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June 5, 2009 at 4:18 am #25038GavinCZAMember
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?
June 5, 2009 at 10:07 am #58616cpj238MemberHey 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
June 6, 2009 at 3:48 am #58642GavinCZAMemberHey 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
June 6, 2009 at 7:56 am #58644Rob MacKayParticipantyea 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!
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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