Webmaster forum - stevesobol.com critique, round 2

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stevesobol.com critique, round 2

Steve Sobol

2005-05-24, 4:21 am

http://stevesobol.com/p/2005preview2/

Notes:

a) I know. No DOCTYPE. It will be XHTML 1.0 Strict (with the
corresponding DOCTYPE placed on the page) when all is said and done, but
Photoshop 7 doesn't generate IMG tags that are XHTML-compliant, so I
will have to change them myself, and I will be replacing ImageReady's
mouseover JavaScript with XHTML-compliant stuff. I'd love to buy CS, and
CS would probably fix this problem - but right now I'm too po' to afford
CS. :)

b) Ditched the image map, am using ImageReady slices, put in ALT
attributes; this page displays correctly in Lynx. Do need to put TITLE
attributes too.

c) Ditched the original font (Letraset Mekanik) in favor of Microsoft's
Trebuchet, which was specifically designed for display on web pages and
therefore anti-aliases much better than Mekanik (or at least the version
of Mekanik that I have on my hard drive).

d) Cleaned up the overall look and feel.

e) Still no content yet. :)

f) Am using mouseovers. Would be interested in hearing if people think
they're OK or not. (I've not yet decided for myself whether they're too
cheesy...)

Thank you!

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Els

2005-05-24, 4:21 am

Steve Sobol wrote:

> http://stevesobol.com/p/2005preview2/
>
> Notes:

[snip a-e]

> f) Am using mouseovers. Would be interested in hearing if people think
> they're OK or not. (I've not yet decided for myself whether they're too
> cheesy...)

Well, I'll let you decide that for yourself ;-)

Just one little problem: when narrowing the window (Firebird[1]), the
large part with the logo stops at the left border of the window, but
the navigation images keep going and manage to fall off the left side,
taking a little corner of the magnifying glass with them :-)

[1] - Firefox doesn't show that problem, as the bug was fixed with
version 0.9, but any older version of Netscape, Firebird, Mozilla will
have the problem. See also
<http://locusmeus.com/html-css/pageslipping.html>

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William Tasso

2005-05-24, 7:37 am

Forging a path through the Usenet jungle, armed only with a rusty Mozilla
Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317), Steve Sobol stumbled into
alt.www.webmaster and said:

> http://stevesobol.com/p/2005preview2/
> ...
> f) Am using mouseovers.

have you considered this method of managing your ro-ro(s) (roll-on,
roll-off)

http://williamtasso.com/usenet/logotest.asp

--
Whatever you do - do something.

Matt-the-Hoople

2005-05-25, 7:58 pm

Steve Sobol wrote:
>
> http://stevesobol.com/p/2005preview2/

Tried to have a peek, but got your 'nobody home' message.
>
> f) Am using mouseovers. Would be interested in hearing if people think
> they're OK or not. (I've not yet decided for myself whether they're too
> cheesy...)

Mouseovers are OK if that's what you want. I prefer doing that sort of
thing in CSS. YMMV.

Steve Sobol

2005-05-25, 7:59 pm

Matt-the-Hoople wrote:
> Steve Sobol wrote:
>
>
>
> Tried to have a peek, but got your 'nobody home' message.

Yup, that's because I deleted everything out of that directory and moved
it up onto the main site. The site is disabled, and unless you're logged
into the blogging software as an admin you'll get that message, but I
put in a hack at

http://stevesobol.com/view.php

which will set a session cookie that will allow you to check out the
site even if you're not logged in.

Note: IE6 displays the site properly. Mozilla (specifically FireFox
1.04) almost does, but the nav links are off to the left side. I already
know I have to fix that.

>
> Mouseovers are OK if that's what you want. I prefer doing that sort of
> thing in CSS. YMMV.

Yeah, me too, Javascript should not be used if not absolutely necessary
- but I tried to implement something in CSS, and decided it would take
more time than it's worth - so for now there are no mouseovers or
rollovers. Accessibility is more important to me than cutesy animation,
and I wanted to make sure I did things in a way that would allow me to
put all the alt and title tags in properly.

I'm working on the site's stylesheet now, so if you check out the site
over the next couple days, keep in mind that the CSS is going to change
somewhat.

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Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / sjsobol@JustThe.net / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED

"The wisdom of a fool won't set you free"
--New Order, "Bizarre Love Triangle"