Spidey_Lee — Fri, 01 Feb 2002 23:20:11 +0000

Quote: I was reading some of the text and found that when you look at text that spaced out sometimes you get the effect of lines in between (like that illusion of blue dots inside a grid of black squares). Maybe it's just my monitor but you should check it out.

Chuck I apologize for the delay in responding I have a nasty flu that has laid me up in bed for a while. I am still sick but your post had me take a closer look at things and I have made some changes. Have a look and tell me if things are better?

Busy, yeah I know what you are talking about with that black box. I am currently doing a complete redesign so I think I can get by with leaving well enough alone until it's completed. Luckily right now most visitors are using IE so I am ok for the moment.

Thanks for your comments and now its back to bed.

Spidey

Busy — Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:23:54 +0000

NS4.7 - still a black background, and form width to wide
check your cells/tags that have a black background, are these al closed, have you used a black bgcolor in any main tr cells? I had a quick look at your code and found two empty td cells with black bgcolor, use   in them and add a class="smlgap" tag (name to suit) and in your style tag/sheet make that class a 8px font size, other wise the   will make the cell to wide
see this thread http://www.webmaster-forums.com/showthread.php?threadid=16821 for resizing your form width.

NS6 - same as IE except a slight gap under the brown top section, (probably looks better than IE now)

Opera - same as IE but the colored hr's are colored, are clear lines - look ok, you'd get away with it

even thou they have a few slight differences, no one is going to be looking at your site in 2 or 3 different browsers, but even if they did it would probably be different days/ systems and wouldnt notice the slight differences.

not sure about your link colors, the red is a bit bright, maybe a darker red? or maybe a dark grey since you have a light grey in the center, oops just noticed you have underlined text, try not to make the active or visited links to dark or people could get confused

krash_io — Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:54:20 +0000

Yeah I think that looks better. I don't know if anyone else has a problem reading large ammounts of text on a white background but it sure bothers me. Of course I'm on a computer at least 10 hours a day. Maybe thats my problem!

Either, I like it. I think its a litte eaiser to read.

Krash_io

recipebomb.com

Spidey_Lee — Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:33:55 +0000

Quote: With 4 browsers, I have 4 slighty different views

BUSY I have played around with the current design a little. could you please check it again in those browsers ad see if there is any changes?

I know there is a code to use to keep the form search box from expanding but at the moment I am at a loss. You at 0px 0px or something like that but I will have to do a little refresher to remember.

krash_io, I have added an off white to the middle section and expamded it slighty so please have a look and tell me if that helps?

My eyes are not the greatest so seeing colors, well is pretty hard, so can you all look and tell me if the RED links goes whith the yellowish navigation bar?

If they don't work can you give me a suggestion or two? I am using CSS so changing the colors takes about a second.

I have just done these basic changed until I get the ite redesigned because I am getting some traffic and would like those visitors to keep coming back.

I appreciate all of your help,

Spidey

krash_io — Sun, 27 Jan 2002 02:11:17 +0000

Hey I think the layout of your site and everything is good, seems pretty easy to navigate. I'm not really even worried about more graphics or anything becasue it seems the majority of your viewers will be web-designers or wanna-bees
so they will be expecting to read, not play.

However, because you site will posibbly be on that your users will spend most of the time reading you may want to enlarge that main body text a little and widen the main text area.

I might also suggest setting the background color of that area to something less white, I think I went crosseyed after reading a couple of paragraphs! Even the slightest color adjustment can cause a big difference.

Good work overall.

Spidey_Lee — Sat, 26 Jan 2002 03:00:32 +0000

I primarily use IE6, have checked with NN6.21 and things line up fairly well. I don't have NN4.7 installed so thanks for the heads up. I am currently in a total redesign and once done I hope to get everything in most browsers looking the same.

Thanks for the help

Spidey

Busy — Fri, 25 Jan 2002 21:51:25 +0000

With 4 browsers, I have 4 slighty different views

oldest to newest:
NS4.7 - the page has a black background width wide grey borders and line break (hr's), the text one the side columns are on the borders (middle section is ok), becaiuse the background is black, the copyright text is unreadable. the search box pushs the width out as well, on 800x600 the other browsers end under the z on the top banner, NS4.7 ends at the p of promotion,

IE5 - I think it was made for this browser, everything lines up fine

NS6 - white background, wide dark grey borders and hr's like NS4.7, side text against the edge

Opera6 - same as IE except the grey lines dont show up, as if you were using noshade in the hr tag,

Spidey_Lee — Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:20:32 +0000

Thanks everyone for your help, I understand what needs to be done to make the site better. If anyone else still has comments please let me know because it all helps.

Well off to Photoshop I go. hehe

Spidey

Frankster — Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:17:38 +0000

Like the ohters, I like the site, because I Like simple websites. Maybe a little more spicing up like small graphics mixed with your content like business people, just a thought.

Welcome to TWF

The Webmistress — Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:41:40 +0000

I agree that it could do with a bit of spicing up and that the reds don't go together well.