My First Site (and first TXP site)

bluelena69 · 2006-03-17 17:08:41

This is the first site I have ever done…with any amount of effort/from scratch anyhow. Please be very gentle but also critical too, as I really would appreciate some constructive criticism. I have some links and content to add, but the site is generally done. I need to fix the messy links (the site is running on IIS6.0) and generally, give it a good run through. I have one big problem. Why is the top/main navigation fine on Mozilla, but too small on IE 6/7 and Opera?

Gallery of Art & Design at NCSU

Thanks,
BlueLena

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els · 2006-03-17 17:54:31

To me the navigation looks fine in all three browsers.
Just one thing: /* based on MapleLeaf template by Kaushal Sheth*/ shouldn’t be in your page code, it’s showing in a flash everytime a new page is loaded. Put it in the style sheet.

I also think the W3C images on the bottom are not very nice. Why don’t you use text links?

Otherwise the site looks very nice.

bluelena69 · 2006-03-17 18:09:16

Thanks Els!!

I guess I used image links because I simply copied and pasted from the W3C site. It was done last, almost as an afterthought. The reason I posted them was to appease the accessibility police that will be coming around to all campus departments soon. I will remove, as you are the second person to ask about that…

colak · 2006-03-17 18:53:10

I like it.
there is a small thing which appears on my browser (FF1.5 mac). when i roll over the menu links at the top the whole thing slightly resizes horizontally. It might be there on purpose but i just can’t think how it helps.

NyteOwl · 2006-03-17 19:00:10

Nicely done!

I did notice that the top menu is shifted slightly to right of center. Also the link and hover properties are not quite the same size so you get a slight “swelling” effect on mouseovers.

As regards the W3C buttons; if you want a button look without the graphics you might try something like these <a href=“http://www.milner.ca/textbuttons.html” title=“Milner.ca html text buttons”>Text Buttons</a> (easily customizeable for colour and size).

bluelena69 · 2006-03-17 19:40:35

Thanks for the suggestions. Keep em coming!!! This is really helpful. And thanks to NyteOwl for the great “buttons.” I have added some customized examples and they look great…easy to modify to needs. I am trying to get that nav bar centered. I need to find the css hook. Something I have set up with the rdt_dynamenus plugin has this newbie confused.

Cheers,
BlueLena

NyteOwl · 2006-03-18 00:31:17

bluelena69 wrote:

Thanks for the suggestions. Keep em coming!!! This is really helpful. And thanks to NyteOwl for the great “buttons.” I have added some customized examples and they look great…easy to modify to needs. I am trying to get that nav bar centered. I need to find the css hook. Something I have set up with the rdt_dynamenus plugin has this newbie confused.

On the nav bar try changing the padding on the #navcontainer ul to padding: 0 20px; . “auto” is not a valid argument for padding, it should be a percentage, value (px, em, …) or inherit.

bluelena69 · 2006-03-18 01:46:51

You know, the strangest thing is…I have tried any number of things with the navcontainer ul and I cannot get it to budge…there is something weird going on with Firefox and this navigation. Plus, I am seeing a gap left of the navcontainer (about 20px of the background shows through before the nav bar starts) in both IE7 and Opera. Els said it looks fine to him in all three browsers.

Edit: Okay, I got the nav centered, but am still seeing weird things with IE7. Imagine that…

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els · 2006-03-18 08:05:18

There is margin: 10 0 40 0px; in #navcontainer. Try margin: 10px 0 40px 0;.

bluelena69 · 2006-03-18 15:50:19

Thanks Els. That worked perfectly. I guess that makes sense as proper shorthand CSS. I really need to go back and review the rules for shorthand. I would have never found that.

Blue

maarten · 2006-03-23 11:46:09

I like it, especially the color combination.

Things I would consider changing are:

1. color of the search field. White does not combine well with the rest of the colors
2. justifying the artcile text

Maarten

mistersugar · 2006-03-23 14:55:28

bluelena69, nice to see Textpattern being used at NC State. The gallery site looks splendid. I’ll stop into the gallery next time I’m on campus (I’m esconced in Chapel Hill, but do make it to Raleigh every once in a while).

bluelena69 · 2006-03-23 21:43:24

Maarten,
Thanks alot for your great suggestions. They fit in line with all of the other suggestions I have received here…i.e. they are great and very helpful. And I was really, really happy with the color scheme I came up with. I have received lots of compliments on it. NC State’s colors are red, red and red. I think I was able to stick with the general “red” scheme of NC State while still managing to look nice as an art museum well should. The strange thing is that I am generally just horrible with colors. Of course, I am not good a good designer (web or print) and this is the first website I have done of any type. All things considered, I am really happy and proud of this. I look forward to working on more stuff with Txp. I am doing my own personal site right now and will post when I am done. And then I have a few (at least two) more sites lined up. I look forward to getting better and better at this. It is fun and important. There is no excuse for bad web design… I am a real conoisseur of “good design” and that is why I have stayed at my job as long as I have…I get to work with “objects” everyday. I am not an artist…in the visual sense, but rather an ex-“professional” musician. I’‘ll quit rambling and thank you again. Cheers…

Anton,
Please do stop by sometime and come up to the third floor. Look for some Herman Miller Resolve pods and I’ll be there. My name is John. We have some great stuff to see and it would be cool to meet another txp person around here. I used to more or less live over in the Hill back in my musical playing/drunk heyday. Cheers to you too..

Blue

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