[thelist] site check/advice please?

Scott Schrantz scotts at rci-nv.com
Thu Jun 20 11:33:01 CDT 2002


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Medley [mailto:dm at lgcy.com]
>
> A site that I'm working on;
> http://www.lobowalk.com/chezbetty/home.html has
> undergone massive rethinking between me and the guy I'm
> making it for. This is a mock-up more or less.
>
> Also, any advice or input in the navigational aspects would
> be most welcome, along with coding, desiging, color scheme
> or anything else that you see fit.
>
> As I'm new to this, any advice would be welcome.

Looking better all the time.
It's good to see that you convinced him to do away with most of the pop-ups.
But now the navigation menu acts a little strange. The listings on that menu
shouldn't change as you go to different pages; for example, when you go to
the garlic soup page, Garlic Soup disappears from the nav! (So does the
Dinner Menu link) A better way to do it would be to leave the Garlic Soup
text there, and make it bold, or put an arrow next to it, or in some other
way change it from a link to a "You Are Here" indicator.

When the window gets below a certain width (about 700px in IE), the main
text starts to get a bit squashed and run outside of its box. You could fix
this by putting a spacer image to hold that box at a minimum width. It's a
little messy, but IE doesn't understand CSS min-width:275px yet.
<img src="spacer.gif" alt="" width="275" height="1" />

IE6 and Mozilla 1.0 look really good. Netscape 4.75 doesn't even look all
that bad. Its biggest problem seems to be that your <div>s aren't inheriting
the font styles. Try putting the font-family declaration in #main and #nav,
and see if that helps Netscape.

In all, it sure beats www.chezbetty.com.

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Scott Schrantz
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