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Latest CMSMS site I've built. Has custom Businesses, Shoppers, Events, and Special Finds modules I built. Unfortunately you have to be registered to do anything on the site.

http://www.ladiesdobiz.com/

let me know what you think.

Nice site!

If you resize the image (http://www.ladiesdobiz.com/uploads/imag ... opping.jpg) using Photoshop (or eqv) to its display-size, it will look better 

Is it me/my monitor or is there more space between the words than usual?...

mark, it is indeed more space between words than usual. I take it to be because of text-align:justify in the style sheets 

You can easily get rid of that by inserting a space after each ... which is also typographically correct. Usually you always need a space after punctuation. (Not before!) This should include more line breaks and get rid of the long spaces.

Edit: Also I think you should get rid of the … character in favor if three dots (… != ...), if you don't see what I mean try to select a single dot from this: … and then from this: ...

Finally I think you might want to get rid of the  s and replace them by normal spaces. Only use nbsp if you are positively sure that you want no line break in the corresponding spot. I believe that with a rather narrow text field you should do without the luxury of forced non-line breaks. But that depends on your taste obviously.

Hope to help,
Cerno

hey gardnern

There's lots of good advice up there, except one bit: about replacing your ellipsis … (that's 3 dots to most people, but it has a name… plural ellipses) with three periods. Don't! The ellipsis is a character in its own right and should not be approximated with the dot dot dot approach. People get confused with this punctuation mark, and often use............................ too many.

Typography is rubbish enough on the web, due to the limitations of the software and hardware involved,  so let's all pursue good standards when we can.

Don't get me started on the use of hyphens (-) where em dashes should be used (—).
rhys

It's looks nice, good shite! 

Wanna you tell me what module you use ?

I made the modules myself, the business listings, payments, special finds, shoppers, ect...

All the punctuation is managed by the client 

mark wrote: Is it me/my monitor or is there more space between the words than usual?...

I actually prefer text justified rather then the rhs being all over the place

what do others feel

Haha, as many websites (even some of the big ones) you forgot to specify a general body font color and background color which makes the site look pretty ugly if people have different browser color settings than the regular white background and black text (and blue/purple underlined links for that matter). I recently changed my default settings and now I see the misery every day. And you should never assume that people have the same browser settings as you.

So to all of you web developers: Set your default browser colors to something different (not too extreme, though, that it doesn’t hurt your eyes) so you are always and immediately reminded if you forgot to set something in the stylesheet while developing websites.