Vet my new website (a couple of small CSS bugs)

[SiD the Turtle]

Hi guys,

I've put together a very simple website for a friend, it's nice and basic so no critiquing the quality unless you think it's awful! The blurb was not decided by me and I think it needs some work but the main problem is some small CSS bugs:

Website: http://www.amphlettchatterton.com
CSS: http://www.amphlettchatterton.com/style.css

IE7: works fine.
IE8: spacing between the 'tabs' collapses.
Firefox: works fine.
Chrome: 'tabs' shifted one pixel up so they look a bit disjointed.

Any comments on the site in general and also on these bugs?

 

[Draeger]

First impressions?.

Looks ok but I'm really not keen on the main text font size.

I dunno, it just looks "wrong". Needs to be slightly smaller and perhaps choose a different font.

Also needs something more in the way of content.

You have an image of the offices ( I assume that's what it is? ) on the index page and thereafter on each page there's nothing but text.

Needs jazzed up a wee bit.

You have a "Contact Us" page, as per normal, but other than that the contact details are hidden away at the bottom of each page.

For a business such as a solicitors you need to make phone numbers and contact email addresses much more prominent.

I would suggest incorporating those details into the header logo. There's plenty of "white space" around it to make that easy enough to do.

To be honest, I did a website for a local solicitors firm a few years back when my web design skills were pretty basic, and the site I did then is well..........rubbish.

If you want a quick look at it, it's here:-

http://www.pollocksomerville.co.uk/

I am about to embark on a complete redesign on the thing which is seriously overdue. I know, the way the site looks just now is terrible!!!.

And I used some tables in the design.........so shoot me!!!!

 

[simisker]

I like the neatness of the markup

Though you have sneaked in a bit of presentational code [<b> tags, specifically] into the contact details in the footer, when a definition list would have made more semantic sense.

Oh, and you've not got <hn> elements with the name of the solicitors [and possibly a logo]; search engines and those viewing unstyled markup would benefit from that announcement at the top of the page. You wouldn't have to change the styled layout, as you could set these elements to be non-visible.

Design wise... well, it's clean; navigation is clear and obvious, and content is easily read. I hope you won't mind if I say that it looks like a website designed by a developer, by which I mean that it's very much a no-frills, functionality-above-all affair. But that's not a criticism - as I say, the site succeeds at its primary goal of readily conveying useful information.

It's too late in the evening for CSS bugfixing, though. Maybe tomorrow

 

[suarve]

Nice layout etc, but hate that font. Think the site would definately benefit from a better font. You should also format the links in the footer to something other than the default blue, as nowadays it looks like you didnt bother