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jmag
3-14-03, 01:37 AM
Foothill Acres (http://www.foothillacres.com)
Still working on content, however layout and navigation are complete. Any opinions/comments would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Jeanette
Jo-Bizz
3-14-03, 11:29 AM
Seems like the text in the brown column on the right could use some padding so it doesn't get so close to the text in the next column. Also, I like websites that have a smaller overall width so that I can keep my favorites open and still be able to see all of the page without scrolling over. This also helps people with lower screen resolutions. All your text columns fit ok, but the graphic at the top right is only partly visible w/o scrolling. It would be great if the graphics had alt tags so that people browsing with their graphics turned off and/or blind people would still know what was going on. I think this helps search engines too (somebody correct me if I am wrong). Someone just told me in one of these forums yesterday how to add the "title" attribute to image map links to provide the same effect for hotspots, and by golly, it works great!
I'm sure you already know this too, but the large uppercase W on the Admissions page isn't lined up horizontally or vertically. With my favorites open, it jumps upward too far. It lines up correctly vertically when I have my favorites closed and my screen maximized, but its still too far to the left.
I like the graphics and the color scheme (the brown and green and cream colors give a nice soothing, natural feeling), and everything seems to load really quickly for me! I tried it in netscape also, and it worked just fine there too (the company I work for has a website [which i had nothing to do with] that doesn't work in Netscape at all--and they don't care! how do you like that? you can see it at www.noahcorp.com)
I do have a suggestion, and this is just a personal aesthetic opinion: I think the word animation on the index page might look better up at the top somewhere around the logo, and the arial graphic would look better down where the animation is. You also might try smoothing out the edges of the black quarter-circles on either end of the "A Tradition of Caring" table--it looks a little rough.
Overall, though, I think its a nice design!
Grymwulf
3-14-03, 01:47 PM
Yes making your site resolution independent OR good on 800x600 as a base should be your goal.

Your margins do need a bit of work

As evidenced here:

<body bgcolor="#FFFDEA" text="#000000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" rightmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" >

You should let your left margin be =1, at least, that way if someone is printing out anything on your page it gives them some room. (this forum here is set up with margins = 10 to give you an idea of the amount of space each point of margin gives you)

or here:
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

Your table padding needs to be >0 to avoid looking wierd like the previous poster stated. Spacing for layout should still be 0 otherwise it would mess up your layout.

This here is messing up your resolution independance:
<td bgcolor="#FFFDEA" class="mytext2" height="82" width="57%"><img src="assets/images/falogo.GIF" width="566" height="147"><font color="FFFDEA">..........................</font>
</td>
get rid of the whole "<font color="FFFDEA">..........................</font>" and it should work better.


-Shawn