[cmcleod design]

Hi.

just wondering if I could get some constructive comments on my site. I am on holiday for 3 weeks in on e weeks time and will be redesiging the site. Would like to know what people think of the current design and how it could be improved

Cheers

[Griggsy]

Looks good, you've got a problem with your table though, is breaking up on ie 5.0 on PC (I know but i'm at work!!!). There's a gap below the contacts area, also as well as the top and bottom of your table.

Works perfectly on Opera, though. Check on other PC's

[genevish]

Using OmniWeb:

Technical notes (problems):

• On the links at the bottom, the "home" link remains black when I select "designer info".

Design notes:

• There is a bit too much whitespace between the main graphic and the "news" items on the home page. (The other pages are closer.)

Everything else looks fine to me!

[eTard]

nice clean GUI concept. not bad for your age. glad to see you use Fireworks and Dreamweaver as they are solid tools. use the tools in Dreamweaver to check your code.

Here my 2 cents:

hard font to read. I like the font, but it is not the best web based font.

you have sevral JavaScript errors (I visit many sites with a debugger turned on to catch these erros). Lines 15,31,161,166, 170. Some relative to your left navigation links/rollovers/preloaders I suspect.

a bit too much white space between navigation and text

your table holding your buttons is not set correctly on your index splash page, causing excess cell spacing (looks like the table is pulled elongated). Also, it might also be the content in the table breaking your table dimensions as your continuing line around the page is broken.

appear to hae some overlapping or unclosed TR tags in your splash page

projects page has more drop shadow change on the design rollover button than the contact button

lastly, try not to get in the habit of always using the same style of navigation and layout. I see you use left navigation and rollovers on all 3 of the pages you reference (inclusing yours)

BTW, one of your other works (http://inspiration.cmcleod.com/) has some JS errors also on line 89,90

[Joshua]

The only major problem I see is that you're requiring a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. I don't have the study on hand at the moment, but I believe 40-50% of web surfers are using 800x600 and 5-15% are still using 640x480.

If your viewers are using either of those two resolutions they're going to have to side scroll, and that'll almost certainly send them running for the hills.

My rule of thumb these days is to optimize sites for 800x600 without making it unusable at 640x480.

[DavidSJ]

Also:

I like my windows NOT full screen!

[daimoni]

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[parallax]

Pretty cool. The site doesn't work (from cmcleod.com) in Omniweb. The actual page (homepage.ihug.co.nz...) does load.


Beware of namezero, and don't write any JavaScripts that bypass their banner. (My account got deleted for that ).

[bipto]

I don't have the study on hand at the moment, but I believe 40-50% of web surfers are using 800x600 and 5-15% are still using 640x480.

You're a bit high on the 800x600 number. We host a large number of sights where I work and visitors at that resolution are more like 30-40%. You're WAY high on the 640x480 number. It's always below 5% and often more like 1-2%. (BTW, about 98% of visitors can display thousands of colors or greater.)

We develop sites using a 720x420 canvas. Of course, we can go longer than 420, but consider everything south of that to be 'below the fold'.

[cmcleod design]

thanks everyone for all your help. look out for an all new design/layout for the site in a few weeks as after my exam tomorrow i'll be doing a lot of work on here.

I will try and implement all the suggestions.

Once again thankyou for your help