Review CirtexHosting

**cirtexhosting.com** · 03-12-2007, 06:13 AM

Hi

Just wanted to see some feedbacks from the gurus here

Any input we get will be considered and also put on our list for our new upcoming design.

Known issues
- [?] mouseover doesn't function in opera
- Loading time can be improved if remove more images
- SEO needs to be optimized more.

All feedbacks are welcome.

Thanks

**tech_support** · 03-12-2007, 06:39 AM

WOW!!! That's cheap!

How much is it $AU?

**cirtexhosting.com** · 03-12-2007, 06:48 AM

Originally Posted by tech_support

WOW!!! That's cheap!

How much is it $AU?

Hi

This is more of a review request thread, so any input regarding our design/site usability is appreciated

For currency conversion, use http://www.xe.com/ucc/

Cheers

**tech_support** · 03-12-2007, 06:49 AM

Ok. If you wish:

- You need a DOCTYPE with your page.

We'll see what everyone else thinks.

I'm going to see how much it is now...

**cirtexhosting.com** · 03-12-2007, 06:55 AM

Originally Posted by tech_support

Ok. If you wish:

- You need a DOCTYPE with your page.

We'll see what everyone else thinks.

I'm going to see how much it is now...

Forgot to mention that

When adding doctype, it seems to break the [?] mouse overs for firefox which is extremely weird so we had to decide to not include it

**tech_support** · 03-12-2007, 06:58 AM

I'm on your live chat.

It appears to be replying twice every time.

**cirtexhosting.com** · 03-12-2007, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by tech_support

I'm on your live chat.

It appears to be replying twice every time.

It works fine in IE + Firefox, what browser are you using, Opera?

**tech_support** · 03-14-2007, 05:32 AM

FireFox.

**Twey** · 03-14-2007, 09:14 AM

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

Yet:

Code:

twey@peordh ~ $ telnet cirtexhosting.com 80
Trying 66.246.218.16...
Connected to cirtexhosting.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Connection: close
Host: cirtexhosting.com
Accept: application/xhtml+xml, text/html; q=0.5

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:00:40 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: close
X-Pad: work around browser bug
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a

Connection closed by foreign host.

Your headers lie. You're sending XHTML, but they say you're sending HTML, even when I've specified not only that I accept XHTML, but also that I would prefer it. This results in browsers trying to error-correct your code into valid HTML rather than parsing it as XHTML. Of course, if you send it with the correct Content-Type (application/xhtml+xml), it won't work in IE, which doesn't support XHTML yet. Thus, if you want to support IE (which I'm guessing you probably do) you should steer clear of XHTML until IE gets support.
Also, it would be a much bigger step towards a standard site to use HTML 4.01 Strict. XHTML Transitional is based on HTML 4 Transitional, which was intended to ease the transition between HTML 3 and HTML 4. Nobody uses HTML 3 any more, so nobody should be using Transitional DOCTYPEs either. There are several things in your document that won't validate as HTML Strict, but I won't mention them here; you can use the validator to find them for yourself after you've changed your DOCTYPE.

Code:

function MDM_openWindow(theURL,winName,features) 
{ 
  var _W=window.open(theURL,winName,features);
	  _W.focus();
      _W.moveTo(50,50); 
}

Hm, this code looks like some of the standard junk created by some kind of GUI editor. I'd say DreamWeaver (especially coupled with the stupid XHTML Trans DOCTYPE), but I don't think it uses an MDM_ prefix. Either way, steer well clear of such things. Write your code yourself, don't trust a program to do it for you. They always muck it up. If you must have an IDE, get something like Bluefish or Aptana that helps you rather than doing it for you.
Now this is definitely cruft from an old version of DreamWeaver:

Code:

<script language="javascript" type="text/JavaScript">
function mmLoadMenus() {
  if (window.mm_menu_0821104731_0) return;
   window.mm_menu_0821104731_0 = new Menu("root",138,20,"Tahoma",11,"#FFFFFF","#FFFFFF","#66CC33","#ff8800","left","middle",3,0,300,-5,7,true,true,true,0,false,false);
  mm_menu_0821104731_0.addMenuItem("Web&nbsp;Hosting","location='shared.shtml'");
  mm_menu_0821104731_0.addMenuItem("Reseller&nbsp;Hosting","location='resellers.shtml'");
  mm_menu_0821104731_0.addMenuItem("Unmetered&nbsp;Hosting","location='unmetered.shtml'");

   mm_menu_0821104731_0.fontWeight="bold";
   mm_menu_0821104731_0.hideOnMouseOut=true;
   mm_menu_0821104731_0.bgColor='#269926';
   mm_menu_0821104731_0.menuBorder=1;
   mm_menu_0821104731_0.menuLiteBgColor='#FFFFFF';
   mm_menu_0821104731_0.menuBorderBgColor='#43C043';
  window.mm_menu_0821105727_0 = new Menu("root",138,20,"Tahoma",11,"#FFFFFF","#FFFFFF","#66CC33","#ff8800","left","middle",3,0,300,-5,7,true,true,true,0,false,false);
  mm_menu_0821105727_0.addMenuItem("FAQs","location='faqs.shtml'");
  mm_menu_0821105727_0.addMenuItem("Tutorials","location='tutorials.shtml'");
  mm_menu_0821105727_0.addMenuItem("Helpdesk","location='http://support.cirtex.com'");
  mm_menu_0821105727_0.addMenuItem("Billing","location='https://billing.cirtex.com'");
  mm_menu_0821105727_0.addMenuItem("Tools","location='tools.shtml'");
  mm_menu_0821105727_0.addMenuItem("Contact&nbsp;Us","location='contact.shtml'");
   mm_menu_0821105727_0.fontWeight="bold";
   mm_menu_0821105727_0.hideOnMouseOut=true;
   mm_menu_0821105727_0.bgColor='#269926';
   mm_menu_0821105727_0.menuBorder=1;
   mm_menu_0821105727_0.menuLiteBgColor='#FFFFFF';
   mm_menu_0821105727_0.menuBorderBgColor='#43C043';

mm_menu_0821105727_0.writeMenus();
} // mmLoadMenus()
<!--
function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
  var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
    var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
    if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}

function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0
  var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc;
}

function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01
  var p,i,x;  if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
    d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
  if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
  for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
  if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x;
}

function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0
  var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3)
   if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];}
}
//-->
</script>

It looks very non-standard, although I can't tell without looking at the Menu function, which is in a different file that would take an age to load with my current connection problems. Either way, it's still ugly. Ditch it.

**mburt** · 03-14-2007, 10:24 AM

That looks like a generated FrontPage menu... hmm.

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