Thoughts on layout
This is just the index page at the moment so no site to critique
What are your thoughts on it so far?
Megan, I know you will probably want to mention the font size but that's a client request and I haven't been able to talk him out of it!
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
disaster-master posted this at 15:24 — 7th March 2003.
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Where's the linky?
The Webmistress posted this at 16:03 — 7th March 2003.
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DOH!
It's been a bad, bad, bad day (week) here
Here is the link
zollet posted this at 16:06 — 7th March 2003.
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Looks very nice, but I would change a couple of things...
1. The text in the middle with the squares on the left, I would probably align them to the left.
2. I would do something about the links at the bottom of the page. They are very hard to see.
Cheers.
disaster-master posted this at 16:14 — 7th March 2003.
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Looks nice but the font in the left side navigation looks a little fuzzy or something. Have you tried using one of those pixel fonts for that?
Megan posted this at 16:23 — 7th March 2003.
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I agree with both of the above. In general, text shouldn't be centered. Headings might be okay, but not larger blocks like this. Especially with the bullets there.
I don't mind the font sizes here - I don't think they're all that small, and it's not bad for small amounts of text.
I also think that the navbar should be broken up in some way so that it's not such a long list of options. The last three items should be separate in some way.
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The Webmistress posted this at 16:45 — 7th March 2003.
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Cheers for that.
I was looking for that type of font Sonia and couldn't find it so I think I'll change it over to one of those. Thanks
Busy posted this at 21:55 — 7th March 2003.
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I'm going to be slightly different and say I like the centered text in the main section, only because it's nicely angled on both sides.
Maybe add some colour to the '::' between the bottom links to seperate them
and shorten the top margin a little
looks good, my kind of content
Suzanne posted this at 22:19 — 7th March 2003.
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I'm experiencing an odd drag on the navigation (N7) and the line-height on the centered bits have them mashing all together.
I like it otherwise. Make sure you check for typos...
(airborne, not airbourne, at least as far as I could check, it doesn't seem to be an alternate spelling?)
The Webmistress posted this at 11:04 — 8th March 2003.
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I haven't done a spell check just yet but thanks for pointing it out Suzanne and I must download NS7 again as I haven't checked it in that yet.
Busy, glad you like the centered bits. I would normally agree that centered text shouldn't be done but in this instance it is for design effect and I'll try the coloured ::
Sonia, I tried to download the fonts, I managed one 'silkscreen' but that's only caps so no good for this, one of them you have to pay and the others don't work. Any others you know of?
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
DaveyBoy posted this at 11:36 — 8th March 2003.
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the correct spelling in England is 'airbourne'
The Webmistress posted this at 14:41 — 8th March 2003.
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Suzanne, I have now changed the line height so they shouldn't be mashed up now but I can't see what you mean about the navigation in NS7 ??
Suzanne posted this at 18:59 — 8th March 2003.
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Intrigued, I went googling -- I'm Canadian, hopelessly infatuated with words, so apologies for this long exploration ahead of time!
[url=http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AList_of_common_misspellings ]The Wikipedia[/url] lists it as a common misspelling, but [url=http://laneweb.stanford.edu:2380/wiki/medlane/lex ]this lexicon study from Standford[/url] lists it as a variant! This other study clearly defines it as a misspelling.
Oxford only has a paid service, and I'm not quite THAT curious, heh, but the Cambridge dictionary says [url=http://dictionary.cambridge.org/results.asp?searchword=airbourne ]it's a misspelling[/url].
Darn, that was an interesting bit of research.
Julia -- several cells in the navigation were hightlighting simultaneously, but today they aren't, so it could have been my browser throwing a fit because it had 20 someodd tabs open and had been in used for over a month, heh. I installed a security patch on my computer last night and rebooted, so that could have been it.
The spacing is much better!
oce222 posted this at 02:21 — 26th March 2003.
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This definitely rocks... design + content-wise. Loading time was kickin' fast... I'm using IE6 at 1024x768 resolution... perhaps that is helping it look excellent... but from my view... you've designed a great site.
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bobat posted this at 23:05 — 8th April 2003.
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1024x768
IE6
ADSL
it really does look nice. I like the top left gif, the shape goes hand in hand with the three images on the page.
Not too sure about the grey background - have you tried experimenting with different colours?
overall, cool site.
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andy206uk posted this at 08:49 — 9th April 2003.
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looking good... i like it a lot, for those of you that havent tried it, give zorbing a shot! I've done it and its BRILL!
BrandBlast posted this at 19:11 — 25th April 2003.
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I really enjoyed the layout, but I would like to see some more contrast between the font color and the nav button on the left.
Other than that you is on FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!
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