The Online Community

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Hi,

I run an online community for the residents of Cuffe Parade, a posh locality of South Bombay, India. The site is located at:

http://www.cuffeparade.com/

I am planning an update for the website. Please have a look at the following URL and let have your comments on the deisgn apsect and layout.

http://www.cuffeparade.com/new/final_index.shtml

Also if there are any suggestions you think which might help the site grow..please feel free to write them in too.

thank you for your time and advise.

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Well it looks like all the replies got deleted when the BB was upgraded. So I'll make this short...

1) Anti-alias the logo text. It's jagged.

2) Center the page.

3) Make the table cell with "Welcome to blah blah..." the same height as the other red headers.

4) Those purple bullets really screw up the color scheme of the site.

5) The left side menu looks unorganized w/o bullets in my opinion. Also, I would make the link text bigger then the description text.

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The Content seems to trail off as it goes right. The weight seems to be off.

I also don't like those purple bullets. Try using bullets that are the color or a variation of one of your current site colors.

Logo isn't bad. Maybe little anti-aliasing as Justin suggested.

I personally don't like add banners on the top of the main page. It takes wawy from the design. Thats the first place a viewers eyes go. Very distracting. Try putting it below the logo somewhere.

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Hi,
I tried to look at the new design but your stylesheet was missing...

The requested URL /new/cp.css was not found on this server.

Dr Gonzo

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Thank u,

I have just uploaded the cp.css file and it's up and running.

Please have a look at the page now and give me your valuable feedback.

Thanks once again.

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Hi again,
Hope some of the following is of help:

1) In NN 4.71 your page alignment is all out of whack, the venture capital table is wider than it should be and your footer banner is too far to the right.

2) You need to increase the cellpadding - the text is too close to the edge of the tables.

3) I agree with all comments re the buttons - man they are ugly Smiling

4)If you really want to run columns on both sides, reduce the font size in these columns and narrow them - at the moment there is not enought apce left for the guts of the page

5) Having a comment that says "best viewed in whatever" simply infers that you are unable or unwilling to write cross browser code - particularly for your layout that should not be too difficult.

6)I didn't see a link to a privacy statement anywhere

7)the colours are pretty bland and the purple link test really doesn't do it for me

Cool I like the small cafe icon (the one on the left) but the main one is a bit rough

9) Round corners on tables tend to improve them a lot ....

Anyway, hope some of the above is of use.

Cheers

dr Gonzo

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Dr. Gonza,

Thanks a lot for those comments. Could I get some more help with the following:

"I didn't see a link to a privacy statement anywhere " - Can you help me write one since I am not so confident with this topic.

"Round corners on tables tend to improve them a lot .... "

Can you do this in HTML...I dont seem to re-collect any such tags or Table Properites...some help with this too.

hope i am not much of a trouble.

Thanks a lot PAL!

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There is a sample statement at http://www.truste.com/webpublishers/pub_modelprivacystatement.html

You can create a pricacy statement using Truste wizard at http://www.truste.com/wizard/

To make rounded corners, you have the corners as seperate graphics. Have a graphic for each corner and the sides, put them together in the table, and you are set.

Good Luck!

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I am on 1024*1280 or somethin like that. There is so much white space on the right. I would never come back again.

- Nice logo. It's perfect for what your doing.

- The colors are nice and I agree with Justin. Those purple bullets mess up everything. I don't even know why they are there.

- Make your navagation in bold or something cuz I didn't know what that was.

Well the rest looks fine. Like I said though there is all this white space on the right. Use percentage tables or something.

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I am also at 1280x1024. By now, I am used to seeing sites with lots of white space, but you should still fix that.

Center the main table or convert to percentages.

Also, the navigation is cluttered.

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