Food and recipe

G'day Terry,

There are already plenty of these around of course, but you're very welcome to aspire to being the best of them.

I find it difficult to believe you will encourage many committed (even addicted :) newsgroups participants to desert to a web forum. ;-) Indeed, I don't see the point myself of leaving one discussion area (and a very efficient one at that, being text based) to go to another unless there is some very compelling reason. (One advantage you could have would be in sensible formatting of archived topics to emphasise the "flow" and avoid the clutter of attributions which can be a bane in USENET when you have to scroll down pages just to see some generic comment by an inane bottom poster.)

A couple of comments: 1. Much of your text is too "wordy". This is partly because of using too many words (too much "fill") and partly because of the "density" of the type and layout you have used. The font is so small and the lines so long that there are about 15 to 18 words in most lines -- far too many for easy reading. Some paragraph breaks would help too! An example of this problem as I see it:

2. The other problem with the font size you've used is that it's a bit too small for comfortable reading anyway for anyone whose eyes are a bit sus. Of course, others may like to see as much as possible on one screen, so why not leave to decision to the reader as much as possible? There are obviously techniques in writing HTML so readers can adjust the displayed font size to suit individual preferences by using the Control key and the mouse wheel. Maybe you could look into that approach?

Oh, and (3) you have a problem with the number of a verb here: "most of the food sites does not give " on your page:

Cheers, Phred.

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