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A new site I did for an artist group

IrishITGuru

2007-07-29, 10:24 pm

Hi everyone,
I used to post to this group heavily when I was starting in web-design, many
years ago. I have now built my first website as a free lance designer. Can
you take a look at the site and see if it does what I intended to do.
That is to sell the paintings of a local amateur artists group.
The URL is: www.limerickatticartists.com

Kind Regards,
Kev.

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

2007-07-29, 10:24 pm

IrishITGuru wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I used to post to this group heavily when I was starting in
> web-design, many years ago. I have now built my first website as a
> free lance designer. Can you take a look at the site and see if it
> does what I intended to do. That is to sell the paintings of a local
> amateur artists group.
> The URL is: www.limerickatticartists.com

<http://validator.w3.org/check?verbo...cartists.com%2F>
"Failed validation, 8 Errors"

New documents are supposed to be Strict, as you aren't Transitioning
from old legacy pages.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

"FONT-SIZE: 76%; " is only three-quarters of my preferred size. You
should change that to 100%. Your text is very hard to read unless I
increase the size. ".feature" at 80% is 80% of 76%.

You should drop all sizing for everything except <hx> and the footer.
And drop Verdana for the oft-discussed reasons... See:
http://k75s.home.att.net/fontsize.html

Your scrolling div for content wastes reading space. I don't need to
look at your blue header and footer all the time. Stop that absolute
positioning.

The Gallery doesn't fit in my browser window; there is a horizontal
scrollbar. My window is obviously narrower than yours. Put all the
thumbnails and captions in <div>'s and float: left; and they will fit
regardless of browser window size.

While not required, you should be consistent when typing code; you have
a mix of upper-case and lower-case in both the HTML and the CSS. Makes
it hard to read. I'd suggest all lower-case.

Is Jack Long's painting really a "Herron" ? ;-)

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Jim Moe

2007-07-30, 3:18 am

IrishITGuru wrote:
> [...] I have now built my first website as a free lance designer. Can
> you take a look at the site and see if it does what I intended to do.
> The URL is: www.limerickatticartists.com
>
Red, white and blue. Very patriotic.
The blue is quite intense, almost shocking; it dominates instead of
enhances. It makes any text hard to read, including the logo/image.
The main nav is hard to read and becomes more so on hover. Reduce "How
to Purchase Paintings" to "Purchase", or maybe "Invest".
What is the Home page image about? It seems rather bland and poorly
composed, it has no link, conveys no information, and does not show in the
gallery.
Why an image for a site about paintings?
All of the Home page text jumps below that image when the viewport is
narrowed some. What is the layout supposed to be? Image and text side by
side? Or text below the image?

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ITrishGuru

2007-08-03, 10:20 pm

On Jul 30, 5:58 am, Jim Moe <jmm-list.AXSPA...@sohnen-moe.com> wrote:
> IrishITGuru wrote:
>
> Red, white and blue. Very patriotic.
> The blue is quite intense, almost shocking; it dominates instead of
> enhances. It makes any text hard to read, including the logo/image.
> The main nav is hard to read and becomes more so on hover. Reduce "How
> to Purchase Paintings" to "Purchase", or maybe "Invest".
> What is the Home page image about? It seems rather bland and poorly
> composed, it has no link, conveys no information, and does not show in the
> gallery.
> Why an image for a site about paintings?
> All of the Home page text jumps below that image when the viewport is
> narrowed some. What is the layout supposed to be? Image and text side by
> side? Or text below the image?
>
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> jmm (hyphen) list (at) sohnen-moe (dot) com
> (Remove .AXSPAMGN for email)

Fantastic replys and critique People Thanks alot.
I'll rework the code big time.
I also hired a graphics artists to look at it and she gave me some
great ideas to make it look like a website for artists.
Kind Regards,
Kevin.