Critique and suggestions please

unfortunatel, float: right for those three div's did not work. They
all appear on top of eachother.

firsttube76 (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

unfortunatel, float: right for those three div's did not work.

Unless you are working offsite, your three right boxes
<div class="sideBox" style="">
do not have a container <div> as I suggested. It would be with this
containing <div> that you set the float.

BTW, instead of specifically positioning those three
<div class="sideBox" style="">
<div class="sideBox" style="top:422px;">
<div class="sideBox" style="top:584px;">
set a bottom margin of 1 or 2em to class sideBox, and dump the top:NNpx
styles.

They all appear on top of eachother.

Aren't they supposed to be in a vertical column?

You have way too many <div>'s and not enough other semantic markup. Look
into using a list [ <ul> <li> ] for the menu, as an example.
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/taminglists/

Someone already mentioned the "Welcome to the official web site of
Penguin Designs. ..." which should be:
<h1>Penguin Designs</h1> [ <-- new ]
<h2>Welcome</h2> [ <-- actually, better keywords needed ]
<p>Welcome to the official web site of Penguin Designs. .. </p>

See the menu on this site of mine; it's a styled ul/li list.
http://countryrode.com/

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-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

On 23 Mar 2006 08:24:54 -0800, firsttube76 (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Hi everyone!

I'm starting up my web design and consulting business, and I would like
some suggestions on the web site I designed for my company.

http://www.penguindesigns.ca/

Thanks

ft
p.s. please be nice!

"Innovation.
Functionality.
Design."

For the first two - I found no trace of it whatsoever.

For the third - in general it is near to looking nice, iz seems unpolished,
penguin header is too crowdy.

Look where your page ends.

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o'tom po'tom

Nije Nego: When I asked for critique, I did not mean I wanted to be
insulted. I'm sorry you don't like my words, but why do you need to
insult? Especially because I have stated that I am learning CSS and am
open to any advice and I am very appreciative.

For the rest who have posted, I am very very grateful. I think I have
solved my biggest issue, which was the text size problem in FireFox.
The page now stretches as the text is increased. I am starting to see
the logic everyone was speaking of.

The javascript is still there and it still uses asp, but I am going to
break everything out into separate pages, use includes, and remove the
asp code where possible. I still have the px sizes for text for now,
but will investigate other size units soon. I wanted to get the
"fluidity" a bit better first. I still seem to be using a lot of div's
though.

if you're interested, you can see the changes here:
http://www.penguindesigns.ca/default2.asp

Thank you again to everyone who provided advice....I am really
grateful.

ft

firsttube76 (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Hi everyone!

I'm starting up my web design and consulting business, and I would like
some suggestions on the web site I designed for my company.

http://www.penguindesigns.ca/

Thanks

ft
p.s. please be nice!

There are a few things I see right off the bat. First of all, The page
heading is very hard to read on the background. Especially with the weird
graphical 'abnormality'.

Secondly, the font is really small, and without enough contrast, I can't
read the content easily. When I enlarge the font, it runs into the borders
of the boxes.

Here is what I see:

http://www.marenger.com/provinggroun...ndesigns01.png
http://www.marenger.com/provinggroun...ndesigns02.png

Carolyn
--
Carolyn Marenger

I'm not sure what you are referring to about the heading "graphical
'abnormality'. ". I've had lots of compliments on this graphic from
lots of other people I've shown it too. Is there something technically
wrong with it?

I am going to increase the padding on those boxes so they don't run
into the text.

thanks fot the suggestions
ft

firsttube76 (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

I'm not sure what you are referring to about the heading "graphical
'abnormality'. ". I've had lots of compliments on this graphic from
lots of other people I've shown it too. Is there something technically
wrong with it?

The graphic abnormality, seems to have been cleared up now. The horizontal
bars below the heading, were all chunked up when I saw them yesterday. I
couldn't see what you were trying to do with them, and they made it hard to
read the heading itself. Now, it is nice and clear. If you didn't change
the graphic, then something must have been garbled in transmission or in
displaying at this end, because it was indistinguishable.

I am going to increase the padding on those boxes so they don't run
into the text.

It does look better, than it did. I can handle the manual font size
increase, since the padding helps around the edges.

thanks fot the suggestions
ft

Glad I could assist,

Carolyn
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Carolyn Marenger