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Any sudjestions welcome -
02-07-2004
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I'm currently working on a website for a legal office and I welcome any suggestions on how to make just the layout look more professional. |
800x600 resolution, you ought to make the site viewable comfortably at that
size, by having a fluid layout, which is pleasantly viewable at 800x600 and
will expand to fit larger browsers.
At the moment people will have to use the horizontal scroll bar to read the
right-hand end of the top menu.
It might be worth reading these below....
Design for Any Size:
http://allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign
The Myth of 800x600:
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=2684/...092/index.html
How Can I Make My Pages Look Good On All Monitors?
http://www.thepattysite.com/window_sizes1.cfm
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I'm currently working on a website for a legal office and I welcome any sudgestions on how to make just the layout look more professional. My supervisors like the pale-yellow background color as opposed to white. Also, I don't have a lot of resources as far as photos, so if anyone has any sudjestions of where I can obtain cheap or no-cost photos (for a non-profit immigration law office) it would be most appriciated. This is the latest design I've done: http://tinyurl.com/369p9 Thank you for any help you can provide. P.S. I've been told it takes a while to load....sorry. -- domeceo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ posted via www.WebFrustration.com |
(a) Your top menu is unusable by anyone with Javascript disabled; it
will also be invisible to users of AT (assistive technology) e.g.
screen-readers, voice-browsers.
(b) Leaving spaces between the letters in 'RESCUE RESETTLEMENT REUNION'
means that an AT program will *spell* the words letter-by-letter. Take a
look at CSS's 'letter-spacing'.
(c) Try and make the page fluid -- or make sure it fits in IE on a
800x600 screen
(d) You need an index for the page. The 3-item entry that you already
have (MISSION/WHAT'S NEW, CONTACT US) is spoken *last*, after all the
content is spoken. Organise a comprehensive index at the start of the
page.
You have a number of headings styled (e.g. General Assembly Comes to
Philadelphia) but not marked up in the HTML. I also feel that some of
those huge paragraphs could be broken down.
The 3 headings that you do have are styled as <H3>; these should be
<H2>, with subheadings (General Assembly Comes to Philadelphia) as <H3>.
(e) Centre-justified text is harder to read for many people than
right-ragged.
(f) Run your text through a grammar/spell-checker to pick up all the
typos.
As I said -- just a few initial thoughts.
regards.
--
Jake
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In message <a705f00f2f0b478fd7721c5c4e651683 (AT) news (DOT) teranews.com>, domeceo <domeceo.119jph (AT) webfrustration (DOT) com> writes I'm currently working on a website for a legal office and I welcome any sudgestions on how to make just the layout look more professional. My supervisors like the pale-yellow background color as opposed to white. Also, I don't have a lot of resources as far as photos, so if anyone has any sudjestions of where I can obtain cheap or no-cost photos (for a non-profit immigration law office) it would be most appriciated. This is the latest design I've done: http://tinyurl.com/369p9 Thank you for any help you can provide. P.S. I've been told it takes a while to load....sorry. -- domeceo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ posted via www.WebFrustration.com A few thoughts. [snip] |
(i) You appear to have 2 images taking some 118k; the pages will load a
lot quicker if to optimise these images
(ii) Ensure that you have alternative text set on *all* <img> tags.
On your initial page you have a 3-entry index:
To me it sounds like:
..............................................
CLICK TO VIEW:
[new/index4b.htm#mission.]
[new/index4b.htm#whatsnew.]
[new/index4b.htm#contactus.]
..............................................
because there's no alternative text.
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regards. |
Jake
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In message <a705f00f2f0b478fd7721c5c4e651683 (AT) news (DOT) teranews.com>, domeceo <domeceo.119jph (AT) webfrustration (DOT) com> writes This is the latest design I've done: http://tinyurl.com/369p9 Thank you for any help you can provide. (a) Your top menu is unusable by anyone with Javascript disabled; it will also be invisible to users of AT (assistive technology) e.g. screen-readers, voice-browsers. |
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William Tasso
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I'm currently working on a website for a legal office and I welcome any sudgestions on how to make just the layout look more professional. My supervisors like the pale-yellow background color as opposed to white. Also, I don't have a lot of resources as far as photos, so if anyone has any sudjestions of where I can obtain cheap or no-cost photos (for a non-profit immigration law office) it would be most appriciated. This is the latest design I've done: http://tinyurl.com/369p9 Thank you for any help you can provide. P.S. I've been told it takes a while to load....sorry. |
and I still have to scroll horizontally.
Make your pages 800x600 or make them liquid form, so that they stretch
to any size beyond 800x600.
Regards,
Samuël
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The latest design is: www.hiaspa.org/demos/new The major load time issue is the embedded text which, |
It's mainly the thirty-one gif images and other files totalling 115K in
size which make the download time long on dial-ups.
It still requires the use of horizontal scroll-bars at 800x600. (that's 40%
of all www viewers you'll be upsetting)
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domeceo wrote in message ... The latest design is: www.hiaspa.org/demos/new The major load time issue is the embedded text which, No it isn't !! It's not going to help, though. It's going to need to load 40k for one |
plus italic versions of 'High Tower Text'). This is -- what? -- 80k?
The size of the files suggest that these are not subsets (which would be
normal) -- but the entire font (even though *very little* use is made of
the fonts). Not a smart idea.
Interestingly, the 'special font' text looks pretty much the same to me
in IE and Opera -- and Opera doesn't support MS .eot files.
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It's mainly the thirty-one gif images and other files totalling 115K in size which make the download time long on dial-ups. It still requires the use of horizontal scroll-bars at 800x600. (that's 40% of all www viewers you'll be upsetting) |
Jake
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The size of the files suggest that these are not subsets (which woul be normal) -- but the entire font (even though *very little* use is mad of the fonts). Not a smart idea. |
as I use italics tags on the normal font. Still, I'd like to make th
font into a subset if that will further decreace the size, if yo
wouldn't mind telling me how using Microsoft Weft (or another fon
embedding app).
Also I replaced the images I was using for the anchors to make the sit
easier to edit and to decrease load time and the number of files on ou
server
domece
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