Re: review
am 16.07.2007 13:46:20 von rf
"windandwaves" wrote in message
news:1184584972.804056.100660@x35g2000prf.googlegroups.com.. .
>> Screen size is irrelevant. Window size is. In any case you have fallen
>> into
>> the negative margin trap. Change the CSS very slightly and it would be
>> usable even at 800x600, albeit with a horizontal scroll bar.
>
> Hi Richard
>
> How can I:
>
> a. get the content to sit in the middle of the page if the page is
> taller than the height of the content
By "page" I assume you mean browser canvas area.
Why would you want to? Does your client want this? If so then your client
needs some education on how a web page actually works. Do all of your leters
home to your Mother sit in the very middle of your peice of paper? Nope. You
start at the top and finish wherever you finish.
> b. get the page to sit at the top with a vertical scroll bar if the
> content is taller than the height of the window
This is the default browser behaviour.
> I can do it like this:
>
> my content |
> table>
>
> but I can not achieve exactly the same thing using css.
>
> do you have any suggestions in this area?
Consider that what you want is not part of the media you are writing to?
HTML (and the CSS that style it) is about laying out stuff top to bottom,
left to right, on a canvas, the canvas your viewer allows you to draw in.
Nothing more. You are trying for the *more* and it won't happen easily.
--
Richard.
Re: review
am 16.07.2007 14:02:52 von jkorpela
Scripsit windandwaves:
> Can you please give me some feedback on
> http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
I could, but:
> Bear in mind that I still need to do:
>
> a. create a solution for people with small screens (800 x 600)
> b. deal with large font / small font sizes
It is obvious that you should redesign the page. After those comments, I
don't need to look at it. You have clearly designed for some particular
"screen" (= canvas) size and font sizes. That's going upside down, and it is
much easier to redesign a page from scratch than to transmogrify a
fixed-screen fixed-font size into something reasonably flexible.
--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
Re: review
am 16.07.2007 16:15:26 von Bernhard Sturm
windandwaves wrote:
> Hi Folk
>
> Can you please give me some feedback on http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>
just a couple of things that came to mi mind whilst visiting the above URL:
- Navigational design
*********************
- How do I navigate? The small images do not 'talk' to me... I have to
rely on a mouse over to see that each of the small images refer to a
main item in your navigation. This is one way to chase away customers:
don't tell them what they can find, obscure everything and leave them
alone to discover the treasures of your site. I don't know many
customers who will react in a friendly way to such a proposition :-)
- Who on earth told you that German is only spoken in Germany? I am
Swiss, and I can't see my flag, so I have to guess that I am not your
targeting audiance?
- Why should I identify grey colored text on a grey background as a
clickable link? Not very clever for people who might have some eyessight
troubles (and I assume those people are also inculded in your targeting
audiance?)
- What do you mean by placing an arrow in the footer besides your
flag-icons? Are you telling me, that there are more language options
available? I still couldn't find the Swiss-flag, but realised, that you
are trying to introduce a linear navigation with this arrow. This will
not work, as you are not telling your audiance what they might expect.
- No consistence in navigation design: If I click on one of the images
at least two new menus are being introduced: one above the small images,
and one in the footer bar. I can't see which is what, and couldn't
identify any visual and hence semantic hierarchy between those
naviations. Ahhh, and I notice a third menu-structure, when you dive
deeper into the menu-hierarchy... this is very bad. I suggest you
re-think your navigational-design.
- No immediate contact information. For a hotel I would expect this to
be the most important thing. As a future guest I want to know: where and
who can I contact you, as I want to book NOW. As your client I would
have insisted on this.
- What do you mean by introducing a menu item labelled 'Back to
Functions'? Keep your target audiance in mind: they are not geeks, nor
are they webdesigners. They want to be taken smoothly by the hands.
Explain them in a nice manner, that, if they click this link, they will
be taken to the entry page... whatever.. but something meaningful.
- Design
*********************
I like your calm and neutral desing. The color-scheme is well used (if
one leaves the link-colors aside). I think it is quite courageous to
design the site against all 'common' design rules (logo centered, menu
at the bottom (where you would expect it the least), more information o
the top, two columns divided by a big image in the center), and IMHO you
could almost convince me about it :-)
- Typography
*********************
Drop any italic. This is not readable, at least not on screen.
- HTML
*********************
XHTML Strict? I don't think this is a good idea (at least if I read the
posts from the pros here in the group). Although your site validates.
your print.css seems to be HTML?
http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/s/print.cs s
I haven't looked at it thouroughly, but I can see some akward things
there... Why not using the @media selector?
And, yes: your site will not print. At least on my printer it will print
the entire layout, which will look terrible.
Just my two cents
Bernhard
--
www.daszeichen.ch
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Re: review
am 16.07.2007 23:28:55 von Bergamot
windandwaves wrote:
>
>> > >http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
> I am writing a new css especially for smaller screen sizes...
Screen size doesn't matter, viewport size does. Regardless, you
shouldn't have to write anything especially for certain sizes of
anything else. If you design with flexibility in mind from the
beginning, you won't have these problems.
You have to change the way you think about the whole thing, not write
hacky kludges to work around the flaws of an inflexible design.
BTW, I use a smallish window *and* large text. It looks very messy.
--
Berg
Re: review
am 16.07.2007 23:35:02 von Bergamot
Bernhard Sturm wrote:
> windandwaves wrote:
>>
>> http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>
> - How do I navigate? The small images do not 'talk' to me...
a.k.a. "Mystery Meat" navigation
--
Berg
Re: review
am 16.07.2007 23:42:56 von unknown
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Re: review
am 17.07.2007 01:56:00 von nigel_moss
While the city slept, windandwaves (nfrancken@gmail.com) feverishly typed...
> Hi Folk
>
> Can you please give me some feedback on
> http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
Aside from all the other points brought up in the thread, your clock is
wrong. On the contacts page you have a clock that claims to show the current
time in Dunedin, New Zealand. It actually appears to be displaying GMT (1
hour behind me (I am in the UK, but we are in British Summer Time - GMT+1))
which is 12 hours behind what the time should be in NZ.
Cheers,
Nige
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Re: review
am 17.07.2007 02:40:48 von John Hosking
nice.guy.nige wrote:
> While the city slept, windandwaves (nfrancken@gmail.com) feverishly typed...
>
>> Hi Folk
>>
>> Can you please give me some feedback on
>> http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>
> Aside from all the other points brought up in the thread, your clock is
> wrong. On the contacts page you have a clock that claims to show the current
> time in Dunedin, New Zealand. It actually appears to be displaying GMT (1
> hour behind me (I am in the UK, but we are in British Summer Time - GMT+1))
> which is 12 hours behind what the time should be in NZ.
This is actually kind of amusing, if one follows the trail you've
pointed out.
The only possible reason for putting the "current time" on a Web site
for a hotel *on the Contacts page* is because it might be useful to
those attempting to contact the hotel in NZ. And when would knowing the
time be most useful? Why, when *telephoning*, of course.
So prospective guests and visitors (of which there are doubtless a
multitude in this very NG) should feel free to telephone at a reasonable
time. Say, around 3 p.m. (15:00), just before tea. As indicated by the
site's clock, of course. :-)
--
John
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Re: review
am 17.07.2007 05:19:28 von dorayme
In article
<1184585130.989224.66370@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
windandwaves wrote:
> > dorayme
>
> I like what you write... sounds poetic. So you still think it is too
> short. Here is my thinking.
>
> Those four logos are great selling points. We can not reduce the
> logos in size much (otherwise they become ugly and illegible) - so
> what shall we do? We dont want to clutter the homepage, so this
> seemed like a nice solution. A bit of movement is not too bad - right?
You could... you could... have it repeat only once and stop. You
could have the 4 (if there were there 4, I am working from
memory) go only once with no repeats and final resting place
could be all 4 logos together, a 1/4 the size each in the same
space, as a reminder of what the bigger show showed. Or a
combination of the two suggestions.
--
dorayme
Re: review
am 17.07.2007 06:03:55 von WindAndWaves
On Jul 16, 11:46 pm, "rf" wrote:
> "windandwaves" wrote in message
>
> news:1184584972.804056.100660@x35g2000prf.googlegroups.com.. .
>
> >> Screen size is irrelevant. Window size is. In any case you have fallen
> >> into
> >> the negative margin trap. Change the CSS very slightly and it would be
> >> usable even at 800x600, albeit with a horizontal scroll bar.
>
> > Hi Richard
>
> > How can I:
>
> > a. get the content to sit in the middle of the page if the page is
> > taller than the height of the content
>
> By "page" I assume you mean browser canvas area.
>
> Why would you want to?
Because it looks good - just like Bill Clinton became president of the
US because he talks "good" :-)
> Does your client want this? If so then your client
> needs some education on how a web page actually works. Do all of your leters
> home to your Mother sit in the very middle of your peice of paper? Nope. You
> start at the top and finish wherever you finish.
I am deliberately breaking conventions - for fun and because it looks
good.
>
> > b. get the page to sit at the top with a vertical scroll bar if the
> > content is taller than the height of the window
>
> This is the default browser behaviour.
>
> > I can do it like this:
>
> > my content |
> > table>
>
> > but I can not achieve exactly the same thing using css.
>
> > do you have any suggestions in this area?
>
> Consider that what you want is not part of the media you are writing to?
>
> HTML (and the CSS that style it) is about laying out stuff top to bottom,
> left to right
> , on a canvas, the canvas your viewer allows you to draw in.
> Nothing more. You are trying for the *more* and it won't happen easily.
No, i admit, it is bloody hard. I can tell you that the feedback from
"jo average" has been really good about the site. They love the way
it looks, so we do not want to loose that!
>
> --
> Richard.
Re: review
am 17.07.2007 06:18:22 von WindAndWaves
On Jul 17, 2:15 am, Bernhard Sturm wrote:
> windandwaves wrote:
> > Hi Folk
>
> > Can you please give me some feedback onhttp://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>
> just a couple of things that came to mi mind whilst visiting the above URL:
>
> - Navigational design
> *********************
> - How do I navigate? The small images do not 'talk' to me... I have to
> rely on a mouse over to see that each of the small images refer to a
> main item in your navigation. This is one way to chase away customers:
> don't tell them what they can find, obscure everything and leave them
> alone to discover the treasures of your site. I don't know many
> customers who will react in a friendly way to such a proposition :-)
Good point. We do provide one large photo on each page and we can
obviously not provide eight large images, but we give the customer the
opportunity to see more. I am thinking about a javascript that swaps
the image on each page every minute or so.... That maybe a nice idea.
I will think about that.
> - Who on earth told you that German is only spoken in Germany? I am
> Swiss, and I can't see my flag, so I have to guess that I am not your
> targeting audiance?
Ok, here is my thinking:
1. keep it simple
2. flight attendants wear flags of the languages they speak
3. you could write "click here for german", etc...., but that would
look dull!
4. hotels often use flags to welcome people - no-one assumes that if
you flag aint showing you are not welcome.
5. we can't add every flag, because the languages we use cover
billions of people!
This was my reasoning. How do you suggest we fix it, while keeping
the nice look?
>
> - Why should I identify grey colored text on a grey background as a
> clickable link? Not very clever for people who might have some eyessight
> troubles (and I assume those people are also inculded in your targeting
> audiance?)
True, we dont really want them to click them. they are mainly for
search engine purposes :-)
>
> - What do you mean by placing an arrow in the footer besides your
> flag-icons? Are you telling me, that there are more language options
> available? I still couldn't find the Swiss-flag, but realised, that you
> are trying to introduce a linear navigation with this arrow. This will
> not work, as you are not telling your audiance what they might expect.
Hmmm, this was a really interesting point. The arrows are for NEXT
and PREVIOUS page. Not sure how we would change it. I personally
really like it as you can cycle through the whole site, or go, for
example, room to room....
> - No consistence in navigation design: If I click on one of the images
> at least two new menus are being introduced: one above the small images,
> and one in the footer bar. I can't see which is what, and couldn't
> identify any visual and hence semantic hierarchy between those
> naviations.
The ones above the images are the services (accommodation,
restaurant,etc...) , the ones below are for practical matters (e.g.
contact, bookings, etc...) I wonder if it works. You theorise that
it does not, but I would like to put that to the test.
I will see if we can conduct a small field trial with this. A lot of
points made in this newsgroup is because people say:
- you dont do it that way
- that never works
however, few present empirical evidence whether or not things work.
Professionals look at these things very differently from "normal"
people. For example the site discussed here is usually a favourite
with "normal" people, although it breaks a lot of professional rules.
> Ahhh, and I notice a third menu-structure, when you dive
> deeper into the menu-hierarchy... this is very bad. I suggest you
> re-think your navigational-design.
>
> - No immediate contact information. For a hotel I would expect this to
> be the most important thing. As a future guest I want to know: where and
> who can I contact you, as I want to book NOW. As your client I would
> have insisted on this.
Good point. Perhaps we should make the contact link bold or so? What
we have done is to create several links in strategic places directly
to the contact page.
>
> - What do you mean by introducing a menu item labelled 'Back to
> Functions'? Keep your target audiance in mind: they are not geeks, nor
> are they webdesigners. They want to be taken smoothly by the hands.
> Explain them in a nice manner, that, if they click this link, they will
> be taken to the entry page... whatever.. but something meaningful.
Totally agree. Will change
> - Design
> *********************
> I like your calm and neutral desing. The color-scheme is well used (if
> one leaves the link-colors aside). I think it is quite courageous to
> design the site against all 'common' design rules (logo centered, menu
> at the bottom (where you would expect it the least), more information o
> the top, two columns divided by a big image in the center), and IMHO you
> could almost convince me about it :-)
>
> - Typography
> *********************
> Drop any italic. This is not readable, at least not on screen.
Good point! Totally agree
>
> - HTML
> *********************
> XHTML Strict? I don't think this is a good idea (at least if I read the
> posts from the pros here in the group). Although your site validates.
>
> your print.css seems to be HTML?
hmmmm, yes, the "to do " list!
>
> http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/s/print.cs s
>
> I haven't looked at it thouroughly, but I can see some akward things
> there... Why not using the @media selector?
> And, yes: your site will not print. At least on my printer it will print
> the entire layout, which will look terrible.
>
> Just my two cents
> Bernhard
>
> --www.daszeichen.ch
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Thanks a million for all your comments. That is just fantastic. Much
appreciated. I hope I did not sound too "arrogant" - as Richard would
put it. Thanks again!
Nicolaas
Re: review
am 17.07.2007 06:19:20 von WindAndWaves
On Jul 17, 11:56 am, "nice.guy.nige" wrote:
> While the city slept, windandwaves (nfranc...@gmail.com) feverishly typed...
>
> > Hi Folk
>
> > Can you please give me some feedback on
> >http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>
> Aside from all the other points brought up in the thread, your clock is
> wrong. On the contacts page you have a clock that claims to show the current
> time in Dunedin, New Zealand. It actually appears to be displaying GMT (1
> hour behind me (I am in the UK, but we are in British Summer Time - GMT+1))
> which is 12 hours behind what the time should be in NZ.
>
> Cheers,
> Nige
>
> --
> Nigel Mosshttp://www.nigenet.org.uk
> Mail address will bounce. ni...@DOG.nigenet.org.uk | Take the DOG. out!
> "Your mother ate my dog!", "Not all of him!"
Thanks mate! Not sure what happened there. Much appreciated.
Re: review
am 17.07.2007 10:08:57 von Bernhard Sturm
windandwaves wrote:
> 4. hotels often use flags to welcome people - no-one assumes that if
> you flag aint showing you are not welcome.
> 5. we can't add every flag, because the languages we use cover
> billions of people!
>
> This was my reasoning. How do you suggest we fix it, while keeping
> the nice look?
I would suggest placing a nice dummy-flag in the footer, and then refer
by text links to the languages, and not to the country: EN | FR | DE |
IT | ES
Native speakers usually know how their mother-tongue is being
internationally abbreviated. Referring to a country as a mean to switch
languages is not wise: in a globalised world a lot of people do no
longer speak their 'official' countries language, and in the case of
Switzerland: we have 4 official languages how would you treat this by
using flags, without forcing us poor Swiss to click on a foreign country
flag? :-)
> however, few present empirical evidence whether or not things work.
> Professionals look at these things very differently from "normal"
> people. For example the site discussed here is usually a favourite
> with "normal" people, although it breaks a lot of professional rules.
>
There are empirical works showing, that the normal user is not able to
grasp more than 5-7 different menu items at a time. You can optimise
this a bit by introducing a visual and semantic hierarchy on your
representation of the menus e.g. by using a bigger font size or a set
your typeface in bold... But the rule stays the same: not more than 5-7
main items.
>> - No immediate contact information. For a hotel I would expect this to
>> be the most important thing. As a future guest I want to know: where and
>> who can I contact you, as I want to book NOW. As your client I would
>> have insisted on this.
>
> Good point. Perhaps we should make the contact link bold or so? What
> we have done is to create several links in strategic places directly
> to the contact page.
>
I would recommend this. If your client wants to make serious money with
the site you should place a contact link on each page. It would be even
better to have the complete address in the footer or so, this indicates
to potential customers 'look, we are here, we do exist, and we want you
to call or contact us!'.
>
> Thanks a million for all your comments. That is just fantastic. Much
> appreciated. I hope I did not sound too "arrogant" - as Richard would
> put it. Thanks again!
>
not at all. I can see that you have a very professional attitude towards
your work, and that you are taking any critics serious. That will never
lead to an arrogant position :-)
cheers
bernhard
--
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Re: review
am 17.07.2007 11:42:19 von WindAndWaves
On Jul 17, 3:19 pm, dorayme wrote:
> In article
> <1184585130.989224.66...@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
>
> windandwaves wrote:
> > > dorayme
>
> > I like what you write... sounds poetic. So you still think it is too
> > short. Here is my thinking.
>
> > Those four logos are great selling points. We can not reduce the
> > logos in size much (otherwise they become ugly and illegible) - so
> > what shall we do? We dont want to clutter the homepage, so this
> > seemed like a nice solution. A bit of movement is not too bad - right?
>
> You could... you could... have it repeat only once and stop. You
> could have the 4 (if there were there 4, I am working from
> memory) go only once with no repeats and final resting place
> could be all 4 logos together, a 1/4 the size each in the same
> space, as a reminder of what the bigger show showed. Or a
> combination of the two suggestions.
>
> --
> dorayme
great suggestion! Love your work. Thank you so much!
Re: review
am 17.07.2007 12:26:12 von Andy Dingley
On 16 Jul, 02:28, windandwaves wrote:
> Can you please give me some feedback onhttp://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
Looks cheap, which is presumably a bad thing for this client.
It's a "private hotel", so is presumably up-market. This market is
more likely to have powerful computers, big screens and fast
connections. The site you've built looks too much as if it's targeted
at the old and restrictive. I hate glitz, I despise pointless glitz,
but this just looks tawdry. Those tiny, tiny thumbnails in
particular!
> a. create a solution for people with small screens (800 x 600)
You've already done that, but at the cost of not looking good for
people with better facilities. The idea is to be _fluid_, not to be
"either" small or large.
> b. deal with large font / small font sizes
You've been told any number of times how to do that. So do it. Fluid
design!
> If you want to read the source code then I recommend you use firebug.
If you have to "recommend", then I lose interest in making the effort.
You want me to work for free, keep me interested and let me see the
crucial part with little effort on the dross. You want me to work past
artifical barriers, you have to start paying me.
Re: review
am 17.07.2007 13:30:51 von Andy Dingley
On 17 Jul, 09:08, Bernhard Sturm wrote:
> in the case of
> Switzerland: we have 4 official languages how would you treat this by
> using flags, without forcing us poor Swiss to click on a foreign country
> flag? :-)
If you're after the "Swiss sympathy vote", then you're going to have a
long wait. You guys already have all the money and most of the
chocolate.
Re: review
am 17.07.2007 14:38:43 von Bernhard Sturm
Andy Dingley wrote:
> On 17 Jul, 09:08, Bernhard Sturm wrote:
>
>> in the case of
>> Switzerland: we have 4 official languages how would you treat this by
>> using flags, without forcing us poor Swiss to click on a foreign country
>> flag? :-)
>
> If you're after the "Swiss sympathy vote", then you're going to have a
> long wait. You guys already have all the money and most of the
> chocolate.
>
And what's far more worse: 'we' won the America's Cup (I just realised
that the site is located in NZ, and I better keep my mouth shut :-)
bernhard
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Re: review
am 17.07.2007 14:52:28 von Bergamot
windandwaves wrote:
>
> I am deliberately breaking conventions - for fun and because it looks
> good.
Which usually means that the site will be usability-impaired for some
portion of visitors, perhaps a significant amount and/or for a
significant number. I do hope you have educated the client as to the
drawbacks of such a plan, and they have agreed to it.
IOW, just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
--
Berg
Re: review
am 17.07.2007 15:28:36 von Neredbojias
Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:30:51 GMT
Andy Dingley scribed:
> On 17 Jul, 09:08, Bernhard Sturm wrote:
>
>> in the case of
>> Switzerland: we have 4 official languages how would you treat this by
>> using flags, without forcing us poor Swiss to click on a foreign country
>> flag? :-)
>
> If you're after the "Swiss sympathy vote", then you're going to have a
> long wait. You guys already have all the money and most of the
> chocolate.
Yeah, but they compensate with the cheese.
--
Neredbojias
A self-made man who worships his creator
Re: review
am 17.07.2007 21:57:43 von Toby A Inkster
windandwaves wrote:
> 3. you could write "click here for german", etc...., but that would
> look dull!
It would also be useless to someone who spoke no English. How about this?
(With square brackets representing linked text.)
[English] [Français] [Deutsch] [Nederlands] [Português]
[Español] [Italiano] [Ð ÑÑÑкий] [æ¥æ¬èª] [ä¸æ] [ì°ë¦¬ë§]
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Re: review
am 18.07.2007 00:41:31 von WindAndWaves
On Jul 18, 12:38 am, Bernhard Sturm wrote:
> Andy Dingley wrote:
> > On 17 Jul, 09:08, Bernhard Sturm wrote:
>
> >> in the case of
> >> Switzerland: we have 4 official languages how would you treat this by
> >> using flags, without forcing us poor Swiss to click on a foreign country
> >> flag? :-)
>
> > If you're after the "Swiss sympathy vote", then you're going to have a
> > long wait. You guys already have all the money and most of the
> > chocolate.
>
> And what's far more worse: 'we' won the America's Cup (I just realised
> that the site is located in NZ, and I better keep my mouth shut :-)
what was the name of the skipper again?
Re: review
am 18.07.2007 01:00:16 von unknown
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Re: review
am 18.07.2007 02:08:39 von Bernhard Sturm
windandwaves wrote:
> On Jul 18, 12:38 am, Bernhard Sturm wrote:
>> And what's far more worse: 'we' won the America's Cup (I just realised
>> that the site is located in NZ, and I better keep my mouth shut :-)
>
> what was the name of the skipper again?
>
:-) I have relatives in Auckland, and they almost refuse to talk to us
anymore...
sigh
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Re: review
am 19.07.2007 06:05:31 von WindAndWaves
On Jul 18, 7:57 am, Toby A Inkster
wrote:
> windandwaves wrote:
> > 3. you could write "click here for german", etc...., but that would
> > look dull!
>
> It would also be useless to someone who spoke no English. How about this?
> (With square brackets representing linked text.)
>
> [English] [Fran=E7ais] [Deutsch] [Nederlands] [Portugu=EAs]
> [Espa=F1ol] [Italiano] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
>
> --
> Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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Hey Toby
Of course you would put it in their language and thanks for the
translations, I may actually use those. However, my point was that it
would look a little dull, that is all. Maybe it is a good point
though.... I have added the language names (in their own language) as
titles and alts to the flag images ... Perhaps that covers all....
What do you say?
Re: review
am 20.07.2007 06:43:53 von WindAndWaves
On Jul 17, 3:19 pm, dorayme wrote:
> In article
> <1184585130.989224.66...@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
>
> windandwaves wrote:
> > > dorayme
>
> > I like what you write... sounds poetic. So you still think it is too
> > short. Here is my thinking.
>
> > Those four logos are great selling points. We can not reduce the
> > logos in size much (otherwise they become ugly and illegible) - so
> > what shall we do? We dont want to clutter the homepage, so this
> > seemed like a nice solution. A bit of movement is not too bad - right?
>
> You could... you could... have it repeat only once and stop. You
> could have the 4 (if there were there 4, I am working from
> memory) go only once with no repeats and final resting place
> could be all 4 logos together, a 1/4 the size each in the same
> space, as a reminder of what the bigger show showed. Or a
> combination of the two suggestions.
>
> --
> dorayme
Hey Dorayme
Have a look - not perfect yet, but a lot better:
http://www.corstorphine.co.nz/index.html
Thank you so much for your help!
Much appreciated.
Re: review
am 20.07.2007 07:11:14 von dorayme
In article
<1184906633.568595.238180@d30g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
windandwaves wrote:
> On Jul 17, 3:19 pm, dorayme wrote:
> > In article
> > <1184585130.989224.66...@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
> >
> > windandwaves wrote:
> > > > dorayme
> >
> > > I like what you write... sounds poetic. So you still think it is too
> > > short. Here is my thinking.
> >
> > > Those four logos are great selling points. We can not reduce the
> > > logos in size much (otherwise they become ugly and illegible) - so
> > > what shall we do? We dont want to clutter the homepage, so this
> > > seemed like a nice solution. A bit of movement is not too bad - right?
> >
> > You could... you could... have it repeat only once and stop. You
> > could have the 4 (if there were there 4, I am working from
> > memory) go only once with no repeats and final resting place
> > could be all 4 logos together, a 1/4 the size each in the same
> > space, as a reminder of what the bigger show showed. Or a
> > combination of the two suggestions.
> >
> > --
> > dorayme
>
> Hey Dorayme
>
> Have a look - not perfect yet, but a lot better:
>
> http://www.corstorphine.co.nz/index.html
>
> Thank you so much for your help!
>
> Much appreciated.
I thought you had implemented the idea I suggested and I was
pleased. But you cannot stop yourself! It started repeating all
over again! The idea was the 4 would be graceful way to end the
thing and spare those of us greatly irritated by repeating
things. That was the whole point of my suggestion. It was not
meant to give you an idea of how to add yet a fifth thing to
repeat!
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Re: review
am 20.07.2007 07:28:19 von dorayme
In article
,
dorayme wrote:
> > Have a look - not perfect yet, but a lot better:
> >
> > http://www.corstorphine.co.nz/index.html
> >
> > Thank you so much for your help!
> >
> > Much appreciated.
>
> I thought you had implemented the idea I suggested and I was
> pleased. But you cannot stop yourself! It started repeating all
> over again! The idea was the 4 would be graceful way to end the
> thing and spare those of us greatly irritated by repeating
> things. That was the whole point of my suggestion. It was not
> meant to give you an idea of how to add yet a fifth thing to
> repeat!
I did not mean to bite your head off! I know it is now more
likely that someone will have left the page by the time the third
and fourth repeat comes along... Honestly, though just don't
repeat it at all. That will be best of all worlds as far as this
particular little display is concerned.
Am sure others have mentioned about text size... it really does
break badly when one ups the text on users browser..,
I like the look of the thing well enough otherwise. I have some
mixed feelings about the vertical space that the top house and
heading takes up. You could investigate the idea of scaling the
image to fit the browser window. I looked into em dimensioning
years ago after a post by the good Alan Flavell, you might % do
it too. I know you have tricks already, but it still takes up too
much space.
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dorayme
Re: review
am 20.07.2007 07:53:26 von WindAndWaves
On Jul 20, 5:28 pm, dorayme wrote:
> In article
> ,
>
>
>
> dorayme wrote:
> > > Have a look - not perfect yet, but a lot better:
>
> > >http://www.corstorphine.co.nz/index.html
>
> > > Thank you so much for your help!
>
> > > Much appreciated.
>
> > I thought you had implemented the idea I suggested and I was
> > pleased. But you cannot stop yourself! It started repeating all
> > over again! The idea was the 4 would be graceful way to end the
> > thing and spare those of us greatly irritated by repeating
> > things. That was the whole point of my suggestion. It was not
> > meant to give you an idea of how to add yet a fifth thing to
> > repeat!
>
> I did not mean to bite your head off! I know it is now more
> likely that someone will have left the page by the time the third
> and fourth repeat comes along... Honestly, though just don't
> repeat it at all. That will be best of all worlds as far as this
> particular little display is concerned.
>
> Am sure others have mentioned about text size... it really does
> break badly when one ups the text on users browser..,
>
> I like the look of the thing well enough otherwise. I have some
> mixed feelings about the vertical space that the top house and
> heading takes up. You could investigate the idea of scaling the
> image to fit the browser window. I looked into em dimensioning
> years ago after a post by the good Alan Flavell, you might % do
> it too. I know you have tricks already, but it still takes up too
> much space.
>
> --
> dorayme
Hi Dorayme
Totally agree with your post above. It may actually be an idea to put
EVERYTHING into %, for now, we will be alienating about five percent
of our customers, over time, we will definitely reduce that. I just
wanted to get the site up now rather than later.... if you know what I
mean.
Re: review
am 20.07.2007 08:25:45 von dorayme
In article
<1184910806.930102.276400@m37g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
windandwaves wrote:
> Totally agree with your post above. It may actually be an idea to put
> EVERYTHING into %, for now, we will be alienating about five percent
> of our customers, over time, we will definitely reduce that. I just
> wanted to get the site up now rather than later.... if you know what I
> mean.
Yes, I do know what you mean. There are practicalities in life
and getting things out that are not perfect is an important way
of making a difference.
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dorayme