[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wednesday, October 08, 2003 8:59 PM said: : Thanks everyone for the helpful comments! : : I was tinkering with it one last time before I submitted it for : review (big mistake) and accidentally reverted the menu links to : the beta testing stage. They are all supposed to work! : Aaaaaaack! Well, all the links work now if anyone has the : patience to go through the complete site, I would appreciate it.
see comments below : BJ, thanks for the constructive criticism of the logo. I hate to : admit it, but I came up with it. I'll use your suggestions to at : least get the kerning right and then go from there. I do have to agree with BJ on at least the use of multiple different fonts. One of the first things we learned in typography is that less is more. In my experience, it's best to have no more than two to three different fonts site wide. : Erik, you really thought it was a joke? That is disconcerting. : I would suggest the change to the client, but he has already : printed material with the current url. The surname "Pousson" is : fairly familiar if you live in Louisiana. In reference to his suggestion: "http://www.doctorpoussonfamilydentistry.com"; My only comments are: Long, unwieldy, easy to misspell. Not a good URL. Short, provocative and easy to spell are the name of the game. Given what you had to work with, I think your url is fine. : Chris, you are right. I'll get the "about" and "contact" links : up a pixel or two. I'm still seeing the 1px drop on both of the tabs at the top. : Jenni, feel free to plagiarize! I think I came up with the : colors using "Color Schemer." If I only had 10 programs I could : take with me to an island, it would definitely be one of them. Might I throw into the mix the suggestion of Tiger Color's "Color Impact" http://www.tigercolor.com/. By far the best color tool I've used for any design application, but is especially well suited for the web with v2 out now. It even has a HTML color composer that lets you create a color scheme and then apply it to a variety of common web layouts. : Jan, when you say the top right links look off balanced, are you : meaning horizontally or vertically? : : Thanks again everyone! Will, I think the site looks very nice. It is calm and soothing, as it should be for a dentist, bearing in mind the fact that so many people are phobic. It displays well in Mozilla 1.5rc1 on Windows 2000. It works on Unix (well, cygwin unix emu for windows anyway) in 'Links', but this does point out a few problems: - images are used for links, but have no alt, which leaves me driving blind. - Links is a text browser that obeys table structure, but your content is scrunched up (right column), so I assume there is some issue with the table layout. Also, your pages don't validate, since they have no doctype, so they are being served as tag soup to browsers, all normal caveats apply. If you force validation through a doctype override: <http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A//www.poussonfamilydentistry.com/&doctype=HTML+4.01+Transitional&charset=ISO-8859-1&ss=1> You still get quite a few errors. Also, there is a plain white linked image to the left of "About" (shows up as [img] in "Links") that gives a 404 on the "forms.php" page. I like the site, my only real beef is what I feel like is an overly gratuitous use of images where text could be utilized (especially in the navigation). It makes keyboard navigation much more difficult, makes the site less accessible and takes longer to download. All in all, Good effort! regards, Stephen Caudill http://www.mechavox.com/ ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
