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[nick]

Deewiant wrote:
> nick wrote:
>> nick wrote:
>>> Deewiant wrote:
>>>
>>>>> ...suggestions...
>>>> Other than that, the layout's quite good. <g>
>>> Thank you for the constructive criticism.
>> I made some changes. Thoughs? Do you think it's good enough?
>>
>> http://hcoop.net/~natamas/d/template.html

> The stuff in the footer (Home, News, Products, About, Contact, And other things
> that belong at the bottom) doesn't show up too well, I almost missed them
> completely. The black background is too dark IMO.
The stuff in the footer would ideally be legal B.S. and such that you
don't want distracting the user anyway; the mock content is a big
misleading. The Home, News, Products would ideally be a duplicate of the
real nav menu, so it would be OK to miss it. I could kick up the
contrast though.

> Still doesn't validate. Too bad about IE's box model.
Haven't done that bit yet.

> Without images, the visited links in the top menu (the tabs) have too little
> contrast against the dark background. I'd suggest changing their
> background-color as well as background-url.
Ah... interesting point. I thought I made the visited links the same
color as regular links.

> Every other CSS class/id actually has meaning except for the two in the new
> title: class="bright" and class="dark". It's so rare to find a site that
> actually does this correctly that I'd really like to have it done: just rename
> them to something like "title_d" and "title_prog" or whatever, I think you know
> what I mean.
Yup Yup, that was incorrect naming on my part.

> That title should be a <h1> instead of a <div>. Slap on display:block and it
> should work the same, but the page will be more semantically correct.
K, I'll try that.

> I'm not sure if this is of much importance any longer, but the page is a bit too
> wide for an 800x600 resolution, at least with the default font styles - one can
> always make fonts smaller to make it fit better, but it might still be annoying.
> The minimum viewport width to display the page in Firefox without a horizontal
> scrollbar seems to be 896 pixels.
Easy to fix; I'll just take away a couple EMs from the body width.

Again, thanks for the input. I'll try to fix all that later tonight.