Masterpiece crit (again)

Masterpiece site that I've been working on for some time is all finished
now.

It's all driven by the latest version of my CMS, so there is some content
that is obviously filler until the client changes it, there are some
subpages that have nothing on them until the client adds something (under
Products). but there is at least sample data on every page.

TIA!

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Nik Coughin wrote:

Masterpiece site that I've been working on for some time is all
finished now.

You mean the http://www.nrkn.com/carters/ ??

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Nico Schuyt wrote:

Nik Coughin wrote:
Masterpiece site that I've been working on for some time is all
finished now.

You mean the http://www.nrkn.com/carters/ ??

I mean I didn't provide a link. How very clever of me!

site:

http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/

css:

http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/aboutUs.css
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/box.css
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/common.css
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/contactUs.css
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/links.css
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/news.css

Nik Coughin wrote:

http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/
css:
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/aboutUs.css
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/box.css
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/common.css
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/contactUs.css
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/links.css
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/news.css

Wow, 6 stylesheets and over 40 div's on one page. How long did it take you
to build and debug it?
A pity IE doesn't render the site correctly. I doubt very much visitors are
prepared to change their browser for you. It's about the same as 'best
viewed with IE5 on 1024x768' :-)
Is it acceptable for your customer that the site present an, as you say
"graphically inferior version" of the site to 90% of the visitors?

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http://www.nicoschuyt.nl

Nico Schuyt wrote:

Nik Coughin wrote:
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/
css:
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/aboutUs.css
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/box.css
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/common.css
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/contactUs.css
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/links.css
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/news.css

Wow, 6 stylesheets and over 40 div's on one page. How long did it
take you to build and debug it?
A pity IE doesn't render the site correctly. I doubt very much
visitors are prepared to change their browser for you. It's about the
same as 'best viewed with IE5 on 1024x768' :-)
Is it acceptable for your customer that the site present an, as you
say "graphically inferior version" of the site to 90% of the visitors?

I think it still looks good in IE -- just not as good as it could -- and I'm
removing that message for the live deployment. With any luck we'll get full
png support in IE7, but I'm not holding my breath. 6 stylesheets, most of
them for individual pages, no point in including css that isn't used on the
other pages. I don't think any one page has more than 3. 40 divs, well,
guilty a necessary evil with having rounded corners in a fluid
environment. No extra time to debug or build that though, apart from the
time I took to write a php script to generate the rounded corners stuff --
takes a graphic, cuts it up into 9 pieces and then generates the html and
css for it.

Nico Schuyt wrote:

Nik Coughin wrote:

Is it acceptable for your customer that the site present an, as you
say "graphically inferior version" of the site to 90% of the visitors?

I think the question would better be phrased, is it acceptable that it
presents a graphically superior version to 10% of its visitors I see no
reason not to use newer technologies if they degrade gracefully.

Nik Coughin wrote:

Nico Schuyt wrote:
Nik Coughin wrote:
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/
css:
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/aboutUs.css
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/box.css
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/common.css
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/contactUs.css
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/links.css
http://www.nrkn.com/masterpiece/css/news.css

Wow, 6 stylesheets and over 40 div's on one page. How long did it
take you to build and debug it?
A pity IE doesn't render the site correctly. I doubt very much
visitors are prepared to change their browser for you. It's about the
same as 'best viewed with IE5 on 1024x768' :-)
Is it acceptable for your customer that the site present an, as you
say "graphically inferior version" of the site to 90% of the
visitors?

I think it still looks good in IE -- just not as good as it could --
and I'm removing that message for the live deployment. With any luck
we'll get full png support in IE7, but I'm not holding my breath. 6
stylesheets, most of them for individual pages, no point in including
css that isn't used on the other pages. I don't think any one page
has more than 3. 40 divs, well, guilty a necessary evil with
having rounded corners in a fluid environment. No extra time to
debug or build that though, apart from the time I took to write a php
script to generate the rounded corners stuff -- takes a graphic, cuts
it up into 9 pieces and then generates the html and css for it.

Interesting idea, using php to generate the code for a design like this!
Thanks

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Nico
http://www.nicoschuyt.nl

Nik Coughin wrote:

Nico Schuyt wrote:
Nik Coughin wrote:

Is it acceptable for your customer that the site present an, as you
say "graphically inferior version" of the site to 90% of the
visitors?

I think the question would better be phrased, is it acceptable that it
presents a graphically superior version to 10% of its visitors I
see no reason not to use newer technologies if they degrade
gracefully.

Well, it might be a problem to convince a customer who has IE (and also his
friends and customers to whom he proudly wants to show his new site) :0

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Nico
http://www.nicoschuyt.nl