Review Request: Belfry Cottage
Here's the fully developed version of a layout I posted in CL&GD a couple weeks ago:
http://www.meganjack.com/BelfryCottage/
It's not quite finished yet - the "Contact Us" page isn't done among other things. I do plan to link the photos to larger versions of the same and do something about the page headers graphically.
Any thoughts? I'm particularly concerned about download speeds (is it really bad?) and the mouseovers (not happy with that effect but couldn't think of anything else).
Let me know what you think.
Forgot: I'm getting spaces between the images in Mozilla - anyone know how to fix this? I've tried a bunch of stuff (setting vspace to 0, putting everything on one line) but nothing seems to work.
The Webmistress posted this at 13:41 — 21st August 2002.
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I actually really like everything about the site, even the rollovers! It's nice to see a different looking site and I think that it fits the subject matter perfectly, any other format wouldn't do it as well I don't think. It looks like a brochure would.
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disaster-master posted this at 15:18 — 21st August 2002.
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Oh yes, I remember this one. I love this! You have set the mood perfectly and colors are great.
Have you considered making the background of the table that holds the body a color near to the background graphic that you are using? That may mess things up and look funky....just thought I would mention that. It is a little slow to load and I was thinking that a lighter background color for the body would help it to "look" as if it were loading faster. Maybe not???
Now you are NOT wanting spaces between the images on the Accommodations page?? Correct?? IMO, I think you need spaces here and even a thin line (black, brown, maroon) around the pics would look good. The images look all squashed together and I think it would look better if they were seperated somehow.
I see you are using XHTML on this one.
:D It will be real easy to get this site to validate with zero errors. Just do your little <...space/> on the required end tags and you have that booger whipped. 
Very nice site Meg! I think I will use those colors on something. They are very soothing.
Busy posted this at 22:58 — 21st August 2002.
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load time is a lil slow, maybe use a bgcolor in the main text cell to give the viewers something to read while it loads.
I'm not to keen on the mouseovers thou, kind of cheapens it a lil.
As disaster-master mentioned, spaces around the images on the accommodations page would look better.
Maybe a link to "top" on the comments page
shouldnt the page have some background color at the bottom as well, after the bottom of the main design table?
I think you have done an awesome job on the layout, looks great.
Megan posted this at 01:21 — 22nd August 2002.
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The spaces I'm talking about only seem to be a problem in Mozilla. When I load the page in Mozilla I get spaces around all the images and I don't know what's causing it. LIke there's about a 3px or so space between each of the nav graphics for example.
I know, I haven't gotten around to doing the validation and everything yet. I always forget those end tags! I wonder if the latest version of homesite will do xhtml code... maybe I should upgrade...
Edit: which one do you like better
http://www.meganjack.com/BelfryCottage/index.shtml or
http://www.meganjack.com/template5.jpg
(the only difference is the picture in the upper-left corner. Mom likes the second one, but the belfry part is cut off at the top which a lot of people didn't like... Those are the only two pictures I have right now.)
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disaster-master posted this at 04:09 — 22nd August 2002.
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What is that old saying? "Mom knows best."
I think both look great but I do like the second one best (template5.jpg) You can better tell what it is. Not that you can't tell what the first one is...but the second one has more detail. Even with the what-cha-ma-call-it cut off.
I like how you have the text and images on the right arranged best on the first one though.
The Webmistress posted this at 07:31 — 22nd August 2002.
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I prefer the first one, it just seems to sit better.
Jack Michaelson posted this at 11:01 — 22nd August 2002.
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I prefer the 2nd one. I see another difference btw: in the shtml-file the font is Arial and in the jpg it's Verdana (I think). I prefer Verdana on this one.
Furthermore, maybe add this script to your js-file. It makes those tiny dotted gray line around focused href's disappear:
function ExplorerFix(){ for (a in document.links) document.links[a].onfocus = document.links[a].blur;
}
if(document.all) document.onmousedown = ExplorerFix;
I'm also not to keen on the mosueovers, I would have made the outer glow white, or another bright colo(u)r and not gray. But that's just my opinion.
Overall I think it's a very good design.
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Busy posted this at 11:10 — 22nd August 2002.
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I perfer the first one, the second is leading away from that clean look, starting to look a lil busy
disaster-master posted this at 20:34 — 22nd August 2002.
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Oh Gee Golly!!! Meg says, "Which way do I go? Which way do I go?" :eek:
The Webmistress posted this at 07:26 — 23rd August 2002.
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Follow the yellow brick road!
We need another bod to cast a deciding vote
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