quick peek and ideas needed

Don't ya just hate it when I'm first on the scene lol, and I havent been to bed yet

I like it, it's clean, easy to use

The only thing I'd do different is make the "the few dedicated to the many" fit one line, and the corner box section (awesome idea) put around the first section instead of the second.

The contents section displays slightly wider in Netscape.

in Netscape 4.7 the first line ends at "..... Firefighters Association. The"
in IE the first line ends at " ..... Volunteer Firefighters"

just a small nit pick, looks great in both, looks better in Netscape

since you added the meta tag comment, I'll point out the blank td cells at the very bottom of the page, doesnt effort the page thou

keep up the good work - ok off to bed for me now

Nice, clean, simple and I love the way you have done the pictures at the top and the cornery bits. But (don't ya just hate that!).....

I'm not overly keen on the drop shadow on 'The Few....'

Some alignment issues at large resolutions. The logo, links & 'The few...' and text is more to the left & the rest underneath is centralised. Make them all match.

Other than that I don't know if it needs anything else. Maybe some small photos in amongst the text in the main body of the site?????

Good job

I'm not sure about that drop shadow either. Normally I would definitely say to get rid of it but I guess you could say that it looks kind of like smoke...

The other thing that's bugging me is that border you have around the main content area - I think it looks good, but it doesn' tmake sense to me to have that area bordered and not the "The few dedicated to the many" part not bordered. Try putting a separate border around that part.

looking good but...

Everything above the corner graphics (which I also like alot!) Is left aligned. This isn't noticeable until above 800x600 and doesn't get really disturbing until 1152x768

I must have been here too long. The thing that I first didn't like was the drop shadow on the 'Few'. To me, the main problem is that it looks drop-shadowed. I kind of like a more subtle drop shadow.

Anyway, I do like the clean look. One that you can't look at immediately and say, there is table one, there is table two, etc. The logo looks pretty good. I think that I would change it to have the fire truck more prominent than the 'fire car'. Let us know when the content is there.

Alrighty, thanks for the the quick peeks. I have made some changes.

Busy, I am honored to have you first on the scene.

Quote: in Netscape 4.7 the first line ends at "..... Firefighters Association. The"
in IE the first line ends at " ..... Volunteer Firefighters"

I don't know what to do about this. Does it look bad or is it just a small inconsitency?

Changed all tables to %'s so alignment problems should be taken care of. Toned down the drop shadow on the motto and changed it to one line. This does look better.

Small pics in the body would liven it up a bit. My main concern doing this would be load time since the top picture is so big. I will work on that. The border does look better around the first paragraph. I think that was the main problem that I was seeing last night....I just didn't realize it.

I see what Mairving is saying about the fire car being more prominent. I think maybe if I moved the car to the left a bit that would take care of that.

Megan, since you are color woman...what do you think about the color of the rollovers in the top nav bar???? Do they look ok?

This is a first for me:

Quote: looks better in Netscape

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Much, much, much, much better!

I'm not Megan (did you notice??!!) but I think those rollover colours work ok as they tie in the orangey colour in the right hand side of the top picture.

That rollover colour looks fine to me. It works because there is some yellow in the photos at the top there. It might be nice to try incorporate a little more yellow into the rest of the design but I'm not sure where and how you could do that.

The text line length wasnt a problem, just had to keep my post longish, you know I cant post short ones

If you change the firetruck/car around, keep the fireman/woman the closest, as they are the main thingy

you could also use the line you have at the end (or another one) after the "inside the walls ..." section, to break it away from the main contents, so it stands out more as a quote I guess.

(now I'm filling in space lol), you could also add "read more" to the right, as you usually end at the right of the column/sentence, but works either way

If you made the top image a 'fade in image' (forgot its name) it will appear to load faster, mainly used with gifs but can be done with jpgs as well.

ok, I gotta get outta the house, gallon of coffee and I should be left as rain

Webmistress and I posted almost the exact same thing at almost the exact same time! Weird, eh? Great minds think alike!

Quote: Originally posted by Megan
Webmistress and I posted almost the exact same thing at almost the exact same time! Weird, eh? Great minds think alike!

Well, think about it could be worse. You could be thinking like me.

worse yet, like me - not thinking at all

If I'm now thinking the same as Megan I must be getting better at this web stuff!

Ok...on the count of three let's all pat ourselves on the back.

One....Two...Three....*pat pat*:laugh:

I don't know how I can use the yellow color through out the site other than the images that I will be adding. Most of the images will have the yellow in them and that may be sufficient. If ya'll think of anything...yell. Maybe I will be attacked my the creativeness bug this weekend.

Busy, my misunderstood one, what did you mean by "keep the fireman/woman the closest"?

by closest I meant in the forefront, main part, first seen ... not to be blended into the scene so they arent noticed.

the do da hikey thingyabob whatcha ma callit, ya know

You silly ding dong, I know what the word "closest" means. I wasn't sure what thingamabobhickeydo was supossed to be the main thing. LOL