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| Beauregard T. Shagnasty 2005-04-05, 6:29 pm |
| Peter1968 wrote:
> http://www.ulujain.org/
1. Your main nav bar wraps in a browser window narrower than about
950px. The right-hand buttons sit atop the middle ones.
2. Consider renaming the CSS file to something other than
"indexpage.css" as it seems to be used on all pages. Not wrong, just
confusing to those who may read source.
3. The headings in the bordered box (i.e. "The latest iteration of
Ulujain.org") could use some padding between the words and the border,
or remove the border altogether.
4. The contact.shtml page says "This website is 100% XHTML 1.0" when
in fact you are using a 1.1 doctype. <g> Also, why not include a
contact form on the page, instead of just an email address that the
user must hand-type?
5. "Incunabulae There are four pages to this." Why not write a small
description of the story, and add " (four pages)" to it?
6. "You can read <a href="(link)">questions</a> that nobody ever asks
me." rather than using "ever asks me" as the link, or maybe even
include "questions that nobody" within the anchor.
Except for 1. these are all small, somewhat nitpicky, comments. The
site is well done.
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| Peter1968 2005-04-05, 6:29 pm |
| Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> Peter1968 wrote:
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> 1. Your main nav bar wraps in a browser window narrower than about
> 950px. The right-hand buttons sit atop the middle ones.
I'm at a loss on how to fix that without suggesting a smaller font
percentage size. On nearly every other page on my site, the nav menu has
, atthe most, 4 links. The index one has 6, which does present a problem
with a reduced viewport.
I guess I could dispense with it altogether for the index and just have
a menu of some sort in the actual content.
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> 2. Consider renaming the CSS file to something other than
> "indexpage.css" as it seems to be used on all pages. Not wrong, just
> confusing to those who may read source.
It's a relic of when I used 4-5 different CSS files for various parts of
my site. The indexpage.css was only used for the index, but I liked the
style of it the most and ended up using it solely site-wide. The name
has remained.
Changing it would involve manually editing 170+ files. I'm kicking
myself for not including it in an SSI like I have for the rest of my
<HEAD> stuff.
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> 3. The headings in the bordered box (i.e. "The latest iteration of
> Ulujain.org") could use some padding between the words and the border,
> or remove the border altogether.
More padding? How much do you suggest?
> 4. The contact.shtml page says "This website is 100% XHTML 1.0" when in
> fact you are using a 1.1 doctype. <g> Also, why not include a contact
> form on the page, instead of just an email address that the user must
> hand-type?
It used to be 1.0 Transitional until I updated it. I just haven't
changed it. A contact form is in the works and the png email thing is a
poor attempt to prevent email harvesters.
> 5. "Incunabulae There are four pages to this." Why not write a small
> description of the story, and add " (four pages)" to it?
Good idea.
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> 6. "You can read <a href="(link)">questions</a> that nobody ever asks
> me." rather than using "ever asks me" as the link, or maybe even include
> "questions that nobody" within the anchor.
Hehehe, yes, I've changed that one. Didn't make a lot of sense where I
had it.
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> Except for 1. these are all small, somewhat nitpicky, comments. The site
> is well done.
>
Thank you. It falls apart very slighly under IE 5.01 and 5.5 and falls
apart even more under IE 4.01, but they're things I can live with. I'm
just curious to know what it looks like under Konqueror or Safari.
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| Peter1968 wrote:
> Changing it would involve manually editing 170+ files.
Why not a site wide search and replace?
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| Peter1968 2005-04-05, 6:29 pm |
| Els wrote:
> Peter1968 wrote:
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> Why not a site wide search and replace?
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This is true.
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| Beauregard T. Shagnasty 2005-04-05, 6:29 pm |
| Peter1968 wrote:
> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
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> I'm at a loss on how to fix that without suggesting a smaller font
> percentage size. On nearly every other page on my site, the nav
> menu has , atthe most, 4 links. The index one has 6, which does
> present a problem with a reduced viewport.
I have a site with a similar menu (the client wanted it) with five
buttons, and it doesn't wrap until near 500px width.
http://www.freezeblock.com/
You might want to consider non-breaking spaces between words in
individual buttons, so they don't wrap half-a-button.
> I guess I could dispense with it altogether for the index and just
> have a menu of some sort in the actual content.
Making the buttons with a bit less padding, and extending the nav
margin to nearer the outer box might help.
>
> It's a relic of when I used 4-5 different CSS files for various
> parts of my site. The indexpage.css was only used for the index,
> but I liked the style of it the most and ended up using it solely
> site-wide. The name has remained. Changing it would involve
> manually editing 170+ files. I'm kicking myself for not including
> it in an SSI like I have for the rest of my <HEAD> stuff.
Heh, next time you do a major change ... :-)
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> More padding? How much do you suggest?
{ padding: 0.25em } maybe?
<snippage>
> Thank you. It falls apart very slighly under IE 5.01 and 5.5 and
> falls apart even more under IE 4.01, but they're things I can live
> with. I'm just curious to know what it looks like under Konqueror
> or Safari.
I don't care about v.4 browsers either...
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| Peter1968 <esmari@nonsensebigpond.net.au> wrote:
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> Thank you. It falls apart very slighly under IE 5.01 and 5.5 and falls
> apart even more under IE 4.01, but they're things I can live with. I'm
> just curious to know what it looks like under Konqueror or Safari.
It looks quite nice in Safari. Can't see any difference between Safari
and Mac Firefox.
Anyone ever tell you that you look like Colonel Sanders?
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| Peter1968 2005-04-06, 11:25 pm |
| tm wrote:
> Peter1968 <esmari@nonsensebigpond.net.au> wrote:
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> It looks quite nice in Safari. Can't see any difference between Safari
> and Mac Firefox.
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> Anyone ever tell you that you look like Colonel Sanders?
Or Rolf Harris...(did you see him as well?)
Would it be too much to ask if I could get a Safari screenshot off you?
Feel free to email it peter at ulujain dot org or simply include a link
to it.
It'd much appreciated!
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