Re: Anybody wanna check my company's website?

Joerg <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Rich Grise wrote:
On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:48:05 +0000, Larrybud wrote:
Rich Grise <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in

I've just finished assembling the company website - I've already
been paid for it - for two days' work.

But, since I'd like to be thorough, I'd like to have it tested by a
wide variety of browsers, so as to not restrict our potential
customer base.

This is not a solicitation for business - I doubt if anybody on
these NGs has a use for heavy manufacturing! :-)

Oh, I've crossposted this, but am sending followups to
sci.electronics.design, which is where I hang out the most. If you
want followups to go to your home group, you'll have to add it.

Oh, yeah - what website?????
http://www.abiengr.com
Glad to know my job as web developer is safe!

I've dramatically modified the site - how does it look now?


Looks pretty good! The back to top button doesn't work but with such a
small site I'd just ditch that.

Do you guys get a lot of spam on that sales email address that is
openly disclosed in the HTML?


I'd suggest a few things:

First, lessent the contrasta bit, and then lighten, your background
graphic - althought he image standing on tis own will look "washed out",
that's ideal for a background - as it is, the text is difficult to read.

Consider a san-serif face (Comic Sans or even Arial come with msot
computers) - it looks like you have your text in Bold, and the serifs
look muddy.

I'd probably loose the frames - one thign that's a bit kludgy is the
"Overview" page first loads with some sort of violet-blue color that's
kind of jarring, and makes the page look less professional.

If you don' tmind having your script a bit longer, you could do a thing
with DIV tags that will hide/reveal layers as you mouse over the buttons
- so, what you could do, is keep the same background image, and just have
the appropriate content appear/disappear as people mouseOver and mouseOut
using the button bar. THat way, no background-image reload is necessary.


Second, for greater positioning control, even without the above
reveal/hide layers bit, consider putting the contents inside a <DIV>
</DIV> tag, and use the image as background for that section, something
like this (replacing hex color values, and so on, as required):

<BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" oncontextmenu="return false"
imagetoolbar="return false">

<DIV id="Layer1" style="position:absolute; visibility:visible; left:10px;
top:5px; width:790px; height:590px; z-index:1;
background-image: url(file:///D|/YourDirectory/images/YourImage.jpg);
layer-background-image: url
(file:///D|/YourDirectory/images/YourImage.jpg);
border: 1px none #000000" align="center">

<DIV id="Layer2" style="position:absolute; visibility:visible;
left:5px; top:5px; width:780px; height:580px; z-index:2">

All Your Contents Here (font tags, paragraph tags, and so on)

</DIV>
</DIV>

</BODY>
</HTML>

By using DIV tags to position you content, using the Layer identifiers,
you can have more precise control over what appears where. If you use
style="position:relative, I *think* you can have teh size fo the content
adjust to the size taht the viewer has the screen, but to be honest, I'd
have to look it up again, and i personally didn't have a lot of success -
so it's easiest to choose a target resolution and go with that - these
days, most monitors can show at least a screen resolution of 1024X768,
so, if your visitor maximizes the screen, the viewable window size (i.e.,
inside of all tehborders and browser headers and so on) should be 955
pixels wide by 600 pixels high. If you want to be supre-safe, design for
a screen res of 800X600, or, viewable size 76 wide by at least 420 high.

HTH

- Kris


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