Website Crit

Russinating · 29 Aug 2008 at 15:57

At the final stages of the design and coding really but just looking for advice and crit on anything I may haver overlooked or forgotten.

Only thing still to add is images reflecting the content on each page.

http://www.rghjones.co.uk/a1/

Cheers guys

monkeysmith · 29 Aug 2008 at 16:13

I like the clean look, but seems very thin on the screen.

Wire Erosion
Pressings

- These pages have incorrect page headings.

seaviewuk · 29 Aug 2008 at 16:27

On the 'Welcome' page, in the main content you have duplicated the info!

As above, it comes across as too thin!

markeh · 30 Aug 2008 at 11:09

Personally, I'd space out the page title from the 'tools ltd'. You not using alt tags at all?

Gaverick · 30 Aug 2008 at 17:08

I like the design, looks nice and professional.

The only gripe I have is that press tooling is the only page to have a vertical scroll bar, none of the other pages have scroll bars so when switching between them the page shifts to the left a little which is slightly annoying to me.

cats_five · 30 Aug 2008 at 20:15

The font sizes are specified in a way that prevents them resizing - if the viewer tries to alter the text size (View, Text size) nothing happens. This is very annoying to people who for whatever reason want larger or smaller text than you or your web designer dictact is correct. At present I'm sitting too far from my screen (don't ask why!) and want the text to be larger so I can read it easily.

Russinating · 30 Aug 2008 at 20:29

monkeysmith said:
I like the clean look, but seems very thin on the screen.

Wire Erosion
Pressings

- These pages have incorrect page headings.

I guess the thin-ness is just my style!

seaviewuk said:
On the 'Welcome' page, in the main content you have duplicated the info!

As above, it comes across as too thin!

I know the content is duplicated... it's just to fill space while the full content is being written.

markeh said:
Personally, I'd space out the page title from the 'tools ltd'. You not using alt tags at all?

May well do the spacing. I am using alt tags (required for w3c), in that they're blank. Would rather just have the images not appear than there be the odd logo and background text words floating about randomly.

I like the design, looks nice and professional.

The only gripe I have is that press tooling is the only page to have a vertical scroll bar, none of the other pages have scroll bars so when switching between them the page shifts to the left a little which is slightly annoying to me.

This'll change as the content isn't complete.

The font sizes are specified in a way that prevents them resizing - if the viewer tries to alter the text size (View, Text size) nothing happens. This is very annoying to people who for whatever reason want larger or smaller text than you or your web designer dictact is correct. At present I'm sitting too far from my screen (don't ask why!) and want the text to be larger so I can read it easily.

I'm able to resize the font in Firefox and you can still use zoom in IE. How else are you supposed to define text size?

cb_linus · 30 Aug 2008 at 20:45

Font size is too small - I end up magnifying the page manually (using Firefox 3 on OSX). Default could be bigger, with an option to choose a bigger font size if necessary.

e.g. 'Preferred font size: A A A' and make sure it is easy to find.

Russinating · 30 Aug 2008 at 21:12

cb_linus said:
Font size is too small - I end up magnifying the page manually (using Firefox 3 on OSX). Default could be bigger, with an option to choose a bigger font size if necessary.

e.g. 'Preferred font size: A A A' and make sure it is easy to find.

What's the best way of implementing the change? Cookies, sessions or other?

CliffyBiro · 30 Aug 2008 at 21:15

Don't like the font tbh but other than that, I like.

Russinating · 30 Aug 2008 at 21:42

Ok figured out the text sizing, but now to redesign\recode the nav so it actually stretches for the bigger font (or would you say keeping the nav font the same but just increasing the content is ok?)

Also how do you read cookie data on the same page they were set? Or do you have to temporarily use a session?

lsg1r · 30 Aug 2008 at 22:00

can't say I'm overly keen on the 'shadow/watermark' to be honest

Augmented · 31 Aug 2008 at 02:46

rghjones said:
Ok figured out the text sizing, but now to redesign\recode the nav so it actually stretches for the bigger font (or would you say keeping the nav font the same but just increasing the content is ok?)

Also how do you read cookie data on the same page they were set? Or do you have to temporarily use a session?

I wouldn't bother with a font-size changer - people who need to have larger/smaller text already know how to, or have another method of, resizing browser text. Save yourself the headache of managing it. Instead just use a scalable unit for your CSS font-sizing- em or %. Simplest 'fix' would be to apply font-size: 62.5% to body {}, and then a value of 1em will equate to what you're using for 12px.

I also agree on the comments about the width. I think it would benefit from an extra couple of hundred extra px horizontally - give the text some breathing space, and improve the legibility.

I highly recommend using encoded mailto: links, or a contact form, to save the company a ton of spam from email-harvesting bots.

Minor thing, but the footer looks about 15px off-centre, to the right.

Make the "A1" logo clickable, back to the homepage? Some like having that, some don't.

Other than that, looks good to me

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cats_five · 31 Aug 2008 at 12:15

rghjones said:
Ok figured out the text sizing, but now to redesign\recode the nav so it actually stretches for the bigger font (or would you say keeping the nav font the same but just increasing the content is ok?)

I tried the text sizing and some very strange things happened... And it's still immune to View, Text Size.

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