shrum.net :: v.12 - Review request
Well, it's a new month and time for another site identity change.
This site ident was inspired by airbag.ca although I've done a ton differently to make it truely my own. I'm also experimenting more with CSS class definitions (check out how the hovers differ in the domain nav area and the subdomain nav area...kewl!)
Pardon the dust...not all the areas are converted yet (90%) but at least you can work over the identity page.
Looking for input (again): http://cats.shrum.net
Check out the printer friendly link too ('print' in the sidebar) as this loads a similarly themed, but horizontally prefered page with the content in it
Did I mention my whole site is run through a PHP/MySQL combo that I wrote myself? Did I mention it's free AND open-source? It's called CATS. Check out the link.
icerider posted this at 17:27 — 2nd May 2004.
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Looks pretty good, but that big space from the top to the content is a little awkward.
S_Shrum posted this at 07:40 — 4th May 2004.
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I thought so to at first...but it does tend to draw the eye downward through the rest of the page.
I'll paly around with it a bit and see what *feels* better.
Keep the responses coming.
TIA
Sean Shrum
[email protected]
[email protected]
http://www.shrum.net
teammatt3 posted this at 00:58 — 3rd May 2004.
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I agree with ice on the awkwardity (I just made up my own word
) of the blank space.
On the left side the navigation seems a little smashed. I think you need to put tag in so that they aren't so cramped. I also don't like the italics either.
necrite posted this at 14:29 — 3rd May 2004.
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Really interesting site. The design is clear and the content seems really interesting. Did you do your site whith CATS ? Anyway, it's a good work and the site is full of content.
proximo posted this at 00:07 — 5th May 2004.
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I would agree the white space at the top is no good, reason being is that in a rez that most of us work in, its cool but you need to think of the people who use 800 X 600.. its a problem, and if this is a CMS system well bottom line is, they cost a boat load of cash and if your trying to impress a CFO into buying it, they wont like it. Yah it is subjective but CFO for the most part are boring guys who want everything to be simple and make sense, the white space just doesn't make sense. Sorry man .. not trying to sound like an ***
S_Shrum posted this at 07:57 — 6th May 2004.
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Ok, whitespace is gone...for now.
Keep the advice coming.
TIA
Anonymous posted this at 13:47 — 6th May 2004.
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I like and I don't...
I think the design is great. It's the text fonts that make me squint. I just don't like serif fonts. But they work so well with the design that I don't recomend that you change the font... old farts like me will just have to squint.
davidjaymz posted this at 15:09 — 6th May 2004.
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Joined: Jul 2001
sorry buddy but it's sanfu'd in firefox... the nav looks likes going at 50% fixed and the content is filling the remaining space...
Looks cool in IE though
DJ
S_Shrum posted this at 03:48 — 7th May 2004.
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Opps! Looks like Mozilla deals with the :before and :after pseudo-elements of CSS2.
MSIE6 doesn't.
Thanks for the info.
Take a look now. I've updated the css for the site pages and will update the css for the print template later tonight so make sure you try my "print" sidebar option to check that out too.
Keep the suggestions coming.
TIA
Sean Shrum
[email protected]
[email protected]
http://www.shrum.net
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