Retro-style CMS site

[designhut]

Just launched this today (client is still working on the content side). It mainly just uses the Cataloger module but it's heavy on the design side - my first attempt at this type of site.

http://www.vwclassics.co.uk/

I would love opinions & constructive criticism.

Thanks everyone, for everything!

[Dr.CSS]

Cool I want to buy some of them...

Not sure where the menu is supposed to be but it's in 2 diff. places, IE vs Ff and in IE the right hand side looks cut off, menu in Ff not wide enuf to have them inline, contact goes underneath...

[Duketown]

Cool uuh I mean retro.
Great color selection (really showing of the spirit of yesteryears).
It bothered me a bit that the tooltip on the menu's was there every time (Home Page, Shortcut key=1). Maybe you could leave it out, since it adds no value to the page(s).
Are you or you'r customer not allowed to use the VW logo as favorite icon?
Hope the customer finds time soon to put more content on it (such as driving instructions).

[designhut]

Thx Mark, I will fix that. Can I ask which version of IE? I've got 7 and it's perfect. Is it an older Mac version? I'm seeing issues with that one.

Duketown, Thx as well. I see the point with the tooltip. Yes, agreed about the VW logo, took it off and cleared the CMS cache long before I posted it here though, does it stick in the server cache or something? There should be a blue husky eye now?

Keep those comments coming!

[Dr.CSS]

Using IE 6, Firefox 2.0.0.6, I see husky eye.

[ironblaze94]

very very nice, well layed out and easy to use site 

with a slight modification to the background colour of the header and everything will look great on my side !

[designhut]

Thx Mark, I will work on that. Glad someone is getting my eye!

Thx Ironblaze, if you mean the slight brown variation on the header graphic to the background then thx, I see it. 

Hi Sven,
Rounded corners done by graphics top and bottom. I tried doing it via CSS and gave up.
Agree with styling for breadcrumbs - cheers.
Ouch. When did you get these DB failures? Constantly or ...? Any particular page or action? I haven't seen one at all before. Thx!

Anyone - If it's easy, can anyone tell me how to remove a tooltip (like the one "Home page, shortcut key=1" duketown pointed out that's in my header and also my menu)? I've searched and researched, I must be being a bit dense...

Just a tip to new people thinking of putting up their sites here, set up the VisitorStats module first and then watch everyone come and take a look at your site, great fun!

[truslack]

The background colour for the header is SLIGHTLY different to the rest of the background, other than that, brilliant site!

[Dr.CSS]

The tooltips are for accessibility, but if you want to get rid of them...

Open the home page in edit mode and the second tab Options delete the info in Description (title attribute):... box....
That should take it out of both, these can be on every page to help users of screen readers...

You have 2 titles in the header... the first is the only one that shows up...
and you need to close your metadata tags, at the end like this one it's a space then / so it would be trusted,parts />...

VW Classics - Vehicles





Vintage VWs for sale, including splitscreens & bays.
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[designhut]

Tooltips:  So easy - I couldn't find it! Thx to you both.

Mark - I put the two titles in on purpose as the ungenerated one seems to show up on Google so it gives a more detailed desciption but then when you're on the site, it's the generated tags which are more helpful with navigation? Thx about closing off the meta tags, I used a generator for that - obviously not a very good one!

Thank you all so much for taking the time. 

[asfahaan]

Very nicely created.

[EMR53]

Realy lovely design :O

One thing the anchor for TOP goes to the bottom of the page.  Is this intended or not?

This is on the Testimonials and Contact pages.

Other then that beatiful..


Greetings Eric

[designhut]

Thank you Eric for spotting that, all fixed I hope. 

Thx also to greenman and asfahaan for your comments. 

[FantomCircuit]

I really love the design.

One thing that tranishes it though is the ugly jpeg artifacts on much of the background images (eg, the "Call Us" image promt at the bototm of the page) You will get much much better filesize and lossless quality if you save them as 8-bit adaptive PNGs instead of jpegs. Just remember that internet explorer does not support alpha transparency, but it does support index transparency.

[Dr.CSS]

Still wondering which menu style it's supposed to have, the way it is in IE or Ff?...

If I knew I could help get it to be the same for both...