OK mate.. It's definately making progress, there's no denying that but I would say there's a ways to go before you can say it's 99% complete. (That's because a web designers' own site is never more than 99% complete)
The good.
- Code validates - good job.
- Main text is easy to read and is of a decent size.
The bad.
- You cannot up the size of the text without breaking it.
- Navigation is image based and offersno feedback.
- BIG w3c graphics. Yeah it's nice that your site validates but those graphics are garish and draw your eyes away from the content.
You see, although i get the look you're going for here I feel that it needs some work to get it to professional standards. Because you've used this static background image, the height and width of your boxes is fixed. This is fine until your content over runs or the user increases the text size and you have no choice but to use a scrollable div (not the best practice).
The site, as it is at the moment has many of these potential land mines just waiting for you to stand on them. Like your navigation... what happens if you want to add another tab? You need to painstakingly edit the graphic and hope that the changes don't conflict with some existing layout feature.
The beauty of
XHTML with
CSS layout is that you needn't experience any of these restrictions. This site could be made into a nice clean accessible, liquid site and still keep the general look the way you imagined. Look
here and
here to see what is possible with resizable boxes.
There are many things in your site, such as the navigation, that don't need to use graphics to achieve their effect. Check out
listamatic to see various "tabbed" navigations.
I think your site is capable of great things...It will be a long road but I think you'll get there.
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Aug 23rd, 2006, 19:06
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