this small site is currently on a dev server, but will soon move to a
proper home. the design is from a "pure" designer (never ever done web
stuff). this is my nearly-identical-to-the-original adaptation. and
and all thoughts are appreciated. cheers.

http://www.k4media.com/rubies/

"cruiserweight" <bayon86@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:18bdba0a.0407241858.3e864a83@posting.google.com...
> this small site is currently on a dev server, but will soon move to a
> proper home. the design is from a "pure" designer (never ever done web
> stuff). this is my nearly-identical-to-the-original adaptation. and
> and all thoughts are appreciated. cheers.
>
> http://www.k4media.com/rubies/

I like your design! eye-catching. specially, home and wines pages.
Only critique would be I liked to see more simillar ellements in different
pages.
IMO you should keep something  like shape, color, relationship between
elements or anything else (you're designer and know better than me what I
mean) to make the viewer FEEL he is still in the same website and feel safe
;)

All the best,
Arash http://portfolio.dejkam.com

cruiserweight wrote:

> http://www.k4media.com/rubies/

I think it's really good (and it's not often that I say that!)

I do think though that this page hasn't had quite as much effort put into
it: http://www.k4media.com/rubies/lounge.html -- it looks scattered and
haphazard and it lets the rest of the site down.

Other minor niggles:

1. The square orange bullet points are inserted via <img> elements. It
would be better to use the CSS list-style-image property.

2. On the pages other than the home page, you link like this back to the
home page: <a href="index.html">. It would be better to use <a href="./">.
Should help with caching and also with vlinks.

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"cruiserweight" <bayon86@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> this small site is currently on a dev server, but will soon move to a
> proper home. the design is from a "pure" designer (never ever done web
> stuff). this is my nearly-identical-to-the-original adaptation. and
> and all thoughts are appreciated. cheers.
>
> http://www.k4media.com/rubies/

Your design is quite excellent. Oddly enough (and this is rare) the HTML is
also quite good. The CSS is ok enough, a bit verbose but much better than
most I see in here.

Are you sure you didn't farm the coding out to a developer? :-)

Couple of issues:

The images on the front page. You have sort of mirrored them. I get the
feeling that it is a background that is repeating in the x direction.

Also on the front page, the most important bit of information on that page
is your location. It is dark grey on black. I had to highlight it to be able
to read it. It should be bright white, like the menu items. Maybe even
brighter.

Lounge room: orange on red is almost impossible to read as well.

I assume you aren't concerned with search engine placement :-)

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Cheers
Richard.

cruiserweight wrote:

> this small site is currently on a dev server, but will soon
> move to a proper home. the design is from a "pure" designer
> (never ever done web stuff). this is my
> nearly-identical-to-the-original adaptation. and and all
> thoughts are appreciated. cheers.
>
> http://www.k4media.com/rubies/

I like the design, fluid, and whatever width the browser window
is, it still looks good.
Only one thing 'wrong': in IE 6.0, on the photos page, the word
PHOTOS (sideways on the right) is missing.

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Els wrote

> Only one thing 'wrong': in IE 6.0, on the photos page, the word
> PHOTOS (sideways on the right) is missing.

Have a look down here

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V

See the scroll bar?


But yes, it shouldn't happen :-)

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Cheers
Richard.

rf wrote:

> Els wrote
> 
>
> Have a look down here
>
> |
> |
> V
>
> See the scroll bar?

Right! It was so fluid that I automatically ignored the
horizontal scrollbar :-)

> But yes, it shouldn't happen :-)

Looks like a "margin-problem" I think...

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Els wrote
> rf wrote:

> Right! It was so fluid that I automatically ignored the
> horizontal scrollbar :-)
> 
>
> Looks like a "margin-problem" I think...

You mean the IE margin bug?

Hmmm. Don't think so. The OP appears to be running the browser in standards
mode.

But, there is something in there that is forcing the body element AFAICT out
to almost exactly 150px wider than the canvas.

Suspect those width and height things in the CSS, which are not really
uniformly supported anyway.

Maybe it *is* the margin bug.

Leave it as an exercise for the student at this stage, eh Els? Give said OP
something to work on, can't give ALL our secrets away at once :-)

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Richard.

rf wrote:

> Els wrote 
> 
>
> You mean the IE margin bug?

Wasn't thinking bug, actually, just problem :-)

> Hmmm. Don't think so. The OP appears to be running the
> browser in standards mode.
>
> But, there is something in there that is forcing the body
> element AFAICT out to almost exactly 150px wider than the
> canvas.
>
> Suspect those width and height things in the CSS, which are
> not really uniformly supported anyway.
>
> Maybe it *is* the margin bug.

Don't know actually, haven't memorized all of the bugs yet.
(and before anyone asks, I wasn't planning on going to either)

> Leave it as an exercise for the student at this stage, eh
> Els? Give said OP something to work on, can't give ALL our
> secrets away at once :-)

True :-D

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"rf" <rf@.invalid> wrote:
 
>
>Your design is quite excellent. Oddly enough (and this is rare) the HTML is
>also quite good. The CSS is ok enough, a bit verbose but much better than
>most I see in here.
>
>Are you sure you didn't farm the coding out to a developer? :-)

The way I read it he's the coder, and the design is someone else's.

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