hblack.net redesigned

colak · 2006-03-16 15:42:36

This was my first txp site released on line well over a year and a half ago and now re-thought and re-designed from the ground up.
The concept: “it’s all in the menu”.
It is a static periodically updated artist’s portfolio site where all content is equal so I came up with a solution where the menu plays a central role. In fact the menu IS the site.
The site was only tested on a mac OS X.3.x computer on Opera, Netscape, Firefox, Safari, and IE (which does not display some aspects properly but as it is an officially dead browser I do not care:).
There is also a problem with the preview of comments whih I need to address. Maybe it is a straight forward solution to this but I just can’t see it yet.
I am yet to get access on a pc to see how it works on windows based browsers.

Tell me what you think… and be as vicious as you may deem necessary!

<a href=“http://hblack.net/hblack/”>hblack.net/hblack/</a>

soulship · 2006-03-16 16:51:06

Everything is working great and I like the nav the way you have done it. I have one complaint though. Everything is really hard to read – on my set up at least. In ff 1.5 everything looks bunched up. I saw you had 1.4 as your line height, but on those really long articles 1.6 looks more like a book or magazine height to me and the letter spacing and word spacing could probably use a little bit of a bump as well. When I dropped in:

<code>
body{text-align:justify;line-height:1.6em;letter-spacing:.1em;word-spacing:.1em;}

b{font-size:1.3em;}

body p{padding-bottom:10px;}</code>

Everything became much easier to read on the long articles.

It could just be me though. I have a flat screen with 1900×1200 depth so things usually look a bit small to start off with.

It really does look great though. I dig how everything is nested and easy to get to.

EDIT: One other thing I noticed; some of your long articles have no paragraphs. Not sure why, but that may be part of the bunched/squeezed look I am getting. They are split up by br tags, but have no p wrapping them.

Last edited by soulship (2006-03-16 16:53:31)

NyteOwl · 2006-03-16 18:32:34

Looks ok here except that the page lacks a background colour below the menu line.

NyteOwl · 2006-03-16 18:33:12

This was a duplicate post because when I clicked submit the form gave me an error that “subscription information not found” :/

Last edited by NyteOwl (2006-03-16 18:35:29)

colak · 2006-03-17 06:51:45

thank you for your comments here
soulship... I have always been very weak re choice of fonts, sizes etc. I have tried your suggestion on my ff1.5 (resolution 1600x1200) and somehow it all looked too spaced apart. ... I implemented the text: justify though. NyteOwl. You noticed that huh? <strike>I just can’t figure that one out!</strike>
It is the centre div showing. I have tried to give it a margin, border, whatever, but it still appears. Final solution (it works on mac at least). Created another div with a negative margin to cover the white space.

Last edited by colak (2006-03-17 16:33:22)

soulship · 2006-03-17 22:08:16

Hey Colak, It’s probably my weak vision from staring at a computer screen 10 hours a day :)

Check this site out and bookmark it. I can’t live without it now.

NyteOwl · 2006-03-18 00:14:50

My comment re background was for the article page.

colak wrote:

thank you for your comments here
@ NyteOwl. You noticed that huh? <strike>I just can’t figure that one out!</strike>
It is the centre div showing. I have tried to give it a margin, border, whatever, but it still appears. Final solution (it works on mac at least). Created another div with a negative margin to cover the white space.

That didn’t help here on Firefox. If however you move the following from the body elemet to the wrapper id in the css it works.

<code>
style=“background:url(http://neme.org/main/images/134.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-position:left top;
background-attachment: fixed;
</code>

colak · 2006-03-18 16:38:17

hi nyteOwl
I guess you are speaking about the neme.org site not the hblack.net one,,,
I’ll have a look at it

NyteOwl · 2006-03-18 21:18:43

Yes, sorry – mea culpa – it’s been a rough week.

marios · 2006-03-18 22:02:43

Well, I looked at it just now, look great , interesting content , allso what is interesting is you only get at the real content when you dig down.
I think it’s an interesting concept of having just the menu,and having it expand where you like.
I thought to find this nice from a Design point of view, but soulship is right, I allso took a look at the markup, basic markup elements are missing ,allso headers and list items,etc,… but I think that this is no big deal, to fix afterwards and will cause you only minor adjustments in your CSS.
But since this is an extremely content rich site, it would take some time.
(Did you do all the publishing work by yourself ? Looks like a lot of work.)

The reason why this is so important is that ,
1)You are helping Search engines to get and index your content easier (Improves search ranking allso)
2)You will make your content more accessible for poeple who access your site with other means then browsers
3)Your Site will allso look good for visitors that have styles switched off, or some rare cases with very old browsers.

EDIT.:The thing that I did not like so much, is that it is in black on front, but that is a matter of personal taste, and not meant as a critique.

regards, marios

Last edited by marios (2006-03-18 22:09:36)

colak · 2006-03-19 08:57:48

marios wrote:

<blockquote> I thought to find this nice from a Design point of view, but soulship is right, I allso took a look at the markup, basic markup elements are missing ,allso headers and list items,etc,… but I think that this is no big deal, to fix afterwards and will cause you only minor adjustments in your CSS.</blockquote>
I do take all comments seriously. I have added some css styles re letter/word spacing <span style=“color:red;”>but I’m not sure how it shows in computers other than mine!</span>
<blockquote>But since this is an extremely content rich site, it would take some time.
(Did you do all the publishing work by yourself ? Looks like a lot of work.).</blockquote>
I have done all publishing my self but it was done over time. (helene is my life partner.). The good thing with cms (and txp in particular) is that I only had to change the templates and the whole content just went along with it.
<blockquote>EDIT.:The thing that I did not like so much, is that it is in black on front, but that is a matter of personal taste, and not meant as a critique..</blockquote>

I hear you. the reason for the black is because of the photos that the menu contains (black seemed the most logical colour to unite everything). I am thinking of adding some colour somewhere so as to liven it up but I’m not sure exactly where yet.

Last edited by colak (2006-03-19 11:18:26)

marios · 2006-03-19 14:43:50

@coloak,

On Safari 2,opera 8.5, camino and Firefox /Darwin looks ok and all the same, no display bugs,
I can not see this right know on all my other browsers/win, because the computers that they are on are offnet rightnow,
for some cleanup and service.

regards, marios

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