Thanks for the honest feedback. The main reason I have the design left aligned right now is because it is in development still and I want to get the design down pat before centering it and optimizing for different monitors. I agree about the centering personall [unfortunately most of the internet thinks just the opposite, they start right to left and leave it that way] having empty space on either side draws the eye towards the content. The thing about the font size is that in IE it displays just the right size [even on high resolution flat panels like I develop on in my home office], but FireFox properly [go figure] scales the font down to what the CSS specified size is - I don't want to mess around with multiple browser CSS right now so I tried to pick a happy medium - considering that most users still use IE to surf the internet, I chose a font size that worked allright there [I am trying out Arial right now but it is kind of large on IE].
The logo is kind of tight with the top, but I have this thing about too much whitespace at the very top of the page, I will move it down a bit and see how it affects the overall appearance - if necessary I will just set the BODY top margin to something other than 0. The side panels are a bit off alignment wise, the main reasons I did this is 1) to draw the eye more from the edge [probably the opposite is happening, but no complaints about navigation from site visitors yet], the right sideboard only does that because of the Google Adspace - I put that there to draw in some extra cash [of course - not much but its cash] and because, oddly enough, 80% of the ads displayed are complimentary - I have to filter out the occasional competitor, but a lot of ads that are shown lead to sites that refer to my client as contractors or service centers; the other sites are for items that don't really affect his business. I might move the google ads from a sidebar to a horizontal banner in the content. The wiggling back and forth between some pages was indeed do to a width issue - I had originally set the right side width at 98px, but the Google ad is 120px [the smallest size they offer for vertical ad width] and I forgot to change the column widths accordingly so every now and then things would bounce around as the table adjusted the columns to try and fit everything. I am thinking of using a different bullet, but I don't know if I want to get too flashy with the website right now, I get your point though - a more "stand out" bullet would probably highlight the points a bit better. I am making revisions right now with some of these ideas and the other members suggestions and will repost the link when I am ready for another honest critique. TY Charles R King On 10 Apr 2006 at 13:40, PBC Web Design wrote: > At 01:08 PM 4/10/2006, you wrote: > >Its been a while but im back looking for some more third-party > >advice. Please take a > >look at my clients web site [http://www.gregoriopools.com/] - > > > >I am trying to bring the site slowly into the future and working with > >a limited color palette [it just has to match the clients brand new > >logo]. > > > >Please let me know what you think and the browser you use - I know > >for a fact that some things are kind of 'odd' in IE sometimes, but i > >want some honest opinions. > > Looking at it in Firefox on PC and providing honest (my opinion only) > feedback: > > First thing I would do is center the design. I have a personal pet > peeve about left aligned sites with lots of open space on the right. > I have a 19" flat panel monitor and so I find this happening quite a > bit on many web sites. I find it harder to read having to cock my > head or slide my peepers far left to view the site on my big monitor. > I feel that the web design world needs to start thinking more about > monitor sizes and larger resolutions in general, but again that's > personal opinion as is everything I say here. > > The font is very small - not illegible but I do think I'd go bigger > with it. > > The logo is smack dab up tight against the top of the page - I think > I'd give it a little breathing room. > > I think I would left align vs centering the info on both > sideboards. Or maybe left align the left side and right align the > right side. The centering effect going on here along w/the lists in > the page is a bit on the "to much" side of things for my liking. > > On this page: http://www.gregoriopools.com/whats_new.shtml I would > give the text content a bit of white space on the right. The content > is butting up to the right sideboard. There are more pages like this > as well now that I'm moving around the site more. > > When you go back and forth 'tween these pages: > http://www.gregoriopools.com/spa_sales.shtml > > http://www.gregoriopools.com/pool_moreinfo.shtml > > http://www.gregoriopools.com/spa_moreinfo.shtml > > http://www.gregoriopools.com/whygregorios.shtml > > your left sideboard has a jumping effect - it gets narrower so > something is out of whack in the width somewhere I think. There are > more pages doing this I just didn't list them all. > > So, those are the things I'd be working on if it were my site to do. > On a creative note, I think I'd also give the lists something besides > the round bullet - something blue maybe an arrow or something > different is all I can think of right now. 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