Re: Critique request, layout only

Heather,

running I.E. 5.0, AOL & Netscape (Non-AOL Ver.) at 800x600

A couple of recommendations
Drop the green background.  Green has got to be one of the hardest colors to 
work with especially text. Black is too hard to read and white is to hard on 
the eyes and the colors in between get swallowed up by the green color 
itself.  If you have to use green use a lighter shade.  As far as your use on 
tables you had the right idea by using percentages but you have to make sure 
that every table and cell property are using percentages and not real sizes 
because real sizes (pixels) take precedence over relative sizes 
(percentages).  You also want to remember 100% of the screen is 100% of 
viewers screen and if your creating this on a larger screen  -- guess what?

Here is an excerpt from your page and even though the table property was at 
100% the width in pixels was greater than 100% of the viewers screen causing 
the viewer to have to scroll sideways.

<tr bgcolor="#523520">
    <td width="565">[Unable to display image]</td>
    <td width="116" align="right" valign="bottom">[Unable to display image]</t
d>
</tr>

One way of getting around this problem is not to create anything wider than 
600 pixels which will fit any browser.  If you choose to use percentages, 
which is fine, you just have to be careful.

Hope this is of some help

Steve

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