I've redesigned my site, what do you think?

RandomTom

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Hi there, this is around 85% complete, but I've decided to replace the old site purely because it works a whole lot nicer. So use a nice ctrl + F5 if you've viewed it before and tell me what you think.

http://www.upleft.co.uk/

The js on the web link is currently inactive/not set up right and the [switch] switch hasn't been implicated yet. Oh and Opera users be in for a shock lol. :p I just thought I'd ask your opinions on it. Do you think it all looks alright? What could I change?

Thanks.
 
I read the opera bit after looking at it, my first reaction is best represented by this face: :eek:


Second reaction was in IE7, and the nav ain't right


IE6 is wrong too :/


Firefox looks nice though

Sort it out Tom :)
 
I like it, although it doesn't work that well in IE7 either. On most of your pages (especailly your profile page), I'd get rid of the random words and phrases in bold, and having random words in bold serves no purpose either. No idea if it was like that on your old site, but I'd change it. No other criticisms though. :)
 
works fine in firefox for me much better than any of my web design attempts!

out of interest what do you use for the photo displays would be interested in finding something similar
 
I knew you would have tested it, strange though.

6 looks fine on another PC. Probably because I'm running it standalone. 7 should be fine though :/
 
Evil-Penguin said:
I like it, although it doesn't work that well in IE7 either.
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This is annoying, I've tested IE7 on 2 pc's and it's been fine, I've used an IE stylesheet that replaces problems I originally had
Evil-Penguin said:
I'd get rid of the random words and phrases in bold, and having random words in bold serves no purpose either.
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To help people read it, people who can't be bothered and just scan, although I guess I went a bit overboard. Oh and Opera is being worked on at the moment, its more of a FF rendering alteration though, I guess it's back to the drawing board with IE6+7 :eek: :(
binaryknight said:
out of interest what do you use for the photo displays would be interested in finding something similar
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Lightbox JS
 
No, 6 is fine mate, my bad there :)

I like it. The repeating slash has been done to death (I'm cynical and exaggerating ) but it's still a good look. Navigation is easy. Colours are nice. Good use of space, and focal points.

Overboard with the bold. Keep the majority as straight text for simplicity. Not sure what [switch] does. Takes you to the home page :confused: Also, you've taken the easy way out with the Lightbox JS ;) Wuss :p

Very nice overall. I'm surprised Opera has such a fit, I've always seen it as the most standards compliant browser to design to.

Nice :)
 
joeyjojo said:
No, 6 is fine mate, my bad there :)
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Can you try 7 again please with a ctrl f5 - I had my conditional comment set wrong.

joeyjojo said:
I like it. The repeating slash has been done to death (I'm cynical and exaggerating ) but it's still a good look. Navigation is easy. Colours are nice. Good use of space, and focal points.

Overboard with the bold. Keep the majority as straight text for simplicity. Not sure what [switch] does. Takes you to the home page :confused: Also, you've taken the easy way out with the Lightbox JS ;) Wuss :p
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Perfect comments there, thank you. Switch is in progress, think last.fm.

joeyjojo said:
Very nice overall. I'm surprised Opera has such a fit, I've always seen it as the most standards compliant browser to design to.
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I think it might be FF being weird, It's fine when I take off the 'width' in the CSS container but that means that it's 100%, as soon as I apply any width it moves it down, so I've sacrificed opera *for this moment in time* and applied a negative margin-top so that FF is normal; the majority of users. :)

edit: Opera fixed, but FF produces a massive gap, this disappears when removing the width element, but I can't do that because of the layout.
 
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7 is looking better. Red doesn't extend far enough though:


Opera is perfect. As you say, FF is too gappy.

6 is better, but has a strange transparency problem (in my possibly broken version):


Looking better mate, keep it up :)
 
Thanks for the screenshots jo, I don't have IE7 to hand to try fix but I think that's my main problem at the moment, oh and I think your IE6 just doesn't like javascript. :)
 
Looks fine in Safari. The 'click for info' links on the Web Portfolio don't work though.

I like the way you've presented screenshots of your previous web work, that's always something I've found hard to achieve. :)
 
I've now fixed it in FF and Opera, IE6 needs transparency, hopefully Safari has survived that update, and now I need to find out how IE7 has taken the news. 'Click for Info' is having a lapse in concentration on Safari and Opera; due to javascript stuff.

It's coming together a bit better now in the browsers. :)
 
Hey,

Firstly, nice site, i have seen the last one and its a marked improvement in my opinion, although i was a fan of the last one too.

Not sure if this was intentional, but i think this text here should be a bit smoother:

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I dunno, maybe you wanted it like that, but i think it would look better smoother.
 
I like it, my one comment would be that the menu items are slightly too high and look a little out of proportion. Over than that, very nice :)
 
Flanders said:
I like it, my one comment would be that the menu items are slightly too high and look a little out of proportion. Over than that, very nice :)
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are you viewing in IE7? someone told me that renders differently, but i liked the style lol. Expect to see version 3 of the site appear sometime in january :p
 
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