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On April 22, 2005 8:11 AM Stuart Colville said:Nice....
This is not a negative comment but were you inspired by the designeye for the usability guy? I like your implementation of the vertical tabs and using them for the nav is a fresh idea.
Good work!
On April 22, 2005 9:02 AM Peter Flaschner said:Hmmm... Forgive me, but this just doesn't seem quite up to standard of its cssbeauty brethren. For one, the footer image is not where its supposed to be - on FF on both the pc and mac the footer floats either halfway up the page, or 10 pix or so above the bottom of the viewer.
The Things To Do is cool, as is the vertical nav. The Photo/Blog buttons seem superfluous, and look a bit too much like buttons - I kept wanting to click them.
The site IS very good, but just not quite ready, imho.
On April 22, 2005 9:16 AM Neal Kernohan said:Very nice work, like the layout and the vertical tabs a lot (except for, as said, the photo & blog ones, I clicked them many times already!).
Agree with Peter above, but only where the content is shorter than the menu. 'Things to do' looks very spaced out in IE but all looks great in FF.
On April 22, 2005 9:41 AM Skipp said:I agree with Peter that the buttons on the left look too much like buttons... and there is a problem with the footer on FF.
Other thant that I like it.
Great Idea!
On April 22, 2005 10:20 AM Joshua Lane said:Thanks for the comments everyone. The footer display issue in firefox is a bug that has plagued me for some time now. If you refresh the page (and thus cache the CSS file), then the footer displays fine. I'm not sure why it does that.
However, the pages with little content (aka the archives) does have the footer displaying a little wonky. Once the archives start to fill up though, the footer should look fine.
As for the tabs, I stole the basic idea a while back from the Apples to Oranges site. Just didn't have a place to use them until now. Using tabs to note particular content sections was definitely inspired by the design eye site.
I'll see about fixing the display of the Things to Do links in IE. Should be a simple adjustment to make them not look so spread out.
- On April 22, 2005 11:22 AM Neal Kernohan said:
josh, just popped back to say that it is also an interesting site. I moved recently to Cape Town and it's nice to see another's view on moving city. But, back to the design... it is very comfortable to browse through, to read, and to mine into the stories on the site. But a bad point, and the last one, from me, again it's IE's doing: the rollover on those tabs, they're ever so slow to refresh (just like the image links on pixelworthy).
- On April 22, 2005 11:48 AM Joshua Lane said:
I'm not sure what's up with the rollover on the tabs in IE. I'm just using the standard sliding doors technique with that. I didn't code the pixelworthy site so I don't know what that has.
On April 22, 2005 3:52 PM Peter said:Clear, easy to follow and with plenty of flair. I like this one a lot. I think the left side tabs balance it, and after a click you know they are not links. One more photo and the copyright notice will be fine. Works well in Opera 7.5 which is not always the case.
- On April 22, 2005 3:57 PM Stuart Colville said:
following a quick experiment; if you reduce the height of the copyright div by 1px it stops floating when the cache is cleared.
cheers,
Stuart.
On April 22, 2005 4:22 PM OJ said:Nice job!
On April 22, 2005 6:41 PM C said:How do you live in that tiny apartment?
- On April 22, 2005 7:16 PM Joshua Lane said:
Stuart - The 1px adjustment for the footder didn't work. Thanks though.
C - It's not THAT small. The photos don't really do the space justment... it's more roomy than it looks.
- On April 22, 2005 7:37 PM Joshua Lane said:
Alright, I've fixed the footer, but I still don't know why my lists (things to do, menu) are displaying gaps in IE. For some reason, IE is giving padding to the list elements, even though I set it to nothing. Oh well, I can live with it.
On April 23, 2005 2:42 AM johan said:clean site
well done
- On April 25, 2005 5:20 AM Neal Kernohan said:
Joshua, forget the IE troubles, they're minor. A great site, bookmarked!
On April 25, 2005 7:32 AM Jon said:The IE list padding problem is probably the whitespace bug that applies extra unnecessary padding. Only way to overcome it is to make every list item follow on directly after the other (ie. no line carriages) Ii doesnt look so nice in code view but it should fix your problems.
On April 30, 2005 12:30 PM Dave said:I love the site. I mean actually love it. Also i would love to move somewhere and start afresh. For me life sucks at the moment. But anyway. I notice that the to do links are blocks. am i right? it seems that way as when i resize the text they all overlap each other. Maybe you could have the links on a resizeable peice of paper, lol. Anyay the deisgn is great. i really want to click the left hand "links"
On April 30, 2005 11:40 PM Chris said:Site looks fantastic. Very clean and I love the color used.
Nice job.
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