Re: Critique - city web site

I didn't have much time to figure it out, but you also might want to look at
your CSS. In Netscape 4.7 most of the text displays in default and the menus
don't hover. In MSIE 6.0, it seems that some of your CSS doesn't display,
including the 80% size to typestyle.

Your various table cells resize differently page to page, especially in the
navigation. You need to set fixed pixel widths to these columns, I'm
thinking. This is one of the problems with designing with variable width
tables. You have to be careful what should be and what shouldn't be
percentages.

Your pages need  a doctype to be legit HTML and make it easier to check
validation to find out the problem. I'm also getting a char set missmatch,
though I didn't look to see why.

Personally, I think this is much more important than the Opera part in that
it's how 99% of your visitors will see it. Moreover, I'll bet that if it's
fixed, it just might fix your problem.

Overall, I liked the look and layout. Blue and Yellow always seems a nice
combination to me. Take a look at the site at high res like 1280 or more and
be careful about the look. You might wish to constrain overall widths. Your
choice, of course.

Thanks for letting us see and good luck.

Craig T. Harding

----- Original Message -----
From: "Liz Bartlett" <khyri(at)idyllmtn.com>
To: <hwg-critique(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 5:21 PM
Subject: Critique - city web site


> URL: http://fullerton.idyllmtn.com/
>
> Although this site is not fully finished; there are broken links
> and several other aspects that need to be fixed, I wanted some
> feedback on an odd layout phenomenon I just noticed.
>
> In Opera 5.10, 800 x 600 resolution, the pages look fine with
> images displayed. However, as soon as I turn off the display
> of images, the pages reformat to be more than twice as wide,
> giving over 2 screenfuls of horizontal scrolling.
>
> Does anyone else get this in the same or other browsers, and
> if so, can you spot why? I've checked that all images have the
> right height and width attributes set, and I'm not sure what else
> could be causing this!
>
> As a site with a large audience using a wide variety of access
> techniques, I need to eliminate as many browser-specific "oddities"
> as I can at this stage.
>
> --Liz
>

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