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Offline KnottyAlderTopic starter

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What do you think?
« on: September 28, 2009, 01:01:10 AM »
I have been in the process of coding this site for several weeks. The site will have a lot more content when it is complete.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

http://www.ellingua.com
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Re: What do you think?
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2009, 04:39:03 AM »
Not a bad design, nice and clean. There are a few things to pick up on...

- Validation, easy stuff. A div id can only be used once, and a div class can be used more than once.
- Typography. I looked in your CSS and I see that you use 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif' for all of your content. Use one font for headings, another for body text. This is a suggestion by the way.
- The question textarea box has a green border, but other input fields have a grey one, so you might need to change that green to grey. Also sort the email input field so it matches the width of all the others.
- Spacing...let some content within the boxes breathe.
- You could possibly (just a suggestion), move the login box to the right with the other ones, make all of them wider and then have a wider main box. But you would have to have more content on the main page for this.

Just a few things to pick up on, but all in all...great job.
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Re: What do you think?
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2009, 11:32:23 AM »
Thanks for your advice. I will get those changes made soon.

I had not even noticed the green border around the Questions box. I threw that together last night before heading to bed.

Awesome response! Thanks again lostprophetpunk!
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Re: What do you think?
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2009, 01:39:13 PM »
That's ok.

I also forgot to mention about the login. You could make it so it validates the login on the same page, rather than going to a page with just some text...it makes for some nicer viewing and you don't have to click the back button in your browser to try and login again.
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Re: What do you think?
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2009, 03:04:30 PM »
looks good! one suggestion i would make(may have been mentioned) but perhaps make the content font smaller in the boxes, compared to its header text. right now they look the same.
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Re: What do you think?
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2009, 11:24:45 PM »
Is anyone running IE7? I have been getting complaints about the page loading with the content pushed to the right in IE7, but I have IE8, and there is no problem.

If someone has IE7, can they confirm this for me?
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Re: What do you think?
« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2009, 09:01:27 AM »
Unfortunately I haven't got it installed right now, but you might want to look at getting ietester, it allows you to check websites in IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP. Very usefull for developers.
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Re: What do you think?
« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2009, 09:35:43 AM »
Quote from: cags on October 01, 2009, 09:01:27 AM
Unfortunately I haven't got it installed right now, but you might want to look at getting ietester, it allows you to check websites in IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP. Very usefull for developers.
There is an even better one called browsershots that has loads more variety to test on.
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Re: What do you think?
« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2009, 09:49:44 AM »
Thanks!! I was looking for something similar to that yesterday, but I had no idea what to search for. Awesome!
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Re: What do you think?
« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2009, 10:00:53 AM »
Quote from: lostprophetpunk on October 01, 2009, 09:35:43 AM
There is an even better one called browsershots that has loads more variety to test on.
I don't see how it's better. Browsershots is a different kettle of fish altogther. It simply generates an image of a single page as it would appear in dozens of different browsers. That is (IMHO) in no way the same as ietester, which is an actual functioning browser that allows you to change 'compatibility mode' between different versions of IE.
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Re: What do you think?
« Reply #10 on: October 01, 2009, 10:02:19 AM »
Quote from: lostprophetpunk on October 01, 2009, 09:35:43 AM
Quote from: cags on October 01, 2009, 09:01:27 AM
Unfortunately I haven't got it installed right now, but you might want to look at getting ietester, it allows you to check websites in IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP. Very usefull for developers.
There is an even better one called browsershots that has loads more variety to test on.

"Better", I disagree. Sure you can view more browsers, but it offers no user interaction. Also considering the majority of the popular browsers can be downloaded onto the PC (IE [ietester], Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera), the ability to properly test a site in a real environment is not too difficult.
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Re: What do you think?
« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2009, 10:59:57 AM »
When I land on the index page there is absolutely nothing telling me what this site is about. I haven't got a clue what you do, what services you offer and how it will help me. There is no close of sale i.e telephone number, contact link, etc. I am distracted by the massive header graphic which also means nothing.
I would click away instantly.
« Last Edit: October 01, 2009, 11:00:36 AM by neil.johnson »
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Re: What do you think?
« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2009, 09:19:52 PM »
Thanks for the advice neil.johnson. I made some changes.

Does anyone know the best language encoding to use to support all languages.
« Last Edit: October 04, 2009, 09:26:16 PM by KnottyAlder »
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Re: What do you think?
« Reply #13 on: October 05, 2009, 06:43:56 AM »
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