Comments on: Testing Your Site, pt.2

By: Emily Cotler

Emily Cotler — Sat, 16 May 2009 21:11:59 +0000

Keira, Thanks — We will fix that alt tag (and to anyone who ever finds an alt tag error on one of our site, please just send us an email — the blog comments section won’t always lend itself to that kind of reporting and we ALWAYS welcome it).

And yes, just as even the finest, most successful writers need copyeditors, we depend upon eagle-eye testers.

Haven, thanks for your input. You are absolutely right in that a lot of people don’t understand about the need for testers. Some may never get the concept, no, but hopefully discussion can convert a few.

By: Keira Soleore

Keira Soleore — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:50:09 +0000

Haven, testers are to coders, what copyeditors and proofreaders are to writers.

By: Haven

Haven — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:45:01 +0000

When I was asked for Elizabeth Boyle’s site, I rather enjoyed going over the pages. But you know, sometimes adding slight variations to each page can change stuff. A slip of coding here and there can find its way in, no matter how careful you are.

The time frame doesn’t bother me. I’d rather comb a site and it take more than a few hours than visit at a later time and see stuff that isn’t right. But that’s just me and that type stuff nit-picks at me.

As for splitting the pages between various testers, that’s a good idea if you’re able to come up with that many testers to start with.

I’ve found that people, in general, still don’t get why designers need a tester when there are programs that will “scan” your coding. Trust me when I say I’ve tried to explain it until I was blue in the face!! Some never get the concept.

By: Keira Soleore

Keira Soleore — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:26:59 +0000

Oops, the actual code didn’t come up there. Trying again…

img src=”../images/covers/london/london_350.jpg” alt=”Mr. Cavendish, I Presume” width=”217″ height=”350″ border=”0″

By: Keira Soleore

Keira Soleore — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:26:20 +0000

I test-drove Diane Gaston’s site, and in the process, I drove her bonkers with my pages of notes.

And here’s an example of the sort of stuff I came up with…

On page http://juliaquinn.com/books/london.php, the ALT tag needs to reflect the IMG SRC.