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Good design on the whole, though the page feels a little cluttered and disorganized with all of the lines and spaces between them. The page elements don't all line up consistently, either; try and keep related elements aligned with each other (e.g. the main content container and the "Welcome to Torbay Citizens Advice Bureau" heading above it).

For example, the news part of the side bar has a left border, then some padding, then another border around the subsection and more padding within that, followed by yet more containers for individual items. It's also narrower than its heading, and is not the same size as the section above it.

I think you also have too many different typesettings for your text; consider condensing them into two or three different colours and keep sizes consistent. The inline links should be obvious, but shouldn't stand out too much from the test of the text.

Simplicity and consistency are key :)

Same goes for general layout; try to stick to a minimal number of colours and keep them consistent across the page, and do the same for padding, borders, etc.

Don't mean to stab at your design; just giving suggestions! Over all it's a nice design and will be nicer when it's cleaned up a little :)
 
IMO the text is too small - i know you can change this in the browser, but for the type of site this is i think the default should be a bit bigger and easier to read. Think of the sorts of people who will use the CAB website!
 
I like it!! Good effort.

Though I think I would have the top banner going all the way across and drop the main menu down to be level with the main container. Then maybe put the news on the other side or something.
 
Made a few adjustments, the news feed is now the same width as its header, the font has been increased and changed to em instead of a set pixel size.

My only bother at the moment is that i cant get the header and content section to line up, there is a small gap between the 2 thats bugging me!
 
IMO the text is too small - i know you can change this in the browser, but for the type of site this is i think the default should be a bit bigger and easier to read. Think of the sorts of people who will use the CAB website!

What does that even mean????

Are you suggesting disabled / old people are found as more commonplace visitors to the CAB site???? :confused:
 
What does that even mean????

Are you suggesting disabled / old people are found as more commonplace visitors to the CAB site???? :confused:

I am suggesting that you have to cater for everyone who would visit CAB and not just those with perfect eyesight and computer literacy. What is the problem with that?

The changes that have been made are an improvement, I like the overall design, good job. :)
 
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What does that even mean????

Are you suggesting disabled / old people are found as more commonplace visitors to the CAB site???? :confused:

Generally yeah, but being an organisation that doesnt discriminate the options for it needs to be present, and is something i shall be adding to the site as soon as i get around to it, including a high contrast version for people with serious visual impairments.

Also noticed through browsershots that the CAB logo in the header doesnt show in IE6 for some reason.
 
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Also noticed through browsershots that the CAB logo in the header doesnt show in IE6 for some reason.

That's because IE6 doesn't support min-height. As you're only using it to hold an image, you should just use height. It's not like the image will get larger when a user increases the font size.
 
It's not a bad piece of work, but get some images of Torbay in there! When designing web sites, I see each page as a room, and rooms without windows are really dull and uninspiring.
 
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That's basically pretty good, though I'd combine Edward01 and reflux's suggestions by moving the side menu below the header, and having a full-width header with some nice background images.
 
Appreciate all the feedback guys, will go ahead and start making the changes.

If anyone could help me figure out what is causing the header bar to not sit level with the top of the page i would be grateful, other than that.

Thank you.
 
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