New website, reviews appreciated :)

Beansprout · 21 Apr 2006 at 20:51

We, the Free Earth Foundation, just put our site up:

http://www.freeearthfoundation.com

It's all pretty content-light at the moment but we're working on it - anyone have any comments, suggestions on the layout, style etc?

Ways to kill the evil IE/nonIE conditional statements for the 100% height would be appreciated too...I can do it in quirks mode but it's being a pain in the butt - it works, but it's messy - surely there's a better way to do it and get the overflow for > 100% page height (for example, the contact page).

Thanks

red11 · 21 Apr 2006 at 21:09

I like it, it's nice and clean. Navigation is straight forward, the logo is spot on and fits very well into the style of the site. If I was going to change anything about it, the first thing would be the background, white is a bit plain, what about a very light patterned background, or striped? I would centre the copyright and other information as well. And possibly change that grey navbar colour to something lighter.

Overall a nice job and it compliments the content.

Edit: Sorry, and I'm nitpicking here

but I would indent the text a little more and justify it as well. I think it looks a little neater.

MastermindUK · 21 Apr 2006 at 23:21

I like it. The one thing I don't like is the colour of the navbar, it stands out a bit too much, might just be my monitor though.

Also, there's a huge space in the top right corner of the navbar which just looks a bit lost. Maybe pushing the menu links a bit further into the middle would help.

iCraig · 21 Apr 2006 at 23:26

Damn straight :cool:

Beansprout · 21 Apr 2006 at 23:37

Thanks for the comments

Good point on the navbar - looking at it now, I think it'd work better if it blended a bit more with the header image, ie take out grey and plop in some of the blue.

Maybe even add some fade + 3D effects - omg web2.0 :eek:

As for the lost navbar space...hmm, I'm thinking an image down the sidebar or at least around the links would spruce it up a bit perhaps? Not sure about moving the text, it'd look 'lost' in the middle of nowhere I think.

Got a few ideas, let's see what the graph-y-cal folk can do (I don't do graphics

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red11 · 22 Apr 2006 at 00:29

The copyright text is right at home in the centre

Clarkey · 22 Apr 2006 at 02:28

5 xhtml errors, all unclosed tags. And whats going on with the crazy wrapping?

Aside form that its not bad, colours are a bit bland, and your rounded corners would look much better if they were a full quarter circle.

oh yeah, and make it wider, it looks lost in the middle of my screen.

Jotun · 22 Apr 2006 at 02:38

Looks nice

although I think you could improve the contact page, the information looks a bit cluttered to me. but everything else is flawless

Beansprout · 22 Apr 2006 at 02:50

Clarkey said:
5 xhtml errors, all unclosed tags.

Actually there's errors all over the place because of the yucky conditional IE statements (well, 3 errors) and some Paypal-related ones

I don't see any unclosed tags - the li technique is to kick IE's double-spaced butt

Code:

<li>blah</li
><li>blah</li>
etc

I've never actually used that method before so I thought I'd be different this time

Whether it's the best way, of course, I will ponder when I have more time to be fiddly.

The copyright text is right at home in the centre

So it is, I wasn't thinking of that earlier

red11 · 22 Apr 2006 at 04:40

Much much neater now, text on each page is easier to read as well.

zetec452 · 22 Apr 2006 at 17:36

Looks good mate. I particularly like the header image.

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