Re: Website test please.

On 01/08/2008 08:28, ray wrote:
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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.

Yes, I agree IE7 is by far the worst to get to function correctly.

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.

I started with the basic version for that reason. Plenty of help and support around. I looked at Suckerfish but it needs JavaScript to enable IE7 compatibility and I'm trying to eliminate JavaScript use where possible.

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.

I've tried to keep the background image so that it looks more like a watermark than an image. I've still a way to go. I'll experiment with the various colour options on the menu and see what I can do.

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.
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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.

I prefer not to set the width because I have some viewers who have screen-readers and they have a problem with absolute widths.

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.

The Flagcounter should only link to the stats showing which countries viewers are from. Are they regular or random links to the videos?
Can you give an example?
I'd hate it to link to anything appropriate. I don't even have links to Amazon, Ebay, etc. like most sites do.

Thanks for the constructive advice. I'll be experimenting on my test site over the next few days/weeks.

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