On 2008/02/25 10:31 (GMT-0500) Andrew Maben apparently typed: > I'm almost done with a site redesign, and the time is right to ask > for your opinions: http://beta.www.aclib.us > for comparison, the current site is: http://www.aclib.us ... > Of course accessibility is important, and this is where your insights > and criticisms can be especially helpful.
> http://www.andrewmaben.net > [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's quite a bit better than its close neighbor http://www.ufl.edu/ and better in some ways than the original, but worse in others. I really don't like the artificial width constraint that the original lacks. Width should only be constrained to less than 100% of the window width to the extent wider would produce too long line lengths for comfortable reading. There's no chance of that on the new page, while quite a bit of it looks over-constrained without enlarging the text, and most of it does with text enlargement. The other problem is the same as most of the web, too much too small text. Nearly right smack dab in the middle of above the fold content is what looks like primary content, yet it's shrunken to the size of UI text, smaller than the menu text, creating the inference that it's less important than other content. Most of the text-in-image content is illegible or nearly so on median or higher resolution displays. Those using the most expensive laptops will not be pleased at the mousetype effect of africanamerican_history_onli.gif hot_topics/webfeat.jpg or the last line of acld_Logo.gif. Foreground images can and in many cases should be scaled up to match surrounding text, and these are some of those cases. At least the original is blatantly up front about enabling large enough to read text. Here's a screenshot of a typical moderately high resolution environment: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/SC/sc-alaclib1.jpg and the setup source: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/sc-alaclib1.html The main branch used to be about a 10 minute walk from where I lived. If I still lived just a bit closer I might be inclined to ride over to the main branch, find the manager, and complain about waste of money on a redesign that doesn't amount to much readily apparent improvement. Maybe its only real goal is to get people in to read printed material that doesn't suffer from the web's normally too small text, but if that's it, the address and phone number should be at least as big as it is in the phone book. :-p -- "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
