CalculatorOfLove

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My site, Calculator of Love, just got a new design based on HTMLIntro, which I happen to own as well. I'm putting this up here for some critiques. This design uses mainly tables, not CSS, since I'm really bad at it. Do you think I should find somebody to change it to CSS?

Well, thanks for helping me review Calculator of Love!

Extra Clickable Link: http://www.calculatoroflove.com/

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it seems to work well as it is so...I would leave it I don't mind tables myself. Looks like you could use a logo though.Laughing out loud

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As for css, it's a great thing to start learning at your stage of web development! It's not hard once you grasp the main concepts and will be indispensible once you have the knowledge in your possession.

Laura Kishimoto - Webmistress and Soprano
laurakishimoto.ca | fomsc.ca | uwo music sophs

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Looks Ok... One question though... Do you use your own code for the calculator of love?
Coz ive seen this sort of thing in javascript tutorials and sites...

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Nice. Just one thing...some padding on the lower left "If you enjoyed using our calculator, tell your friends about our site!" would look better

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Im not sure, but it seems to me that you meant to have everything centered, but in Firefox, the data-cell is all left-justified, while the text centered...

Now this problem can be fixed REALLY easy with CSS. And because of what you are trying to accomplish, it would be very easy for you to get some CSS experience.

You can experiment with some CSS by putting them in an HTML document inside the tags, and inside the following:

Try this:
Go to google and click Im Feeling Lucky for "CSS text-align tutorial"

Just incase:
CSS Basics Tutorial

- Jinno

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"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius

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that website's got a good design but I really doubt the calculator of love is accurate. So far it got my first love (and first sex partner) at 8% and my old high school teacher at 93%. Now that's a shocker!

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locatepeople wrote: that website's got a good design but I really doubt the calculator of love is accurate. So far it got my first love (and first sex partner) at 8% and my old high school teacher at 93%. Now that's a shocker!

so that means your still having "watery Laughing out loud " dreams of your HS teacher???

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Oh, I think we all missed one major issue that only myself, Megan, or some similar member of the greater sex would notice...

It's really only oriented to males.
"Your girlfriend's, lover's or wife's full name"

You might want to change this to something more generic, or you're cutting off half your audience! I think "Your lover's name" would do just fine. Smiling

Laura Kishimoto - Webmistress and Soprano
laurakishimoto.ca | fomsc.ca | uwo music sophs

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Good one Laura...

Ill make one of my own online soon(just for fun) Ive been keeping that script when I was practicing Javascript before...

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I noticed the male oriented comment as well, and I tried my name and my bf's name in both positions and got two different values! Apparantly one of us loves the other more!!
It's a cute little site but I would add some curves to it, it's very boxy and plain. I agree with needing some sort of logo, and maybe adding a pattern or a gradient to the background? Also I would centre the image vertically as well as horizontally. In Firefox it was right at the top of the screen. I don't know CSS that well either, but I bet it would fix that.
Smiling

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well i'll give you a 10 for such a great name. I just love saying it.

normally people would say "white red text eww" but again it works for this layout.

style is orginal..

i like it.

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It's very plain if you ask me. You need some more separation within the tables to keep it from all blending together, especially since everything is the same font. The links at the bottom need to be a more contrasting color. The blue-ish gray color against the red does not appeal to my eyes.

I'm also not really sure what the calculator...err...calculates. It gives you a percentage when you push submit...what exactly does this percentage represent? How much of their love is directed towards you? or what?

Kurtis

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I think you've got bigger problems than CSS/tables. In the grand scheme of things what you use for layout isn't all that important.

As ms creashuns mentioned, it is a very plain layout. I like the red colour scheme but the other colours are poorly coordinated (red + pink + light blue is not a good combination). THe logo needs a lot of work - consider hiring a logo designer to make one for you. I can think of a few ideas already: perhaps a beating heart with the text next to it in a fun, unique looking font.

The main body area is poorly designed. It looks like you made the google text bigger and changed the text formatting so it would take up more space. I would see no problem with making the outer box area smaller in this case. You don't have much content here - in this case it's not a big deal. Ad some page graphics or shrink the frame instead of trying to fill more space.

Quote: Feel free to browse around different parts of this site! We hope you enjoy your time here at out website.

Um, there's not much else here! Why would I browse around to look at nothing? The About Us bit is redundant too - I'm sure nobody cares.

You could just keep this super simple. Don't think of it as a regular website that needs content. It's not, it's just a cute little application. Keep the outer frame small and simplify the design. I think it would look good with rounded corners and a wide white border.

Quote: Your girlfriend's, lover's or wife's full name:

Um, yeah, rather male-centric. I also think that it should be "Your girlfriend, lover, or wife's full name:" One way you could fill up the space here is to do a different entry box for men/women and women/men.

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I posted before that theres this script that do the same thing the calculator does...
See another version here : http://scripthog.tripod.com

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