Hi,

I am currently studying part-time towards a Master Degree in Advanced computing. As part of this course I have had to create a Web Site using the latest and greatest Web technologies (or so I am told).

Due to a complete obsession with my roadster the site is completely devoted to the crossfire. I am hoping that some of you would be nice enough to have a quick look at the site and tell me know what you think of it.

The Web site is hosted at: www.allbollox.co.uk (it is completely safe even though you may get a warning - trust me I want to be a doctor).

I am after some positive criticism - are there any mistakes, have I omitted anything important?

Thanks in advance,

Pete

 

Site doesn't load for me. Running Firefox 1.0.7 on Ubuntu...

 

Won't load w/ Firefox for me, either. I did look at it with Internet Explorer. Call me American, but I am completely lost on the reasoning behind your obsession with the word "bollox". That word doesn't even exist in our vocabulary.

From the perspective of someone who does not at all understand web design (but spends plenty of time surfing), you've got a ways to go. The initial layout looks good, but how about building in more links to useful information, a gallery or two, a road test or two, a blog, etc. You could take it from being kind of your homemade "Homestead" site to something a lot more interesting and useful for your audience. As a development study, it's fine. But if the goal is to make a website that is marketable, frequently visited by people, etc please consider some of the above suggestions.

 

Thanks for the input ... umm firefox and browsers in general - I guess this highlights the need for web developers to do all the clever stuff on the server side (just output HTML to the client browsers) rather than hoping that a user has a suitably enabled browser. Unfortunately my host server won't allow me to do this (a pity, but it is very cheap).


The other problem with this technology is that a web bot (e.g GoogleBot) would never find the site and therefore the site would not be indexed and be invisible to search engines. For this reason I would never develop a commercial site in this way (well not for a few years anyway).

BTW I found a crossfire specific news service that I will be adding to the site tonight.

Thanks again,

Pete

 

OK - I can see the site but am I right in thinking there is one page and some links only - what's the "technology" meant to do? I think you could have coded the site with notepad on a PDA to better effect, although perhaps my browser doesn't work with the technology.

I hope this is a very small part of your Masters, it doesn't look like the kind of work I work pay an adult to do. When I was studying I always approached my work from that basis, ie would someone pay me to write the report...I think a student work should aim be at least that good. OK I know that the majority of work done by students is below that level and most students have a steep learning curve on leaving university.

(US readers should realize a Masters degree in the UK is a second degree and can be taught or research - taught degrees are often 2 to 3 years classroom following on from the first degree, research can be anytime and take any time period - one exception is Cambridge that post your Masters to you a year after you complete you degree, no extra study required)?

I hope you don't mind the bluntness - and I admire you for requesting input...I have spent quite a ot of time looking at websites, award winners and sites noted for being outstanding - two things most of them have in common: a) great content b) clean simple presentation but I suppose an MSc syllabus is all about ticking boxes XSLT XML done.

Good luck with the MSc, part time study is hard work.