Tee G. Peng wrote:
The site is face-slapping beautiful for the first 80%, and then I
reach the footer and it's like I'm on a different site. Besides the
footer text being incredibly tiny, the lack of alignment among the
form elements makes it look like you just ignored designing that part
of the site. IMO, you should at least use some floats to give it a bit
of a "grid" appearance.
Hi Chris, I took another look, I think your layout as a whole lacks
unity - you sure can do pretty design, but attention to detail
distinguish a good design and a best design IMHO. Christian is right
about the footer, apart from the issues he raised - input fields,
radio buttons and textarea, and the text is too small , also, the grey
isn't a very nice color there. Grey is a very complimenting color, but
not in the case in your footer. I sometimes wonder, maybe it is a
culture thing, for countless websites I have visited, that Korean and
Hungarian designers are maestro of using grey color - they know
exactly how, when to give grey to live, call out its emotion, make the
layout pop by using blend, gradient, shadow or with other colors. This
is very subjective view of me I supposed.
The footer gives an impression that you were in a rush to finish the job.
As for markup and CSS, improvement needed too. I learned from
experience, that structural markup and CSS go hand in hand, you can't
be a good CSS coder if you don't understand the use of structural &
semantical markup. One of the obvious example is the use of classes.
In the front page, the two images are not horizontally line up in
Opera and Safari. I will use float instead.
In your qualification you listed "Strong foundation in web standards
and accessibility guidelines" - I expect to see you site at least pass
section 508.
tee
Hi Chris,
Its getting there, one thing you could try to make that form line up
a little better is to wrap the form inputs with the associated label and
then set 'display: block;' on the labels, this will also allow you use
text-align. If you set 'text-align: right;' on the labels aswell it will
make them line up nicely on that side, should be good a starting point
for you. Use padding/margin as you see fit.
I'll make an example tomorrow evening if you're still stuck.
Rob
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