Critique for PTA site

Adrienne Boswell wrote:

If you are using a browser that understands @font-face, you should have
seen the hobo bt font, if not, you should have seen another san-serif
font.
FYI

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/changes.html#q104

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Bill

Adrienne Boswell wrote:

Thank you, and thank you for mentioning the background colour. That's been
fixed.
Now you should specify a default (foreground) color, even if it is black

(like the default setting on most browsers).

Like Beauregard, I have my defaults set to obnoxious colors so I can
catch myself if I miss specifying a color/background combination.


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Gazing into my crystal ball I observed William Gill
<nospam (AT) domain (DOT) invalid> writing in
news:J_oym.224983$sC1.92324 (AT) newsfe17 (DOT) iad:

Adrienne Boswell wrote:
Thank you, and thank you for mentioning the background colour.
That's been fixed.
Now you should specify a default (foreground) color, even if it is
black (like the default setting on most browsers).

Like Beauregard, I have my defaults set to obnoxious colors so I can
catch myself if I miss specifying a color/background combination.

Thank you for pointing that out. Fixed.

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On Oct 4, 3:08*am, Adrienne Boswell <arb... (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

I volunteerd to do the PTA web site for my son's elementary school, and
need some feedback from the community. *The url is
[http://jmpta.adrienneboswell.com].

All suggestions, comments, bug reports are most welcome. *When responding,
especially with a bug, please indicate browser and operating system.

Looks little bit lonely - or empty. Yes - it's very nice indeed.
The pics of the kids - nice. The text fine - CSS is very good of
course.
But I did not watched to source.
Sometimes I get this feeling with CSS: It is somehow cold and
gives you the position to stand above the content.
This is not a special critique for your page! I just added it.

I miss something special on the page. It is not necessarily
a big flash banner or a holistic background image.
I don't miss javascript and I don't miss games with other effects.

My first idea was when I saw the page -
The latin text could be pasted on a stone.
I don't know latin. Alea jacta est - Quo vadis - quod erum
demonstrandum - hehehe - that's it.

So I just know it is latin - right?
It can be also something else than a stone.
Anyway I remembered that the old latin texts where written
justified. Not only justified but at the end of a line they
cut the word at the last letter that fitted to the end
and simply continued in the next line.

Maybe a good idea for a 'funny' or 'intellectual' layout.

Cheers
Jan

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Jan C. Faerber"
<faerber.jan (AT) gmail (DOT) com> writing in news:f579eb7e-556d-4ecb-925e-
2cec19353c05 (AT) j28g2000vbl (DOT) googlegroups.com:

On Oct 4, 3:08*am, Adrienne Boswell <arb... (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:
I volunteerd to do the PTA web site for my son's elementary school,
and
need some feedback from the community. *The url is
[http://jmpta.adrienneboswell.com].

All suggestions, comments, bug reports are most welcome. *When
respondi
ng,
especially with a bug, please indicate browser and operating system.

Looks little bit lonely - or empty. Yes - it's very nice indeed.

It will get more filled up when I get more content.

The pics of the kids - nice.

I'm hoping to replace them with real John Muir kids. Even though it's a
public school, we still have uniforms. The acceptable attire is red,
blue or white shirts with dark blue pants/skirts. Makes it easier on
the parents, and easier on the kids as well. I think that real JM
uniform colors will look nice with the site colors.

The text fine - CSS is very good of
course.
But I did not watched to source.
Sometimes I get this feeling with CSS: It is somehow cold and
gives you the position to stand above the content.
This is not a special critique for your page! I just added it.

Yes, well that's the whole point, isnt' it, separate content from
presentation - stand above it if you will. I love that about CSS, just
as much as I love server side includes.

I miss something special on the page. It is not necessarily
a big flash banner or a holistic background image.
I don't miss javascript and I don't miss games with other effects.

You know, I was thinking about that, too. Maybe if I get enough good JM
kids pictures, I can turn them into a flash animation (just run once,
and only on the index page).

You won't ever see any gratuitous JavaScript on things I author. I'm
really into the KISS principle.

My first idea was when I saw the page -
The latin text could be pasted on a stone.
I don't know latin. Alea jacta est - Quo vadis - quod erum
demonstrandum - hehehe - that's it.

So I just know it is latin - right?

Actually it's fake Latin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum]. I
just got an email from one of the PTA board members about that.

It can be also something else than a stone.
Anyway I remembered that the old latin texts where written
justified. Not only justified but at the end of a line they
cut the word at the last letter that fitted to the end
and simply continued in the next line.

Maybe a good idea for a 'funny' or 'intellectual' layout.

Yes, it would, although I really can't stand justified text. I remember
when I was really young, and the TV Guide was much smaller, one of the
things that really bothered me was the justified text - although at the
time I was too young to know what it was called, I just didn't like it.

Cheers
Jan

Thanks for the comments. Appreciate it!

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In article <J_oym.224983$sC1.92324 (AT) newsfe17 (DOT) iad>,
William Gill <nospam (AT) domain (DOT) invalid> wrote:

Adrienne Boswell wrote:
Thank you, and thank you for mentioning the background colour. That's been
fixed.
Now you should specify a default (foreground) color, even if it is black
(like the default setting on most browsers).

Like Beauregard, I have my defaults set to obnoxious colors so I can
catch myself if I miss specifying a color/background combination.

And have a miserable time of it browsing the internet! I have known for
a long time that I am among masochists, heathens, geeks of all kinds but
this one takes the cake!

The better thing to do is to have a browser that you do *not* use in
anger for yourself on a daily basis to test for this. And then you can
say with pride that there are no flies on you! <g>

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dorayme wrote:

In article <J_oym.224983$sC1.92324 (AT) newsfe17 (DOT) iad>,
William Gill <nospam (AT) domain (DOT) invalid> wrote:

Like Beauregard, I have my defaults set to obnoxious colors so I can
catch myself if I miss specifying a color/background combination.

And have a miserable time of it browsing the internet! I have known for
a long time that I am among masochists, heathens, geeks of all kinds but
this one takes the cake!

The better thing to do is to have a browser that you do *not* use in
anger for yourself on a daily basis to test for this. And then you can
say with pride that there are no flies on you! <g

And which browser would you use to critique a site? <g>


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In article <ACtym.57915$944.50161 (AT) newsfe09 (DOT) iad>,
William Gill <nospam (AT) domain (DOT) invalid> wrote:

dorayme wrote:
In article <J_oym.224983$sC1.92324 (AT) newsfe17 (DOT) iad>,
William Gill <nospam (AT) domain (DOT) invalid> wrote:

Like Beauregard, I have my defaults set to obnoxious colors so I can
catch myself if I miss specifying a color/background combination.

And have a miserable time of it browsing the internet! I have known for
a long time that I am among masochists, heathens, geeks of all kinds but
this one takes the cake!

The better thing to do is to have a browser that you do *not* use in
anger for yourself on a daily basis to test for this. And then you can
say with pride that there are no flies on you! <g

And which browser would you use to critique a site? <g

Ouch! <g>

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dorayme

On Oct 5, 10:46*pm, Adrienne Boswell <arb... (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

So I just know it is latin - right?

Actually it's fake Latin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum]. *I
just got an email from one of the PTA board members about that. *

Now in this case you should burn all of your son's "Dick'n'Jane" books
and teach him real latin. - only three days left.

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Jan C. Faerber"
<faerber.jan (AT) gmail (DOT) com> writing in news:8b8b8da6-28bb-4256-9f43-
2681d3953d65 (AT) r31g2000vbi (DOT) googlegroups.com:

On Oct 5, 10:46*pm, Adrienne Boswell <arb... (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

So I just know it is latin - right?

Actually it's fake Latin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum].
*I
just got an email from one of the PTA board members about that. *

Now in this case you should burn all of your son's "Dick'n'Jane" books
and teach him real latin. - only three days left.

We live in Glendale, so he's learning Armenian and Spanish on the
playground. But there is a growing movement to restore Latin as an
international language, so I'm going to start off with the Winnie The
Pooh translation in Latin. It will help me brush up on my Latin as
well.

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