First Draft - Gift Basket Site

#1

Comments appreciated!

http://www.cranberrycorners.ca/

Syl.

#2

Sylvie Stone wrote:

Quote:

Comments appreciated!

http://www.cranberrycorners.ca/

Syl.
It jumps all over the place while loading. That's because

you specify all sorts of things about the images but omit
their width and height.

It slides out of a normal sized window when font size is large,
creating a horizontal scroll bar.

The line starting "Gift Basket..." is overwriting
the line starting "Welcome to...." in Konqueror 3.1.4.

Learn enough CSS to get rid of all <br>, <b>,  ,
and markup like
<......... align=middle border=0 hspace=10 hspace=5> and
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0"
marginheight="0">

It doesn't actually look bad. Just work on technical stuff
for a while.
--
m at mbstevens.com

#3

Sylvie Stone wrote:

Quote:

Comments appreciated!

http://www.cranberrycorners.ca/

You have a horizontal scroll bar at less 1110px wide.

You are using fixed font sizes of 11px. That's a bad thing. Try 100% or 1em
In your CSS
font-family: "Arial", sans-serif;
should be
font-family: Arial, sans-serif; <--no ""

Otherwise it's a nice looking site.

--
Duende

#4

sylviestone (AT) canada (DOT) com (Sylvie Stone) wrote in
news:181a24a8.0312030458.7eb49a71 (AT) posting (DOT) google.com:

Quote:

http://www.cranberrycorners.ca/

In more or less random order:

1) Parts of the home page and others run off the right in an 800-pixel
viewport. The individual product pages are particularly bad, with
horizontal scrollbars at any viewport size less than 890 pixels.

2) No alt texts for the main banner and for the bullets on the menu (the
latter should be set to "" or "*" so as not to read "[image]" if images
aren't being loaded).

3) Mailto link is Javascript-dependent; if you really *must* do this for
spam-blocking reasons, have the script write the *entire* "Email us" line;
as things now stand, with script turned off it reads "Email us at: with
your request" which is less than useful.

4) Fonts are too small.

5) Unique is unique is unique; qualifying it with "exceptionally" makes no
linguistic sense and merely conveys an impression of hype.

6) Visited links are not distinguished in appearance.

7) Contact and subscribe pages ask for visitor's email address but fail to
mention a privacy policy.

8) "Gift's Only" link on menu suffers from apostrophosis. "Gift" and
"food" are not mutually exclusive categories; try to come up with a better
term for non-food items.

9) Internally, you've got a mishmosh of presentational HTML attributes,
inline styles, and external styles. Some of these call for fonts that most
users are unlikely to have installed; others specify text sizes in
inappropriate absolute units like pixels and points.

10) Neither your HTML nor your CSS validate.

11) Pages link back to themselves on the top menu, which can be confusing.

#5

Wipkip wrote:

Quote:

In your CSS
font-family: "Arial", sans-serif;
should be
font-family: Arial, sans-serif; <--no ""

These should be equivalent.

--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me - http://www.goddamn.co.uk/tobyink/?page=132

#6

Toby A Inkster wrote:

Quote:

Wipkip wrote:

In your CSS
font-family: "Arial", sans-serif;
should be
font-family: Arial, sans-serif; <--no ""

These should be equivalent.

Toby, <ot>I was installing Pan last night, and

noticed that someone with your name seems to be
doing some really good work for that newsreader.
Zatz you, right?</ot>
--
m

#7

m wrote:

Quote:

Toby, <ot>I was installing Pan last night, and
noticed that someone with your name seems to be
doing some really good work for that newsreader.
Zatz you, right?</ot

I have done some patches for it in the past, and used to maintain the
Mandrake 8.1 packages. I also wrote a HOWTO when Pan first moved to GTK+2
because I'd found it a little hard to compile and thought I'd help out
others in the same boat. I think this HOWTO is still on the Pan site
somewhere.

I also plan on taking up packaging Pan again for Mandrake 9.2.

There are still a few things I'd like to see added to Pan (current big
wish: back button) but it sucks less than most newsreaders.

--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me - http://www.goddamn.co.uk/tobyink/?page=132

#8

Artist, the good little Microsoft drone heard sylviestone (AT) canada (DOT) com
(Sylvie Stone) say...

Quote:

Comments appreciated!

http://www.cranberrycorners.ca/

Syl.

It looks nice, but I think you should define a strong righthand edge, or at
least limit it to the width of the banner header. As it is, the ragediness
throws me off.

--
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mellorya (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
http://www.practialdesigns.com/

"Neither hope nor fear" - Isabella d'Este
"For to do either is to fall to the beast" - Joseph Richmond
"The Cow Kings a Bastard! Long live the Cow King!" - Joseph Richmond

#9

sylviestone (AT) canada (DOT) com (Sylvie Stone) wrote in message news:<181a24a8.0312030458.7eb49a71 (AT) posting (DOT) google.com>...

Quote:

Comments appreciated!

http://www.cranberrycorners.ca/

Syl.

Thank you all for your input! I guess it's back to the drawing board
for a few points.

Thanks again - I'll repost after I've implement the recommended
changes.

Syl.

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