Clio Wired (History 696)

Well, where to begin.....

First off, I'd like to add an OK site to the list. It happens to be the site where I found the three above. While looking for the best history sites, I figured I might find the worst as well. So I searched for "history" and found a link to the "best history sites" on the net. The site itself is decent, and it does have a pretty neat list of sites (I found all of the above from there). That's BestHistorySites.net incase the other link wasn't noticed. :)

Anyhow, the good was good because it is well laid out. You can get to any aspect of the site from any page you are on (ie, the navigation works well, and is well accessible). The color scheme is nice, text on background is easy to read. Just well done.

The bad and ugly suffer from similar ailments. They both employ the "put everything on one long page with no side by side column type of layout" technique. This is common among beginner and novice web page creators. Heck, I probably did the same with mine so many moons ago. Another problem faced by new commers (and portraid beautifully by the ugly site) is the "use a repeated image for the background" error. That's just not a very good practice. It's hard to read the text on such images, and it takes away from the other aspects of the site.

Anyhow, I've tried to keep things nice and clean on my site. Everything is well spaced, the menu is available throughout, there are only a few colors, which are consistent, etc.. (this is of course only talking about the part of my site after the GMU in the URL).

Anyhow, that's what I seen!

Ammon