Re: New site

by "Rajnish Bhaskar" <r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk>

 Date:  Thu, 24 Jan 2002 11:45:15 -0000
 To:  Laura Trial <ltrial(at)moment.net>
 Cc:  hwg-critique(at)hwg.org
 In-Reply-To:  moment
  todo: View Thread, Original
Oops, sorry.  That last message went to the wrong address.  

> http://www.moment.net/~ltrial/index.html

Nice site, but there are problems with Mozilla based browsers 
(Netscape 6+ mainly).  There are large gaps between cells in the 
table.  This is due to the way that Mozilla's rendering engine 
(Gecko) interprets the CSS standards.  You can correct this in two 
ways.  Firstly by making Mozilla behave in 'quirks' mode by changing 
your doctype to:
<.!doctype HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> 
(without the initial full stop)

or by adding this line to your CSS:
img {vertical-align: middle;}

Other small things:
* The 'home' button is usually located at the top of the navigation 
bar and putting it at the bottom might mean that people might miss it 
(I know that I did :o)  ).
* A lot of people find those little Java scroller applets irritating. 
 I just get irritated by the fact that you're taking control away 
from me -- I want to be able to read it at my pace, not be forced to 
read at the pace that you set.
* Personally, I don't like the borders around the table on the For 
Sale page (sale.html), but maybe this could be improved with CSS by 
reducing the border to 1px and having it a solid colour or something.

Finally, I find the 'patriotic' background and colour scheme a  bit 
garish, but that's just a personal thing.

HTH,
Raj.
-- 
Rajnish Bhaskar
r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk, http://lordofthemoon.com
IT Education Unit, University of Glasgow
http://www.iteu.gla.ac.uk/
--
It's a rum old world all right.  But you've got to have a laugh,
haven't you?
	-- Terry Pratchett (Didactylos, Small Gods).

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