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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: TekieB on October 10, 2005, 09:59:57 PM

Title: Site help wanted!
Post by: TekieB on October 10, 2005, 09:59:57 PM

I am working on a site for our school (web class) And because I know there are a few web/graphic guys on fites I figured this would be a good place to get suggestions.

This was the old site (look at the code, it's funny, and not mine)
http://easdpa.org/elementary/fulton/default.htm

This is what I have so far:
http://easdpa.org/elementary/fulton/dev/index.html

I'm looking for comments/suggestions, anything is welcome. There are still some things being worked out, like links and such, porting of info, etc.

Here is some backround info and such:
-site so far is xhtml tradtional/css validated.
-must use IIS (no PHP, they won't install it, same for sql)
-must be easily updated by anyone
-must be the cleanest code on the entire website (http://easdpa.org) which won't be that hard
-coded in dreamweaver, images done in photoshop/imageready cs2 (see line 4 of the code)
-MUST be easily viewed in 800x600 (all the elementary schools use it)


Thanks in advance!

edit: I'm not asking you to do my work or anything, I just wanna know what you have to say

edit2: on the sidebar there are going to be dhtml or java (whichever I figure out first) pullout menus for "departments" and maybe "highlights"

Title: Site help wanted!
Post by: The Shoctor on October 11, 2005, 08:11:42 AM

I call shenanigans on DHTML! You are just Javascript stop making yourself feel better!

1. You didn't keep the beveled/drop shadow action around the whole menu.
2. You should keep the address at least on the front page so I know that I am looking at the correct school.
3. The title has bevel appied to the layer, the menu items have shadow appied... I think this should be a little more uniform.

I think thats it for design, but the odd thing is that the content/menu items is completely different.

Title: Site help wanted!
Post by: Ryom on October 11, 2005, 05:52:10 PM

Your menu breaks apart in firefox

Title: Site help wanted!
Post by: Fabio on October 11, 2005, 06:20:10 PM

add hidden links... hehe

Title: Site help wanted!
Post by: TekieB on October 11, 2005, 07:52:34 PM

Quote from: "Fabio"

add hidden links... hehe

there are already some comments in code

Title: Site help wanted!
Post by: TekieB on October 11, 2005, 07:54:53 PM

Quote from: "Ryom"

Your menu breaks apart in firefox

You mean on the seccond page? I was aware of that, just need to get on at school to fix it (they won't give us FTP :( )

edit: I try and test in opera (strictest to code), firefox (geko engine), IE (cause all the stupid people use it) and safari (Khtml based, for the nix people)

Title: Site help wanted!
Post by: Ryom on October 11, 2005, 08:09:44 PM

Its not breaking apart because of rendering problems, its breaking apart because I set my own minimum font size. Your layout needs to scale with the commonly resizable elements on the page :)

Title: Site help wanted!
Post by: TekieB on October 11, 2005, 08:55:02 PM

Quote from: "Ryom"

Its not breaking apart because of rendering problems, its breaking apart because I set my own minimum font size. Your layout needs to scale with the commonly resizable elements on the page :)

How would your font size change that? They are gif's (and as said before it does do that in firefox and opera (safari renders it fine)

Title: Site help wanted!
Post by: Ryom on October 11, 2005, 10:22:36 PM

Some element is being streched by the text size and breaking up your menu.

(http://www.trickingq3.com/misc/photoshop/forum_posted/fulton.jpg)

Title: Site help wanted!
Post by: VonDouche on October 11, 2005, 11:06:51 PM

tekie 800x600 is for the dumbass people that never figure out how to change their res after they buy it from gateway.  (or any other manuf)

Title: Site help wanted!
Post by: TekieB on October 12, 2005, 05:52:25 AM

Quote from: "VonDouche"

tekie 800x600 is for the dumbass people that never figure out how to change their res after they buy it from gateway.  (or any other manuf)

The elementary schools run some old educational software that geeks out whenever you set the screen higher than 800x600, my "target audience" is those schools.

They also run IE, enough said

Title: Site help wanted!
Post by: Pride on October 12, 2005, 07:24:56 AM

unfortunately in web design.. you have to program for the lowest common denominator....

Windows 95/98, IE 5.0, Limited Java/Flash, Screen Res of 800x600

I bumped it up a little for FITES... only because anyone using less wouldnt be a gamer anyway.

Title: Site help wanted!
Post by: The Shoctor on October 12, 2005, 09:22:46 AM

If they are I am afeared!

Title: Site help wanted!
Post by: TekieB on October 12, 2005, 11:07:14 AM

Quote from: "Pride"

unfortunately in web design.. you have to program for the lowest common denominator....

Windows 95/98, IE 5.0, Limited Java/Flash, Screen Res of 800x600

I bumped it up a little for FITES... only because anyone using less wouldnt be a gamer anyway.

acutally my laptop still gets horizontal scroll (I think its my avatar) on 1024x768

Title: Site help wanted!
Post by: Pride on October 12, 2005, 11:15:50 AM

just in the forums?  The header bar for the site is set for a 1024 res

Title: Site help wanted!
Post by: The Shoctor on October 12, 2005, 11:34:24 AM

pfft, looks good to me. But then again I run in 1280 x 1024.

But I think you are correct, wide avatars throw the whole this off. So do posts with LARGE images.

Title: Site help wanted!
Post by: TekieB on October 12, 2005, 11:50:19 AM

it's only your personal avatar that does it...

and I run 1024x768, on all other machines I use its fine