A critique and test please

Some comments on our Walking and Backpacking site would be
appreciated, from the sort of critics who open bottles with their
teeth and say what they think!.

http://v-g.me.uk

Some points I am already aware of after reading other posts and
replies:

1. The font is specified in px which is not scalable in IE - I'm
currently looking at this and trying to change it in a way that
doesn't mess anything up.

2. The text on the nav buttons is not text - it's part of the image.
I'm looking at that changing that too. On the positive side, those
rollover buttons are entirely CSS with no javascript - it took ages to
get that working on IE,NS,Opera,&Moz!.

3. After a long and painful conversion from table-based layout to CSS,
there are still just a very few places not finished yet. Most of the
remaining tables are by design.

Perhaps this could also serve as a test for our cross-platform
panorama player that handles full and partial pans: go to:
Trips & folders section > List of all trips > Ennerdale (near the
top). This has examples of fulls and partials. It would be nice to
confirm Linux / Apple compatibility as well as Windows.

Thank you very much in anticipation.
Regards



-- GeoffC

GeoffC <vremovethisgy (AT) v-g (DOT) me.uk> wrote:

http://v-g.me.uk

Looks nice.

It's a bit to "monochromatic", try and find a few complementary colours
instead of only using variations of "orange" and gray.

All newly authored documents should use a Strict doctype.

Inappropriate usage of divs and spans, far to many of them. Use proper
structural markup like headers, paragraphs etc.

1. The font is specified in px which is not scalable in IE - I'm
currently looking at this and trying to change it in a way that
doesn't mess anything up.

I hope you'll also do something about the broken font zooming issue in
Mozilla : http://www.spartanicus.utvinternet.ie/test/v-g.png
Size stuff that needs to resize with the text by using the em unit.

2. The text on the nav buttons is not text - it's part of the image.

Using images for this is normally fine, although at the small size
you've chosen it will be a problem for some. At the very least you
should supply alt content.

br><br

Use css to create margins.

3. After a long and painful conversion from table-based layout to CSS,
there are still just a very few places not finished yet. Most of the
remaining tables are by design.

By design or not, you are using tables for non tabular data:

table class="DivBoxedTextL"
tr><td nowrap>Welcome to our walking site
/td></tr
/table

Hi,

my first impression: It looks o.k. - the design of the website is
attractiv.

Here the topic I would change:

Navigation: The Navigation on the left site is o.k.! When I change in to
another directory I would mark it with the green dot, like the mouseover.
But I don't know why the other menus are in the text - put them into the
Navigation-List on the left side and let it only open when used.

GeoffC <vremovethisgy (AT) v-g (DOT) me.uk> wrote:

http://v-g.me.uk

Also: the "Recent updates" links are not sufficiently recognizable as
links.