Another look: Personal Website

I have posted my personal site here before and the suggestions were
helpful. I have made changes and found a new location. I would appreciate
another look.

http://shillinglaw.atspace.com/

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Stuart J. Shillinglaw
http://shillinglaw.atspace.com/

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:33:27 GMT, Stuart J. Shillinglaw
<stuart.shillinglaw (AT) shaw (DOT) ca> wrote:

I have posted my personal site here before and the suggestions were
helpful. I have made changes and found a new location. I would appreciate
another look.

http://shillinglaw.atspace.com/

I like what I see, both the looks and the markup. For a personal site I think it
is very well done. I can see that you took into account the remarks from your
previous request in october.

Two things though: I kinda miss the 'side bar' that is in the first page, if I
move to 'drawings' and it takes me a second or so to understand what happens if
I click 'contact information' or 'PGP signatures'. They're both all side bar :-)
or is there more to come on those pages?

Second is that I wouldn't keep a link alive if it only links back to the page
your visitor is already on (the [Home] at your homepage et cetera).

Both add to possible confusion for your visitor.

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Stuart J. Shillinglaw wrote:

I have posted my personal site here before and the suggestions were
helpful. I have made changes and found a new location. I would
appreciate another look.
http://shillinglaw.atspace.com/

I'm not so enthousiast :-(
White text on black is difficult to read
It's not obvious the "PGP SIGNATURES" and "DRAWINGS" are links
The page transitions are boring.
On enlargement of the fontsize (ie) the fonts are displayed from microscopic
to huge. Try: body {font-size: 100%}
No need to repeat all the "FONT-FAMILY: Oxford, 'Times New Roman', Times,
Serif;" Hx inherits from body
Assign identical properties as h2, h3, h4, h5 {.......}
Ommit the defaults in CSS. It makes the stylesheet easier to read.

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Nico
http://www.nicoschuyt.nl

saz <saz1958 (AT) nospammersexcite (DOT) com> wrote in
news:MPG.1c8014bb3793b6c4989704 (AT) news (DOT) comcast.giganews.com:

In article <Xns96019418AF8ADstuartshillinglawnew (AT) 24 (DOT) 66.94.159>,
stuart.shillinglaw (AT) shaw (DOT) ca says...
I have posted my personal site here before and the suggestions were
helpful. I have made changes and found a new location. I would
appreciate another look.

http://shillinglaw.atspace.com/


Very nice for a personal site. A clean look and easy to navigate.

I'm not sure about the fade-in. It's okay at first, but starts to get
annoying after several reloads.

I agree with the transitions being too long. I think I may try reducing the
duration. Thanks.

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Stuart J. Shillinglaw
http://shillinglaw.atspace.com/

"Barbara de Zoete" <b_de_zoete (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in
newspsmeuybavx5vgts@zoete_b:

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:33:27 GMT, Stuart J. Shillinglaw
stuart.shillinglaw (AT) shaw (DOT) ca> wrote:

I have posted my personal site here before and the suggestions were
helpful. I have made changes and found a new location. I would
appreciate another look.

http://shillinglaw.atspace.com/


I like what I see, both the looks and the markup. For a personal site
I think it is very well done. I can see that you took into account
the remarks from your previous request in october.

Two things though: I kinda miss the 'side bar' that is in the first
page, if I move to 'drawings' and it takes me a second or so to
understand what happens if I click 'contact information' or 'PGP
signatures'. They're both all side bar :-) or is there more to come
on those pages?

Second is that I wouldn't keep a link alive if it only links back to
the page your visitor is already on (the [Home] at your homepage et
cetera).

Both add to possible confusion for your visitor.

Thanks, I think I will try to stick with some uniformity of style and try
to keep a sidebar on each page. The content of the sidebar, I will have to
determine.

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Stuart J. Shillinglaw
http://shillinglaw.atspace.com/

"Nico Schuyt" <nschuyt (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in
news:4216587c$0$79290$a344fe98 (AT) news (DOT) euronet.nl:

I'm not so enthousiast :-(
White text on black is difficult to read
It's not obvious the "PGP SIGNATURES" and "DRAWINGS" are links
The page transitions are boring.
On enlargement of the fontsize (ie) the fonts are displayed from
microscopic to huge. Try: body {font-size: 100%}
No need to repeat all the "FONT-FAMILY: Oxford, 'Times New Roman',
Times, Serif;" Hx inherits from body
Assign identical properties as h2, h3, h4, h5 {.......}
Ommit the defaults in CSS. It makes the stylesheet easier to read.

Thanks for the comments, I really appreciate your and Barbara's comments
after taking a look at your sites. I will try a mixture of font sizes in
percents and EM sizes, and I know that EM sizes are not encourages because
they are well supported by browsers, although I have read that EM sizes do
not make the browser do the work in sizing. As for the font family, that is
the font-family is used to provide alternatives for other browsers, so I do
not plan to change that. I am finding this helpful.

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Stuart J. Shillinglaw
http://shillinglaw.atspace.com/

Stuart J. Shillinglaw wrote:

"Nico Schuyt" wrote

I'm not so enthousiast :-(
White text on black is difficult to read
It's not obvious the "PGP SIGNATURES" and "DRAWINGS" are links
The page transitions are boring.
On enlargement of the fontsize (ie) the fonts are displayed from
microscopic to huge. Try: body {font-size: 100%}
No need to repeat all the "FONT-FAMILY: Oxford, 'Times New Roman',
Times, Serif;" Hx inherits from body
Assign identical properties as h2, h3, h4, h5 {.......}
Ommit the defaults in CSS. It makes the stylesheet easier to read.

Thanks for the comments, I really appreciate your and Barbara's
comments after taking a look at your sites. I will try a mixture of
font sizes in percents and EM sizes, and I know that EM sizes are not
encourages because they are well supported by browsers, although I
have read that EM sizes do not make the browser do the work in
sizing.

They do, but a bug in ie requires the *additional* body {font-size: 100%}

As for the font family, that is the font-family is used to
provide alternatives for other browsers, so I do not plan to change
that. I am finding this helpful.

Nothing wrong with the alternatives, but you don't have to repeat the
properties 10 times.
body {FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans ms', 'Times New Roman', Times, Serif;} will
assign the same font to h1, h2, h3 etc
It makes the stylesheet easier to read and to change.

Good luck!

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Nico
http://www.nicoschuyt.nl