[thelist] site check

[Kasimir K]

Hi Andrew

> If you have the time could you give this site a quick test drive and let
> me know what your views are, Browser and Design issues mainly? Any other
> issues you think worthy of discussion.
> 
> www.milords.com

You've probably already noticed that table based layouts are not that 
popular on this list :-)

And it looks like you've got some problems with your tables too: on line 
71 you open the second <tr>, but the first is not closed.

Line 76, I'm not sure if it's worthwhile to fix NS 2 and 3 bugs :-)

In your navigation table the images take 646 px, and as you give 25% to 
the empty cell, 100% should be then 861px.  You quickly notice that your 
mesurements don't match... It might be a good idea to drop the 
%-mesurements.

There might be other things to fix with the tables, I didn't dive too 
deep in the nested tables now.

Product showcase -menu button looks the same when selected.
Location -menu button does not have a roll over.

I also agree with Tim on the contrast and text size. Especially the 
clients page is very hard to read. as it is all graphic and I can't 
increase the text size.

It might also be a good idea to specify white background color for the 
BODY - in my windows system I've set default application backgroun color 
to grey, so on MSIE the site looks a bit odd with white patches of color 
on the graphics.

Your CSS could also be tidied up a bit. For example you have
FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
quite a few times there.
* { FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif }
would take care of all.
And instead of:
.border
{
     BORDER-RIGHT: #6cc0c0 1px solid;
     BORDER-TOP: #6cc0c0 1px solid;
     BORDER-LEFT: #6cc0c0 1px solid;
     BORDER-BOTTOM: #6cc0c0 1px solid
}
you could have just
.border
{
     BORDER: #6cc0c0 1px solid
}
You also have a couple time
url(file://J:\Design...
and that won't work on the web.

=

hth,
.k