on.nigautoguide.com/
<files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</files>
AddDefaultCharset utf-8

and save.

That'll solve it. .This line ServerSignature Off is necessary in case your host doesn't have it disabled in its httpd.conf (like mine  ) .

If your ServerSignature is On, twill be smthing like dis