Critique: Murray.za.net

#1

G'day everyone

This site uses TABLES for positioning and CSS for style. What do you
think?

http://www.murray.za.net/

Cya
Samuel (voetleuce)

#2

Throw wrote:

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G'day everyone

Hallo.

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This site uses TABLES for positioning and CSS for style. What do
you think?
http://www.murray.za.net/

Looks fine to me. It floats with my browser window size, which is
good. It isn't cluttered. It seems to deliver your message quite well.

Things I would consider changing:

1. Change your font sizes to percentages, and assign 100% to the body.
Use small differences for other parts, such as possibly 85% for
legalese or copyright notices, and of course larger for your headings.
Internet Explorer users cannot resize your text when set with px.

2. Try a background of: color: #191970; a very light grey. Should go
better with your Tartan cloth and is easier on the eyes than bright white.

3. Move the styles from the <body> tag into your CSS, including the
link styles, then move all your CSS into a separate file, for much
easier maintenance.

4. Since you already know you're abusing tables for layout, we won't
mention that here... ;-)

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#3

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

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Throw wrote:
http://www.murray.za.net/

Things I would consider changing:
1. Change your font sizes to percentages, and assign 100% to the body.

Isn't that a problem in case properties are nested?
I.e. DIV: 90% and something in the DIV 90% too. The latter might show as 81%

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Nico
http://www.nicoschuyt.nl

#4

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

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Throw wrote:

http://www.murray.za.net/

1. Change your font sizes to percentages, and assign 100% to the body.
Use small differences for other parts, such as possibly 85% for
legalese or copyright notices, and of course larger for your headings.
Internet Explorer users cannot resize your text when set with px.

Done. Although I was unable to assign 100% to the body (or to the
tables). I had to assign a px size instead. Changing the body font
size didn't change anything in my test browser (OP 6.06).

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2. Try a background of: color: #191970; a very light grey. Should
go better with your Tartan cloth and is easier on the eyes than
bright white.

That colour looks blue on my 256 colour test screen. I tried #eafafa
which looked grey on 256, but when I checked it in 24 bit, it turns out
to be blueish (which makes sense theoretically). I might go with
#fafafa or #f0f0f0 instead.

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3. Move the styles from the <body> tag into your CSS, including the
link styles, then move all your CSS into a separate file, for much
easier maintenance.

Done. It works wonders when fiddling with various views.

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4. Since you already know you're abusing tables for layout, we won't
mention that here... ;-)

I've used CSS layout on some other sites of mine, but I generally find
that unless I'm using tried and trusted third-party designs, I only
succeed in messing things up on my or other ppl's browsers.

Thanks for your comments.
Samuel (voetleuce)

#5

Throw wrote:

Quote:

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
Throw wrote:

http://www.murray.za.net/

1. Change your font sizes to percentages, and assign 100% to the
body. Use small differences for other parts, such as possibly 85%
for legalese or copyright notices, and of course larger for your
headings. Internet Explorer users cannot resize your text when set
with px.

Done. Although I was unable to assign 100% to the body (or to the
tables). I had to assign a px size instead. Changing the body font
size didn't change anything in my test browser (OP 6.06).

body {font-size:100%}
td {font-size: .9em} Or whatever you need

--
Nico
http://www.nicoschuyt.nl

#6

Throw wrote:

Quote:

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

2. Try a background of: color: #191970; a very light grey.
Should go better with your Tartan cloth and is easier on the eyes
than bright white.

That colour looks blue on my 256 colour test screen. I tried
#eafafa which looked grey on 256, but when I checked it in 24 bit,
it turns out to be blueish (which makes sense theoretically). I
might go with #fafafa or #f0f0f0 instead.

Ah yes. I copied&pasted the wrong color code. Try: #dfdfdf

Nico answered about your body font size. To make this work, remove
font sizes from other parts such as p, ul, li, and other things with
content text. Except for td (ISTM this is because of an IE bug?).
Since these elements are children of <body>, they will inherit that size.

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