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Relaunch; whaddya think??? - 11/23/2006 12:18:28
We've just refreshed our site www.intenseco.com and I'm keen for your thoughts. The design isn't mine, though I'm pretty happy with it - I mostly formatted the content areas. If you're unsure as to what Intense actually does, you can view our corporate video here. Again, comments welcome!
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RE: Relaunch; whaddya think??? - 11/23/2006 13:41:30
I've got my browser set at one text size up from normal in FF and the front page breaks (the image splits up) but since you were doing the content areas I'm guessing that wasn't your fault!
The content areas are much better - the only thing I'd say is that the line-height is too low - if you up it to 140% it looks just about right (IMO!) - including in the left-hand nav.
For some reason the FF page shift really annoys me on this site - no idea why, maybe 'cos the main text area is quite narrow - so I'd add:
html { min-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 1px; }
to get rid of it completely!
I agree with Jaybee about the dropdowns needing to be darker and black/white thing - try #555 instead of black - it's close enough but just easier on the eyes.
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RE: Relaunch; whaddya think??? - 11/24/2006 4:25:37
Thanks for some excellent ideas folks; I'll take these to the people who make decisions and see what their thoughts are.
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RE: Relaunch; whaddya think??? - 11/27/2006 10:39:05
Hi again; I've taken a look at the suggestions and implemented most of them - take a look at www.intenseco.com.
Anderskorte, I've aligned the text baselines on the front page - you were right it was well off - but I am not sure about the kerning. To me, it certainly looks like (for example) the e's and n in generation are a lot wider than the t and i but my graphics package (Paintshop Pro 9) has the text set to "Autokern". Is this what you mean? If so, any ideas how I fix it in PSP? Is it simply best to manually nudge the letters together?
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RE: Relaunch; whaddya think??? - 11/27/2006 10:56:53
I'm working on him - I think an index page, as suggested, will be the solution...
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RE: Relaunch; whaddya think??? - 11/28/2006 6:08:37
Sorted; I'm not sure why we had such a crazy way of listing them in the first (last?) place. That's a much more sensible list with links in place. What's more, I figured out how to take the first 200 characters out of the biog, find the next space then split it and add a hyperlinked [...more].
I feel clever today.
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RE: Relaunch; whaddya think??? - 11/28/2006 16:06:59
Hmmm; I knew that; my italics must have been misplaced...
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RE: Relaunch; whaddya think??? - 11/28/2006 17:19:47
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To me, it certainly looks like (for example) the e's and n in generation are a lot wider than the t and i but my graphics package (Paintshop Pro 9) has the text set to "Autokern".
Looks like you're trying to do the program's own automatic kerning or something, that is, based on mathematics and not visuals. That's because Arial shouldn't do that, it's a very well kerned font.
And why can't you use the same font that is in the word “Intense” (Akzidenz-Grotesk)?
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RE: Relaunch; whaddya think??? - 11/28/2006 17:26:23
I didn't know what font it was! Our logo was designed a looong time ago and no-one knows who by so fonts etc are a mystery. The intense part of th image is a copy of a copy of a copy, whilst I just slung in the extra text in arial. PSP is definitely set to autokern (the factory default) so I don't know what else I can do.
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RE: Relaunch; whaddya think??? - 11/28/2006 17:51:23
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I didn't know what font it was!
I'm not 100% sure it's Akzidenz-Grotesk, but it sure looks like it. The only difference is that the i dot is round, but in Akzidenz all dots are squares.
But I don't know if you'll benefit from that info, since Akzidenz isn't available under €200.
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