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| Rowan 2006-05-24, 10:47 pm |
| This is not all my own stuff, but I have made many modifications to the design
-- mainly to include some PHP backend stuff, to allow the content to be updated
via XML files.
Some of the links are not working, and some of the contect is missing, but I
want to recieve some comments on this..
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge
href="http://www.rmp-consulting.com/
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| Won't load for me. (Firefox (Linux) + Flash 7 plugin).
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| Dean Utian 2006-05-25, 6:34 pm |
| Hi Rowan,
Did you want some design feedback. Because that's what I'm going to give you:)
First, nice site. Generally works OK and is clear and easy to navigate.
Design - why so much white space at the top? Move everything up, at least to the
top of the grey vertical line end point. Serves no purpose having the space, just
forces people to scroll unnecessarily.
Resume - first time I looked at it, I didn't get a scrollbar and just had the text
running out of the window area. Now, can't get that to happen again. So not sure
what was happening there. But, the formatting of your resume could be better. This
time, add some space to the top. Not too much, but your name address and other
details are to close to the top edge. Also add some space to the left. You have
space at the right, this could be divided equally between left and right. Move your
name all the way to the left. Then have your address, phone number and email all
together on the right. There's a graphic design principle of PROXIMITY. This is
that all related content should be in close proximity. So, address, contact
details, all should be bundled together. Makes it read better.
Just a small detail because I'm finicky about details. In 'Home' when you click
'More', the contact details in the top right shifts a little. Seems to be out of
alignment with the other pages.
In 'Contacts', any reason your email address isn't hyperlinked? The icon that
animates when you move the cursor over it - that looks like something that should
be clicked but doesn't do anything at the moment.
Use one colour for text links and a different colour for non text links. In
'Services', 'More', Resume' are links and you can tell by the blue colour. But,
under News, 'May 22nd' is the same colour but is not hyperlinked. People will get
confused by inconsistencies.
I don't particularly like how some page titles have one word in blue, one in grey.
I'd say make them both grey and perhaps bold. Maintain consistency with formatting.
On 'Home', 'About me' title doesn't follow the same formatting as other pages,
Anyway, that will be all for now. Hope that's helpful.
regards
Dean
Director Lecturer / Consultant
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director
http://www.multimediacreative.com.au
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| Dean Utian 2006-05-25, 10:36 pm |
| Hi again,
I managed to reproduce the resume bug. The first time you open the 'Resume page', the
scrollbar doesn't appear and teh text keeps running down the screen. If you go out of
that wondow, then come back to it, it works fine. If you reload teh page, it works
fine. However, if you close your browser, reopen your site, you experience the same
problem the first time you go to 'Resume'. This was with Internet Explorer.
regards
Dean
Director Lecturer / Consultant
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director
http://www.multimediacreative.com.au
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| Chris Georgenes 2006-05-26, 6:43 pm |
| My News section has a bad typo ("spaning" should be "spanning"). Overall clean and nice. Looks like
a typical flash template that anyone can get these days but it fits the purpose you intended. i
didnt have time to go through the entire site yet but will try later. just wanted to tell you about
the typo.
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Rowan wrote:
> This is not all my own stuff, but I have made many modifications to the design
> -- mainly to include some PHP backend stuff, to allow the content to be updated
> via XML files.
>
> Some of the links are not working, and some of the contect is missing, but I
> want to recieve some comments on this..
>
> <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge
> href="http://www.rmp-consulting.com/
> .
> ">http://www.rmp-consulting.com/
> .
> </a>
>
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| wynterain 2006-05-28, 3:34 am |
| I believe someone noted this but in the event they didn't the resume info
extends outside the parameters when the pop up window appears. You said that
this isn't your stuff, does that mean you designed the site for someone else or
what. I personally have been trying to learn the animation that appears when
you hover over a picture. If you designed that part please inform me on how to
create that animation. I'm dieing to know
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| Thanks for the feedback and I will be fixing most of these issues.
Most of my time has been spent getting Flash to read the XML documents and
update the site dynamically, but now I am ready to move on and start the clean
up. I know I've got a lot of consistancy issue, and these will be cleaned up
with a new CSS.
Most of the animation and basic look and feel did come from another source,
but the content is all me, and like I said before, this is now a data driven
site via XML, where -as the original 'template' was a static page.
Again, thanks for everyone for taking the time
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