Really nice navigation, The check boxes are delightful and provide great feedback (get 'em to work on :focus too), liked the crumbly paper thing against the flesh tone wallpaper. Lots of points.
Didn't notice the window opening stuff that Jonathon mentioned because I thought your site was broken -- I'm a "no-one opens windows my browser except me nut" -- but seriously, javascript pseudo-link's are a *huge* mistake:
1. Breaks the back button.
2. Opening new windows can be disorienting for novice consumers. (consumer is my new word that I'm using for users..start a meme, pass it on), and consumers with disabilities.
3. Not everyone has javascript, including google, which makes that page invisible.
There are accessible ways to open a window if you really must... search the list archives, or google it. A few points off there.
A couple of points off for starting three sentences with "Well...", and one for apologizing for the site. You have a run-on word in there too, so make sure your proof read it again.
I second Jonathon's point about the use of tables... The code is DWMX, not my cup of tea, but it works for some, say no more.
Terrence Wood.
Jonathan T. Sage wrote:
Ok - design critique. It's late, not looking at the code just yet. Keep in mind, this is one designers opinion, and as in most critiques,
I have a tendancy to only mention the stuff I don't like, not the
stuff I do. Overall, looks really nice. (P.S. - test browser is
FF1.0) No comment on the use of tables to do the layout. I've done
it, I don't anymore, enough said.
First off, splash screen. I don't like em, and holding to the 3-click rule, you've just wasted one. Food for thought.
branding page - I don't know what those icons are. Kinda bugs me. title's on the links would show up as a tooltip in firefox, this would
help if you want to avoid using captions.
same thing on the print and web pages. Web is less of a problem, because here at least I understand they are screenshot thumbnails.
bio looks nice, resume bugs me. I tab browse, I don't like windows being opened for me. Not sure there is a good solution with your fixed size layout though.
resume itself (html) looks good (I don't do PDF unless I have to. no matter how fast it opens today, it's not fast enough sorta thing). Background is a bit odd to me, cause the ?paper folds? move and end up in unusual places.
font size is in px. Since I use FF1.0, I can resize it. Users of IE won't be so lucky.
All in all, the look itself is really nice. For a new design, I kinda question the use of a table layout, but that's a question you'll need to answer for yourself based on your own needs.
Hope some of this is helpful, if not, feel free to delete.
Good luck!
~j
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