Site Ratings & Reviews - Re: Critique please

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Re: Critique please

Toby A Inkster

2007-04-20, 6:17 am

I posted the following to alt.www.webmaster, but didn't get as much
feedback as I'd hoped for. So I'm reposting it to a few other groups
instead.

> URL: http://tobyinkster.co.uk/
>
> I've rewritten the CMS behind my website from scratch and am about to spin
> it off as an Open Source CMS project <http://demiblog.org/>. In advance of
> this, I've now ported my old site to the new CMS and I'd like to hear any
> feedback, particularly in the areas of:
>
> - usability
> - accessibility
> - ease of navigation
> - missing features that should be there
>
> The CSS and overall look and feel are just part of the theme -- not the
> core CMS, so I'm not really interested in comments about that.
>
> Currently, the main visible thing missing is the lack of a comments system.
> I hope to have that working in a couple of weeks.
>
> Also, while you're there, check out the blog posting "The Tao of HTML 5"
> dated 15 April, as you may find it interesting.

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Mike Minor

2007-04-20, 10:18 pm

>>[color=darkred]

Looks nice with the exception of the font size of the links. They are so
small, that I can hardly read them. I tried to adjust the text size with
"view-text size-large" but they didn't change. Of course you may mean for
only young people with very good eyesight to utilize your pages, but this
old fart with aging eyes would skip over your page simply because I can't
read it with ease, and I can't make an adjustment to do so.

Mike

mbstevens

2007-04-20, 10:18 pm

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:35:30 +0100, Toby A Inkster wrote:
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Hi, Toby. The left nav column on the opening page made it take some time
for me to be able to find the link at the top of the page to the
interesting blog entry you mentioned. The left column was about blogs
("Blogroll"), but no link to your blog. Text for the horizontal links
seems to be set smaller than for the links that occur in paragraphs, which
I find strange, since they are your basic navigation.

I surmise that reason the logo on the opening page clicks through to the
opening page itself is a page generation thing, so I can let it pass if
you don't feel like popping the hood on demiblog for something so small on
a particular site.

I hope you were able to find this entry, which has been trimmed only for
....critique. The newsgroup, near death, seems to be posted to daily only
by a particularly stupid spammer.

Jim Moe

2007-04-20, 10:18 pm

Toby A Inkster wrote:[color=darkred]
>
Have you considered putting the navigation on the right? The actual
content is pushed way to the right side because of the nav menu and
generous margins. Generally Western text is mostly to the left side. It
seems a bit weird with the content in the middle, as though the menu is
more important.
The menu text is extremely small.
Each page is linked to itself.
I'm a bit unclear about the rules, if any, for date format. I thought
that to avoid confusion with US layout that European format used either
hyphens or dots: 20-04-2007 or 20.04.2007. (I've always preferred the
unambiguous Apr 4, 2007 or 4-Apr-2007. suitable for English only of
course. Or 2007-04-20 (sorts nicely).)
Completely trivial fluff: The code uses tabs to indent. It becomes
rather hard to read as the text quickly disappears off the right.
Bandwidth reduction measure (1 tab vs 2 spaces)?

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Edwin van der Vaart

2007-04-20, 10:18 pm

Toby A Inkster wrote:[color=darkred]
> I posted the following to alt.www.webmaster, but didn't get as much
> feedback as I'd hoped for. So I'm reposting it to a few other groups
> instead.
>
What do you think about the font size. It's difficult to read the menu's
[http://www.evandervaart.nl/img/toby.png] 93.7Kb.
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dorayme

2007-04-20, 10:18 pm

In article <24emf4-hco.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk>,
Toby A Inkster <usenet200703@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:
[color=darkred]
> I posted the following to alt.www.webmaster, but didn't get as much
> feedback as I'd hoped for. So I'm reposting it to a few other groups
> instead.
>

Perhaps you might consider a slight reposition for the Google
text box as it overlaps the content text fairly quickly with a
few clicks of text size. Or you might give the paragraph
containing "This is the personal..." a bit more padding-top, that
might do?

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