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My most recent project went online: www.cassysdesign.ro.
I would need some feedback and some suggestions on the problems it currently has. Notable bugs:
1. Render problem in FF when viewing large pages (it renders ok only after a page refresh)
2. Background vertical repeat image impossible to use for the central column because the background property has already been used by top image (which also acts as a header) - any suggestions of a work-around?
3. Invalid CSS/XHTML because of ending /img absence -
3. Invalid CSS/XHTML because of ending /img absence
is there some reason you couldn't use self closing tags? (<img />) -
My main problem is that the menu is hard to read. The text is a little small for my resolution (1680X1050), and that you are not using the Romanian alphabet.
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- CommentAuthorNick Presta
- CommentTimeJan 5th 2006
@SpookyET:
Ctrl ++ if you're using Firefox. The text actually looks better when it's increased by one size.
Also, for the site creator:- You use too many divisions. Divisions should be used to logically group sections of your site.
- Don't have a "container" element when you don't need it. Style the body!
- <h1><img src="h1/home.gif" alt="Pagina Principala Cassysdesign"><span>Home</span></h1>. Other methods of FIR work better and don't require image tags.
- Images that are integral to your design should be background images - not in image tags. Image tags should be things that are part of your content (like those pictures on the right side in your content section). Headings, menu backgrounds, list items, floating links that will always be there should have background images.
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I like these kind of pages, but as always there are still some things you could improve:
- For the menu you could use Fast Rollovers Without Preload as it's way more faster.
- Add some background image Matija and many others have done It add's more detail and gives more like a feeling that everything is in it's right places.
- I think the font you have used in menu is really bad. You should use some that is easy to read, becouse I - as a customer - don't want to trying to figure out what the hell is written there. Ok, this time it's not that bad, but still.
- It's propably ment like that, but I also don't like those shapes you have used in menu. Maybe add something like a pull out pice of papper or something like that. Well, those real photo-things just don't go togeather with something like that.
Other than that - I like it. -
whow that's a lot of useful feedback people. Thank you very much.
Indeed the menu font is meant to look that way, but it is a compromise. I was planning on using sIFR for the headings an menus but after some frustrating searches for a cut-our paper-like free font I ended-up having nothing that suited me so i decided to go with this method (not the brightest one I agree)
I was actually going for a kutztown.edu menu effect, but you can all see what it turned out.
[Gustavs] thanks alot for the links. It was plain logic to me, yet I stuck in stupidity and didn't try out the method. I now remember I have read about it.
[nifkin] I never used in my life and I've had pages validate without this element.
[spookyET] Yes I am aware of that issue, text is currently in development and what you see there is just a guideline for visitors of the temporary version. Romanian characters are on their way.
[nick1presta] thank you very much for the advice, I agree that there is just an array of div's and it's a bad habbit of mine. I started CSS by self-teaching, way before i had a viable internet connection. nowadays I get in contact with all these communities and I realise my mistakes. I am trying to limit the use of my divs and to get a grip on putting background images as a link in the CSS but for the time being I am still trying to loose old habbits. Anyway, in my opinion this is about the best structural org I could have done to the extent of my current skills.
I do believe that these feedback sessions will improve my skills that's what the name of the community in fact "SkillShare".
Thank you all for your valuable comments.
Has anyone encountered the rendering problem though? Do you have any sollution for it? -
[nifkin] I never used in my life and I've had pages validate without this element.
Well, if you have they weren't XHTML pages. The non-closing tag is why you get the validation errors. If you just added /> to the end of your image tags it would clear up those errors at least and adding alt attributes to img's that don't have one would clear up the rest. -
I think i got the idea. Thank you.
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