the cat site
I'm thinking about doing a cat site in English.
I have quite an extensive web site about cats in Hebrew which you can see at www.shoonra.com (I guess you won't understand much of the content...).
I have this idea of translating all the content I've gathered, adapting it and publishing a web site in English.
I'd appreciate comments on the design draft which I made and which you can see at: http://www.shoonra.com/sitefiles/default.html
Please note - this is just a first draft template. In order to get a basic feel of the design, I've put some lines as a basic article which you can find in the menu under general care. I'm still not sure about the content structure (it's different from what I have in my Hebrew site and it needs more thinking). For now I would appreciate comments on layout and design.
Thanks in advance.
Denmark 3 posted this at 23:19 — 8th May 2000.
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Good!
-Your site is very very fast loading.
-The logo looks great it is somewhat blurry on the text though. It is actually pretty blurry.
-I would say put buttons on the left menu instead of text. The text menu just doesnt seem to fit this site.
-The menu on the bottom is good leave that the way it is.
Overall your site looks pretty good so far. Goodluck!
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~Parker Trasborg~
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Megan posted this at 14:10 — 9th May 2000.
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Cool! I spent an hour or so yesterday looking at cat sites because I just got one
I agree with everything Parker said. I think that what you should do is widen the left side border to create a space for the menu. Then use graphics for the navigation buttons - you're going to have to make it wider so that all of the labels fit on one line.
You've got a ton of white space under that text. You should try to fix it so that the border and navbar only extend as far as the text. There are a couple of ways you could do this - you'll probably have to fiddle around for a bit until you get it to work right. It would probably be easiest to just change the height of the line graphic on each page to reflect the length of that page.
The reason why your graphics are blurry is because you have them saved as jpeg's. Always save drawn graphics like this as gif's. Photorgraphs are usually the only graphics that are saved as jpeg's.
Now, what I think you should do with this is extend the line border all the way around the site.
Last thing - I think you need to fiddle with your colour scheme. The pale blue-based purple does not fit well with the bright red-based purple. I would replace the latter with a dark blue-based purple. Then change the default blue links to that dark purple. Your pale bluey purple is #ccccff, so colours with the same hex proportions will look good with it like #666699
Oh, sorry I lied. One more thing - since you're already using CSS you should use it to set a colour for that horizontal rule you've got at the bottom.
[This message has been edited by Megan Jack (edited 09 May 2000).]
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