Re: Non-Profit site requests comments (Graphical Dreams)

Hi Mary,

At 7:55 -0400 8/22/03, Missy Scott wrote:
>I think it looks fantastic!  Only one thing: on the calendar page, if you
>can, add a link to go back so a user can get back to the main page and the
>navigation there.

The "look" of your site is great! I agree that the calendar page 
should have navigation that's consistent with the other pages.

At 9:45 -0400 8/22/03, Norman Bunn wrote:
I find the font size a bit too small

It looks fine for me on my Mac at 1024 x 768, but it's small enough 
that others may find it hard to see. Maybe you want to consider using 
a relative font sizing scheme in your CSS.

One thing I did notice in your CSS is that you only provide one font 
choice within each class. I happen to have all your fonts on my 
system but others might not. Something like 'font-family: Arial, 
Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif' would allow for alternate fonts, with 
the user's default san-serif font kicking in of the others weren't 
available.

Norman Bunn wrote:
>... from the home page I choose "Protect Yourself On Line", but, 
>when I get to that page, you have a title that says, "Procedures to 
>keep others from knowing you have visited the site."

I wonder if "Protect Yourself On Line" within your <title> element 
while keeping the same header within your content would do the trick. 
Just a suggestion...I wonder what others think.

One note about <title> elements. You have either "IVSHA-Illinois 
Valley Safe House Alliance" or "Illinois Valley Safe House Alliance" 
preceding the names of your daughter pages. For viewing in a window 
or bookmarking purposes, page titles are often truncated. Your 
content is important enough that visitors may easily wish to bookmark 
your daughter pages. You might want to consider something short like 
"IVSHA-Whatever" to title each page.

W3C provides these hints on titles: http://www.w3.org/2001/06tips/good-titles

Norman Bunn wrote:
>The sub-navigation on this page has links to "IE 4 and above for 
>Mac" and "Netscape", but I am running IE 6 on Windows ...

I think including similar information for IE Windows would address this.

Norman Bunn wrote:
>Why are there separate links for a snail mail newsletter and an email one?

I don't see a problem with the separate links because the forms are 
so completely different. Someone wanting the newsletter via e-mail 
doesn't have to bother reading the other stuff. I was going to 
comment on the need for a new window (so many people discourage doing 
this) until I tried it. Because the window pops up in the middle of 
the screen with an appropriate size, you might not even need to 
mention that the links open in a new window. I'd ask the opinions on 
others regarding this idea when considering this.

On the snail-mail form, a Javascript option appears to exist that 
would allow the user to select the place-holding text in each field 
on a single click, allowing them to type over the selected text right 
away. I don't know much about doing this, but I believe you would use 
something like onfocus="this.select()". There's a thread discussing 
forms at AccessifyForum.com at:
http://www.accessifyforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=100

The key information you'd be looking for is at the end of the third 
post, a lengthy but helpful one by 'gez'.

Another thing I'd include on the newsletter page is a link to Acrobat 
Reader. This one ought to work:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Norman Bunn wrote:
On the domestic violence page, I would put some space between the 
arrows and the text

I don't see a problem, but you might want to ensure consistency 
across browsers via your CSS.

One very minor thing I noticed. The line spacing for your main page 
link box is a little bit askew on IE 5 for Mac. It doesn't affect 
reading your information at all, so it's not that important, but I 
thought I'd let you know. Rather than trying to explain it, you can 
look at these screen shots for IE and Netscape at:

http://personalpages.tds.net/~shepherdmix/zzzzz_board_pics/mary.html

I wonder if a definition-term list would be good for this. 
Content-wise, it's taylor-made for what you're doing, it would do 
well in browsers without CSS enabled, and you can format the <DT> and 
<DD> stuff to give you exactly the look you're going for.

Good luck!

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