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TexasWebDevelopers Posts: 722 Joined: 2/22/2002 From: Dallas, TX Status: offline	Feedback on design appreciated - 9/20/2009 19:42:37 The site was designed by a political committee. Any comments related to design, ease of use, etc.? www.kylerenard.com/ _____________________________ Follow us on TWITTER


treetopsranch Posts: 1539 From: Cottage Grove, OR, USA Status: offline	RE: Feedback on design appreciated - 9/20/2009 20:11:23 I guess it's OK but PLEASE tell that committee to use black text. Light gray text on LCD monitors will not cut it. _____________________________ Don from TreeTops Ranch, Oregon "I've got a taste for quality and luxury" (in reply to TexasWebDevelopers)


TexasWebDevelopers Posts: 722 Joined: 2/22/2002 From: Dallas, TX Status: offline	RE: Feedback on design appreciated - 9/20/2009 20:45:14 Done---#333 _____________________________ Follow us on TWITTER (in reply to treetopsranch)


d a v e Posts: 4348 Joined: 7/24/2002 From: England (but live in Finland now) Status: offline	RE: Feedback on design appreciated - 9/20/2009 23:13:02 fine bar the fully justified text with increased letter spacing (?) normal left justified would be nicer to read _____________________________ David Prescott Gekko web design (in reply to TexasWebDevelopers)


TexasWebDevelopers Posts: 722 Joined: 2/22/2002 From: Dallas, TX Status: offline	RE: Feedback on design appreciated - 9/20/2009 23:50:03 yep---good suggestion...I'll run past the client _____________________________ Follow us on TWITTER (in reply to d a v e)


Tailslide Posts: 6692 Joined: 5/10/2005 From: Out here on the raggedy edge Status: offline	RE: Feedback on design appreciated - 9/21/2009 1:47:31 Hi Nice work - just a couple of points. I'd add in a focus and active state for your navigation (and all links) to ensure people not using a mouse get the same effect with the tabs or with background colour on normal links. For your nav it would be: #header #nav li a:focus, #header #nav li a:hover, #header #nav li a:active{ background-color: #333; color: #0F9; height: 20px; } focus is for modern browsers - active does the same thing for IE. I'd make the nav in the footer a list as well - add a border-right to achieve the pipe effect and a class to the last item to remove it. Personally, I'd get rid of some of the margin on the lists with the apple bullet images. I think (and I might be wrong!) that it would look better with the apples flush against the left hand side rather than indented a bit. I agree with Dave about the line-spacing - try 150% see if that's better. _____________________________ Little Blue Plane Web Design \| Land Rover project (in reply to TexasWebDevelopers)


d a v e Posts: 4348 Joined: 7/24/2002 From: England (but live in Finland now) Status: offline	RE: Feedback on design appreciated - 9/21/2009 9:01:43 "I agree with Dave about the line-spacing - try 150% see if that's better." Tail - it's nice that you agree but i only mentioned the letter spacing being too large ;) also noticed that there's no <h1>s on there. (1 per page of course;) ) _____________________________ David Prescott Gekko web design (in reply to Tailslide)


TexasWebDevelopers Posts: 722 Joined: 2/22/2002 From: Dallas, TX Status: offline	RE: Feedback on design appreciated - 9/21/2009 9:13:12 I agree on the line spacing and the apple indents. Tailslide, you really rock! The focus should be standard in my CSS and I haven't been doing that. The nav in the footer is a database call in an include so I'll tweak those into a list also....this was a pressure job...less than 24 hours from start to finish...it's been "forest for the trees" for me and I really appreciate all of your feedback to help clean this up! Although it validates html4 transitional it really should be xhtml strict...but the continual issue is my javascript editor. This is a full WIKI so that the user can add,delete, and modify pages. But my editor often sticks in markup that is html4 OK but not xhtml strict OK....I'm working on that bit over the next few days. the CSS also validates but with too many warnings...I'll have to address that sooner than later. _____________________________ Follow us on TWITTER (in reply to d a v e)


TexasWebDevelopers Posts: 722 Joined: 2/22/2002 From: Dallas, TX Status: offline	RE: Feedback on design appreciated - 9/21/2009 10:59:23 OK--all suggestions have been implemented: 1. Text set to #333 2. Line height at 150% 3. Left justified text 4. added bottom nav as list with border instead of pipes 5. focus and active states in all navigation 6. killed left margin on bulleted lists The only issue outstanding (so far) is letter spacing...Dave thinks it's too large? How about the rest of ya'll? _____________________________ Follow us on TWITTER (in reply to TexasWebDevelopers)


d a v e Posts: 4348 Joined: 7/24/2002 From: England (but live in Finland now) Status: offline	RE: Feedback on design appreciated - 9/21/2009 11:23:55 the trouble with letter spacing is that it's so clumsy! it's a fixed space between each letter rather than something that's properly kerned as in a DTP program. for me it makes it darn hard to read as you have it now. i prefer my version, naturally ;) http://pp.kpnet.fi/prescott/stuff/kr_4texwebdev/daves.html _____________________________ David Prescott Gekko web design (in reply to TexasWebDevelopers)


Tailslide Posts: 6692 Joined: 5/10/2005 From: Out here on the raggedy edge Status: offline	RE: Feedback on design appreciated - 9/21/2009 11:41:57 quote: ORIGINAL: d a v e "I agree with Dave about the line-spacing - try 150% see if that's better." Tail - it's nice that you agree but i only mentioned the letter spacing being too large ;) DOH!! You know it's my eyesight - it's been getting worse and worse lately. Obviously my advancing years. _____________________________ Little Blue Plane Web Design \| Land Rover project (in reply to d a v e)


TexasWebDevelopers Posts: 722 Joined: 2/22/2002 From: Dallas, TX Status: offline	RE: Feedback on design appreciated - 9/21/2009 13:02:16 Got it--after talking with the client and showing her an example we pushed the font up in size and killed the letter spacing. _____________________________ Follow us on TWITTER (in reply to Tailslide)


treetopsranch Posts: 1539 From: Cottage Grove, OR, USA Status: offline	RE: Feedback on design appreciated - 9/21/2009 19:21:27 Looks great now. I wish I had your talent! _____________________________ Don from TreeTops Ranch, Oregon "I've got a taste for quality and luxury" (in reply to TexasWebDevelopers)


TexasWebDevelopers Posts: 722 Joined: 2/22/2002 From: Dallas, TX Status: offline	RE: Feedback on design appreciated - 9/22/2009 8:08:06 I humbly accept your gracious complement...the older I get the more I realize that "talent" is mostly "practice" (with the exception of those gifted with the innate artistic ability to stir the emotions with paint, voice, dance, etc. - there is something else going on there that practice only enhances but does not create). _____________________________ Follow us on TWITTER (in reply to treetopsranch)


EdgeAgain Posts: 25 Joined: 7/9/2008 Status: offline	RE: Feedback on design appreciated - 9/22/2009 8:17:01 Re: the top menu: when I click on resume, contact or donate, it still shows "Home" as active tab. In the top nav it looks like you need to change class="on" for the other three pages to the applicable tab. Ed (in reply to TexasWebDevelopers)


TexasWebDevelopers Posts: 722 Joined: 2/22/2002 From: Dallas, TX Status: offline	RE: Feedback on design appreciated - 9/22/2009 9:16:07 Good catch! Thanks! ------- done < Message edited by TexasWebDevelopers -- 9/22/2009 11:02:12 > _____________________________ Follow us on TWITTER (in reply to EdgeAgain)

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