New Design I’m working on – Feedback please

[GavinCZA]

Morning everyone (or night / afternoon I suppose)

I am currently working on a site for our church, and even though it is not "really"complete at this stage, I was wondering if you guys / gals can give some feedback regards to layout?

http://www.gavinza.co.za/test/index.html

The main idea is that the current site is in flash, and I am trying to sway them to go over to wordpress (for quicker updating and keeping people informed).

Even though this is just a intial test the site, over the weekend, be moved over to wordpress. Still awaiting images and all the content. I also have a funny feeling that it is falling apart in IE6 (Can’t really check cause I have IE8 installed and looks fine on the pc)

But what do you guys think?

[cpj238]

Hey Gavin

The best thing you did by far was to convince them that a whole flash site is bad, bravo! Updating those can be a nightmare…

Word Press FTW! haha Anywho, I would suggest getting all your boxes neatly compacted, something like this:

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/2858/picture1mie.jpg

Probably want a lighter gray as well ( #F5F5F5 ) also I noticed some of your boxes have darker gray borders and some do not, either have them all with this same border, or none at all, its usually a good rule of design to remain consistent ;)

Maybe a little line-height? p { line-height:22px; } would be good for ease of reading paragraph text. Though the first one at the top looks nice with 35px line-height and padding:35px; ( instead of 50px )

I don’t want to totally redesign your site, but at least improve upon a good idea ;)

Hope this helps,

~ Chris

[GavinCZA]

Hey Chris,

Thanks for the input.

Yeah I had a look at the image you sent and I have to agree with you that it does look better with everything inline.

I will take all your points and work on it today.
Will get back on Monday and submit the new one.

Thanks

[Rob MacKay]

yea just echoing Chris, if you are going down a box route, make sure you have strong space control. For example the space between your boxes I would force to keep at a specific size set it at say 10px, and then keep it that distance for everything.

Also you might want to think about working to a grid layout, not ness the CSS templates, I cant work with anyone else’s CSS myself, but they have some great PS Templates for say a 960 site which would suite you down the the ground!

http://www.960.gs

The one problem with websites like that is if you don’t get them right, they look "odd" – but when they are done right, they are awesome :)

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