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geekwurkz Junior Member USA 156 Posts	Posted - 25 Jul 2003 : 22:57:13 Well... I'm working on the new website design for my company. Is there anything you think I should change so far? Just so you know, it suffers from SLoCS (Severe Lack of Content Syndrome) at the moment. http://www.jsellnau.us/geekwurkz/gscn/home.shtml Thanks, Nick ------------------------- Llama-X Dev Team ·····Liberations····· ·A2:2 ·68k: 7 ·Contraband(PPC):1 ·They-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named(x86): 7 ·Other Systems:2
alphamatrix New Member USA 60 Posts	Posted - 25 Jul 2003 : 23:04:44 The formatting is a little insane(not matching up) in Safari and IE in OS X, this could be due to the lack of content, not sure. It should look pretty nice once its finished tho. Classic, LC, LC II, LCIII, Q605, Mac IIsi, Mac IIci, Duo 230, Duo 250, Duo Dock II.
geekwurkz Junior Member USA 156 Posts	Posted - 25 Jul 2003 : 23:12:03 Hrmmm... could I see a screenshot? I can only test on a PeeCee. It works using Mozilla and IE 5 for me. I designed it for at least an 800x600 screen. Nick ------------------------- Llama-X Dev Team ·····Liberations····· ·A2:2 ·68k: 7 ·Contraband(PPC):1 ·They-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named(x86): 7 ·Other Systems:2
alphamatrix New Member USA 60 Posts	Posted - 25 Jul 2003 : 23:16:45 I'm set at 1024x768 http://homepage.mac.com/alphamatrix/site.jpg Classic, LC, LC II, LCIII, Q605, Mac IIsi, Mac IIci, Duo 230, Duo 250, Duo Dock II.
geekwurkz Junior Member USA 156 Posts	Posted - 25 Jul 2003 : 23:45:33 Hrmmm... I don't know why it's spitting out a dark grey background... it should be white & light grey. That image is also missing a load of stuff I put on there. Does anyone know of a good HTML 4.0 validator? Nick ------------------------- Llama-X Dev Team ·····Liberations····· ·A2:2 ·68k: 7 ·Contraband(PPC):1 ·They-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named(x86): 7 ·Other Systems:2
geekwurkz Junior Member USA 156 Posts	Posted - 25 Jul 2003 : 23:49:01 This is what I get when I view the site in mozilla. http://www.jsellnau.us/geekwurkz/site.png nick ------------------------- Llama-X Dev Team ·····Liberations····· ·A2:2 ·68k: 7 ·Contraband(PPC):1 ·They-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named(x86): 7 ·Other Systems:2
alphamatrix New Member USA 60 Posts	Posted - 26 Jul 2003 : 00:05:46 Well, it looks quite nice. Classic, LC, LC II, LCIII, Q605, Mac IIsi, Mac IIci, Duo 230, Duo 250, Duo Dock II.
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 26 Jul 2003 : 00:15:23 Other than SLoCS and the weird safari output it looks good! I'd just say that you need to remedy SLoCS Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life" I have alot of posts... if you don't like it than I don't know what to say.
The Balance Of Judgement Senior Member Ivory Coast 1006 Posts	Posted - 26 Jul 2003 : 01:09:14 Using Mozilla FireBird I get the grey background and the tables are all messed up and the main content section is lowered with all the menus. But that might just look that way because of the grey. Check your table background colors, if it's not explicit, it could be why and if you have a CSS file, check to make sure tags are eneded and you don't have a rogue CSS definition for any backgrounds.
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 26 Jul 2003 : 03:58:15 The layout is fine, but the white text on a light grey background is very hard to read. I would avoid white and light-colored text at all costs (except in an image where you have total control). You never know when someone has their browser set to override background colors and display everything on a white or grey background. As a minor issue, I prefer layouts that resize the main content panel to suit the width of my browser window. I also prefer a minimum usable window width fo 640 pixels, but 800 is OK. Does any browser have a feature that can automatically figure out the "best" screen width? Manually widening/narrowing windows for every website is a pain. BTW, I really like the name, but wonder what a cat does with cheese. G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent
~tl Junior Member United Kingdom 312 Posts	Posted - 26 Jul 2003 : 09:42:14 [quote]Does anyone know of a good HTML 4.0 validator?[quote] the official W3C one ... http://validator.w3.org/ (HTML/XHTML) and http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ (CSS) ... other than that, the one built in to BBedit is pretty good Orcadian MLA Division 68ks Liberated: 2
Gothikon Full Member Australia 537 Posts	Posted - 26 Jul 2003 : 17:50:23 Somehow I don't think that HTML is going to validate!! What are you using to design the site. According to Safari you have about 5 pages of seperate HTML stuffed in to one file. If you are using server side includes they only need to contain fragments of HTML not whole pages IIRC (don't use them myself) which means only what would appear between the body tags. Not sure how much you know about HTML but I would suggest you dump the .css in to a separate file and just link to it from the other pages. If you're using Dreamweaver you can tell it to use an external stylesheet (same thing) dunno what frontpage would let you do. -------- LC 2, LC 3, Q605, Perf 638, Colour Classic (160 603e) 6100, 7200, PTP 225 (Quad 604), PM 9600, G4 Cube
geekwurkz Junior Member USA 156 Posts	Posted - 28 Jul 2003 : 20:57:50 quote: Somehow I don't think that HTML is going to validate!! What are you using to design the site. According to Safari you have about 5 pages of seperate HTML stuffed in to one file. If you are using server side includes they only need to contain fragments of HTML not whole pages IIRC (don't use them myself) which means only what would appear between the body tags. Not sure how much you know about HTML but I would suggest you dump the .css in to a separate file and just link to it from the other pages. If you're using Dreamweaver you can tell it to use an external stylesheet (same thing) dunno what frontpage would let you do. -------- LC 2, LC 3, Q605, Perf 638, Colour Classic (160 603e) 6100, 7200, PTP 225 (Quad 604), PM 9600, G4 Cube Huh?! What page are you looking at? It's hand coded (I don't trust frontpage{Blech!} or even dreamweaver) and I know that there are no stray <HEAD> or <BODY> tags in there. It is using SSI to serve up fragments of the page, but not whole pages. G4from128k, I don't think there's anything that should spit out white text in there, the CSS should say BODY {color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF; font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;} I'll go over it anyways to make sure. Nick ------------------------- Llama-X Dev Team ·····Liberations····· ·A2:2 ·68k: 7 ·Contraband(PPC):1 ·They-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named(x86): 7 ·Other Systems:2
~tl Junior Member United Kingdom 312 Posts	Posted - 29 Jul 2003 : 06:44:08 the problem may be with the YaBB forum linking in .... Orcadian MLA Division 68ks Liberated: 2
geekwurkz Junior Member USA 156 Posts	Posted - 29 Jul 2003 : 20:22:42 Oops... The NewsItems mod wasn't installed properly. Fixed. I also fixed up (some of) the CSS. BTW... About the forum... it's temporarly linked in from my website, http://www.egcq.tk And the name is a long story that involves Carlos & Charlies and El Rodeo (two local mexican restraunts) Nick ------------------------- Llama-X Dev Team ·····Liberations····· ·A2:2 ·68k: 7 ·Contraband(PPC):1 ·They-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named(x86): 7 ·Other Systems:2

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