[thelist] Site check for http://www.tcf.ca/test

[Marc Seyon]

Message from Tara Cleveland (10/2/2003 12:42 PM)
>Hi Everyone,
>
>I'm looking for a quick site check for a client's site:
>http://www.tcf.ca/test

Very clean, attractive layout. Good job Tara.

Thoughts/comments

- The button effect on the nav bar looks great, but I'd actually try it 
without the border-top. I think the alteration of the left and right 
borders gets the job done. The top actually spoils it, imo.

- You've got the active item in the nav bar blue. Why not also make it 
non-clickable? Oh nevermind, I see why not, so you can still return to the 
top level of that section when you go down an additional level. Still, 
might be nice, on the first page of the section.

- http://www.tcf.ca/test/just_donors/public_list.asp?id=1 - All the links 
down the left are wrong. They call publiclist.asp where it should be 
public_list.asp

- On the first page, the grey 'Contact Us' button is properly sized, same 
as the other two next to it. On all other pages it stretches to almost 
twice that width.

- Why are your top level headers - the blue text at the top of each page - 
images instead of regular text? The font does not appear to be anything 
terribly different from the rest of the body. Also shouldn't it at least be 
within <h1> tags?

- I don't see the value of a visible 'skip navigation' link considering the 
links are adjacent to the body content, rather than above it. That, and 
clicking the link actually takes me down the page to a point where the 
heading of the page is out of view.

- Clicking on any of the lefthand items in the 'Just for Donors' section 
shows me a list. I have no idea what list I'm looking at though, cause the 
item isn't differentiated from the other choices on the list in any way, 
and the breadcrumb at the top also isn't altered. Nor is there a relevant 
header for the page. (I notice that in other sections, the selected 
lefthand item is identified by a blue background, appropriate adjustment to 
breadcrumb, and updated header.)

- In the Arts and Culture list, there's a bad character in there. An 
apostrophe in the word "Kid's" (second to last item) that shows up as a box 
in my browser.

- I'm sure you're aware the Vital Signs section is currently incomplete. I 
also question the choice of naming here, as I had no idea what the section 
would entail by looking at its name. All other sections were readily 
understandable.

- The entire button "depresses" on hover, but only the words themselves are 
clickable. I didn't like that. I also second Stephen's query on why use 
javascript for your navigation effects. I am sure it could be achieved 
using CSS quite easily.

Good luck with the launch!

regards.
-marc

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