Many thanks to all who provided feed back to my site preview request. Having taken much of the advice on-board I would be grateful for opinions on the latest version, see:
Annoyingly just one digit too wide, otherwise much improved- especially text size. (i.e.- horizontal scroll bar needed)
Regards Pete
It's about four chars too wide here, but of course it'll be different for everyone depending on display, browser, OS etc.
Bumping the font size down by half a point would possibly sort things out nicely and still give nice readable text for anyone with a 1024x768 resolution (or greater) screen, regardless of browser or OS.
Many thanks for that. The text size with the exception of any headline sentences and bold text will be the default text size you have specified in your browser. I have tested the site in both IE and Firefox, when the width was tested at less than 1,0000 pixels wide a horizontal scroll bar appeared automatically. Having now made the thumbnails bigger reducing the width is likely to limit how many I can get on each section page. I would like to make the site as user-friendly as possible, would it be possible for you to send me a screen shot of what it looks like on your PC? it might be possible to reduce the width by a small amount. (the above email address does work) What program do you use to browse with?
I have reduced the width by 20 pixels. Apart from headlines and anything in bold I have set the code to use the users default browser text. Many thanks for the feedback.
It was Firefox.(I also use IE) However I have relogged in and the horizontal scroll bar does not feature - you must have tweaked something in the right direction ! I will also test with IE - no news -good news.
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Regards Pete
That is good news, I reduced the width by 20 pixels to 980 pixels.
Thanks for pointing that out and for all your help.
Sure. That works nicely for me now (Firefox/Linux) with a full-screen window at 1024x768, so no complaints here. Maybe soliciting comments from others with different browser/OS/screen configurations would still be useful.
cheers
Jules
That was a very quick correction!
All is also fine in IE.
Good luck with the site. I have an ageing Iseki that may well qualify for inclusion one day ! Regards Pete
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:05:54 +0100, Richard H Huelin finished tucking into their plate of fish, chips and mushy peas. Wiping their mouths, they swigged the last of their cup of tea, paid the bill and wrote::
Why are some manufacturer's names enclosed in single quotation marks, and some not?
The menu on the right hand side would also look much more readable to me if each manufacturer had a separate line - having each one follow the other with only one letter space in between makes for a difficult-to-read block of text, where it's all to easy to click on the wrong one as there's so little space between each one.
Brian L Dominic
Web Site:
Hmm, one option there might be the use of dreaded frames (which have at least been supported in every browser from the last decade!) - that way the manufacturer list could be browsed (either by scrolling or by splitting the list into A-I, J-R, S-Z etc.) without messing up the "main text" area.
Those are makers with a two word title such as 'Massey Ferguson' etc.
That would be easy if small text was used in the menu as in the original design, if the text is to be easy to read for all users your suggestion would make for a very tall list, also the current arrangement allows for the insertion of additional makers with the without the need to use a table or spending lots of time rearranging the complete menu structure. If everyone used the same resolution and the same size monitor the solution would be easy, as that is not likely to ever happen I am trying to achieve a compromise that works well for the vast majority of users.
I have yet to see a site which uses frames do well in search engines. They also reduce the amount of usable area, the completed site will be quite large so I am reluctant to add any further complication.
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:20:48 +0100, Richard H Huelin finished tucking into their plate of fish, chips and mushy peas. Wiping their mouths, they swigged the last of their cup of tea, paid the bill and wrote::
OK...............
That would be easy if you used between each one - granted, it would make for a LONG list, but it'd be a readable one!
Brian L Dominic
Web Site:
You can have a slightly easier life on your separators (the green lines).
If you STOP doing them as a foreground image object, and instead set them as the BACKGROUND image for the cell they're in, you can use CSS to "pad them out".
So, for your vertical divider, line.gif, it could simply be a single pixel deep, and it would simply FILL the table cell vertically if you set repeat-y on it.
The preferred CSS way to do this is to place a "class" label on the table cell, and then use CSS to manipulate it.
BugBear
I did try setting a 30 x 10 pixel high version of the green line as the background in that cell, it looked fine and filled the space for the length of the page. As it produced an error when I validated the pages with W3C I reverted to using a simple graphic.
Ideally I would like to use a 30 pixel wide white or transparent line with a 5 or 6 pixel wide graduated green line at the centre with a depth of 5 to 10 pixels (so I can see it when creating it) I am aware that this is possible using CSS, but despite spending hours trying to use it I simply to not seem to be able to achieve the result I want without creating a coding error. Perhaps I am a bit dim but I have never been really able to get to grips with CSS.
Fair enough.
BugBear
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