Website review

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Kevin said:
Can you please visit my website at http://www.mysticwarriorsofrage.com
and review it then post suggestions on how I might improve it?

Thanks in advance for all your help.
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It's a nice site, simple and well put together. I like it. Just a few minor
suggestions:

-- I'd remove the hit counter, because (1) they aren't accurate, and (2) why
is it the user's business, really? You personally can use your host's site
statistics page, or install Google Analytics, which is easy, free, and much
more detailed and accurate.

-- In the same vein, I have never understood why any user would care whether
a web page's code was valid or not. Anybody who knows about validation can
check it himself with a couple of keystrokes, and for everybody else, it's
just unnecessary.

-- Orange text on a black background is pretty hard to read.

-- Many people block popups these days, so it's really better not to use
them unless there's some compelling reason.

That's all, and none of that is a big deal. Nice work!

Cheers,
 
It's a nice site, simple and well put together. I like it. Just a few minor
suggestions:

-- I'd remove the hit counter, because (1) they aren't accurate, and (2) why
is it the user's business, really? You personally can use your host's site
statistics page, or install Google Analytics, which is easy, free, and much
more detailed and accurate.

-- In the same vein, I have never understood why any user would care whether
a web page's code was valid or not. Anybody who knows about validation can
check it himself with a couple of keystrokes, and for everybody else, it's
just unnecessary.

-- Orange text on a black background is pretty hard to read.

-- Many people block popups these days, so it's really better not to use
them unless there's some compelling reason.

That's all, and none of that is a big deal. Nice work!

Cheers,

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Thanks Patty but it is not supposed to be orange text at all it is
really supposed to be a gold in color on the text. I have worked on
several pages in the past so I really believe that validation is
important in general and some of the pages I put together validation
is a major issue with especially if they are generated by a third
party software such as the forums I have on that site.

As far as the hit counter goes I know it is not accurate and I think I
am just going to remove it all together as I have statcounter which
like you said is far superior as well.

I only have one or two pop ups on the site and they are in the
downloads area so the regular visitors can download a chat client for
example to talk among themselves.

Thanks for your ideas though.

Sincerely,
Kevin
http://www.lakeareawebs.com
 
Thanks Patty but it is not supposed to be orange text at all it is
really supposed to be a gold in color on the text.
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Okay - whatever you call it - it's hard to read! :-)
I have worked on
several pages in the past so I really believe that validation is
important in general and some of the pages I put together validation
is a major issue with especially if they are generated by a third
party software such as the forums I have on that site.
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Absolutely, valid code is important. But I don't see any reason to announce
it publicly to the users of a site.
 
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