Is this design any good?

Hi.

I'm a newbie trying to get a grip on the basics of a sites design.
This site is NOT about the content, All I've done is use an advert I
want to place as some content to work around. This is a self training
site, really.

But what do you think of the technicalities? (I have yet to change
the text sizes from px to relative sizes), but other than that?

It resizes OK, I think. I have alts in the pics, and only pics where
they're needed. I just want to know where I may have gone wrong in
any particular areas you may feel relevant. And I haven't looked at
incompatabilities with nn4 etc. In fact, there's probably LOTS I
haven't done.

www.thunderin.co.uk

Thanks.
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Mike Barnard wrote:

http://www.thunderin.co.uk
You're using lot of <div>'s for the menu's. A menu is a list of links,

so change the <div>'s into a unorderd list. See sig. as samples.
In the style sheet you have redundant font-families. When nessasery set
font-family only in the body {...}, however you don't have to set any
font-family. The redundancy goes also for the background-colour.
Change the font colour of the menu a lighter colour, because it's
difficult to read what's written.

I properly put the three block elements into one big block element. That
way you only have to position the big block element and give it the
correct width, the other three block elements set the width as 100%.

In the style sheet you can change the definitions of the background into
an one liner definition e.g.
body {backgroun: url(bluish.jpg) repeat-y #fff;}

Let the visitor deceide what kind of font size they like best to read
with there browser/os/screen setup. When really is needed to set a font
size I rather specify it in "em" or "%" (1em = 100%), that way the font
size is also scallable in all the browsers (accept the text-browsers).

I almost forget to mention to use a mail-form instead of a mailto if
your hosting support server-side scripting.
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On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:29:29 +0200, Edwin van der Vaart
<e.vandervaart (AT) nospamgmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Lots of food for thought Edwin. Many thanks for your valuable time.

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Edwin van der Vaart wrote:

Mike Barnard wrote:


http://www.thunderin.co.uk

You're using lot of <div>'s for the menu's. A menu is a list of links,
so change the <div>'s into a unorderd list. See sig. as samples.
In the style sheet you have redundant font-families. When nessasery set
font-family only in the body {...}, however you don't have to set any
font-family. The redundancy goes also for the background-colour.
Change the font colour of the menu a lighter colour, because it's
difficult to read what's written.

I properly put the three block elements into one big block element. That
way you only have to position the big block element and give it the
correct width, the other three block elements set the width as 100%.

In the style sheet you can change the definitions of the background into
an one liner definition e.g.
body {backgroun: url(bluish.jpg) repeat-y #fff;}
Ooops.

I ment background:
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Edwin van der Vaart wrote:

Edwin van der Vaart wrote:

body {backgroun: url(bluish.jpg) repeat-y #fff;}

Ooops.
I ment background:

And you meant meant ;-)

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Edwin van der Vaart wrote:

Els wrote:
Edwin van der Vaart wrote:
Edwin van der Vaart wrote:

body {backgroun: url(bluish.jpg) repeat-y #fff;}

Ooops.
I ment background:

And you meant meant ;-)

You're right. How stupid :-(

Nothing stupid about a typo, Edwin - niet zo aanstellen gelijk - kop
op ;-)

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Els wrote:

Edwin van der Vaart wrote:
Edwin van der Vaart wrote:

body {backgroun: url(bluish.jpg) repeat-y #fff;}

Ooops.
I ment background:

And you meant meant ;-)
You're right. How stupid :-(

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Els wrote:

Edwin van der Vaart wrote:
Els wrote:
Edwin van der Vaart wrote:
Edwin van der Vaart wrote:

body {backgroun: url(bluish.jpg) repeat-y #fff;}

Ooops.
I ment background:

And you meant meant ;-)

You're right. How stupid :-(

Nothing stupid about a typo, Edwin - niet zo aanstellen gelijk - kop
op ;-)
Sorry, I'm not a poseur.

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