Need your guys' opinions!
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WithHisStripes
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Need your guys' opinions!
Heya,
I need your guys' opinions. I have a website I'm designing http://www.firstcause.org and I really don't like it so far. Now, I used frames, :/ I know, they suck, I'm in the middle getting rid of them, but other than that, what do you guys think about this site? Be brutal but constructive! Thanks!
You can view my PHP scripts at http://www.firstcause.org/php_scripts.zip
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I need your guys' opinions. I have a website I'm designing http://www.firstcause.org and I really don't like it so far. Now, I used frames, :/ I know, they suck, I'm in the middle getting rid of them, but other than that, what do you guys think about this site? Be brutal but constructive! Thanks!
You can view my PHP scripts at http://www.firstcause.org/php_scripts.zip
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Yeah, it kind of bothers me to, I wanted to create a structured feel, but it turned out more like cramped. On the updated version, that navbars are still top/bottom, but they are confined to the viewable area in the browser, meaning, you scroll way to the bottom depending on how much information is between the to. I want this to be original, but I can't quiet find a good place for the navbar without it being too plain, any tips?
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Re: Need your guys' opinions!
- Kill the framesWithHisStripes wrote:Heya,
I need your guys' opinions.
- Kill the flash for navigation menus - try turning off flash and navigating your site. Can't.
- Make the nav menu actually display - By default at 1024x768, I only see one and a half nav choices in the frame.
- Fix the html to make it html-compliant: http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1 ... cause.org/
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Good point about turning flash off. I would really like to keep the flash on the site however, but that's a totally practical point, so do you have any suggestions on how I could maybe have the site check to see whether they have flash or not, maybe automatically install it on their computer, like a font, --OR-- have regular html buttons appear as an alternative.
You just need to kill the flash, man. Accessability is always better than the cool factor... although the cool factor is sometimes hard to give up, I know.WithHisStripes wrote:Good point about turning flash off. I would really like to keep the flash on the site however, but that's a totally practical point, so do you have any suggestions on how I could maybe have the site check to see whether they have flash or not, maybe automatically install it on their computer, like a font, --OR-- have regular html buttons appear as an alternative.
There isn't (as far as I know) an effective way to test for flash that can occur in a single page view. You can detect it in js, and then redirect to a second page, almost invisibly, but its not very reliable.WithHisStripes wrote:Good point about turning flash off. I would really like to keep the flash on the site however, but that's a totally practical point, so do you have any suggestions on how I could maybe have the site check to see whether they have flash or not, maybe automatically install it on their computer, like a font, --OR-- have regular html buttons appear as an alternative.
Honestly, ask yourself why you want it, and what it adds. Right now *all* it adds is a cute animation on the buttons. Buttons, which I cannot even see all of, and which I will *actually look at* to navigate perhaps 1/100th of the time I am on your site.
With that in mind, it should be a more clear choice: Meaningless bells and whistles for 1% of the experience isn't worth the headache and hassle.