Re: Website test please.

wtwjgc (Joe) <privacy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 31/07/2008 17:38, ned wrote:
Hi Joe
Amazing site.
I viewed using IE7.
I have my text size clocked up a notch from normal and while that seems to
work fine, for me, for other sites I found that I had to wind it back down
on yours.
No problem there. Just my preferences.
But when I did that, the text in the top menu buttons all eased over to the
left and didn't align with the buttons. Clicking the right hand button (now
blank) still took me to the 'Postcodes' page, so the linking holds good -
just the text alignment that drifted.
Can anyone else reproduce that effect?


Thanks Ned.
It seems to be only in IE. I can use zoom in/out in Firefox and it acts
as it should with the text and boxes increasing/decreasing the same.
I'll have to see if I can find what's causing the difference.

It is IE that causes so many problems with CSS menu lists.
I've lost count of the hours of my life that have been wasted trying to
get IE to render web pages the same as all the other browsers.
The introduction of IE7 made it even more frustrating and God help us
all when IE8 comes on stream.

I do wish people wouldn't use such rubbish, but hey, it came free with
the peecee.

You will almost certainly have to introduce some conditional elements
into the pages or into the css file to force IE to behave. Google is
your friend look for css inline menus, there are plenty out there. You
have used one of the most common basic menus.

If you want to get really dangerous look up Suckerfish.

As for the websites, lose the background images, very distracting.
Change the link colours from the default blue to black and the rollover
colour to blue, leave the underline to indicate links.
Lose the table borders.

You have an informational website consisting almost entirely of text,
why make it difficult to read?

Those three changes will make it look more professional and easier to
read.

Personally I would fix the width centred at around 970 pixels. I've gone
right off fluid websites. So last century.
That would also fix the problem you have with the text of some pages
being aligned hard up against the left margin.

Oh and that Flagcounter thing at the bottom, what's all that about?
A couple of those links took me to some mild porn videos.

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