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 *******************************************************************
