jac - WDVL on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 9:24 AM said:

: Sorry it's taken me so long to reply - just got back from a
: meeting. 
: 
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: 
: everyone thanks for taking the time - I appreciate all the
: feedback. 
: 
: all my best
: jac.

Sorry I'm so late into this.  

I'm on Mozilla 1.5a, windoze 2000, 1280x1024, dual t1's (work)

As per your usual, the design is airtight.  The orange you use is very bold and 
eyecatching and works very well in the layout.  I do have a few observations, of 
course:

- I could not duplicate this, so maybe you were working on it when I was looking at 
it, but from code of conduct, standard trading terms, conditions and bill of lading 
terms the links were dead...  again, they seemed fine after I came back to the page, 
but this seemed worth mentioning.
- On the booking form page, the scs news update is lower than other pages (double the 
width apart from the element above it as on other pages)
- This is purely personal preference, but I don't like the nav button of the current 
page being disabled.  I will often use this to refresh the page.  I like to think that 
the user shouldn't have to touch the browser chrome to navigate (or interact) with my 
sites.
- Your <textarea>'s aren't styled the same as the text input fields.
- I really like the bullets on the value added services list (they are slightly 
different from the nav bullets and seem to "Pop" more)

I think you're a great designer, which is why I'd like to see you doing this:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A//www.seacargoservices.ie/index.asp&doctype=HTML+4.01+Transitional&charset=ISO-8859-1&ss=1
Not in bad shape at all, just a few little paradigm shifts and you'll be writing xhtml 
in no time.

For the body text: it look fine to me, but my sight is good.  If you want to make it 
resizable (and I note you're using CSS), it's pretty easy to do, without breaking your 
layout, when you use tables (not that I endorse tables for layout).  In your 
stylesheet, you're declaring your body fonts as:

font:10px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;

change this to: 
font:.8em normal Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
(note that font has three required properties; font-size, font-weight, font-family)

and if you want to add the textarea to the inputs styling, you could do it like so:

input, textarea{
/* my style info */
}

All in all a really great site, I had to scratch around pretty hard to come up with 
the above :)

HTH,
Stephen
http://www.mechavox.com

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