Hi, Erik F�berg ;-) (I guess that would be
the translation to a norwegian name :-)
The design itself is not finished and is not
important for now.
It's the markup I'm conserned with. Is it
accesible, is it overaccesible etc.
About the width; the customer is set on a fixed
with of 1000px, I adviced against it but I guess my advice didn't count for
much...
White space... It's a mystery for me where all
that whitespace comes from. Seems like it comes and goes of its own free will, I
will have to investigate :..(
However, the original template is located at
http://www.siteman.no/v4/web_bi/designmal/ and may be better. The sourcecode is the same.
And to George, thanks for valuable feedback. When
it comes to target="_blank" i agree with you, but I'm not sure the customers
will. This is by the way, the only reason I use Transitional instead of Strict
XHTML.
Acceskeys - you wrote:
accesskey="T" is valid, but accesskey
often interfere with the use of
keys in other software. Something may not work as a visitor is used to.
Result: they don't seem to improve access-- only add confusion.
keys in other software. Something may not work as a visitor is used to.
Result: they don't seem to improve access-- only add confusion.
I would really like a second opinion on this, is
it best to not use access keys at all? I'm sure there's some dissens when it
comes to this, am I right?
you also wrote:
3: It is always better to put the main
content first in the source-code.
Much more efficient with regard to search engines, and improves access
for those who need it the most. Tell 'Skrue McDuck' that.
Skip links helps a lot, so your template do not create any real
accessibility-problems as I see it. Far from ideal though.
Much more efficient with regard to search engines, and improves access
for those who need it the most. Tell 'Skrue McDuck' that.
Skip links helps a lot, so your template do not create any real
accessibility-problems as I see it. Far from ideal though.
I haven't come up with a smart sollution to this,
both me and Skrue McDuck is having trouble with this ;-) The point is that
the credittbar and the xtra navigation bar is suppose to float beneath the
tallest column, and with this design it will. If someone have a smart way of
doing this, I'd be mighty happy :-) This is the layout compressed:
<div id="ramme"><!-- frame
-->
<div id="header"></div><!-- Usually just placeholder for absolutely positioned elements -->
<div id="kol1"></div><!-- floats to the left -->
<div id="kol2"></div><!-- floats to the right -->
<div id="innhold"></div><!-- eq. main content - given margins to spare out sidecolumns -->
<div id="xtranav"></div><!-- follows after the talles of the above columns -->
<div id="kreditt"></div><!-- as xtranav -->
</div><!-- end frame -->
<div id="header"></div><!-- Usually just placeholder for absolutely positioned elements -->
<div id="kol1"></div><!-- floats to the left -->
<div id="kol2"></div><!-- floats to the right -->
<div id="innhold"></div><!-- eq. main content - given margins to spare out sidecolumns -->
<div id="xtranav"></div><!-- follows after the talles of the above columns -->
<div id="kreditt"></div><!-- as xtranav -->
</div><!-- end frame -->
So - any smart ways to put the main content in
front of kol1 & kol2? Should they all float?
4. Absolut font-size... I hate to give
away control, but I guess I'll leave it up to each customer in the
end.
Hope to get more valuablefeedback like this, and
again to Rick and George - Thanks a lot!
Ben @ siteman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Faaberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 7:37
AM
Subject: Re: [WSG] Design template for CMS, any
thougts?
> suppose to be finished yesterday :-)
> The template is validated XHTML and CSS.
> The link to the html (xhtml) is http://www.siteman.no/v4/web_bi/webdeal/ and
> the stylesheet is located at
> http://www.siteman.no/v4/web_bi/webdeal/sitestyle.css
Your design width is pretty wide for smaller monitors it seems to me. It
takes perhaps 2/3 of the width of my 20 inch monitor in Safari to see it
all. Maybe if the center content part could be fluid that would help. Also
the what I believe to be "Search Webdeal" form is hanging out to the right
as the only content there. Maybe it's supposed to be above "Siste artikler"?
In Safari it is not.
There is nearly infinite white space below your page content in Safari
(current version). I can scroll down for hours and see only white.
I'm not sure I'd ever go with full-justified text, but maybe that's a
personal thing. I just don't really like extra space between words that only
serves to full-justify the text.
Loads fast - clean design - and here I am of Norwegian descent (1/2) and
understand none of the language ;-(
HTH
Rick Faaberg
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