Critique Please

In message <3lqlgnF13h0l4U1 (AT) individual (DOT) net>, kchayka <usenet (AT) c-net (DOT) us>
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jake wrote:

In message <ENxJe.2540$Wi6.1742 (AT) newsread2 (DOT) news.pas.earthlink.net>, wayne
wdh (AT) swbell (DOT) net> writes

http://www.glenmeadows.com

h2>La Porte Community Library<br /
A Harris County Public Library<br /
600 S. Broadway<br /
La Porte, Texas 77571</h2

{put some
punctuation at the end of each line e.g. commas and full-stop.}

I disagree on putting superfluous punctuation at the end of each line.

Feel free to disagree ;-)

It's a street address, formatted as you would see it on an envelope,
which is not only common, but expected. When you address an envelope,
you don't put periods at the end of each line, do you?
Commas at the end of each line except the last -- and on a Web page I

would always terminate the last line with a full-stop.

It looks pretty
danged silly if you do.

Remember that the Web is not print.

regards.
--
Jake
(jake (AT) gododdin (DOT) demon.co.uk .... just a spam trap.)

wayne wrote:

I've been trying to add more content and make the site w3c compatible.

Is it looking ok?

http://www.glenmeadows.com

The errors when checking on the w3 org site are from the Quotations page
javascript .

Regards,

The site looks good, but the fancy border work
around buttons seems like a lot
of work to me, to make the page look
a bit old fashioned. I'm a great believer in
doing anything you can to reduce extranious
visual white-noise to make a page easier to use.
This applies doubly to navigation.

Also, text definitely needs to contrast strongly
with background. You have done this on the buttons.
But buttons create more white-noise when they contrast
strongly with their own background. So, if you're going
to keep the buttons, I would make the background behind
them somewhere near, but a little bit off their brightness.
Your navigation will get a more subtle feel and still be
easy to use.
--
mbstevens
http://www.mbstevens.com/cgi/mkatt.p...ique_Generator
(new, version 1.1)

In message <rhUJe.3260$RS.1937 (AT) newsread3 (DOT) news.pas.earthlink.net>, wayne
<wdh (AT) swbell (DOT) net> writes

jake wrote:
[snip]

{question: why comment-out the 'skip-navigation' link? }

Not sure how to implement just yet. Where should it point?

[snip]

Articles of Inc. page
============
{ Various typos (mainly missing spaces) -- applies to other pages --
suggest a trip through a spell-checker might be useful. }


[snip]

The spell checker never caught any missing spaces or extra ones either.

Two of them on the 'A of I' page:

.... to all license fees,insurance premiums, taxes, or government charges
....

.... have been adopted, the right and power to alter, amend,or repeal the
by-laws, or adopt new by-laws shall be vested ...

(Others elsewhere)

[snip]

--
Jake
(jake (AT) gododdin (DOT) demon.co.uk .... just a spam trap.)

mbstevens wrote:

The site looks good, but the fancy border work
around buttons seems like a lot
of work to me, to make the page look
a bit old fashioned. I'm a great believer in
doing anything you can to reduce extranious
visual white-noise to make a page easier to use.
This applies doubly to navigation.

Also, text definitely needs to contrast strongly
with background. You have done this on the buttons.
But buttons create more white-noise when they contrast
strongly with their own background. So, if you're going
to keep the buttons, I would make the background behind
them somewhere near, but a little bit off their brightness.
Your navigation will get a more subtle feel and still be
easy to use.
--
mbstevens
http://www.mbstevens.com/cgi/mkatt.p...ique_Generator
(new, version 1.1)


The menu items that wee there before looked kind of washed out, so I

separated the items with CSS, added borders of different colors, changed
the center section of the menu item to a somewhat darker color than
original, and ended up with the "old fashioned" look.

I did darken the background color of the body which does seem better.

Thank you for your input.

--
Wayne
http://www.glenmeadows.com