Re: [WSG] site feedback
Hi Marvin 2009/11/12 Marvin Hunkin startrekc...@gmail.com: here'sthe current version and hopefully the final version. now from a accessibility view point, and a layout and content viewpoint. what do you think? It has a plain and unsophisticated look but there’s a certain honesty that comes with that may prove to be appropriate to the business of selling fresh produce. I believe the home page would benefit from a descriptive paragraph which introduces the business and what Joe has to offer, This would make the most sense near the top of the home page with the first image. A summary of the content that appears on the history page would be appropriate. I’d include a read more link to the history page at the end of this text. Actually I would suggest you rename the history page to 'About Joe’s'. The banana icons used on the main navigation are too complex to be used on every link. Their repetition draws attention away from the links themselves rather than helping people visually distinguish between them. If you are willing to do some additional work, I would suggest you only place the icon in front of the link to the current page. The best way to distinguish this link from the others is to not have it linked at all. Instead of the [a] use a [span] or [strong] for emphasis. This will also provide a usability improvement by preventing the confusion that is created when one follows links to a page already loaded. Are the specials going to change? If so you’ll need to be careful to prevent too much text being added to the description of each special. This is a potential problem because you are setting the height of the specials divs – additional content may be obscured if it doesn’t fit in this height. If this content is going to be regularly changed ask this list about alternative layout techniques you could use to avoid this problem. One more point regarding the navigation. Personally I don’t think it is necessary to repeat the navigation at the top and bottom of the page. The 'Top of page' link ought to be adequate for those looking for the navigation in the footer. It would be better I think to split the navigation into two sets to provide the most important links in the site more emphasis. Very few visitors to the site will be looking for Copyright or Credits information so take these out of the navigation at the top of the page and put them in the footer. Similarly, as Nathanael suggested, the links to other Fruit and Veg sites is another candidate for the footer unless you really see this being a core reason people will visit Joe’s web page. I hope you find my criticisms constructive. Ollie @ollicle *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
[WSG] site feedback
hi. does it look a lot better now. take a look. let me know. if this site is basically finished. cheers Marvin. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
[WSG] site feedback
hi. well made quite a few changes. and vallidated all pages. and vallidates. then got a sighted person to review my site. now. here'sthe current version and hopefully the final version. now from a accessibility view point, and a layout and content viewpoint. what do you think? any feedback, good, bad, ugly. but please be civil. cheers Marvin. http://www.raulferrer.com/joe/html/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] site feedback
Hi Marvin, Sorry, I missed the last round of reviews of your site - I'm guessing you've posted it here on WSG previously? There are a few things that I would do differently, but it's a fairly simple site so they're not major issues. If the design was more complex with more content and interaction then perhaps you might need to change things like the navigation, header hierarchy visual priority - otherwise I think it's fine. If I were you I would stick to HTML instead of going with XHTML as you seem to struggle with it; it still doesn't validate. What do you hope to achieve with this site? I can't tell if you're trying to push phone ordering or get people to your shop. You seem to be promoting the phone number (and for the record I dislike 1800-CALL-ME style phone numbers; takes longer to dial) more than the physical address of the shop. Unless your target customer group are already aware of you one of the biggest questions new users to the site will want answered is if you're relevant to them and can provide them service. What area do you cover with phone orders? Do you want to cover all of Australia? Do you get orders from the other side of the country? What's the purpose of your favourite links pages? I suggest you install a web analytics package to see if anyone actually visits those pages. You might want to consider linking to relevant recipes from your produce page next to primary ingredients used in those recipes. Hope that's helpful. If you want more help, you can contact me off-list. I'm available for hire :) Nathanael Boehm Freelance web user interaction designer UX · IxD · UI design · Prototyping · HTML · CSS · JS · Usability · Accessibility · Social media · Tech training Imagine Innovation · KATA Professional · UXnet Canberra · OpenAustralia · BarCampCanberra Australian Social Innovation eXchange (ASIX) Canberra www.purecaffeine.com http://www.purecaffeine.com/about/ Canberra, Australia 0409 288 464 On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Marvin Hunkin startrekc...@gmail.comwrote: hi. well made quite a few changes. and vallidated all pages. and vallidates. then got a sighted person to review my site. now. here'sthe current version and hopefully the final version. now from a accessibility view point, and a layout and content viewpoint. what do you think? any feedback, good, bad, ugly. but please be civil. cheers Marvin. http://www.raulferrer.com/joe/html/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
[WSG] Site Feedback
Hi. sorry about the wrong url. so here's the correct url and take a look and give me feedback. just trying to get my style sheet correct. cheers Marvin. http://drop.io/startrekcafe E-mail: startrekc...@gmail.com MSN: sttartrekc...@msn.com Skype: startrekcafe We Are The Borg! You Will Be Assimilated! Resistance Is Futile! Star Trek Voyager Episode 68 Scorpian Part One E-mail: startrekc...@gmail.com MSN: sttartrekc...@msn.com Skype: startrekcafe We Are The Borg! You Will Be Assimilated! Resistance Is Futile! Star Trek Voyager Episode 68 Scorpian Part One *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
[WSG] site feedback, please?
I'm about 95% done with my first XHTML/CSS site, and I'd like to get some feedback, if you don't mind. I'm aware that the forums link doesn't go where it should, but everything else should be all good. I'm a minimalistic designer, so be prepared for no bells and whistles. http://www.drzeus.net/redesign/cslewis/ Your thoughts (and encouragement *grin*) are most appreciated. Thank you from Portugal... -- ~john _ Dr. Zeus Web Development http://www.DrZeus.net content without clutter ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] site feedback, please?
john wrote: I'm about 95% done with my first XHTML/CSS site, and I'd like to get some feedback, if you don't mind. I'm aware that the forums link doesn't go where it should, but everything else should be all good. I'm a minimalistic designer, so be prepared for no bells and whistles. http://www.drzeus.net/redesign/cslewis/ Your thoughts (and encouragement *grin*) are most appreciated. Thank you from Portugal... John, Cursory look seems to indicate it works well in IE, FF, and Opera (you might want to check the character encoding). At 800 the top of the illustration is a bit covered by the box-- not any real problem, just thought I'd mention it. I did find it bothersome that the text appears between the open spaces between the menu item boxes on scroll. The yellow-orange text was a little difficult for me to read at higher screen resolutions, although it zooms nicely-- even in IE. Nice job. David http://www.dlaakso.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] site feedback, please?
john wrote: I'm about 95% done with my first XHTML/CSS site, and I'd like to get some feedback, if you don't mind. ... http://www.drzeus.net/redesign/cslewis/ Your thoughts (and encouragement *grin*) are most appreciated. Your page is nice and well worth a visit (that's the well earned encouragement). Weak points: it doesn't handle font-resizing well (Firefox). The fixed heading could do with some scalable dimensions (height). The text-lines are hard to read on wide screens. Max-width may fix that. Also on wide screens: your quotation-marks is clipped when the quotation is only one line high. Max-width will fix that too, but maybe better to have a fix on the quotation-marks themselves. regards Georg ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
RE: [WSG] site feedback, please?
I also enjoyed the overall design of the site. I feel that the font size and color choices are pleasing and easy to read (especially the navigation.) But that being said, no one grows as a web designer from compliments, so just a few nitpicks for you (out of love, of course ;-) Your quote section has uneven padding on the top and bottom, makes it look off balance. I can see the outline of your image's edge, perhaps you aren't using web safe colors, or didn't quite get the background match? Email the admin isn't as descriptive as one would usually hope, it leaves who the email is going to up to the imagination of many users. Your FAQ is fairly long, perhaps an index is in order? I would agree about the previous comment on text size modification and fitting the container. Hope this helps! Dan Bowling W: http://www.danbowling.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of john Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 6:10 AM To: web standards group Subject: [WSG] site feedback, please? I'm about 95% done with my first XHTML/CSS site, and I'd like to get some feedback, if you don't mind. I'm aware that the forums link doesn't go where it should, but everything else should be all good. I'm a minimalistic designer, so be prepared for no bells and whistles. http://www.drzeus.net/redesign/cslewis/ Your thoughts (and encouragement *grin*) are most appreciated. Thank you from Portugal... -- ~john _ Dr. Zeus Web Development http://www.DrZeus.net content without clutter ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] site feedback, please?
I'm about 95% done with my first XHTML/CSS site, and I'd like to get some feedback, if you don't mind. Looks good in all the winxp browsers. One thing you should fix - an id has to be unique and you use the same id twice, so it's not valid code. div id=sidemenu ul id=sidemenu -- Susan R. Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] site feedback, please?
looks good on safari browser too On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 08:23:43 -0800, Susan R. Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm about 95% done with my first XHTML/CSS site, and I'd like to get some feedback, if you don't mind. Looks good in all the winxp browsers. One thing you should fix - an id has to be unique and you use the same id twice, so it's not valid code. div id=sidemenu ul id=sidemenu -- Susan R. Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** -- Atentamente, Jorge Laranjo email [EMAIL PROTECTED] site http://lesi.host.sk/fueg0/ msn [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] site feedback, please?
I'm about 95% done with my first XHTML/CSS site, and I'd like to get some feedback, if you don't mind. http://www.drzeus.net/redesign/cslewis/ I clicked on the forums link and get a site directory instead of a page, that shouldn't happen right? http://www.drzeus.net/redesign/cslewis/forums/ praise = the images in the multimedia section load so quickly for me. wow. great site! later, Zulema · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ! ! b l u e w e b d e s i g n e r email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] website : http://zoblue.com/ weblog : http://blog.zoblue.com/ firefox : http://mozilla.org/products/firefox/ · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] site feedback, please?
As I said, I'm aware that the forums don't go to where they should. :) Thanks for the feedback. ~john _ Dr. Zeus Web Development http://www.DrZeus.net content without clutter Zulema wrote: I'm about 95% done with my first XHTML/CSS site, and I'd like to get some feedback, if you don't mind. http://www.drzeus.net/redesign/cslewis/ I clicked on the forums link and get a site directory instead of a page, that shouldn't happen right? http://www.drzeus.net/redesign/cslewis/forums/ praise = the images in the multimedia section load so quickly for me. wow. great site! later, Zulema · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ! ! b l u e w e b d e s i g n e r email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] website : http://zoblue.com/ weblog : http://blog.zoblue.com/ firefox : http://mozilla.org/products/firefox/ · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
