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| Thread ID: 87578 | 2008-02-26 20:21:00 | New website - please give me feedback | Tony (4941) | Press F1 |
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| 643915 | 2008-02-26 20:21:00 | Please check out this (www.ceramics.co.nz) website. It is still work-in-progress, so there are bits that are incomplete and technically it is still slightly rough around the edges, but I'd really appreciate your feedback - both technical and aesthetic. I'd especially like to hear from people who are using less-common browsers. It seems OK on IE 6 & 7, Firefox, Opera and Safari, all under Windows, but those aren't the only browsers around. I'd also appreciate feedback from Linux users. It is designed to work at 1024 x 768 and above, so at that resolution there should be no sideways scrolling. TIA |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 643916 | 2008-02-26 22:06:00 | Hi tony It looks OK, don't take offense to the following as it is just my view Some menu links are hard to read specifically the Home and the classes link as the firey background behind them is dark at that point, try squinting and looking at them and you'll see what i mean Again with the menu, when i mouseover a link the firey background dissapears behind that link, is that supposed to happen as it looks a little odd also having the firey background with the red background behind looks a little strange, personally i would say go for one or the other, but thats just me Clicking on the photo to take a tour doesn't work, but i assume thats a work in progress? Products page Images need to be optimised your images need to be optimised, you have them saved as jpegs at 99% quality for webwork between 70 - 80% is fine it is also 75% smaller which means faster loading pages for customers as an example ToolSet_target.jpg (on your site) = 29.55Kb whereas if it is optimised it comes down to about 7Kb |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 643917 | 2008-02-27 02:37:00 | looks good to me useing Ubuntu linux | kjaada (253) | ||
| 643918 | 2008-02-27 03:21:00 | Some menu links are hard to read specifically the Home and the classes link I know what you mean, although it does depend somewhat on the browser and monitor. Things are a lot less clear on my old PC with a CRT monitor on IE6 than they are on my LCD with Firefox. The menu is a huge compromise. The original implementation was a sliced image with rollovers, which looked great and was very visible, but was very inflexible. When we realized we were going to want to change the menu moderately frequently, especially in the early days, we went for this solution which is just a <ul> with changes on hover. We may yet change it back to the original if things get very stable. I've tried various colours for the text, but because of the effective gradient on the background, nothing works totally well for each menu position. The disappearing background on mouseover is deliberate to highlight the menu item. Clicking on the photo to take a tour doesn't work, but i assume thats a work in progress?Yes it is, although clicking on the left side of the picture should now work. Images need to be optimisedI agree. I am going to do a pass through the whole site before it goes live and sort that out. Thanks for taking the time to comment so thoroughly. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 643919 | 2008-02-27 04:57:00 | I'm sure a lot of work went into the site and well done. Not my personal prefernce style-wise but still it's not awfully bad. What's with all the "csobj" elements throughout, are they to do with a CMS? | sal (67) | ||
| 643920 | 2008-02-27 05:51:00 | From a users perspective, I like the website. It is easy to navigate and looks professional. I viewed the website @1280x1024 under both Firefox (Linux) and Konqueror (3.5.8-9) and apart from links appearing in a different colour, they displayed the same. The only issues I noted were: ASP News (www.ceramics.co.nz) - the mouse over turns the panel blank white in both Firefox and Konqueror From your links page: http://www.pottery-4u.com/ - is this supposed to be a directory page? www.australianwoodfire.com/ - server not found (probably a temporary issue as google last cached it on 19) |
Jen (38) | ||
| 643921 | 2008-02-27 06:01:00 | The only issues I noted were: ASP News (www.ceramics.co.nz) - the mouse over turns the panel blank white in both Firefox and Konqueror Does the same thing in IE 7. So if it doesnt work in IE 6, 7, Firefox or Konqueror, what does it work with? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 643922 | 2008-02-27 06:03:00 | Seems good navigation throughout. Maybe add forms for visitor/customer interaction, particularly for payment and delivery methods. Perhaps also a subscription form for newsletters and updates. You might get an idea from this NZ site roses are red (www.rosesarered.co.nz/). Here is a web developer (http:) tool bar for fire fox that I use to analyze css, images, javascript, and other features... | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 643923 | 2008-02-27 06:05:00 | What's with all the "csobj" elements throughout, are they to do with a CMS?They are Adobe GoLive "components" - re-useable chunks of code that GoLive keeps track of, so you can update once and the whole site reflects it. (e.g a menu change). Although GoLive produces ghastly HTML, and most of the code you see is hand-done, it does have some quite nice management facilities - such as components. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 643924 | 2008-02-27 06:05:00 | It'll be because the hover has a background image path set to "../_Do_Not_Upload/Original%20images/ASPnewsOctober2007.gif" which I'm guessing doesn't exist yet. | sal (67) | ||
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