hi, thanks for your kind words and feedback peoples. have tried to quickly answer those main questions below:
re >> Just curious to know what the many lines of CDATA code achieve and the
reason for putting them inline?
no idea personally :) , but the dev guy says "it's definitely something
we want to move to an external file at some point in the future"
re >> With Firefox I went to
"Job Alert" and selected some industries....my cursor appeared
somewhere above the textfield. Must have something to do with the css
positioning of your fields.
ugly indeed. forwarded.
re >> Hate to be the bearer of bad news
dont worry about that. if i was worried about the possibility of bad news i'd never get anything done ;-)
re >> The time it takes to load the home page on dial-up is awful ... I guess "agility of the design and
the speed" is a relative term, but it took close to half a minute to load the page.
half a minute is actually better than i thought it'd be first time load over dialup. seen far worse.
the css file is hefty, and theres several large 'sprite' images that
hold navigation/tools/icon graphics. hopefully you'll find subsequent
page loads much speedier with the obvious caching benefits.
re >> home page doesn't even pass automated Section 508 accessibility checks
well spotted! forwarded.
re >> The design doesn't quite fit at 800x600 in my browsers (Firefox and IE6 on Win2K Pro) - a little too wide.
are you using one of those 'sizer' apps that changes your browser
window to a certain size that emulates a 800x600 display? be warned,
browser chrome has changed in the last few years and often their
calculations for width are out by a few pixels. try physically changing
your screen res and maximising the window. you may not get a horizontal
scrollbar.
re >> In Firefox, if I click on
the dropdown for maximum salary, it does not let me select (it appears,
then disappears immediately). I have to hold my mouse down and
drag to make a selection. Annoying.
ugly indeed. forwarded.
re >> When you click on ADVERTISE. You only are left with a HOME tab.....Just a little thing that threw me off a bit :)
bit off topic for this list but very on topic for the site. cheers, forwarded :)
re >> I would love to know whether the actual careers engine was an in-house thing or third-party.
in house
re >> if your concerned about my obsolete browser--the layout breaks in ie5 mac
theyre working on it
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thanks again for all the other feedback, techy stuff forwarded on & i'm sure they'll look into it :)
i'll buy yous a beer at the wsg meeting tonight. oh hang on, theyre
included in the cover change arent they? :) ok, i'll open it for you ;-)
pete
