review

review

am 16.07.2007 03:28:57 von WindAndWaves

Hi Folk

Can you please give me some feedback on http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/

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

The investment page is not completed yet.

If you want to read the source code then I recommend you use firebug.

Thanks a million

Nicolaas

Re: review

am 16.07.2007 04:32:18 von Neredbojias

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:28:57
GMT windandwaves scribed:

> Hi Folk
>
> Can you please give me some feedback on
> http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>
> 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
>
> The investment page is not completed yet.
>
> If you want to read the source code then I recommend you use firebug.

Looks aesthetic on opening. I'd slow-down the Flash.

Wouldn't mind being indulged more visually...

--
Neredbojias
A self-made man who worships his creator

Re: review

am 16.07.2007 04:55:12 von dorayme

In article
<1184549337.919311.151140@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
windandwaves wrote:

> Can you please give me some feedback on
> http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>
> 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

The repetitive centre animation is very irritating. There is no
point to it. In fact it is so irritating that I cannot
concentrate to go on to say things, I am not even sure how to
stop the thing?

--
dorayme

Re: review

am 16.07.2007 05:44:05 von cfajohnson

On 2007-07-16, windandwaves wrote:
> Hi Folk
>
> Can you please give me some feedback on http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/



> 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

That shouldn't be an afterthought. Avoid fixed [px] widths and
font sizes from the start and you will have fewer problems.

> The investment page is not completed yet.
>
> If you want to read the source code then I recommend you use firebug.

I recommend you use something better to write your code. A single
5K line is absurd.

--
Chris F.A. Johnson
============================================================ =======
Author:
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

Re: review

am 16.07.2007 05:52:11 von WindAndWaves

On Jul 16, 2:55 pm, dorayme wrote:
> In article
> <1184549337.919311.151...@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
>
> windandwaves wrote:
> > Can you please give me some feedback on
> >http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>
> > 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
>
> The repetitive centre animation is very irritating. There is no
> point to it. In fact it is so irritating that I cannot
> concentrate to go on to say things, I am not even sure how to
> stop the thing?
>
> --
> dorayme

Thanks - that is a good point..... ! Will change

Re: review

am 16.07.2007 05:52:45 von WindAndWaves

On Jul 16, 2:32 pm, Neredbojias wrote:
> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:28:57
> GMT windandwaves scribed:
>
> > Hi Folk
>
> > Can you please give me some feedback on
> >http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>
> > 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
>
> > The investment page is not completed yet.
>
> > If you want to read the source code then I recommend you use firebug.
>
> Looks aesthetic on opening. I'd slow-down the Flash.
>
> Wouldn't mind being indulged more visually...
>
> --
> Neredbojias
> A self-made man who worships his creator

Thanks - much appreciated.... I will try do something about it ;-)

Re: review

am 16.07.2007 06:08:29 von WindAndWaves

On Jul 16, 2:55 pm, dorayme wrote:
> In article
> <1184549337.919311.151...@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
>
> windandwaves wrote:
> > Can you please give me some feedback on
> >http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>
> > 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
>
> The repetitive centre animation is very irritating. There is no
> point to it. In fact it is so irritating that I cannot
> concentrate to go on to say things, I am not even sure how to
> stop the thing?
>
> --
> dorayme

Do you like the new one better?

Re: review

am 16.07.2007 06:10:39 von WindAndWaves

On Jul 16, 2:32 pm, Neredbojias wrote:
> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:28:57
> GMT windandwaves scribed:
>
> > Hi Folk
>
> > Can you please give me some feedback on
> >http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>
> > 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
>
> > The investment page is not completed yet.
>
> > If you want to read the source code then I recommend you use firebug.
>
> Looks aesthetic on opening. I'd slow-down the Flash.
>
> Wouldn't mind being indulged more visually...
>
> --
> Neredbojias
> A self-made man who worships his creator

I thought about your comment a bit more. I guess the idea of the site
is that you need to do a bit of discovery. We show these tiny
thumbnails and then let people click on them to see more.... The site
has over 160 pics you can discover...

Re: review

am 16.07.2007 06:19:50 von WindAndWaves

On Jul 16, 3:44 pm, "Chris F.A. Johnson" wrote:
> On 2007-07-16, windandwaves wrote:
> > Hi Folk
>
> > Can you please give me some feedback onhttp://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>
>
>
> > 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
>
> That shouldn't be an afterthought. Avoid fixed [px] widths and
> font sizes from the start and you will have fewer problems.

i will work on that soon!

> > The investment page is not completed yet.
>
> > If you want to read the source code then I recommend you use firebug.
>
> I recommend you use something better to write your code. A single
> 5K line is absurd.

Totally agree, it is generated by a database I use to construct all
the pages as HTML - I then upload them. Works a treat. I dont worry
too much about having them as single lines.

Re: review

am 16.07.2007 06:50:49 von cfajohnson

On 2007-07-16, windandwaves wrote:
> On Jul 16, 3:44 pm, "Chris F.A. Johnson" wrote:
>> On 2007-07-16, windandwaves wrote:
>>
>> > Can you please give me some feedback onhttp://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>>
>>
>>
>> > 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
>>
>> That shouldn't be an afterthought. Avoid fixed [px] widths and
>> font sizes from the start and you will have fewer problems.
>
> i will work on that soon!

That's too late. It's the cause of your problems. (I forgot to
mention fixed heights).

>> > The investment page is not completed yet.
>>
>> > If you want to read the source code then I recommend you use firebug.
>>
>> I recommend you use something better to write your code. A single
>> 5K line is absurd.
>
> Totally agree, it is generated by a database I use to construct all
> the pages as HTML - I then upload them. Works a treat. I dont worry
> too much about having them as single lines.

If you want people to help you, you should worry about them. Fix
the program that generates the HTML; it can't be more than a line
or two that needs changing. Or pipe it through a filter before
uploading it, e.g.:

sed 's/<[^/]/\
&/g' > temp.html


--
Chris F.A. Johnson
============================================================ =======
Author:
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

Re: review

am 16.07.2007 07:05:53 von 23s

"windandwaves" wrote in message
news:1184549337.919311.151140@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com.. .
> Hi Folk
>
> Can you please give me some feedback on
> http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>
> Bear in mind that I still need to do:
>
> a. create a solution for people with small screens (800 x 600)


....it doesn't fit. Simple as that.

Re: review

am 16.07.2007 07:08:12 von WindAndWaves

On Jul 16, 4:50 pm, "Chris F.A. Johnson" wrote:
> On 2007-07-16, windandwaves wrote:
> > On Jul 16, 3:44 pm, "Chris F.A. Johnson" wrote:
> >> On 2007-07-16, windandwaves wrote:
>
> >> > Can you please give me some feedback onhttp://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>
> >>
>
> >> > 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
>
> >> That shouldn't be an afterthought. Avoid fixed [px] widths and
> >> font sizes from the start and you will have fewer problems.
>
> > i will work on that soon!
>
> That's too late. It's the cause of your problems. (I forgot to
> mention fixed heights).
>
> >> > The investment page is not completed yet.
>
> >> > If you want to read the source code then I recommend you use firebug.
>
> >> I recommend you use something better to write your code. A single
> >> 5K line is absurd.
>
> > Totally agree, it is generated by a database I use to construct all
> > the pages as HTML - I then upload them. Works a treat. I dont worry
> > too much about having them as single lines.
>
> If you want people to help you, you should worry about them. Fix
> the program that generates the HTML; it can't be more than a line
> or two that needs changing. Or pipe it through a filter before
> uploading it, e.g.:
>
> sed 's/<[^/]/\
> &/g' > temp.html
>
> --
> Chris F.A. Johnson
> ============================================================ =======
> Author:
> Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

Hi Chris

You are probably right - but to be honest with you, it is not really
about the source code. I can tell you that almost all pages validate
(w3). Have you ever tried firebug? Once you use that, you will find
it hard to imagine to look at a website without it. You can simply
quick on any element and choose "inspect element" and it will take you
straight to the applicable source code. It is simply awesome!
Because the h

Re: review

am 16.07.2007 07:20:02 von WindAndWaves

On Jul 16, 5:05 pm, "asdf" wrote:
> "windandwaves" wrote in message
>
> news:1184549337.919311.151140@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com.. .
>
> > Hi Folk
>
> > Can you please give me some feedback on
> >http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>
> > Bear in mind that I still need to do:
>
> > a. create a solution for people with small screens (800 x 600)
>
> ...it doesn't fit. Simple as that.

I am writing a new css especially for smaller screen sizes...

Re: review

am 16.07.2007 07:33:32 von WindAndWaves

On Jul 16, 4:50 pm, "Chris F.A. Johnson" wrote:
> On 2007-07-16, windandwaves wrote:
> > On Jul 16, 3:44 pm, "Chris F.A. Johnson" wrote:
> >> On 2007-07-16, windandwaves wrote:
>
> >> > Can you please give me some feedback onhttp://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>
> >>
>
> >> > 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
>
> >> That shouldn't be an afterthought. Avoid fixed [px] widths and
> >> font sizes from the start and you will have fewer problems.
>
> > i will work on that soon!
>
> That's too late. It's the cause of your problems. (I forgot to
> mention fixed heights).
>
> >> > The investment page is not completed yet.
>
> >> > If you want to read the source code then I recommend you use firebug.
>
> >> I recommend you use something better to write your code. A single
> >> 5K line is absurd.
>
> > Totally agree, it is generated by a database I use to construct all
> > the pages as HTML - I then upload them. Works a treat. I dont worry
> > too much about having them as single lines.
>
> If you want people to help you, you should worry about them. Fix
> the program that generates the HTML; it can't be more than a line
> or two that needs changing. Or pipe it through a filter before
> uploading it, e.g.:
>
> sed 's/<[^/]/\
> &/g' > temp.html
>
> --
> Chris F.A. Johnson
> ============================================================ =======
> Author:
> Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

You are probably right - but to be honest with you, it is not really
about the source code. I can tell you that almost all pages validate
(w3). Have you ever tried firebug? Once you use that, you will find
it hard to imagine to look at a website without it. You can simply
quick on any element and choose "inspect element" and it will take you
straight to the applicable source code. It is simply awesome!

Re: review

am 16.07.2007 07:44:52 von cfajohnson

On 2007-07-16, windandwaves wrote:
> On Jul 16, 5:05 pm, "asdf" wrote:
>> "windandwaves" wrote in message
>>
>> news:1184549337.919311.151140@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com.. .
>>
>> > Hi Folk
>>
>> > Can you please give me some feedback on
>> >http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>>
>> > Bear in mind that I still need to do:
>>
>> > a. create a solution for people with small screens (800 x 600)
>>
>> ...it doesn't fit. Simple as that.
>
> I am writing a new css especially for smaller screen sizes...

You have it backwards. Write it properly and you don't need to do
anything special for any screen size (within a very wide range).


--
Chris F.A. Johnson
============================================================ =======
Author:
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

Re: review

am 16.07.2007 09:00:49 von Neredbojias

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:10:39 GMT
windandwaves scribed:

>> > Hi Folk
>>
>> > Can you please give me some feedback on
>> >http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>>
>> > 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
>>
>> > The investment page is not completed yet.
>>
>> > If you want to read the source code then I recommend you use firebug.
>>
>> Looks aesthetic on opening. I'd slow-down the Flash.
>>
>> Wouldn't mind being indulged more visually...
>>
>> --
>> Neredbojias
>> A self-made man who worships his creator
>
> I thought about your comment a bit more. I guess the idea of the site
> is that you need to do a bit of discovery. We show these tiny
> thumbnails and then let people click on them to see more.... The site
> has over 160 pics you can discover...

Er, I was referring to Indulgence #3. Seems like the ratio of tub to
bather visibility could benefit from a percentage reversal...

--
Neredbojias
A self-made man who worships his creator

Re: review

am 16.07.2007 09:25:21 von rf

"windandwaves" wrote in message
news:1184549337.919311.151140@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com.. .
> Hi Folk
>
> Can you please give me some feedback on
> http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/

> a. create a solution for people with small screens (800 x 600)

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.

> b. deal with large font / small font sizes

Well you blew that one away for a huge proportion of the people out there by
using pixels for font size, and how many times has *that* been stated as
_not on_ within this and just about every other newsgroup?

And by specifying only 12 of them you instantly cause a significant number
of people [1] using real browsers to bump up their font size. Only two wheel
clicks makes the page looks a mess. Three or more and it becomes unusable.

[1] Older people with possibly failing eyesight who probably *have* the
disposable income to be the very ones to use the hotel. That is, your target
audience.

IMHO you should be thinking about variable canvas size and font size before
you code the first CSS rule, not at this late stage of the track. I hope for
your clients sake they are on contract and not time/materials :-)

--
Richard.

Re: review

am 16.07.2007 10:12:48 von dorayme

In article
<1184558909.138197.20430@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
windandwaves wrote:

> On Jul 16, 2:55 pm, dorayme wrote:
> > In article
> > <1184549337.919311.151...@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
> >
> > windandwaves wrote:
> > > Can you please give me some feedback on
> > >http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
> >
> > > 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
> >
> > The repetitive centre animation is very irritating. There is no
> > point to it. In fact it is so irritating that I cannot
> > concentrate to go on to say things, I am not even sure how to
> > stop the thing?
> >
> > --
> > dorayme
>
> Do you like the new one better?

While someone is reading the page they can do without these
repetitive distractions, not everyone can peruse the page before
the centre animation comes around yet to distract this second
time around... It is still going as I write this and it irritates
me so much that I will make comments from memory.

You had some interesting pictures of birds, albatrosses. This
would interest Italian businessmen, especially ones that live in
Sweden and run highly successful web based one man businesses.
They are prone to travel, to seek out women with the name,
Heather, small islands like Tasmania and bigger ones like NZ.
They would also be attracted to the multilingual functions on
your home page.

--
dorayme

Re: review

am 16.07.2007 13:22:52 von WindAndWaves

> 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
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

I can do it like this:

table>

but I can not achieve exactly the same thing using css.

do you have any suggestions in this area?

Thank you.

>
> > b. deal with large font / small font sizes
>
> Well you blew that one away for a huge proportion of the people out there by
> using pixels for font size, and how many times has *that* been stated as
> _not on_ within this and just about every other newsgroup?
>
> And by specifying only 12 of them you instantly cause a significant number
> of people [1] using real browsers to bump up their font size. Only two wheel
> clicks makes the page looks a mess. Three or more and it becomes unusable.
>
> [1] Older people with possibly failing eyesight who probably *have* the
> disposable income to be the very ones to use the hotel. That is, your target
> audience.
>
> IMHO you should be thinking about variable canvas size and font size before
> you code the first CSS rule, not at this late stage of the track. I hope for
> your clients sake they are on contract and not time/materials :-)

It looks good for jo average and so we will probably keep it that
way :-)

>
> --
> Richard.

Re: review

am 16.07.2007 13:25:30 von WindAndWaves

On Jul 16, 8:12 pm, dorayme wrote:
> In article
> <1184558909.138197.20...@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
>
>
>
> windandwaves wrote:
> > On Jul 16, 2:55 pm, dorayme wrote:
> > > In article
> > > <1184549337.919311.151...@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
>
> > > windandwaves wrote:
> > > > Can you please give me some feedback on
> > > >http://www.sunnysideup.co.nz/clients/corstorphine/
>
> > > > 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
>
> > > The repetitive centre animation is very irritating. There is no
> > > point to it. In fact it is so irritating that I cannot
> > > concentrate to go on to say things, I am not even sure how to
> > > stop the thing?
>
> > > --
> > > dorayme
>
> > Do you like the new one better?
>
> While someone is reading the page they can do without these
> repetitive distractions, not everyone can peruse the page before
> the centre animation comes around yet to distract this second
> time around... It is still going as I write this and it irritates
> me so much that I will make comments from memory.
>
> You had some interesting pictures of birds, albatrosses. This
> would interest Italian businessmen, especially ones that live in
> Sweden and run highly successful web based one man businesses.
> They are prone to travel, to seek out women with the name,
> Heather, small islands like Tasmania and bigger ones like NZ.
> They would also be attracted to the multilingual functions on
> your home page.
>
> --
> 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?

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


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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.

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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

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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. :-)

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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.

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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
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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.

--
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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.

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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] [Русский] [日本語] [中文] [우리말]

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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] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
>
> --
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> [Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
> [OS: Linux 2.6.12-12mdksmp, up 26 days, 20:47.]
>
> demiblog 0.2.0 Released
> http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/06/28/demiblog-0.2.0/

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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dorayme

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

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