New website crit

Russinating

Russinating

Russinating

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Just working on a new site for us, appreciate all feedback/crit/bug spots. Going for a more modern metro style design that more prominently features content.

At the moment the only links on the homepage and clients that work are The Royal Mint (example of multiple projects) and Magners (example of a single project) to give you an idea of their page's layouts.

Address: http://new.jonesmillbank.com

The existing site is at www.jonesmillbank.com if you want to compare and contrast.

Thanks in advance!
 
Looks good, Have you thought about moving the side navigation to the top on smaller screens such a mobile? The right hand side seems very responsive but the left hand navigation doesnt and seems to take up a lot of screen space on smaller screens.
 
Yeah I'll be sorting out the mobile bits once it's all in a final state; font size obviously increased across the board and the nav probably changing to a menu icon.
 
Thanks everyone.

Also trying to work out the best way of making the content blocks float left, but also up. For example below, the two small blocks on their own would ideally slot up above, like an upside down tetris. In fact the bottom right square should fall in-line and be underneath the text block, rather than being 'blocked' by the longer horizontal one.

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Any pointers?
 
Russinating said:
Yeah found Masonry. Presume there's no CSS alternative?
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not that I know of with different height panels, if they were all the same height you could probably do it though.

edit: actually thinking about it you could kind of do it in css but it wouldn't be as flexible in layout like the js option
 
Haven't read through the whole article but this claims to be css only masonry effect

Link

Edit: sorry just seen google link above which shows that as 2nd link
 
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I notice that you are not using any css frameworks is this because you want to keep keep file size down/learning css? As something very light weight like purecss could give you a lot of the stuff you need without reinventing the wheel.
 
roccles said:
I notice that you are not using any css frameworks is this because you want to keep keep file size down/learning css? As something very light weight like purecss could give you a lot of the stuff you need without reinventing the wheel.
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Yeah I like coding from scratch :). Means there's nothing there that's not needed (hopefully!) and I know what's what when something doesn't display right.

Finished off this page today which I'm quite happy with! http://new.jonesmillbank.com/our-clients/skiworld/. Pretty simple JS with the help of jQuery but works quite well I think (playing the individual videos).
 
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