Wow, you've really made a HUGE improvement there! It looks great now,
even without comparing it to the old site. In fact the old site made
firefox crash for me!
Good job!
Erwin Heiser wrote:
Hello all,
I just finished my redesign of the website of a local dance school.
It¹s a site that has been an eyesore for years so I jumped on the
opportunity for a standards-based redesign when it presented itself a few
months ago.
The URL:
http://www.terpsichore.be
Big deal I can hear you think but compare this to the previous site:
http://www.terpsichore.be/oldsite/index.html
Yes, it¹s all there: no doctype, framesets, applets for navigation, animated
gifs and lots of lovely Frontpage generated tag soup (I¹m not even going to
mention the layout or design).
On some pages the weight was reduced from 54kb to 10 or 11kb (you do the
math).
In fact the largest page on the current site is 20kb, that¹s the gallery
holding all the teachers resumes (docenten for all you non-dutch speaking
people ;-) ).
I used the drop-down menu from
http://www.gazingus.org/html/Using_Lists_for_DHTML_Menus.html
which degrades nicely in the absence of css and degrades well in older
browsers.
I've tested it on Mac: Safari, Firefox, Netscape, Omniweb and PC: IE6,
Netscape and Firefox.
Only Opera shifts the dropdown list-items some 35px to the right for some
reason.
The only thing that still needs some work are the tables holding the class
schedule to make them more accessible.
I¹m not going to change anything on the design (for now) but it just seemed
like a good showcase for web standards since you can easily compare the new
version with the old one.
Any and all comments appreciated and sorry for the long post!
Erwin Heiser.
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