Re: FN-FORUM: Site check

date posted 13th January 2006 23:53

Thought it was asp! Nice and simple. I'll give the css image corners a shot.
Always used nifty corners until now.

As for my comments upon the logo it was semantics, although I wonder how it
would look on plasma screens. I find decent backgrounds are lost on them.

Good luck with the site!

Mike A.

Sam Morgan wrote:
>> Nice design Sam! Some comments.
>
> Thanks
>
>> Text could perhaps do with 1px text spacing to make it easier to
>> read, especially on large screens; more so in the right column.
>
> Yeah, don't think it looks good on the main body text but on the RH
> yes, I actually reduced to RH title letter spacing to -1px to fit, I
> have put it back and reduced the word spacing instead.
>
>> Perhaps rendering,
>> blurring or otherwise doing something in the logo background
>> would make the
>> logo stand out more. The line in rounded boxes could perhaps
>
> Not sure what you mean here, the contrast between the white logo and
> the dblue BG seems good to me and the logo stands out a lot, maybe
> you could take a screen shot if your not seeing what im seeing.
>
>> stop a few on
>> each side of headings to make them stand out a little more.
>
> Yeah, was padded by 3px, now padded by 7px which is nicer.
>
>> Lastly, the
>> "more" links could do with more separation from text. HTH.
>
> Another good suggestion.
>
>> Otherwise seems
>> fine in IE6 on a PC.
>>
>> BTW... how are you calling in random images, and what method
>> are you using
>> for rounded boxes?
>
> Random, images are done server site with asp, simple randomise script.
>
> Dim LowestNumber, HighestNumber, RandomNumber
> RANDOMIZE
> LowestNumber = 1
> HighestNumber = 4
> RandomNumber = Int((HighestNumber-LowestNumber+1)*Rnd+LowestNumber)
> %>
>
> The rounded boxes are done in css with 4 rounded corner images placed
> absolute top/left, top/right, bottom/left, bottom/right all -1px to
> the container div. border of 1px on the div itself. And a title div
> containing the title text absolutely placed over the top border with
> a repeated background image to give the effect of the line
> disappearing but keeping the split of the white and Lblue BGs.
>
>
>> Sam Morgan wrote:
>>> I'm in te final stages of completing my new corporate website design
>>> and build and could do with some compatibility feedback and critique
>>> before I commit to adding and converting the content etc.
>>>
>>> It's only the template page and some of the RH stuff is missing but
>>> should be close to final html build.
>>>
>>> http://www2.wiredeyes.com