Tourist Website

Submitted by Mintsauce on Fri, 2008-05-09 14:49. Critique

Well, I'm finally on a workable final version of this site. Most, but not all of the IE errors have been chomped out (Ooooh, I hate that program!!). I'm still awaiting the final copy, but the layout is set.

As a CMS I used "CMS from Scratch". Formerly a "pay for" application it is now Open Source and available from Google Code. I found it to be very easy to use, intuitive and practical as far as smaller sites go. (http://cmsfromscratch.com/). Setup was quick and painless.

Anyway, live preview is here: http://www.lightbulb.co.za/cwlt/

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Beautiful work! The only

Submitted by 3dogmama on Fri, 2008-05-09 16:02.

Beautiful work! The only thing--and it's quite minor--is the script text beneath the cape wine and leisure tours logo. I find the angle of it a little awkward (it seems to be competing with the angled text and glass above it) and the words bordering on illegible.

I like the rollovers, photo use and ease of navigation. The colours are warm and inviting and the great white terrifying! I give it two paws up.

ciao
3dogmama

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Now that you mention it.

Submitted by Mintsauce on Fri, 2008-05-09 20:43.

That script text is bad. I think I'm just going to remove it altogether.

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overall, a very nice site.

Submitted by gwells on Fri, 2008-05-09 16:43.

overall, a very nice site.

couple of minor thoughts. i like the rollovers, too, but i'd like to see a *little* more contrast for the text over the orange box before you roll over it. it's really easy to read when you do roll over it, but there are some contrast issues before you do, and i'm not sure you should have to roll over it to read the body text there.

i really like the color scheme, but there's something disconcerting about the fields all being orange with the trees popping out as green. was there green in the vineyards in the original photo?

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Good point

Submitted by Mintsauce on Fri, 2008-05-09 20:58.

That's a good point. I'll have a look at it. It'll either have to go dark brown or black.

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Your bulleted lists (tour

Submitted by mbennett2 on Fri, 2008-05-09 16:57.

Your bulleted lists (tour descriptions), are really tight. Look at them compared to the line spacing on the rest of the text and you will see what I mean. All the text is rather large as well.

On the "tabs" beneath the tour descriptions, you have that 1-2 point line extending left. It doesn't seem to have enough contrast to it and looks kind of odd to me. The tabs themselves are kind of ragged on the rounded corners. I would rethink/redo those.

Other than those fairly minor things, I think you have done a great job. The site looks rich in color and has a good, cozy feel to it. Nice.

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Some points to ponder.

Submitted by Mintsauce on Fri, 2008-05-09 21:06.

On the lists: I've noticed and am trying to get it to work. For some reason they keep reformatting to line-height:1em.
The tabs have been bothering me, but not enough to do anything about it. I guess I'll have a look at it over the weekend.

Thanks for the comp.

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Adjust your ol, ul and li

Submitted by natobasso on Fri, 2008-05-09 21:45.

Adjust your ol, ul and li tags in css and you can control this spacing.

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Fixed

Submitted by Mintsauce on Fri, 2008-05-09 22:11.

For some reason the item div had no line-height specified. It's now fixed.

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Sweet! ---- Powerpoint is

Submitted by natobasso on Fri, 2008-05-09 22:26.

Sweet!

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Mint, the site came out

Submitted by natobasso on Fri, 2008-05-09 17:39.

Mint, the site came out great! Two little things:

1. The wavy line under the roller buttons looks jagged in Firefox on my pc:
Jagged header

2. Your page is nearly 600K which in web terms is quite huge (a good, fast loading site hits around 160K). Any way you can trim down the site size a bit? I notice you have background repeating gif for the right column, how about a solid background color instead?

Just some thoughts. Well done!

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Issue

Submitted by Mintsauce on Fri, 2008-05-09 21:09.

AAAGH!

Yes, I'm still pondering the wavy line problem. It's a text resize issue. As soon as I resize the text (I guess your Firefox wasn't on 16px per 1 em.) the tabs move up and down. I think I might fix it with a position:absolute.

As for the size: WHAT?!? It was in the back of my head, but not on the forefront of my mind. Since I've been working of my localhost I didn't notice the speed issue. I'll have a look at that immediately. The two size hogs are the header and the html background images.

Thanks. Have a great one!

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