forwardtrends — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:51:14 +0000

Listen - This isnt for profit, or for trying to fool users into my work with flashy text layouts. I dont even display an email address.. So if your not "compelled" enough to click a link, and are too distracted by my use of images.. then I guess you missed the point anyways.

Suzanne — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:29:11 +0000

If the links aren't compelling, how are you going to get people to click on them? <-- serious

You need to lead your users to where you want them to be. I look at the main page, play with the pretty picture by resizing my window a bunch and then go away. I can't even recall anything about the links other than they were a golden colour. I certainly didn't take away any knowledge of the site, the owner, the designer, or the content.

Isn't that a problem?

forwardtrends — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:41:08 +0000

I don't know that I care if its compelling to look at .. they are all just links. I'd rather have a list of compelling work to look at

Suzanne — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 01:52:30 +0000

I'd like to see icons or some other form of order. A chart of lists isn't particularly compelling to look at.

forwardtrends — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:46:38 +0000

ohhh good point. There is alot of backend activity going on in the page, pulling all the information from an SQL database. So I'm always playing with it, almost as much as the design elements.. it just makes it quicker to change when the itch arises lol.

any suggestions?

Suzanne — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:32:28 +0000

sorry, that WAS vague of me. I meant the background image effect. It's really moot, though, since either way you have "meaningless" elements that just hold design elements, eh? I think it's beautiful. Now to make that text in the middle match the beauty of the page! heh.

forwardtrends — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:54:14 +0000

Thanks! but umm.. it is done with CSS (well about 90% - still had to use td attributes to get the full effect) - but I've got a stylesheet running it. Do you mean transfer ALL of it to css?

Suzanne — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:50:58 +0000

Works fine in Firefox. I like the image at the bottom and the way you've solved the window size issue, though I think you could have done it in CSS as well.

Busy — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:59:22 +0000

Opera is a good browser but every version seems to treat CSS differently, latest one seems to be most stable

forwardtrends — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:24:47 +0000

ouch those gaps are bad .. plus I didnt know Opera didnt support the css attributes I applied to the form inputs - I've got to do some research and get Opera to do some testing! lol thanks everyone