Re: Critique please

Toby A Inkster wrote:

URL: http://tobyinkster.co.uk/

I've rewritten the CMS behind my website from scratch and am about to spin
it off as an open source CMS project <http://demiblog.org/>. In advance of
this, I've now ported my old site to the new CMS and I'd like to hear any
feedback, particularly in the areas of:

Have you considered putting the navigation on the right? The actual

content is pushed way to the right side because of the nav menu and
generous margins. Generally Western text is mostly to the left side. It
seems a bit weird with the content in the middle, as though the menu is
more important.
The menu text is extremely small.
Each page is linked to itself.
I'm a bit unclear about the rules, if any, for date format. I thought
that to avoid confusion with US layout that European format used either
hyphens or dots: 20-04-2007 or 20.04.2007. (I've always preferred the
unambiguous Apr 4, 2007 or 4-Apr-2007. suitable for English only of
course. Or 2007-04-20 (sorts nicely).)
Completely trivial fluff: The code uses tabs to indent. It becomes
rather hard to read as the text quickly disappears off the right.
Bandwidth reduction measure (1 tab vs 2 spaces)?

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Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Toby A Inkster <usenet200703
@tobyinkster.co.uk> writing in news:9bbuf4-hco.ln1 (AT) ophelia (DOT) g5n.co.uk:

I'm no good at visual design, so it
takes me a long time to come up with something I really like.

Here, here! My therapist said the right side of my brain is about as big as
a peanut.

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Please respond to the group so others can share

Toby A Inkster wrote:

[Probably the bit about menu location on the page...]

Not commenting on the rest, as it's template-related stuff which I'm not
particular interested in at the moment. My current template is just
a temporary measure at the moment. I'm no good at visual design, so it
takes me a long time to come up with something I really like. It will no
doubt be quite some time before I do, and it's unlikely to look much like
the current design!

I mostly like your current layout. It's all about the content, not all

the whiz-bangs (so popular because they can be done, not that they should).

Completely trivial fluff: The code uses tabs to indent. It becomes
rather hard to read as the text quickly disappears off the right.
Bandwidth reduction measure (1 tab vs 2 spaces)?

Tabs are hardcoded everywhere, so it would be a lot of work to change
them. Besides which, if you've got a decent text editor, you ought to be
able to change the tab width to your liking. I have mine set so that one
tab is equivalent to 4 spaces.

I normally just use the viewer provided in Firefox which has a fixed tab

width (8 spaces). My programming editor does not suffer from such
restrictions.

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On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:48:40 GMT
Adrienne Boswell <arbpen (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

[...]

I'm no good at visual design, so it
takes me a long time to come up with something I really like.

Here, here! My therapist said the right side of my brain is about
as big as a peanut.

Well, I guess as long as your therapist did not make the same
comment about the left side of your brain as well :-)

Andrew

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