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Need hints'n'tips!
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:45 am
by baconburgare
Please check this out:
http://teacherzpetz.com
CMSmadesimple rocks! So easy to use for my editor and that's what I mostly wanted. She can handle the site all by herself now, awesome!
Allthough, I'm not very happy about logo, header, footer and colors on site. Not sure what is wrong or what I should do to improve it. Any advices, hints and tips highly appreciated.
Also check out my cool "random_image" function used on the "Kids Tips" page (
http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/rndimg/). And the random quotes used on several pages (no code released yet). Pretty cool or?
Have fun!
Re: Need hints'n'tips!
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:46 am
by LeisureLarry
Random Images is really nice
Concerning the page I think that you should re-use the footer colors in the header. Because two dark colors in the header aren´t good. Also the yellow color of the background-image lets me think of a 70 years wallpaper
Greats Larry
Re: Need hints'n'tips!
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:24 pm
by amygdela
Well, you could dramaticlly decrease the filesize of some images. the man with the dog is more then 100k!
Re: Need hints'n'tips!
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 3:09 pm
by baconburgare
amygdela wrote:
Well, you could dramaticlly decrease the filesize of some images. the man with the dog is more then 100k!
Yikes that's huge, ty! I'll check thru the images and explain this for the site owner/editor. Normal people are not not aware of such (for them) irrelevant things
Thx for pointing it out. Anyway, I should have noticed it myself.
Keep'em comming, I can stand critics, I hope
Re: Need hints'n'tips!
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:31 pm
by jelle
Ok, you asked for it!
get a more coherent color palet. I have seen sort-of yellow, sort-of blue and sort-of red. (and hard blue and yellow in the table, which is btw correctly used for tabular data) that is combined with all black fonts on a white or grey background.
Find yourself a colorscheme picker, or just ask the lady to pick some (3 or 4) colors that she could wear together. then get some images to go with those. (you might like this link:
http://krazydad.com/colrpickr/index.php?group=flowers but be sure to get permission before you use the pictures) If you do not trust the ladies color taste much, let her pick a colorscheme based on a page in one of her magazines. (there is luckily no copyright on a bunch of colors)
Black fonts are great, but you could try to use colored -headings.
The css menu is too empty to be really usefull. Some entries drop down and some don't. I would get rid of the dropdown effect. put those 2-3 pages in the toplevel, or just make sure you have a clear links to the contact form etc. in the parent pages.
Re: Need hints'n'tips!
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:46 am
by baconburgare
jelle wrote:
Ok, you asked for it!
get a more coherent color palet. I have seen sort-of yellow, sort-of blue and sort-of red. (and hard blue and yellow in the table, which is btw correctly used for tabular data) that is combined with all black fonts on a white or grey background.
Find yourself a colorscheme picker, or just ask the lady to pick some (3 or 4) colors that she could wear together. then get some images to go with those. (you might like this link:
http://krazydad.com/colrpickr/index.php?group=flowers but be sure to get permission before you use the pictures) If you do not trust the ladies color taste much, let her pick a colorscheme based on a page in one of her magazines. (there is luckily no copyright on a bunch of colors)
Black fonts are great, but you could try to use colored -headings.
The css menu is too empty to be really usefull. Some entries drop down and some don't. I would get rid of the dropdown effect. put those 2-3 pages in the toplevel, or just make sure you have a clear links to the contact form etc. in the parent pages.
Thanks Jelle, great comments!
I agree on colors, blue and yellow is contrast colors and really hard to combine. I LOVE that link u provided, thx a lot!
That's the way it should be. I'll forward it and we'll work on layout with that in mind.
And yes, ur right about menu, skip the sub-menus. In fact I really dont like the layout of the menu at all. Maybe put it somewhere else too. Like a couple of links in the text, in the corner or above or something.
And decrease black and white contrast as well, good point.
Feels like I wanna start all over with this site. We've been to occupied with functions and content. Layout is a growing process I guess. Hard to know what layout to use before u know what content is gonna be like, and viceversa.
Thanks! Keep'em comming
Re: Need hints'n'tips!
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:16 pm
by baconburgare
LeisureLarry wrote:
Random Images is really nice
Concerning the page I think that you should re-use the footer colors in the header. Because two dark colors in the header aren´t good. Also the yellow color of the background-image lets me think of a 70 years wallpaper
Greats Larry
Sorry forgot to reply to this. I've read it and agree. Thx for advice! Constantly mind-working on the logo but ran out of ideas. Might change the colors for now and create something completely different later on.