The Webmistress — Fri, 23 Aug 2002 07:26:25 +0000

Follow the yellow brick road!

We need another bod to cast a deciding vote

disaster-master — Thu, 22 Aug 2002 20:34:14 +0000

Oh Gee Golly!!! Meg says, "Which way do I go? Which way do I go?" :eek:

Busy — Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:10:49 +0000

I perfer the first one, the second is leading away from that clean look, starting to look a lil busy

Jack Michaelson — Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:01:05 +0000

I prefer the 2nd one. I see another difference btw: in the shtml-file the font is Arial and in the jpg it's Verdana (I think). I prefer Verdana on this one.

Furthermore, maybe add this script to your js-file. It makes those tiny dotted gray line around focused href's disappear:

function ExplorerFix() 
	{ for (a in document.links) document.links[a].onfocus = document.links[a].blur; 
	}
	if(document.all) document.onmousedown = ExplorerFix;

I'm also not to keen on the mosueovers, I would have made the outer glow white, or another bright colo(u)r and not gray. But that's just my opinion.

Overall I think it's a very good design.

The Webmistress — Thu, 22 Aug 2002 07:31:52 +0000

I prefer the first one, it just seems to sit better.

disaster-master — Thu, 22 Aug 2002 04:09:05 +0000

What is that old saying? "Mom knows best."

I think both look great but I do like the second one best (template5.jpg) You can better tell what it is. Not that you can't tell what the first one is...but the second one has more detail. Even with the what-cha-ma-call-it cut off.

I like how you have the text and images on the right arranged best on the first one though.

Megan — Thu, 22 Aug 2002 01:21:51 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by disaster-master
[B]Now you are NOT wanting spaces between the images on the Accommodations page?? Correct?? IMO, I think you need spaces here and even a thin line (black, brown, maroon) around the pics would look good. The images look all squashed together and I think it would look better if they were seperated somehow.

The spaces I'm talking about only seem to be a problem in Mozilla. When I load the page in Mozilla I get spaces around all the images and I don't know what's causing it. LIke there's about a 3px or so space between each of the nav graphics for example.

Quote: I see you are using XHTML on this one. :D It will be real easy to get this site to validate with zero errors. Just do your little <...space/> on the required end tags and you have that booger whipped.

I know, I haven't gotten around to doing the validation and everything yet. I always forget those end tags! I wonder if the latest version of homesite will do xhtml code... maybe I should upgrade...

Edit: which one do you like better

http://www.meganjack.com/BelfryCottage/index.shtml or
http://www.meganjack.com/template5.jpg

(the only difference is the picture in the upper-left corner. Mom likes the second one, but the belfry part is cut off at the top which a lot of people didn't like... Those are the only two pictures I have right now.)

Busy — Wed, 21 Aug 2002 22:58:38 +0000

load time is a lil slow, maybe use a bgcolor in the main text cell to give the viewers something to read while it loads.

I'm not to keen on the mouseovers thou, kind of cheapens it a lil.

As disaster-master mentioned, spaces around the images on the accommodations page would look better.

Maybe a link to "top" on the comments page

shouldnt the page have some background color at the bottom as well, after the bottom of the main design table?

I think you have done an awesome job on the layout, looks great.

disaster-master — Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:18:40 +0000

Oh yes, I remember this one. I love this! You have set the mood perfectly and colors are great.

Have you considered making the background of the table that holds the body a color near to the background graphic that you are using? That may mess things up and look funky....just thought I would mention that. It is a little slow to load and I was thinking that a lighter background color for the body would help it to "look" as if it were loading faster. Maybe not???

Now you are NOT wanting spaces between the images on the Accommodations page?? Correct?? IMO, I think you need spaces here and even a thin line (black, brown, maroon) around the pics would look good. The images look all squashed together and I think it would look better if they were seperated somehow.

I see you are using XHTML on this one. :D It will be real easy to get this site to validate with zero errors. Just do your little <...space/> on the required end tags and you have that booger whipped.

Very nice site Meg! I think I will use those colors on something. They are very soothing.

The Webmistress — Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:41:12 +0000

I actually really like everything about the site, even the rollovers! It's nice to see a different looking site and I think that it fits the subject matter perfectly, any other format wouldn't do it as well I don't think. It looks like a brochure would.