[Raman]

Hi,

I recently designed: http://go.vicinity.com/equiva_shell and http://go.vicinity.com/equiva_texaco
as well as banners for the same for AOL and www.mapblast.com

any thoughts? i tried to keep the site as well as banner ad's clean and simple. i'm trying to introduce mac-design philosophy in my wintel company. what do you think of the design?

oh.. view it in IE or any other good standards compabile browser (not NN)

[opallaser]

oh.. view it in IE or any other good standards compabile browser (not NN)

Why Netscape is important

[druber]

hey, lookin' good. very clean and slick. only criticism i'd have is that you have little sketchy drawings of a car and plan, but a photo of a semi. it's the only photo on screen, so it really stands out. maybe trying making a sketch of the semi to keep it inline with the other images?

[Raman]

Originally posted by opallaser:
<STRONG>

Why Netscape is important</STRONG>

"Upon its release within the next few weeks, IE5 for Mac OS will be the most standards-compliant browser we've had. "

Umm. I think the article is a little old.

If NN 4.7 was compatible with the standards that Netscape itself said it was then you'd see a better layout. Instead, I left it in the NN version CSS just in case I don't know how to code (yeah, right). The other side is that according to web logs, there aren't alot of visitors using NN (maybe because those users are getting sick and tired of things coming out all wacky on web pages).

Lets face it - NN sux. It's the major reason why I won't use Linux - the freaking fonts are always screwed up and are either waaaay to big or wwaaaaay to small.

Too bad AOL had to buy them. AOL should be working on NN night and day so that when they don't have to use IE's engine for AOL software they can at least have their users have a capable browser that I don't have to code around.

Anyway. I'll look at the sketches/truck picture. I think since there are a few more photo's on the site that I'll have the sketches changed to photo's.

Thanks for the criticism.

[dogzilla]

Welp - here's why I don't think Netscape is important. Maybe things will change with AOL's next version, but even if they do, it will be for the Netscape 6 engine. As far as I and my clients are concerned, Netscape 4.x and under are dead.

Interesting to note the numbers for Opera as well. Looks like it's a Microsoft world.

BTW - that link you posted is broken, Raman. And if anyone has a better (free) source of multi-site browser usage data, I'd love to hear of it.

[ 07-03-2001: Message edited by: dogzilla ]

[Raman]

Originally posted by dogzilla:
<STRONG>BTW - that link you posted is broken, Raman. And if anyone has a better (free) source of multi-site browser usage data, I'd love to hear of it.[ 07-03-2001: Message edited by: dogzilla ]</STRONG>

go.vicnity.com/equiva_shell and _texaco seems to be working when I use it.

Seems the most trusted/used browser stats sites charge $$. I wonder if we have access thru it at my work..

[funkboy]

Site looks good, but one thing about the results page that shows up; when there are no results found, could the "no results found" message show up above the map and not below, or maybe even both? The header for every results page automatically says "These are the Shell stations that match your criteria." in an image, but if there are none, it makes that sentence seem redundant and/or wrong. Maybe if you could change that text to "Sorry, no matches were found" if no results were found...

Oh, and shouldn't that error message be, "Sorry, no matches were found for your search."? You found results, just that there were none within the address

[Raman]

Originally posted by funkboy:
<STRONG>Site looks good, but one thing about the results page that shows up; when there are no results found, could the "no results found" message show up above the map and not below, or maybe even both? The header for every results page automatically says "These are the Shell stations that match your criteria." in an image, but if there are none, it makes that sentence seem redundant and/or wrong. Maybe if you could change that text to "Sorry, no matches were found" if no results were found...

Oh, and shouldn't that error message be, "Sorry, no matches were found for your search."? You found results, just that there were none within the address </STRONG>

I'm going to weasel my way out of this one by saying:

The owner of the site decided he wanted it up top and decided on all the verbage.

What's rule # 1 about web design? "YOU ARE NOT THE USER"

(Web design - the complete reference)

Unfortunately I can't seem to get that across people I write applications/design websites for.